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(1 minute tune) Comparison between digital and analog Synths
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:29 am
by psicolor
I fetched my quasimidi sirius and tried to compare it with my voyager.
The Sirius has a very cool builtin drummachine, but the Synthsounds are very cold and metallic. I'm shure that you guess which of the sound is made digitally and which is analog.
http://www.psicolor.de/music/Psicolor_- ... igital.mp3
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:59 am
by Voltor07
Drums are digital, the first synth sound is digital, the second synth sound is analog. Am I right?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:13 pm
by Analog!
I am agreeing with Voltor. Both of the synths sound cool, but if we are correct, you can't recreate the beauty of the moog.
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:45 pm
by dave500
Very nice.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:44 am
by psicolor
Very, VERY impressive answers!
Voltor07 wrote:Drums are digital, the first synth sound is digital, the second synth sound is analog. Am I right?
The Drums are digital, yes, but with the synths it's vice versa. The first sound is the voyager, the second is the sirius!
For me, the second synth sounds very cold and especially the high frequencies are badly distorted for my taste! But your answers tell me, that the difference between both techniques is not mainly related to the sound....
I don't really know what this means, but your answers make me very meditative
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:57 am
by psicolor
Very difficult topic, but i decided to ignore your answers and to prefer the moog.
Just because i spend about 3000 EUR ... and the voyager looks much better
Pure Moog again:
http://www.psicolor.de/music/Psicolor_-_loop3.mp3
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:58 am
by Voltor07
psicolor wrote:Very, VERY impressive answers!
Voltor07 wrote:Drums are digital, the first synth sound is digital, the second synth sound is analog. Am I right?
I don't really know what this means, but your answers make me very meditative
It means that Mac Book speakers are CRAP!
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:00 pm
by Voltor07
Yeah, that's DEFINITELY Voyager.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:40 pm
by jon_kull
Voltor07 wrote:It means that Mac Book speakers are CRAP!
I listened through monitors and like you still though the wrong synth was the Moog.
It could be the effects. When I had a Kurzweil there were a couple instances where I thought I was playing the Voyager but was actually playing a Moog patch on the K2600. They sounded similar because they were both running through the same digital effects.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:41 am
by Analog!
wow, i had the 2 switched around. interesting.
Analog versus digital continued
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 6:44 pm
by alainhubert
While we're on the subject, I've recently programmed a Taurus-like Bass sound on the Voyager. I've carefully reproduced the same patch on my Alesis Ion.
In this audio sample, I manually play a short sequence of notes on one synth, then the same thing on the other synth. At the end I play one note on one synth, then the same note on the other.
Can you tell which synth is playing when?
Synths used: Alesis Ion and Moog Voyager EB.
This audio sample has been recorded live into Audition in one shot with no effects or anything else, just the two synths.
http://FileHost.JustFreeSpace.Com/977TaurusPatchIV.wav
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:32 pm
by MarkM
Hard to tell but I'm going with #2 as the Moog. I have an Ion, and it is a very flexible synth. It does a very nice Moog emulation.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:16 am
by Dazz
It's not a completely fair listening test:
you should play the bassline alternatively with the Moog and the other one, as well as the melody: than you will certainly hear the difference...
It's confusing now because the synths both play different melodic material.
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 7:28 am
by psicolor
Dazz wrote:It's not a completely fair listening test
That's true. I just wanted to make music, the comparison was more likely a side-effect. But I really want to make a "scientific" comparison, because if you're standing in front of both synths and play with them, the difference is dramatic!
Re: Analog versus digital continued
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:42 pm
by Voltor07
alainhubert wrote:While we're on the subject, I've recently programmed a Taurus-like Bass sound on the Voyager. I've carefully reproduced the same patch on my Alesis Ion.
In this audio sample, I manually play a short sequence of notes on one synth, then the same thing on the other synth. At the end I play one note on one synth, then the same note on the other.
Can you tell which synth is playing when?
Synths used: Alesis Ion and Moog Voyager EB.
This audio sample has been recorded live into Audition in one shot with no effects or anything else, just the two synths.
http://FileHost.JustFreeSpace.Com/977TaurusPatchIV.wav
Hmm..really tough. I'm guessing the last note in the recording is Ion.