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--- In logic-ot@y..., "Martin, Jeremy" <MartJe@n...> wrote:
> *Hopefully* there are people developing such beasts secretly right 
now.
> Maybe at that German music convention soon where Emagic will 
hopefully
> announce the 5.0.1-or-whatever features some new 90'ish digital 
VSTi synth
> will be unleashed by someone. 

I hope there is someone out there making a Wavestation in VSTi 
format. It would be cool to have a vector synth out there with not 
only samples but also with FM and additive synth. I would be willing 
to pay for that. If anyone has a Wavestation for sale, mail me. I 
really loved that sound, but never got the opportunity to buy one.

> About selling custom built instruments... IMO it's just like the 
Swiftkick
> stuff Len sells. Many great environment objects and Reaktor 
ensembles are
> available for free yet for very high quality stuff (the whole 
Swiftkick
> collection, or professional-quality synths like some of the ones 
Dash has
> created) cost a bit extra... $100's would be too much for anything 
short of
> *SPECTACULAR* but a small US$10-$25 fee seems reasonable to me for 
hours and
> hours and hours of virtual construction work and ideally good 
documentation.
> 

For the Creamware Scope and Pulsar range there are synths out there 
for less than $100. And some of these are even by John Bowen
(www.zargmusic.com), a co-designer of some well known Korg synths, 
like the Wavestation. These synths are like the real hardware thing, 
all run on DSPs.
What I'm wondering is, that you can not implement a certain technique 
in these VSTi, just like that. Some of the synths methods are still 
patented. FM's patent expired about some years ago, and so NI could 
implement a FM synths, so did Creamware( but not as well, I'm 
afraid, :-(). Additive synth has still patent going, if I'm not 
mistaken, but what about vectorsynthesis? Creamware developed a 
vectorsynth, but maybe they co-developed it with John Bowen, who may 
have licenced the rights to Creamware. I don't know.
What about phase modulation? The technique that Casio used for it's 
early CZ series?
These are incredible times. I couldn't imagine owning such an amount 
of synths for such a low fraction of the price of the hardware 
equivalent.
Yoonchi.