Re: Resynthesis Program

"Les" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.kawai.k5
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "jbrave" <onephatcat@e...> wrote:
> Les,
> 
> I posted the manual for the K3 on the K3 Yahoo group.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kawaik3zone
> 
> Hopefully it is still there, if not, let me know.

It's still there. Will check it out, thanks!

> I don't know how the K3's harmonics are scaled, but it seems 
different from
> the K5 and the K5000. 

A coupla things I need to know are the maximum amplitude of the 
harmonics for the K3 and whether or not it uses a linear scale or a 
logarithmic scale for the harmonics. Once I know those two things, 
we can make educated guesses about the rest.

As far as scale goes, both the K5000 and the K5 use a logarithmic 
scale (decibels). That's why when you try programming a sawtooth 
waveform into the K5, for example, out of a textbook, which almost 
always shows the amplitudes with linear values, the results don't 
sound the way you'd expect. They have a filtered quality because the 
harmonics aren't set high enough. 

>It only does 32 harmonics, but they can be any 32 out
> of 128. How one would go about picking which ones? I think the 
first 32
> would be fine, unless there are some very loud upper partials.

I can write a simple algorithm that will pick the most prominent 32 
harmonics and use those. 
 
> > Another synth I would love to support
> > is the old Korg DSS-1. It was capable of additive synthesis.
> 
> Yeah, the DSS is a great synth/sampler. It has oscillator sync 
too. Its on
> my wish list...

I used to own one years ago. I hate the fact that I got rid of it. 
Terrible sampler but an excellent synth.



------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Over 1 billion served! The most music videos on the web.
Click to Watch now!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/Xkrq7C/IARHAA/n1hLAA/QnLolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.