microwave xt vs virus ti

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Originally Posted by Threlly

However,
Wavetables are a 20 year old cul-de-sac in synthesis.
A closed finite synthesis method, unable to approach the true complexity of pure synthesis.
If you are looking for new horizons fourier-source granular synthesis is the natural sucessor to steam-driven wavetable synths.

At the end of the day, if you like what your ears hear, go with it, all methods justify the end result in this case.

I dont think that people buy the XT series because they think that wavetables are the bee's knees. Instead, many buy it for the shear flexibility, and oftentimes the grittiness, of the beast. You can do all sorts of crazy stuff with it that most other digital synths cant even touch.

Think of sweeping a wavetable which is acting as an FM source for a carrier oscillator, or doing the same with synced oscillators, or FM filter, or Waveshaper, using a ring mod on your wavetables, etc. Then there's the crazy boolean operators which are found in the modulation matrix. To top it all off, you get full control of oscillator quality (aliasing, tuning, time quant), two saturation modes, bit reduction filter, etc.

Anyhow, this article does a good job assessing the XT's capabilities:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jan0...rowavetips.asp