That might be the single most telling statement you've made about it. It's
an obsession. Your resolve on this topic definitely eludes sanity.
I am just really interested in those out-of-phase FM signals in CMS.
How are they generated, if not intentionally by the designer?
Which makes it exactly like a lot of other synthesizers out there. And
sample playback on a soundcard is a truly different animal from sample
playback in a professional synthesizer, which is one of the many places your
tirade against them breaks down.
If a soundcard-based sample playback synth/soundfont/synth-emulation/
softsynth has has a sample-rate, bit-resolutions, # of operators, # of
voices, # of channels** that are at least a 100 times whats necessary
for the average human auditory system to consider "music", AND [even
more important!!!!!!!!!] the recordings are that of actual, high-
quality, new, premium, clean, authentic, tradional instruments [such
as piano, violin, flute, guitar]. Sigh...... Then yes, I am willing to
give it a try and might actually enjoy it -- though, obviously not
*nearly* as much as Creative Music Synth.
But, unfortuntely, most soundcard-based sample playback synths/
soundfonts/synth-emulations/softsynths don't have sufficient sample-
rates, bit-resultions, # of operators, # of voices, # of channels**
near whats necessary for the average human auditory system to consider
"music". *More importantly*, the recordings are made from cheap,
dusty, broken-down, poorly-conditioned instruments -- which is why so
many sample playback synths/soundfonts/synth-emulations/softsynths
stinks like the human kakaa they are. Ever listend to M$ GS
"wavetable" synth? I feel like making and spreading a virus to infect
that softsynth piece of s---.
**Yamaha's OPL3 has 18 channels