Emax

YES THATS RIGHT the best sounds i have made are from single cycle waves 1 sample of a sample 

they come in different sizes per note a4 a single cycle sample is 100 samples they loop perfectly and act just like oscillators but with the addition that there are thousands of different sounding ones other than the basic saw square and sin triangle 

there are many additive ones and these can be used in the 2 layers to produce even more additive ones 

there are 1000,s of fm 1 and most soft synths of today aswell as hardware use them the virus has a bunch of them and the wave table synths are made up of spectra of these type wave forms

the se has this spectra synthesis option were you add the different spectra in sequence its a pity that they did not impiliment wave modulation of the single cycle spectra

i also own a EII/ EIII/ EMAX SE HD/ EMULATOR4 ULTRA

I OWN MANY ENSONIQS

and roland 

my favourite sampler is the korg dss1 it has a tiny memory even smaller than the emax 256k

but it has hard sync of sample sounds and there aint no other hardware or software synth ever been produced that implimented it

and you get weird and wonderful sounds by using single cycle sounds and sync

native kontakt is good but it makes you lazy as you sample a synths whole performance and theres not much sample programming involved

the key is use the synthesis section just like analog synths but with a bigger vast sampled oscillator section to choose from

some of the best pad and synthscapes come from analog modular synths enough said 

use the force luke use the source the synth section and modulate

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ss 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:50 PM
  Subject: [emax] Designing sound. Was: "Celebrity Emax, etc."





  Was: "Celebrity Emaxes..." etc.

  Hi Everybody! :-)

  While you guys continue that thread can I start a new one...? It's 
  related and I think it's what
  we're really after here. It's about designing great sound.

  I saw the "Violator" concert. I owned an Emax at the time (and still 
  have it and use it). Yes, DM
  had piles of Emax IIs on stage for the concert.

  But what this is really all about, the thread, is designing great 
  sound -- isn't it?

  A better question would be WHO sat around and designed the sound that 
  DM played on those Emax IIs
  in concert, etc. I think.

  My guess is that these guys were all designing on an EIII and -- other 
  gear -- and dumping onto Emax(s) for performances.
  I think I can hear Spectral Synthesis work on "Violator" for example 
  -- unless I'm imagining it (which I may very well be!)

  What I think is strange is that people dump their gear in this way... 
  Many of the "popular" artists today are sending somebody
  out to purchase all of this "vintage" gear and use it for it's unique 
  sound capability -- so why dump it in the first place on eBay?

  Yeah, yeah -- the Native Instruments sound is hot right now -- so 
  what???!

  As an example, an old friend of mine designed sound for a large film 
  before I'd met him. When I asked him about his sound designs
  he said to me: "I was using a lot of DX7 sounds at the time." I was 
  REALLY surprised by that, but then I could hear the DX7, but
  it really wasn't a DX7 anymore. He'd multi-tracked the sounds, sped 
  them up and slowed them down with tape, re-recorded and
  processed the sounds, so the source was the DX7 but the end product 
  was NOT a DX7 in the film it was my friends own ear and
  way that he heard things. It was his Sound Design artistry.

  Isn't that what we're really talking about here? (Or should be talking 
  about?)

  Who cares who had what keyboard! LOL!! That's like worrying about 
  which Macintosh Steve Jobs used!
  It's rather absurd, isn't it?!

  So can I start a thread about Sound Design and what makes you love and 
  cherish your Emax so much, rather than what
  rock star used to use your keyboard back in the 80's? We can have two 
  threads. Continue the old one and start a new one?

  (I don't care a god-dxxx about Roland Orzaball -- or whatever his name 
  was!) ;-) :-)
  But if you do god-bless you! That's what you like! :-)

  So let me start-off the thread by where our Jammie Emma left-off by 
  saying that it's the Emax/EMU filters that can make the
  difference and give that beautiful incredible sound to a sample that 
  you don't hear elsewhere. I thought that was a brilliant
  observation by him and quite true in my experience! Yes, I love the 
  EIII, EIV and Emax because of the filters.

  And on the Emax HD SE
  I have I love the Spectral Synthesis feature because one can come-up 
  with some remarkable samples with experimentation. Also,
  the TM (Transform Multiplication) engine! Now that makes for some 
  great discussion! Yes, they take far too long to use with 1 MG
  of RAM and processing time! :-) But go and make yourself a cup of tea!

  I'll never give-up my Emax HD SE. Period.

  Steven

  PS - No insult to anybody! If you like your Jimi Hendrix Strat -- 
  cool! ;-) It's all great!

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