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MichaelG ·
I was wondering if there is a way to do "bulk dump" of information from a real, physical synth into something like SynthMaker where all the "digital mathematics" of, let's say, my "Access Virus A," could be transferred and SynthMaker would understand those schematics, cloning the filters, as my Access Virus A is a "digital" analog.
I know you can do "SysEx" dumps from synths into the digital realm, and if the "Cutoff" knob on my Access Virus is digital, then there is a "code" that MAKES it sound unique to the instrument. I wondered if I could just "dump" all that information via MIDI into SynthMaker and go from there!
Is this possible? I have SO many "Digital-Analog" hardware synths, and wondered.
Lemme know!
MichaelBenjamin ·
the digital part of any hardware synth surely could be translated to any other computer, but i guess it would be really difficult to reverse enginner this and you need to be a programming/chip specialist with some special gear to do that.
the parts you can dump are just the standardized midi parameters. what you could do however, is to get some overview of the synths capabilities and routing and loosely rebuild that in sm with all parameters and then dump your virus programs into it. if you do it good, it could sound similar then. but it would also be a lot of work.
MichaelG ·
Michael!
Thank you for your prompt response! Well....I'm no where near one who could understand chip properties, which, now, completely makes sense. Were what I asked that "simple," everyone would have a VST recreation of every hardware synthesizer they've ever bought before the whole BOOM of VST Software and fast PCs.
At the time I was buying all these hardware synths, I owned an awful 486 PC...which, compared to what is available today, is an abomination. Heck, my 486 could BARELY comprehend Cubase when I bought it and plugged the "dongle" into the printer port as there was no such thing as USB...LOL.
Okay, then! Again, thank you for clearing this one up for me, Michael!
mike
MegaHurtz ·
You coud try to interprit the dumped data as a txt file, maybe something falls out.
If you can find it that is..For windows the yust in time debugger acts like a nice ram scan.
The actal chips info is close to impossible to get out, most components are glued to the mobo, so if you attempt to take
em out it breaks the chip. Else the data is still very reluctant to come out.
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