Another guess a synth thread

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Ok!

It seems that everybody has voted who was interested so here are the 7 russians and 1 xyloponey:

synth1, VA, JP8080
synth2, VA, MicroQ
synth3, Analog, A6
synth4, Half analog, Super Bass Station
synth5, VA, Powercore 01
synth6, Analog, Pulse
synth7, VA, Virus Powercore - Disqualified -
synth8, VA, Supernova 2

In fact I noticed that the "synth7" clip accidentally included some pitch modulation too so it sounded more "analog" than it should be. So that clip is disqualified.

This demo clearly shows that sometimes it's very hard to tell if a synth is analog or virtual analog if you hear only a pure 1 oscillator tone. But if you listen very carefully with high quality headphones for example and turn the volume up, you can hear the slight differences. Usually analog synths have more bottom end and square wave sounds warmer and fuller and even a little hazier.

This kind of test would be interesting if somebody had time to program identical but more complex patches with every synth but this time I didn't have so much time. The differences between the synths would have become more obvious.

Btw, DS' latest voting coupon was quite good.