Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!LFCS!NICK From: nick@LFCS.ED.AC.UK (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.emusic-l Subject: Prophet VS reincarnated Message-ID: <234.9002061004@subnode.lfcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 6 Feb 90 10:04:29 GMT Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Lines: 39 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway Via: UK.AC.ED.LFCS; 6 FEB 90 10:01:44 GMT In-Reply-To: METLAY@EARN.PITTVMS's message of Mon, 5 Feb 90 12:09:00 EST <25149.9002051747@lfcs.ed.ac.uk >I'm inclined to believe that the Waldorf is going to fall flat on >its face in every market outside Germany; nobody who (a) speaks >English and (b) isn't enough of a gearhead to recognize Wolfgang >Palm's mark of genius is going to buy it. (...brief silence as Nick tries to work out the double negatives...) Yes, quite possibly, after all, the marketplace is very different now to how it was in 1980 or whenever the PPG arrived. Now there are lots of nice sounding machines around, which must make it more difficult for a new machine to break in, especially if it's unconventional ("is it as hard to program as a DX7?"). If it's not going to be a sellout in the US, that's an even bigger reason for me to buy one, since it will be all-the-more unique. The downside is perhaps the technical/service support... But when the Japanese obselete their own gear every two years anyway, I don't think it's going to be too bad, comparatively... >As for the Korg WaveStation, I think it will follow similar ideas >to the Dorf's (shoot, even I'M making fun of it), but that sweeping >through a wavetable should produce different timbres than mixing >wavetables en masse. Anyone want to correct my ignorance? Is there >any difference between interpolating wavetables and generating >mixes of them in the digital domain? The reviews said that the 'dorf would sweep through the tables and "interpolate" the harmonic differences; I'm not sure what this means. The Waldorf also has analogue filters which hopefully count for something [ :-) ]; this is probably why it's only an 8-voice machine (with dynamic multitimbral voice allocation, yet, which must be fun when it comes to instantaneously switching filter settings). >Might I point out that this is a biased sample of folx to ask? |-> True, so I'm going to try and get some comments from my local dealer (they're getting five for Edinburgh alone, so I'll ask them how fast they go compared to the usual Japanese Chiff-generators). Nick.