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    Analogue Solutions Ample desktop synthesizer vintage circuit design

    Analogue Solutions Ample synth now available

    Desktop instrument boasts all-analogue design

    Analogue Solutions' new desktop synth combines a number of features found in their other devices, and comes equipped with a comprehensive set of controls that promise to please beginners and seasoned synth enthusiasts alike.

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    Analogue Solutions AS200 Colossus

    Analogue Solutions AS200 Colossus ‘Slim’

    A true analogue mega-synth packed with features

    With a smaller footprint than the AS100 Classic, AS200 Slim takes up 50% less desk space but still features all the same audio and modulation circuits of the Classic.

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    Figure 1: Smoothing a stepped waveform (or vice versa?).

    From Sample & Hold To Sample-rate Converters (2)

    Synth Secrets

    Sample & Hold modules, as explained last month, convert a continuously varying signal into a stepped series of fixed pitches. And this, as we shall see, is the basis of what we know as 'digital audio'...

    Techniques Sep 2000
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    Figure 1: [top] The output from an envelope follower. Figure 2: [bottom] A more sophisticated envelope follower.

    From Sample & Hold To Sample-rate Converters (1)

    Synth Secrets

    Gordon Reid introduces the synthesis modules that allow you to create a number of commonly used 'random' effects, and their close relatives — analogue sequencers.

    Techniques Aug 2000
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    Figure 1: A typical setup for processing an external signal using a Minimoog.

    An Introduction To ESPs & Vocoders

    Synth Secrets

    We turn our attention to the effects that can be achieved when subtractive synthesis components are applied not to the output from oscillators, but to real-world sounds — such as human speech.

    Techniques Jul 2000
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