[A6] Who's getting busy with their Andromeda

[Leary, John]

It's the multiple filtration that's the doozy.  The signal can run through
any of 10 fixed resonator filters, along with a highpass filter on one of
several fixed settings, in addition to the more-or-less conventional lowpass
VCF.

Plus, it's not a "true" 1-oscillator architecture.  There are separate
sawtooth and pulse waves (always hardsynced to each other) which can be
routed through different sets of filters before being summed.  Oh, and the
"sawtooth" isn't a true sawtooth -- it's a sum of 5 synced square waves,
resulting in a 64-stepped ramp.  No kidding!

It's truly a unique beast, and it's uniqueness both tweaks and irks me.  I
love its one-trick pony sound (though it's got 30 presets they all REEK of
"Pro-Soloist") but I don't feel like dragging it to sessions and gigs!


-----Original Message-----
From: José Sogo Flores [mailto:jose.sogo.flores at eresmas.net]

Hi Leary,

I have a Pro/DGX. Considering that it is a 1-oscillator mono synth, you
would think that emulating its sound should be an easy task. But I think
there was some clever programming of the presets going beyond the simple
VCO-VCF-VCA archichecture. The ARP filter has a very special sound wich I
have failed to emulate with the A6 until now. Shame on me.

Regards

Jose


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leary, John" <leary at msfi.com>

> Okay, now that people are talking about what sounds they want to design
for
> the A6, I'll throw my hat in the ring:  I want to emulate the sound of the
> ARP Pro-Soloist, specifically the sounds used by Tony Banks.  If anybody
> else shares my love of early- to mid-'70s Genesis, and of designing sounds
> for the A6, please drop me a line.
>
> I've got some preliminary attempts, but this might be more fun with a
> co-conspirator.  I think the main difficulty lies in emulating the
> Pro-Soloist's fixed-frequency filterbanks better.  I have a real
Pro-Soloist
> and its service manual, which would help me a lot with deciphering the
voice
> architecture -- if only I understood circuitry better!
>
> Regards,
> John