Re: Latest sample of Crate.Synth music

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

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

> 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.

I'm really curious as to how the sounds are actually generated... it
seems to me that there must be a fair bit of processing happening "on
the fly". 

> 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.  ;-)

I'm not terribly familiar with the MIDI file format, so that will be my
research project for the weekend...

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

I would have been content to be blown away by the first version, but by
now you've got to the point where any further refinement would just be
"showing off" ;-)

Well, I've dug out a stack of IIe boards from storage and picked up a
soldering iron, so guess what's next...

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