That form of synthesis is so under estimated, and over looked.
Bowen's RDII Modules has a Waldorf Pair II Oscillator that I am using in Prowave, and more recently SpaceF's Multi-Synth. It is amazing sounding in it's 8bit form, but I can only drool over what a wav file based Oscillator would do.
Whoever builds it should match up the waveforms better though IMO.
For example, start w/ a basic Sine Wave and have it recorded several different times w/ slightly different timbres, then record Triangle, Square, Saw, and then Pulse. This way when using a slow LFO to sweep the wav's the transitions are smoother. I have GB's of unique new waveforms created in Symbolic Sounds Kyma Capybara, and insert them into the Sample Oscillators of Bowen synths, and they sound incredible, but some are too large and can't be used effectively. But I could achieve some incredible sounds if I could morph or sweep through these wav's somehow.
Lagoausenti,...My Brotha',
I do all of my editing of the Giga libraries in GS3, such as layer deletion.
If I were to use the STS series I would then have the GigaEditor convert to 24bit wav., prior to the STS conversion. Translator Pro, or ESC should be able to transfer all of the related layers in their proper place and retain their dynamics and filters. I suppose if they don't transfer totally, the sounds would be there, and a few small tweaks in the STS's could fix all non sounding performance issues there.
I was nervous about HDD's streaming the samples since they are mechanical, and less stable than a RAM based sampler. But for several years, even before I joined our beloved platfrom, HDD's proved to be a better choice for using large libraries.
If you need a great 16bit, 16MB sampled piano. Try to find the Jerry Coakley piano that Alesis, and Ensoniq used in their pianos. It is available as a SF2 I believe, and from what I heard the 48MB / 24bit example of it is quite good.
Truthfully, I wanted to use STS, but Gigastudio / GVI has proven to become a very stable live performer. w/ high quality libraries.
But if I had to have big drum sounds live, I would definately listen to the Akai MPC's next to a DAW, you might agree that the sound is much bigger, but then again to record, it seems that the in the box method is where it's at.
Thankfully we have many choices.
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