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Re: Latest sample of Crate.Synth music

Simon Williams wrote:

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:



I've just put a new .mp3 on my web site containing the latest sample of
Crate.Synth output.

The pops are _gone_ and the "piano" voice is somewhat better.



The lack of pops is a significant improvement.


Thanks--it worked exactly as I hoped!


Now that most of the artifacts are fixed, the limitations of 5-bit
accuracy are becoming more obvious...  ;-)



Limitations? Let's call them "unique characteristics"... seriously, the
sound at this point seems very close to that produced by my [8-bit] DX-1
sampler card.
I notice there is a "phaser" effect that coincides with the decay of
each note -- is this a side-effect of the pop reduction? 

Simon, I've put up a new sample (March 30) which shows the result of
two changes:

1) I've reverted to a triangle-sine waveform--this eliminates most of
the "phaser" sound that results when a waveform has a fast transition
in it and decays slowly in amplitude.

2) I've fixed the MIDI timing bug that has nagged me for two weeks--I
kept thinking that I had a synthesizer timing bug, when I actually had
a MIDI timing bug related to changes in tempo.  ;-)

You will notice the reduced "phaser" effect and that the final chords
are now tight together, without the advanced note of the prior versions.

-michael

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