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

--- Jonathan El-Bizri <sserendipity@...> wrote:
> Am I the only person who can't stand Roland's D/A converters? Every
> Roland product I've ever heard has exactly the same Roland 'bedroom
> tone'.

LOL.  Are you sure it's the DACs and not that "32MB when converted to
16-bit linear" crap?  I don't know what their proprietary wave data
format is, but it's something less than 16 bit data.  I think they use
some sort of companding with like 12 bit samples or something, and then
"emphasize" it after the fact.

All of their synths do this (as is evidenced by the disclamer on ALL of
their wave data sizes) so that might be what you're hearing.  A good
test would be to listen to one of their samplers that really do 16-bit
linear (like the sampling section of the 909, not the synth voices).

-Aaron

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