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Yes, and yesterday I started to put the cherry onto the top of a synthesized sound this type by adding subtractive dynamic filterings/pitches/lfos on certain layers, and it's eargasmic. I will record some of these cherried instruments too to show you some results. Btw.: do you have a multilayered subtractive synth? If you had, I might try to convert some easy additive instruments for you of this kind to try it on your own. -
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By AUSSIEKEYS · Posted
Hah Im glad the corporates are uneasy. Sorry here comes one of my long rambles but i saw a kernel of a tool of AI affect me back in the 90s. I quit being a Graphic designer/artist back in the 90s as computers were making too big a splash into my realm of hands on artwork. Desktop publishing was fucking up the specialness of an artist. Now any secretary could whip together a logo, a business card or a letterhead using the bosses computer. Sure maybe not so artsy back then but perfectly serviceable. But it was the equivalent of a tool used in todays AI in that they were using "clip art" which to me is what AI does take Clip art/information from the world. The "secretaries/associates" can now create anything for the boss not just bussiess paraphernalia. Sure I could keep on doing handson art for bands but we all know that bands are not made of money. It was my favourite art and Id never need to go computer on it but I needed to supplement band artwork by doing corporate work and I could see the writing was on the wall for that. So I quit because I was hands on but also if i wanted to continue doing corporate work Id have to invest up to 10 grand AUD (probably about 12 to 15grand USD) back then to get into full on computer graphics beyond just desktop publishing. I wasnt interested in computers either. Handson still had high overheads in bromide paper, its chemicals (with a shelf life once opened of days) and maintaining a huge reproduction camera (stands nearly 4 foot high) plus other art gear. Another high cost was for photo typesetting when it replaced lettraset. Although computers could replace this, in those early days they were not a match for phototyesetting. So just doing band work wasnt going to survive me with those high overheads. Also I was having some of my art work stolen which really cut me to the quik so that was the final straw and i stopped doing professional Art since then. So todays corporates realise that AI's clipart is not totally legit as it could be clipped from anywhere. It reminds me of when my so called trusted Printer who used to print all my clients business needs had an example of a business card he printed for another client on his wall. He clipped art from me. He copied a card I had him print for my client and he simply changed the details to reflect his clients name and address and the logo was just an exact bromided copy with an orange sun added to try and negate copywrite. A little local Printer takes a chance because not much can happen to him but bigger corporates realise that AI will probably be a copywrite minefield Which could break them In litigation. Ps: what did i do about the printer. As a regular there I stopped using him and I rang the guy who got the printer to make the cards for him. After explaining that he has no rights to using my artwork he never picked up his printed stuff from the printer nor payed for it. Not much but something. But corporate companies have so much more to worry about than a local town printer. So endeth the second reading. -
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By AUSSIEKEYS · Posted
Everytime i read someone mentioning AI all my feeble little mind registers is "You can call me Al" Perhaps not a bad listen to cheer up our hurtle towards the end of the world as we know it.
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By charliepersol · Posted
I just bought one used two days ago. I had in the past (a very past) the original ARP Odissey and an Avatar (the guitar version of the Odissey). They sounded quite differenti, and now I understand why: two different version of the filter. A friend of mine still have the all black one with coloured sliders, which Is again different, maybe two poles filter? Anyway the Behringer sounds good but a bit differenti too. My ARP had a ring modulator I used to build fabolous bell like sounds: metallic, full of harmonics. The kind of sound you can hear on Japan Tin Drum or Oil on Canvas albums. Until now I couldn't recreate this sound. Neither the Avatar did. Just my ARP Odissey I sold for little Money :( -
In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again.
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