Anton Kholomiov, Sep 9 2016:

> I'm just curious, do you use any hardware synth which you recommend?
I use them extensively. A Yamaha DX7 (PM/FM), which I'd only recommend for religious reasons.
Two sample based synths (Korg Triton series and Roland JV/XP series), which are fantastic for their particular samples, if needed. Also the JV/XP architecture is nice and gives me enough tools to do sound design.

There's a Waldorf Microwave, which I like for its particular waveforms, its filters, the UI and the architecture, though that could be simulated with Csound.

Lastly there's a fully analogue (MiniBrute) and a hybrid analogue/digital (DSI Prophet-12). They both bring their very particular sound (filters and partly oscillators) and very intuitive and designer-friendly UIs.
> And how do you compare the sound of the "real" thing versus
> virtual one that is produced with Csound?

Csound's ladder filters sound very good and a I enjoy a few others too. But I, personally and subjectively, feel that Csound lacks in bnadlimited oscillator power. There is vco2, but I don't really like the sound. I also feel that a few capabilities are missing. Though with some clever design Csound can generate good oscillators.

But I'd never use Csound to create a virtual analogue synth. I love Csound for its advanced synthesis features and the capabilities not found in any hardware. If I had a less powerful virtual analogue synth, I think, I would prefer Csound. I've heard quite a few of those.

Another issues I have seen, in a few experiments, is that my attempts at more complex architectures written in Csound, use a fair bit of CPU. Take it with a grain of salt though, since I'm not a good programmer.
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I am using a Nord Modular G2 and a Yamaha MO6.
The Nord is very nice as a controller also because of all the knobs. In itself it is a great synth, but somewhat limited in memory, so long delays are not possible. But then we have Csound, so this is a good mix...

But I'd never use Csound to create a virtual analogue synth. I love Csound for its advanced synthesis features and the capabilities not found in any hardware. If I had a less powerful virtual analogue synth, I think, I would prefer Csound. I've heard quite a few of those.

That's a good point! The world seems to be locked in subtractive synthesis and so much repetition is going on in the hardware and software synth around

the subtractive theme. But with Csound we can go beyond that.

What do you think on Nords? Do you have any experience with that?

2016-09-10 20:06 GMT+03:00 Ffanci Silvain <silvain@freeshell.de>:

Anton Kholomiov, Sep 9 2016:

I'm just curious, do you use any hardware synth which you recommend?

I use them extensively. A Yamaha DX7 (PM/FM), which I'd only recommend for religious reasons.
Two sample based synths (Korg Triton series and Roland JV/XP series), which are fantastic for their particular samples, if needed. Also the JV/XP architecture is nice and gives me enough tools to do sound design.

There's a Waldorf Microwave, which I like for its particular waveforms, its filters, the UI and the architecture, though that could be simulated with Csound.

Lastly there's a fully analogue (MiniBrute) and a hybrid analogue/digital (DSI Prophet-12). They both bring their very particular sound (filters and partly oscillators) and very intuitive and designer-friendly UIs.

And how do you compare the sound of the "real" thing versus
virtual one that is produced with Csound?

Csound's ladder filters sound very good and a I enjoy a few others too. But I, personally and subjectively, feel that Csound lacks in bnadlimited oscillator power. There is vco2, but I don't really like the sound. I also feel that a few capabilities are missing. Though with some clever design Csound can generate good oscillators.

But I'd never use Csound to create a virtual analogue synth. I love Csound for its advanced synthesis features and the capabilities not found in any hardware. If I had a less powerful virtual analogue synth, I think, I would prefer Csound. I've heard quite a few of those.

Another issues I have seen, in a few experiments, is that my attempts at more complex architectures written in Csound, use a fair bit of CPU. Take it with a grain of salt though, since I'm not a good programmer.
...

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I have in the past, I was using an op1 with my phone using my android apps that use csound as the engine. I used those with a monotribe for some shows as well. But i wasn't using them in a standard DAW format, my synths don't support midi so I was using the op1 or the monotribe to provide a "beat" that i could do noise sounds over with my apps.

I have written midi based instruments that I used on linux with seq24 but back then I didn't have any hardware at all so I was using seq24, csound and hydrogen for a while.

You can use a raspberry pi3 with csound to build your own custom digital hardware module for eurorack. You can run instruments with jack on linux and sequence them from seq24.

You can turn csound instruments into VST plugins with cabbage there's really a lot you can do to integrate csound with a pro audio setup.

Anton Kholomiov, Sep 10 2016:
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> What do you think on Nords? Do you have any experience with that?
I owned a Nordrack 3 for a long time and loved it. Yes, limited in its feature set, but a few rather unique capabilities and a superb interface.

I've also seen and played the Nord lead 4 and A1, I'm not really convinced of the direction they've taken. More wavetables, which is rather digital of them. This might have been a good addition, if it hadn't been for the cost of other features, like modulation between the oscillators.

They always had a nice hard oscillator sync and the filters are good. I'm not sure if one could implement the comb filtered white noise thing, that Clavia calls "sync'ed noise", which is a good basis for vocal type sounds.
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