- The official name of this Device is : RawPrime.
- Product description / walkthrough : from page 6.
- From page 12 (after the "show and tell" will be completed) this thread will be abandoned.
Sadly, at some point this thread has been infected by a bunch of vile haters (the so called keyboard warriors) with the only aim to bother and attack, just to gain a shred of visibility. Unfortunately I have no control on such kind of "vile trash" (I'm not a forum admin), so I can't guarrantee a comfortable reading of my "product walkthough". My thank you to the KVRAudio moderators for trying to do their best to ban such garbage and clean up this thread. From page 12 this thread will be abandoned.
ORIGINAL POST :
It's not clickbait, eheh - you read it correctly.
Here's some infos I would like to share about a new and original synthesis concept I built for an upcoming product, because I think it could be something interesting to discuss.
Several months ago, I was wondering (and deeply studying) the magical realm of the 80s-first-90s Yamaha YM soundchips (OPL, etc...) and - as an obvious consequence - I was really fascinated by the fact that 40 years ago a complete, great sounding polyphonic FM/phasemod synthesis system could be embedded into a cheap (specially for the time) single-chip. A real game changer back then !
So I started to think about that time more or less - let's say about a decade earlier : late-1970s / first-1980s...
...Back then a lot of great devices were released, from hybrid digital-analogue synthesizers to microcomputing systems like the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum etc. There was plenty of "limitations" on that devices (totally uncomparable to today standards of perfection) but anyway, they were well-thought machines, capable of great things.
A further problem was also the very high costs. All that devices - also the simplest one - were sold at a very high price : a sampler with a bunch of KB of RAM was something reserved for the richest.
So, was it possible back then (years before the introduction of YM chips) to build a *cheap* (!) device with a great sound and extended sound-design possibilities ?
Was that possible by using low-cost commercial components borrowed from the telecommunications industry, *without* relying on FM/phasemod ?
I found this question/scenario so much intriguing, that... I built that device.
Assembled in the virtual realm, simulating the physics of cheap, very lo-fi
commercially available (1970s) telecommunications-class electronic components.In my next posts I would explain in detail its working principles and how it's made - also because it's a little bit complicated ...
