Mr Spectrasonics talked about the Oberheim OB8 in the Omnisphere 2 sonicstate vid. I am not sure exactly about what he was doing with the sampled wavetable, he says they sample the harmonics of the sync settings or something.
Soft sync, hard sync. Are there more interesting vst/real synth sync implementations?
Synth sync - most interesting one?
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
Soft sync doesn't have an exact meaning - it basically means things that involve sync but aren't hard sync, hard sync being "reset the slave every time the master completes one cycle" - which creates a pattern of a certain numbers of wavecycles crammed into the space of one, with a sharp discontinuity as the wave is reset for pitch offsets which aren't whole harmonics of the master oscillator.
Soft sync can be "as hard sync but reverse the wave direction". Xoxox's synth has this, it's also on the Alesis ION hardware synth.
Soft sync can also be "as hard sync, but instead of resetting right back to phase zero of the wavecycle, go a fraction of the way" - in this case there's an "amount" knob to let you morph between hard sync and no sync at all.
Soft sync can also be "as hard sync, but only do the reset when the phases of the two waves coincide to within a certain window" - in this case you need an amount knob to specify the size of the window. This is how I believe the soft sync in u-he ACE works. I like to call this "slippery sync" as it's like hard sync, but with middling values of "hardness" the sync won't trigger, creating long patterns of subharmonics, engine noises, and if you get the right values, some really cool noises
Soft sync can be "as hard sync but reverse the wave direction". Xoxox's synth has this, it's also on the Alesis ION hardware synth.
Soft sync can also be "as hard sync, but instead of resetting right back to phase zero of the wavecycle, go a fraction of the way" - in this case there's an "amount" knob to let you morph between hard sync and no sync at all.
Soft sync can also be "as hard sync, but only do the reset when the phases of the two waves coincide to within a certain window" - in this case you need an amount knob to specify the size of the window. This is how I believe the soft sync in u-he ACE works. I like to call this "slippery sync" as it's like hard sync, but with middling values of "hardness" the sync won't trigger, creating long patterns of subharmonics, engine noises, and if you get the right values, some really cool noises
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
Hope it helps. It's kinda hard to explain without diagrams.
I may have gotten the last two types of sync the wrong way around, I tend to get them mixed up. One can be thought of as "comparative sync" - compare the two phases, if they are within a certain set distance, do the sync retrigger. The other can be thought of as "partial sync" - always sync, but instead of returning to zero phase, go a part of the way there (set by the knob). ACE uses one of these two, they sound kinda similar. I'll be checking next time I'm in my DAW.
I may have gotten the last two types of sync the wrong way around, I tend to get them mixed up. One can be thought of as "comparative sync" - compare the two phases, if they are within a certain set distance, do the sync retrigger. The other can be thought of as "partial sync" - always sync, but instead of returning to zero phase, go a part of the way there (set by the knob). ACE uses one of these two, they sound kinda similar. I'll be checking next time I'm in my DAW.
http://sendy.bandcamp.com/releases < My new album at Bandcamp! Now pay what you like!
