Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

robotchas,

I owned the ZR ROM for a few days.  I don't recall ANY of the sounds 
catching my ear, 'transwaves' included.  That ROM was pretty 
miserable, IMHO.  Considering how great some of the E-mu ROMs are, 
it's astonishing how anemic and bland some of them were.

IIRC, the Protean Drums ROM has *one* transwave instrument on it.  It 
basically cycles through a bunch of percussion sounds.  Its weird, 
its interesting, but not particularly musical because the waves don't 
sync to anything, they just play through.

Personally, I love wave-sequenced sounds, but 'transwaves' usually 
don't strike me as musically useful.  Years ago, the FIZMO was 
interesting, but I never had that 'gotta have one' feeling about it.

The only MUSICAL implementations of this concept that I know of are 
the Korg Wavestation series or the Waldorf Microwave series...but you 
probably have at least one of those, yes?

I still have a Wavestation A/D and I think it is a magical box of 
wonderfulness.  It blows my mind more than any other synth I've ever 
used.  Wow, I wish it was in front of me right now!

HTH

Andy



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "robotchas" <robotchas@y...> wrote:
> I've been considering what to do, if anything, with my remaining 
ROM 
> slot and noticed that the Sounds of the ZR ROM includes twenty or 
> thirty Transwaves. I don't have much interest in the other samples 
on 
> the ROM, but I do really like wavetable/wavesequence-based 
synthesis 
> and was wondering how useful these were.
> 
> Has anyone with the ZR ROM played with the Transwaves?
> 
> Are the waves themselves useful? Do they sound good or are they 
just 
> pale imitations of PWM, etc.? (Because if so, I can get the real 
> thing from another synth).
> 
> I'm assuming that the transwave modulation is accomplished by 
> modulating SLoop (Sample Loop). Is this modulation smooth or are 
> there glitches in the sound? With other ROMs that aren't set up for 
> sample loop modulation it's difficult to get glitch-free sounds out 
> of this feature.
> 
> Thanks for any info.