Tim Clarke
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I'm just curious if any of the (now) many synths that do "user sample importing" offer a multi-track, DAW-like view where you could really line up, say, your four oscillator elements visually. Maybe even adjust certain basic synthesis parameters (volume, panning, filters, ADSR) visually as well.
Probably a pipe-dream, and maybe this tool would be more of a sampler than synth, but I was watching that Roland video of Eric Persing's tear-down of some of his iconic Roland D-50 patches (soundtrack, digital native dance, etc.), where he talks about different partials/waveforms coming in and out at different times etc., and I thought combining the visual sound-editing ease of a DAW like Logic or Pro Tools with a synth where you can play back via MIDI instantly while tweaking synthesis parameters and get that audio feedback along with the visual feedback would be pretty cool...
Probably a pipe-dream, and maybe this tool would be more of a sampler than synth, but I was watching that Roland video of Eric Persing's tear-down of some of his iconic Roland D-50 patches (soundtrack, digital native dance, etc.), where he talks about different partials/waveforms coming in and out at different times etc., and I thought combining the visual sound-editing ease of a DAW like Logic or Pro Tools with a synth where you can play back via MIDI instantly while tweaking synthesis parameters and get that audio feedback along with the visual feedback would be pretty cool...