Rossum Electro-Music Software Architect Bob Bliss (who also, as it happens, fathered E-mu’s famed “EOS” Emulator Operating System) has created Panharmonium, a unique music and sound design tool that lets you analyze the spectral content of any audio signal and use that analysis to drive a bank of from 1 to 33 oscillators. http://www.rossum-electro.com/products/panharmonium/
You should know by now that I'm mental about samplers. So speaking about samplers, this really caught my interest. I personally couldn't imagine an Eurorack without a proper sampler, because I'm so bored with saw/pulse/triangle/sine waveforms. I almost hate them.
However, I would really like to see a variable sample rate module, that does the same thing like Akai S-950. It plays the sample at various sample rates, according to the notes, and then passes it through an analogue filter/amp. It sounds really good. Better than all these samplers that resample every note to 44.2 or 48kHz. Think about it. No aliasing! That's one of the reasons the old samplers like S-950 and Emulator II/III are so praised for. Did I just hijack a thread? I'm really sorry guys. I really do hope you find this shit I posted interesting. I can't help myself. I'm so passionate about synthesis and samplers. Modulars are the shizz! Last edited: Mar 30, 2019
You certainly did. I, however, just wished every hijacker on this Forum was as passionate and knowledgeable about music and gear as you are so am not complaining. BTW, there are rumors that AKAI wants to bring on of those samplers back.
Thank you, @The Pirate! Same sentiments here. It would be extremely awesome to see an analogue sampler like S-950 being remade, but with even better analogue filter capable of different slope and resonance. S-950 and earlier Akai samplers were essentially [kinda weak] analogue synths with digital, sampling oscillators. Now if they added wavetables/sample scanning capability... they would have a hit. Or re-synthesis. But that's a different beast as you know it. Additive synth/re-sampling engine with analogue path. Holy bananas! That would also be incredible to have. I would go berserk about both. :P I currently own no samplers that can do low/high notes without introducing aliasing. Except TAL-Sampler VST. Yes, E-MU has aliasing, Akai does it, Yamaha and Roland does it. I think it sounds nice most of the time, despite the aliasing. I find it very appealing to pitch something up/down extremely. But it would sound even better without aliasing. Shame no filtering can remove it. Cheers! Last edited: Mar 31, 2019
