himalaya wrote:
I hope you (and everyone else) don't mind this little excursion of mine. It was just meant to illustrate that it is not that easy to judge what is or isn't analog, or 'pleasing' analog. I mean, if one sound from one synth can be regarded as coming from a VA and a hardware analog synth all at the same time, then it does illustrate how our perception of sound can be misleading. It also shows that high resonance in analog synths isn't as milky as some would have thought. It can be piercing and very strong. And in turn, a VA resonance sweep can be more pleasing. It all depends, on how, where, what time of day, your astrologic chart, and the tea leaves pattern in your cuppa.
There are all sorts of analog type sounds that can be hard to tell the difference. Any good VA these days can make some sounds that when everyone guesses there is no discernible pattern and as many people guess wrong as right... So I agree with that point... even the best ears get it wrong a percentage of the time...
However, that someone can make A sound that people cannot consistently tell does not mean that the synth can do so across the range of its parameters and while played and modulated. Turn up the feedback in Saurus past halfway in various circumstances and the sound degrades into extremely harsh digital noise... That result is so obvious that it does not matter the time of day or astrological chart or tea leaves pattern.
It's a WAV file, which does not play nicely in this KVR player (not for me or other people). You need to 'right click' and 'save linked content as'... The above 'feedback' demo is an MP3, just to make it easy to play, but then, set your ears for any MP3 artifacts, otherwise Saurus will be accused of introducing compression artifacts!
