Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:41:01AM -0000, hal3001 wrote:
>    hhaving multiple oscillators per synth  DOES NOT equate polyphony
>    polyphony = seperate voice, seperate playable individual filter per
>    voice...

yes I know. I'm only offering a possible explanation - I didn't say it
was the best one or even accurate.  mail Elektron and ask them.

>    I don't really see them using any complex cpu stealing algorithms?
>    the whole thing seems like some simple programming?(i could be wrong
>    though?)

I wouldn't know. I'm not a DSP programmer and I really need to brush up
on my FFT theory anyway. but honestly, if you think it's so simple I
should have to ask you: where's the synth you designed?

>    i don't think adding polyphony would change the market of the
>    synthesizer...nor take too much proccessing power!!!:)...come on for
>    the price these are they gotta have some nice cpu in them!:)...i hope
>    all the $ didn't go into marketing and cosmetics!!!:P (since they
>    have a very good marketing and very good cosmetics for synth)

read back through the archives. it seems a lot of money went to DSP chips
and excellent D/A converters.

Joe