Mark Mothersbaugh on Classic Hardware vs Software Emulations

[jamcat]

Herbert von Karajan sold over 200 million records of music he didn’t write or even play on.

Sure but did he brag about charting on some obscure chart while offering criticism for those who didn't?

I don’t know. He wasn’t on KVR.

[D-Fusion]

I wonder how much of the perceived fatness difference between hardware and emu here is the filter being actually too clean and not having any slight distortion nonlinearities the original hardware may have?

Based on what i hear on my headphones it is more to do with the digital stiffness that gives the sound a 2d machine gun effect sound in the memorymoog comparison video and the sounds that get close enough are probably sounds that only uses 1 oscillator.

It is the moving oscillators that add some thickness to the sound and the memorymoog would probably sound the same as the plugin if it had the same stiff pitch perfect oscillators.

[Aloysius]

Not a synth but when I listen to Overloud TH-U I sense that I am hearing a very choked output. It seems unnatural to me. A picture has been taken but it seems very forced for want of a better word. It does not replace the real thing imo. It may be state of the art but perhaps the art is in a state.

[zerocrossing]

I wonder how much of the perceived fatness difference between hardware and emu here is the filter being actually too clean and not having any slight distortion nonlinearities the original hardware may have?

Based on what i hear on my headphones it is more to do with the digital stiffness that gives the sound a 2d machine gun effect sound in the memorymoog comparison video and the sounds that get close enough are probably sounds that only uses 1 oscillator.

It is the moving oscillators that add some thickness to the sound and the memorymoog would probably sound the same as the plugin if it had the same stiff pitch perfect oscillators.

But Memorymoog V has a per-voice control on how loose the oscillators, and actually all the main components, are.

[D-Fusion]

I wonder how much of the perceived fatness difference between hardware and emu here is the filter being actually too clean and not having any slight distortion nonlinearities the original hardware may have?

Based on what i hear on my headphones it is more to do with the digital stiffness that gives the sound a 2d machine gun effect sound in the memorymoog comparison video and the sounds that get close enough are probably sounds that only uses 1 oscillator.

It is the moving oscillators that add some thickness to the sound and the memorymoog would probably sound the same as the plugin if it had the same stiff pitch perfect oscillators.

But Memorymoog V has a per-voice control on how loose the oscillators, and actually all the main components, are.

That is true but it doesn't sound like that feature is used in the comparison video on some of the sounds so maybe it would get closer if it was set correctly?