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Originally Posted by DIGITAL SCREAMS
To me, hard and soft means......
Hard - true analog components, voltage controlled.
Soft - Software based sound (even if its wrapped up in 'hardware knobs and buttons')
My definition encompasses what generates the sound. The Access Virus is a softsynth in my eyes. So to is every digital synth ever made. Softsynth with a 'hardware' interface.
True analog synths represent real hardware. Theres no denying it.
DS
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What about the filters, the adsr envelope, etc etc those are hardware circuitry aren't they? To consider the Virus a softsynth, the sound would have to not pass through the filters. Is this true? Do the filters just control calculations on the dsp board or does the sound actually pass throught them?
Lots of old analogues had the sound generated by a DCO but the rest was analogue, ya get where I'm goin with this?