Analog Modeling: What is actually being modeled?

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I'm waiting for the synth that is not only component-modelled but also models the universe that the synth is in. After all, if you're going to have drift caused by heat variance, those variations have to come from somewhere, and you can only get the true picture on what the temperature "should" be by modelling the entire universe, because of the butterfly effect :hihi:

Give it another 300 years and we'll be there. Hopefully someone will also make a model of ME so I can come back to life and enjoy these synths :wink:
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We model the individual quarks, gluons, and leptons and then let God sort it out.

;)

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AdmiralQuality wrote:We model the individual quarks, gluons, and leptons and then let God sort it out.

;)
And I know, what he will say: "It needs more warmth..."

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Korg calls their stuff CMT. Component Modeling Technology. So, does that mean the MS-20, PolySix, et al, are literally modeled at the component level?
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I am very grateful for this thread- reasonable, honest discussion that is helpful for someone like me who understands juuust enough of the technical aspects to be interested, and to have wondered about this myself, but not enough to do anything more than hope fine folks like yourselves would sidestep the hyperbole and dumb it down for me ;)

Re: Korg's "Component Modeling Technology":

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Well, Korg is a good example. Next to no-one has a model of the MS-20 filter. I believe that's because there's no intuitive match in digital filter theory. Biquads, ladders, svfs and such don't get you there, as one integrator is also a differentiator.

OTOH it's simple enough to understand from the component side. If one understands how they interact, one can put a match in code, without ever reading a book on bilinear transforms.

That IMHO is component modeling.

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Urs wrote:Well, Korg is a good example. Next to no-one has a model of the MS-20 filter. I believe that's because there's no intuitive match in digital filter theory. Biquads, ladders, svfs and such don't get you there, as one integrator is also a differentiator.

OTOH it's simple enough to understand from the component side. If one understands how they interact, one can put a match in code, without ever reading a book on bilinear transforms.

That IMHO is component modeling.
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VariKusBrainZ wrote:The Drop does MS20
Yep, Diva too. Hence next to no-one ;)

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Here's a tidbit.

Poly-Ana contains no Pi.

(Okay, well, it does, but only in the graphics code for the knobs. Not in the audio code.)

All the mathematicians will want to bring Pi into it. But Poly-Ana doesn't know Pi. Pi HAPPENS... but not because she is aware of it. Just because, at some level, it's a simulation of real world physics. A DRASTIC OVERSIMPLIFICATION, sure, but still, a simulation.

Don't tell her though. Poly thinks she's a real girl!

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Urs wrote:
VariKusBrainZ wrote:The Drop does MS20
Yep, Diva too. Hence next to no-one ;)
...and Screamer.

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AXP wrote:earlevel,

To give an example, Fender amps with embedded digital modelling are still running on Motorola's DSP56... chips using a look-up tables for all the tone stack coefficients. And Line 6's and Digitech's guitar processors are using a chain of n*[biquad] - [static waveshaper] - m*[biquad] to model every kind of real-world amps.

Getting down to the component detail is more of a scientific than a real market-driven interest.
Just out of curiosity. I thought Softube did the DSP for Fender products? Aren't Softube known for their meticulous component level circuit modelling approach.
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v1o wrote:
AXP wrote:earlevel,

To give an example, Fender amps with embedded digital modelling are still running on Motorola's DSP56... chips using a look-up tables for all the tone stack coefficients. And Line 6's and Digitech's guitar processors are using a chain of n*[biquad] - [static waveshaper] - m*[biquad] to model every kind of real-world amps.

Getting down to the component detail is more of a scientific than a real market-driven interest.
Just out of curiosity. I thought Softube did the DSP for Fender products? Aren't Softube known for their meticulous component level circuit modelling approach.
Yes they did a digital preamp design for Marshall, feedback pedal for Fender, NI has a line of virtual analog equipment powered by their DSP and their own products are just brilliant. Of course they claim to have a component level circuit modelling, just as everyone else does. But then you look at US8165309 (
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8165309.pdf) and... well, I'm not suggesting anything :)

And while we're on it, here's an old patent by Line6:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5789689.pdf

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v1o wrote:
AXP wrote:earlevel,

To give an example, Fender amps with embedded digital modelling are still running on Motorola's DSP56... chips using a look-up tables for all the tone stack coefficients. And Line 6's and Digitech's guitar processors are using a chain of n*[biquad] - [static waveshaper] - m*[biquad] to model every kind of real-world amps.

Getting down to the component detail is more of a scientific than a real market-driven interest.
Just out of curiosity. I thought Softube did the DSP for Fender products? Aren't Softube known for their meticulous component level circuit modelling approach.
Oh, and by the way I was talking about the old Fender Cyber Twin, not the latest stuff.

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This has been interesting. Thanks for everyone's contributions.
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Urs wrote:Well, Korg is a good example. Next to no-one has a model of the MS-20 filter.
And no-one has a Polivoks model either :shrug:

No capacitors.

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