Not even with Digital Performer, when all the parts are recorded separately on the computer?
Wendy: They have a lot of cool tools, but you’re still best off making those changes before you record the performance. Since a sound sample is a digital signal, can you have the same degree of control as a digital sound you’ve built from scratch? Wendy: No, not in general. Samples use digital for recording and playback–but not for the potential power of digital synthesis. Samplers hearken back to the days of the Mellotron and Chamberlain. The reason I use the Kurzweil 2000/2500 is that they give you synthesizer manipulation on top of samples, and they sound wonderful. You can make your sounds working with the samples’ waveform instead of a raw sine wave or sawtooth. The Kurzweils don’t have the breadth and depth that the Synergy was exploring, while, the Synergy couldn’t do samples. If you put all those things together, you’d have something pretty remarkable. So far nobody’s done it. Again, from the audience point of view, it shouldn’t matter at all. If you are hearing something very
