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I'm surprised at the > $300 price tag, which puts it well above other versatile synths such as U-he products. I hope he reconsiders and prices it about half that.
 
It's gonna be a good one, though.

OK I'll bite; How does one make the best sounding oscillators on the market sound better than, let's say for an example an oscillator? Do you over sample it and swear you can hear a difference? Use 64 bits and swear you can hear a difference? Finally how does one know that the market isn't already using the same tricks you might use to make your oscillators sound their very best?
 
 

mike_mccue

How does one make the best sounding oscillators on the market sound better than, let's say for an example an oscillator?
 

Maybe he uses high quality ones and zeros! 😉

It's all moot unless you use gold plated USB cables with your interface anyway.

Mike, as an engineer you're thinking of oscillators in the classic sense, e.g. sine/square/triangle/sawtooth regenerative feedback circuits. Soft synths don't actually have oscillators, as I'm sure you know. The term has merely been carried over from the hardware world out of convenience.
 
Some software synths are able to generate waveforms of far greater complexity than anything Bob Moog ever envisioned. For example, much of Zebra's strength is in the "oscillators", which can morph smoothly between any set of source waveforms. Melda takes a similar approach to LFOs used as modulators in various products, so I'm guessing the new synth's oscillators are based on similar principles.
 
Creating such waveforms isn't a simple process. You're generating very complex harmonic series that have to be band-constrained to avoid aliasing and intermodulation distortion. That can't be accomplished with a simple filter. It requires constraining harmonics at the generation phase itself. It's black-belt coding, for sure.
 
Bear in mind that I have no inside information about this. I'm only thinking how I would approach it.

bitflipper
I'm surprised at the > $300 price tag, which puts it well above other versatile synths such as U-he products.

Does anybody actually pay full price for Melda gear?  It's certainly no secret that all one need do is wait a month or two - everything at Melda eventually goes on sale for 50% off.  So the actual price will be ~$160.

Thanks Bit, That's some good food for thought.

dmbaer

Does anybody actually pay full price for Melda gear?  It's certainly no secret that all one need do is wait a month or two - everything at Melda eventually goes on sale for 50% off.  So the actual price will be ~$160.

It didn't use to be that way. And no guarantee it will continue.

He may continue to offer older plugs at the discount. But he may not do it for new stuff coming out.

mike_mccue
Thanks Bit, That's some good food for thought.

Yep. Good info for sure.