Seamless Sound Transitioning

[janrhansen]

It's the price you pay for using a VLSI instead of virtual software sound generation. It's much easier to implement in software. They would need to reprogram the whole base OS System of how the SWP70's is set up  to somehow give us real SST. Like other posted, you can prealocate different voices in each part to have the effect of SST betwen different keyboard parts. Think Yamaha is the last of the major Synth companies that still insists on using VLSI based tone generation, most other synth manufactorers are using software only based sound generation on either some kind of off the shelf computer parts or their own proprietary hardware. Many smaller synths focused on a particulary kind of sound generation, like all the smaller Korg Synths run on just a small Pi compute module, maybe with an added dsp chip for sound processing.

Not that there arent plusses with using them, but with their new software plugin of the Montage M I hope Yamaha finally kills this archaic way of designing their synths for the next generation. They have to use these VLSI's chips for several generations to pay back the cost of designing and producing them, and it's still a software programable chip, so why keep using it when todays cpu's is hundreds of times faster than what they were back when VLSI's was first introduced. Back then it was a necessity as the CPU's werent fast enough without adding expensive DSP chips.