[A6] RE: Neuron (ot)

[Rhen, Kris]

> > 
> > Imo the neuron is more a "musicians paintbox" or "lets do 
> some good nice
> > sounds" machine.. It is a synthesizer. But its parameters 
> are more like a
> > hard-wired plugin, so it's not really easy to SYNTHESIZE A 
> CERTAIN SOUND.
> > That¹s for some of us important...

Sort-of but not exactly.  If you use a sample set and a high enough quality
setting in the modelmaker software, you end up with an exact reproduction of
the sound.  Then you have a modeling sampler.  Yes it is true, as I
explained, that with a neural net, you can't always predict what the model
will end up like, but you can guide it with the sample material it
processes.  Imagine a Z1 with an infinite number of physical models for
every sound occurring in nature and otherwise (or any other fart, burp,
humm, strumm and splat you can feed into it), and a random patch generator
to boot :-)

> > Ok you still got envs, lfo etc.. And a filter.. But the 
> basic idea is more to
> > change a sound easily.. And: it does that fine.
> > But it may not be the machine for synthesists but for the 
> "musicians". (this
> > refers to the way you make sounds!!)..

Actually I'd say that's 180 degrees backward :-)  Much more for the
synthesist than musician IMO :-)  Its just a paradigm shift in how you go
about synthesizing a sound.  Just my take

> > I had my hands on the neuron (my report is on my site, if 
> you want to know..)
> > It is an interesting synth but it is something you buy if 
> you already got
> > everything and need "a specialty"..

Again, I have to disagree.  I see it (once I get the modelmaker software)
becoming a main workhorse.  I can't wait to run some drifty analog oscs
through it and see how the modelmaker captures those characteristics that
make analog so yummy to us...

KRIS