Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Crackpot <shifty@g...> wrote:

> In general, creating your own waveforms is not as useful as you
> might htink.  After all, there is a definite, finite limit
> on the # of waveforms your brain can distinguish.  What's really
> valuable is how you modulate those waveforms.

  Kind of depends on how you define "waveform"; look at transwave 
synths like the Wave, ASR-10, Fizmo, etc, and their implementation 
and definition of a waveform is vastly different than the 
usual/standard subtractive synth waveforms... Given the direction 
that those synths as well as many samplers go in, it could be argued 
that ANY sound or source is (or can be) a waveform in its own right.  
So even a vocal snippet could be a waveform in theory, and that would 
have a vastly different sound -- even independently of how you 
modulated it -- than other waveform types.

  So really, IMHO, it depends on what kind of waveforms could be 
used/created... Of course, if it's just standard waveform types, 
you're probably correct; creative modulation is key.  But if the user 
can use a more abstract set of tools, the rules change...