First i want to say i am not very good at those "guess the synth" games. Anyway with this my impression was that the differnces are actually quite big, especially between the first and the last one. Part of that difference also seems to be in the envelope setting that does not really seem to match between the 5 examples (or the mixture/balance between envelope, Cutoff and envelope amount). Not 100% sure but my guess would be that the first one is The Legend which could be also wrong.EnGee wrote:I did a tiny comparison between 5 synths (includes The Legend of course). It is a simple bass and as I'm not a pro sound designer, so forgive me for my lack of the details.
I tried to make them as near as possible and as equal as I could in volume with a very simple bass melody. It repeats the same midi file for each synth to play (which takes about 15 seconds each).
https://soundcloud.com/engeemoon/bass-comparison
I don't know really, but the most difference I think it is in the character and the way of playing. I like them all to be honest as they are from my favourite synths
What do you think? Is there a clear difference between each synth? Can you spot The Legend easily? Do you believe that the skill of the programmer (sound designer) is as important as the synth sound/character?
Anyway my experience is that reprograming a sibngke or a few soudns from other synths usually could work nicely (like with some of my Synth Brass patches) but the more patches you try to replicate the more difficult it gets to nail all of them properly.
I am not sure if also other Minimoog emulatiosn are included in your comparison but obviiously with those it would be more easy to get closer to The Legend.
My own comparison i did (see my post above) were with the Bandpass filter and there it seems to be even more difficult to get a similar sound from other synths. If you combine all 4 filters availabl in Teh Legend for a comparison it wil get VEYR difficult to nail all those wit hanother plugin. While Monark has a 12dB BPF too it does not offer polyphony and some other features in The Legend and as soon as you use those advanced features it would be also difficult to replicate the BPF sounds of The Legend in Monark (in The Legend you simply have to switch to the 24dB BPF mode that already makes this impossible).
Opposing to many other BPFs that were used in vintage synths the ones in The Legend are resonant until self-oscillation. For example there is a big difference to an Oberheim SEM style BPF which is a state variable filter opposing to the transistor ladder filter of the Minimoog (and the BPF is built on the same topology as the Minimoog LPF).
