Wavetable Oscillator for DIVA!

[whyterabbyt]

and a pony.

and a rocket car.

[DynaMoHum]

There are so many products these days, with so many different capabilities - and some do them really well, like Zebra.

And if gets overwhelming - perhaps "diffusing."

The refreshing thing about a "deep and narrowly focused" synth like Diva, is it forces one to make choices on the direction of the "impact" one chooses to make with it.

It's like the old saw about there being three things:
Fast, Cheap and Good. You may choose any combination, of 2.

Or perhaps, another analogy: water has great power, when narrowly contained between two walls - and constrained, with depth and speed.
The same volume of water, less than ankle-deep and spread across a wide plain, has no impact whatsoever.

Sometimes, there is great power in limitations - especially when "chosen."

[knowix]

I think I've said it twice before, but I feel like the Prophet VS or SQ-80 are the way to go.

There's a lot of other PPG/Waldorf WT synths on the market now, but only one commercial VS emu, which doesn't appear to thrill people all that much.

With U-He considering porting their products to Linux, Rainier Buchty might be quite happy to explain the intricacies of the SQ-80s oscillator chip to them (he has said he only works with Linux now). The functions of the chip could be expanded to include the more transwavey stuff that came later. So you get a vintage sound with more sophisticated scanning options.

[pdxindy]

The same volume of water, less than ankle-deep and spread across a wide plain, has no impact whatsoever.

Sure, it waters all the plants!

[V0RT3X]

I think I've said it twice before, but I feel like the Prophet VS or SQ-80 are the way to go.

There's a lot of other PPG/Waldorf WT synths on the market now, but only one commercial VS emu, which doesn't appear to thrill people all that much.

With U-He considering porting their products to Linux, Rainier Buchty might be quite happy to explain the intricacies of the SQ-80s oscillator chip to them (he has said he only works with Linux now). The functions of the chip could be expanded to include the more transwavey stuff that came later. So you get a vintage sound with more sophisticated scanning options.

It might be hard to licence the wavetable sounds of the original Prophet VS. I think Arturia just "recreated" the waveforms from scratch so the ones in the Prophet VS were not the original wavetables. It would require quite a bit of work but if U-he managed to do that I think it would be more than welcome.

I doubt we'll see anything complicated in Diva though. For instance if they were to put in a module that required some kind of digital controls I doubt it would fit the "spirit" of Diva.

It would be neat if they implemented something like a sampler module in Diva that was somewhat like the Cyclone http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/son ... gin-590610

However that would require some serious emulation work no doubt. Also again, It would be better to see a DIVA style sampler system instead.

[MillerSam]

If you know german you must see the interview with Urs

He said in the interview the future of DIVA

The synths features:
- Polyvox
- TB-303
- an agressive ladder filter
- Steiner Parker Filter

I think this will say a lot of the future of DIVA

[bftucker]

If you know german you must see the interview with Urs

And, if you don't know German, a handy translation via Timfonie:


http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 5#p5919334

[MitchK1989]

I would love some form of 80s ish digital oscillator model for DIVA in order to get those gritty hybrid tones.

[Howard]

^ I think DIGITAL (though not '80s) covers enough of that territory for Diva.

[chaostheory]

I know diva is about emulation but would it be possible to combine say one vco with one of the digital modules digital osc. A hybrid osc module I guess

[machinesworking]

IMO I would rather see it the other way around, Zebra HZ / Diva filters in Zebra.
Again IMO but I would have rather seen the Polivox modeled earlier in Diva than a DCO.

If you want a wavetable synth, buy Diva, Urs has already mentioned that Diva filters are coming to Zebra, as evidenced by Zebra HZ.

[Vectorman]

One thing that's missing in wavetable land is a union of retro-sounding wavetable oscillators with all their gritty artifacts and a really great, up-to-date analog filter simulation. We have some great filters in Zebra HZ now but not the dirty oscillators (Zebra's wave morphing oscillators are obviously very clean and anti-aliased). In Waldorf PPG 3.V and PPG Wavegenerator, you have the '80s-sounding gritty oscillators but the filters in those are certainly not up to the standard of DIVA or The Drop. Just can't get both in one synth right now.

[Phase47]

One thing that's missing in wavetable land is a union of retro-sounding wavetable oscillators with all their gritty artifacts and a really great, up-to-date analog filter simulation.

+1.

[pdxindy]

One thing that's missing in wavetable land is a union of retro-sounding wavetable oscillators with all their gritty artifacts and a really great, up-to-date analog filter simulation. We have some great filters in Zebra HZ now but not the dirty oscillators (Zebra's wave morphing oscillators are obviously very clean and anti-aliased). In Waldorf PPG 3.V and PPG Wavegenerator, you have the '80s-sounding gritty oscillators but the filters in those are certainly not up to the standard of DIVA or The Drop. Just can't get both in one synth right now.

Bazille can go in that direction... you can make wavetablish sounds with the Osc's and you can make them dirty in very pleasing ways and the filters are as good as any (better imo).