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The Korg sounds are still a mystery to me - they may be Poly-800 or DW8000.
So far I've identified 30/128 sample sources and have leads on at least another 20. So far the Roland D50 is still in the lead with the most sounds being used for ST-01. I downloaded the DX21s factory sounds into my TX81Z via the most precarious of homemade tape interface leads via mp3! (yes it does work! - even with Spectrum games) Hey presto - there are MonoBass and HeiferBell without doubt MonoBass sounds just fantastic on the real thing! On closer inspection the DX21's factory sounds bare most resemblence to some of the ST-01 sample names. The DX11 came out in 1988 and the ST-01 sample set was released in June 1987 - D'oh! I was right that it was a 4OP FM synth.Īs it happens the DX27, DX100, DX21 and TX81Z all share similar sound sets and were all released before ST-01.
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Much the same is true for the C64's SID generated music as it too had a certain "sound" - quite unlike the horrible FM generated yuck that PCs were eminating a few years later from their Sound Blasters.Īfter spending far too long downloading old Yamaha manuals and comparing patch names with the ST-01 names I've come to the conclusion that my original guess that one of the sources was Yamaha DX11 is wrong. It's this character that made a lot of Amiga music so cool. This is why, for example, 12 bit samplers such as the AKAI S950 are still favoured in making some types of music. These characteristics are almost impossible to emulate in a soft synth as the noise and aliasing from the old hardware becomes part of the sound. The main object is to identify the original sources - this has become a bit of an obsession for me as synths built around the 1985 to 1988 era were very different to what we see now - The Roland D50 is posivitely oozing with character due to its low bit resolution, filters and use of PWM. same velocity, note length and FX processing. This is will actually make emulating the original sound very difficult in some cases as a single key will have to be played in the same manner as the original producer ie. This is because the ST-01 samples were only snapshots of what were responsive complex synth patches. I wanted to go beyond just emulating the originals as I think many will be surprised how different the original sources will sound.
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I am also hoping I can eventally interview the original creators.įeel free to email me if you are interested in helping are absolutely right - the original sound set sounded great. I hope to post some of my earlier studio remakes of classic Amiga tracks on this site. I also intend to write sections on the featured synths along with demos of them in action.
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The website is not up yet but the idea will be to have an interactive table containing original sample name, original sample, sample source and full preset number/name, a HQ remake and demo of it in use along with any interesting notes.
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There are also samples taken from the Roland Juno106 (Pingbells), the Yamaha DX21 (Mono Bass), the Casio CZ (SineCZ) series and possibly the Korg Poly-800. Call, DigiHarp, Heaven, TineWave, Jetes, Outlaw, Pizza, Nightmare) - a very characteristic sounding synth. What I can say is that out of the 126 samples in ST-01 a fair amount are without doubt factory presets from the now classic Roland D50 (eg. I recently bought the domain to do exactly that and more. I was recently contacted by someone who had seen something I'd written on the subject who has had a very similar idea to mine which is to identify all of the synths used to make ST-01 and then attempt to make high quality equivalents of them. They all have a heck of a lot of character - this character has a lot to do with the way early modules sound. I've found it a shame that although so many rave on about the early Amiga modules and everyone knows they made use of the ST-01 sample set but very few know where these samples came from. I have a heck of a lot of studio gear from this era and like several others I've been curious about the origins of ST-01 but to date little info exists on the subject.
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Well the short answer is several now very collectible classic pro synths of the time On searching for information on ST-01 I found a posting on EAB made by Mark Wright in 2003 asking whether anyone knew what instrument was originally sampled to make the infamous ST-01 sample set.