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Re:Stevie Wonder’s “classic period” by dominotw on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @01:35PM (#13231464)
yea you are right. I confused synths with 'new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately duplicating the sounds of real instruments. ' [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

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Re:Stevie Wonder’s “classic period” by ArkyBeagle on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:18PM (#13233512)
The 250 is a ROMpler. Synths right before that were usually, mostly FM. Then there were analog synths ( Moog, Oberheim, the other suspects ).

A ROMpler has samples built in ( in ROM, although that doesn't mean masked/permanent ROM - probably FLASH ).

I'd compare it to when PCs had soundcards with FM MIDI vs. Soundfonts. The quality in sound went up immensely.

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