Hi HunterKiller!
AlienMachine's Eminent-V has good chorus settings but suffers in exactly the same place where Nightflight and all other synthesized recreations of the Eminent 310 strings suffer from (so far, 2024): keyboard filter tracking.
What do I mean by keyboard filter tracking?
The Eminent 310 doesn't exactly use standard synthesizer keyboard filter tracking, but it does have a similar effect on all its keys. In that as you go down the keyboard, toward lower notes, the notes get successively warmer/duller. I.e. the high frequency content of the spectrum is filtered out intelligently, but not in a linear/boring fashion. It was done in a way that still retains the liveliness of the sound across the spectrum. This shows that every note of the Eminent has its own filter and that is the reason why its strings sound so warm, natural, and far more versatile than the usual string synthesizer which sounds unrefined, overbearing and two-dimensional. This is all the more heard when one plays many notes, chords and melodies together.
The Eminent inspires a very different vibe compared to standard string synths. It shows that the builders of the organ were aware of how real acoustic strings sound to our ears, and that they did what was necessary to bring that to the organ, which is why the strings on the Eminent sound "natural", because our ears/brains expect the lower notes to be duller and not as full of high frequency content - that brightness breaks the effect, it makes the timbre sound artificial, as if there is something wrong.
Because of this (samples and imperfectly made softsynths), to this day there aren't any perfectly emulated Eminent 310 strings, because no one has actually gone ahead and emulated the organ in full, despite the fact that there are a zillion Hammond emulations.
Great to see you are still around. Thank you for the mention!
Yes!. Your point is true, not only in the real Eminent but in almost all analog string machines. Some have filtering and sound shaping per key, some per group of keys and they were calibrated by hand!
I have though to do that in my Reaktor ensemble as I was never completely satisfied with the sound in the lower registers. It would have been very simple to do. You just need an array with the filter/shaping values using the note number as index. I've just never had the time/will to implement it. I'm kind of retired from developing in Reaktor so it may never happen.
Cheers!
Statistics: Posted by alienmachine — Sun Dec 22, 2024 2:57 am
