Don't know anything about Icarus 3 other than its resynthesis is said to be among the best in the business.How would this compare to resynthesis in Synplant 2 or Icarus 3?
Synplant is quite different to most resynthesis in that it uses a relatively simple synthesiser (two oscillators, FM, reverb and modulators to reconstruct a sound. The Genopatch in synplant attempts to approximate the input sample using the synth.
The advantage to this is that it's easier to paramaterise. The disadvantage to it is that it can be limited particularly with less steady state sounds like drum loops.
Many other resynthesis based synths use additive synthesis (phase vocoding) or matrix factorisation. (I suspect myth may be the latter).
These methods allow a much greater degree of accuracy in resynthesis but at the expense of complexity. In the case of true additive you end up with a huge amount of partials which can be difficult to manipulate.
Madrona Labs' Sumu is a good example of fully additive synthesis and has some clever ways of dealing with the amount of data.
Myth, if I'm right, is more like Anemond's factor synth which, instead of using discrete sinusoidal partials, resynthesises using spectral bands with a complex amplitude envelope associated with each band. This is similar to the kind of tech you see in stem separation where different components of the sound are deconstructed into spectral components along with their temporal counterparts.
Statistics: Posted by kraster — Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:39 am