Re:This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:23AM
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It's AI/ML if you capture sounds at different levels/frequencies, run them all through FFTs, and then use AI/ML to model how the FFTs change with level/frequency.
The Neuron used to work like this - but it's not a cheap way to synthesise sounds, and it never sounded all that awesome.
This works in the DX7's parameter space and tries to find sweet spots within that space - which are hard to discover, even if you know what you're doing.
I'm not convinced it's much more successful than a plain old constrained parameter randomiser. But it is much easier to use.
As I understand it, their system can take an audio input and “learn” how to control the parameters of a synth to reproduce that sound. I had the pleasure of seeing a demo of it from someone who worked on it and thought it was impressive!
Synths have existed for a while which can use “resynthesis” to take a sound and recreate it using additive synthesis (e.g. Hartmann Neuron, Alchemy), but I wouldn’t probably call this AI/ML.