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Hello everyone. We have a special treat for you: a new blogpost that is a audiovisual whirlwind tour through a neglected era of music technology. It's easily the longest, but also the best-researched and most fun thing we've ever written: https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08-24-around-the-general-midi-world-in-12-pianos.html
@hikari this is extremely neat, although we seem to *really* have a tin ear and can't hear a difference between most of the examples
wonder how much "also trained on a yamaha psr (and are therefore used to the sound)" contributes to that?
definitely don't remember the "DJ" button
are these all sample-based synthesizers (other than the single FM example)?
@r yep, every last example is a ROMpler (except the software ones which are just “samplers”, the distinction becomes less meaningful in software)
@r we're not too surprised you can't hear the differences, because after a certain point we find we struggle to, too, especially when it's the same demo MIDI for all of them. you have to spend a lot of time listening to different things with a tone to be able to really hear how it differs from other tones