Yes for sure, I'm a big fan of vintage ROMplers myself, the Korg DSS/DSM and Ensoniq Mirage have analog filters as well, great stuff (and probably a couple more). Since we cannot use the original sample content of such machines for copyright reasons, we have thought about making a Sampler at some point which uses our own sample content and incorporates these analog features.goldenanalog wrote:What I have yet to see a dev such as yourself, do - interestingly enough - is to emulate in software a vintage 'hybrid-tech' sampler like The Great E-MU III - which played back 16-bit samples through actual analog filters - (1) for each of it's voices - I'm well aware that there are many software emulations of samplers - but it would be a different beast indeed to have some heavy coding dedicated to emulating individual analog filter characteristics independently in great detail for each individual sampler voice -
As a guy who's first *sampler* was a playback-only System 360 keyboard, I can attest to the fact that samplers that used a DAC-to-resonant-analog-filter topology for each of it's voices individually (of which there were actually very few 16-bit offerings available) indeed sounded more alive -
Richard