Thanks. That was the conclusion I reached myself, but
only after getting the schematics, going through every single sheet and
assuring myself that this machine simply does not have enough electronics inside
to produce these sounds by itself :) I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that most of
the sounds were created to show off the brass section while usually this is
considered, well, useless and most people seem to ;like the
strings part.
Best
regards,
Margus
BTW.
Sorry it took so long to reply - your message got deleted by my spam filter
without catching my attention first because of 'Samples' in the subject line
:)
-----Original Message-----> 2. Does anyone have an idea how the Performer sound samples at Mod
From: Emdot [mailto:emdot_ambient@...]
Sent: 05. August, 2003 05:42
To: crumar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [crumar] Performer Samples
> Archive (http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/soundstate.shtml) are
> created? Are they really dry Crumer sounds or have gone through
> external processing? Some of these seem to be stereo sounds which
> should not be possible with Performer... Anyway, I am worried as I
> can't get all of these sounds out of mine :)
Margus, I've downloaded all of the sounds from above and I'm pretty
sure that most, if not all, of the samples you're talking about use
the Performer as their source. HOWEVER, as intimated by the preface
to these samples, they have been heavily modified by the use of
external resonating filters, phase shifters, delay and reverb. It's
safe to say that 85% of the sound you're hearing in these samples is
caused by the external filter they've been run through. Some of them
sound so early Tangerine Dream-ish that I'd bet they were run through
Moog filter banks.
Great sounds . . . but not typically Performer. For one thing, almost
no use of the Performer's filter bank is used . . . well, it's
actually labled EQ Control on the Performer but still . . . whoever
made the samples was more interested in transforming the Performer
into something other than what it was, and not representing what the
instrument is really good at.
Sounds like I'm a purist, doesn't it? Not really. I like these
samples. But I wouldn't post them as "Crumar Performer". It would
have been more acurate to have posted them as "String Pads"
or "Filter Sweeped Strings" or something like that because they are
mainly effects.