----Original Message----- From: Michael Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2006 13:38 Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) really
>It may be me, but.. >Isn't a computer just a hardware synthesiser with a different interface? Yes. To qualify that though, dedicated RAM in digital synth vs. RAM used by myriad other competing applications (meaning potentially less available for sound quality) plus more than likely better DACs in digital synths than in a computer and even an external soundcard. Finally, the routing: for a synth it's likely more direct - out of box into mixer/pre-amp, vs. in a computer, lord knows where else it's been, plus again, likely, the gain will need to be boosted. As we know any extra messing you have to do to a signal before you can use it is going to degrade it, relatively speaking. Ken
