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Default My brutally honest opinions on *soundcard* MIDI synths.

Radium wrote:
Hi:

I know I've brought this extremely-off-topic subject up -- and in
other groups -- before but I just can't get over it. I apologize
profusely to those who might be annoyed. I hate soundfonts,
emulations, softsynths, and sample playback MIDI synths.

I request that readers please read this message from began to end
until they fully understand it.

To be honest, I've tried "white hat guy" tactics for along time in
many forums [such as the Creative Labs forums] and have either been
ridiculed, ignored, or given wrong information [on purpose].

As for hiring someone to make a card, its going to cost $$billions and
even then they still might do a shabby job. Like most people, I don't
have anywhere near the amount of money necessary to get someone to
make a customized MIDI synth for me.

Am I better off building own FM synth chip design myself after
learning about how it works? I mean, I just don't have the money
necessary to make someone do it for me. Its so very unlikely that
anyone will be willing to do it for me because that person already has
billions in his/her account and has nothing to lose by refusing me or
building the FM chip in a defective manner, no matter how kind and
patient I am. Hell, such rich folks have nothing to lose by attaching
a dynamite to it and then laughing sadisticaly as my room catches fire
when I turn the synth on.

For these dudes, its do all at your own risk, nothing guaranteed at
all. These guys just don't care. All they want is money, but they
already have too much of it. So there is no incentive for them to
build me a professional, upgraded version of CMS220. Even if I was the
richest and friendliest individual on earth, I'd still be taking a
*huge* risk in requesting anyone to build any customized hardware for
me. Cuz they still wouldn't give a f---

CMS220 has one of the best synth pads. Try comparing the quality of
polysynth-pads of a sample playback MIDI synth to that of CMS220.

Polysynth pads are my favorite instrument in Creative Music Synth
[220].

Nothing sounds more refreshing the sound of SB16's polysynth pads with
the central channel removed.

The halo-pads of CMS220 provide a touching psychedelic sound. Compare
that to the stale, boring, halo-pads of a soundfont based MIDI synth.

Once again, the synth pads of softsynths really stink. In CMS220,
theyare far more pleasant.

Polysynth on FM gets to exploit its main advantage, dynamic
synthesis. The tone was generated on an FM synth, so naturally an FM
synth can do it better than any stinky soundfont kakaa.

On the Creative website -- forums.creative.com -- I am known as
"CMS220"

In the above link, is where I take revenge against the following:

1. Creative Technology for no longer making or upgrading Creative
Music Synth [220]

2. Customers who like -- or don't mind -- sample playback MIDI synths,
softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts

3. Customers who dislike -- or don't care for - Creative Music Synth
[220]

On the Creative Technology site, I first asked my questions politely
but no one answered me. I then got frustrated and vented all my anger.
Now those jerks know how I feel.

I lost control of my temper and used very bad words. As a result, any
computer with my home IP address cannot access the Creative forums.
Also, if I login under the name "CMS220" in any part of the world, the
Creative site will automatically ban access to its forums from that
network. They've banned access to the forums from three places already
because I logged in under CMS220. They've got some auto-ban type of
feature, it seems.

It started off like this. I asked in the Creative Technology
http://forums.creative.com as politely as I could. I waited a couple
of weeks. No response. I asked again as politely as I could, waited
another few weeks. Again no answers. I tried on the third and last
time as politely as I could. AGAIN, no answers!!!

I then got impatient and aggressive. I started venting my anger in
those forums. I used bad words. As a result, they've permanently
banned my IP and I can no longer access their forums. What a buncha
jerks. Yes, I did get carried away with the foul language but hey, can
ya blame me?

So I can no longer sign-in under CMS220. I got a new username "SB16-
ISA-FM" and logged in from another network outside my house. I started
venting my anger again using colorful language. One of the Creative
Technology companymen then sent me a warning note, in which he/she/it
threatened to contact my ISP and shut-down my internet connection.
What those fools don't realize is that I can log in under any name
from any network that I am given access to. It doesn't have to be from
my house.

Maybe if Creative Technology weren't made up of such jerks, then I
wouldn't have started spamming their forums in the 1st place. So its
not my fault.

I would like a real Creative Music Synth [220]. Doesn't have to be in
a sound card. It could be a keyboard, a MIDI box or in any other
form.

Sadly, its not gonna happen because the mechanism by which Creative
Music Synth [220] is kept classified as top-secret by Creative
Technology Ltd. CMS220 is no longer made yet the sick @$$ company
still keeps the working of CMS220 a secret.

Creative Technology is a stubborn piece of crap. F--k those stingy
secretive *******s.

I hate sick sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and
soundfonts.

I just wish the audio communities would revert back to real, non-
emulated SB16 FM synthesis and upgrade from there.

FM emulation [or any audio emulation for that matter] is sample
playback. Sample playback synth = human kakaa

SB Live stinks like human kakaa. It has no real music synthesis. Its
all kakaa-like emulation.

SB16 PCI has the disadvantages of SB16 ISA [e.g. limitation to 16-bit
resolution] without the advantages [e.g. *real* FM synthesis]. All
SB16 PCIs should be burned in oxyacetylene flames.

AFAIK, some PCI cards contain something called 'Yamaha FM synth'. I
hate it though because it is emulation. The Avance sound card has
'Avance FM synth', but its also a real stinker as it isn't a real
synth. The evil PCI loves to inflict pain on other types of slot --
ISA being the unfortunate victim. PCI cards don't contain real FM
synths.

Anything kind of 'OPL' a PCI would have, would be emulation. The only
'OPL' any PCI cards have is OPL emulation. Emulation stinks like human
diarrhea kakaa foam. I don't understand why a PCI card cannot contain
a real FM synth like Creative Music Synth [220]. Is there a technical
barrier to this?

I can easily tell the difference between the freshness, brightness,
warmth, and liveliness of a *real* synth from the stale, cacophonous
-- or rather KAKAA-FOAMous -- fart of emulation.

Creative Music Synth [220] = SB16 ISA's FM synth = my favorite MIDI
synth.

I don't care for other MIDI synths.

Creative Music Synth [220] is:

1. Real

and

2. Digital

and

3. Hardware

and

4. Real-time

All other FM synths are okay. Wavetables are also good. But I don't
care for them.

Here is my ratings for soundcard MIDI synths:
1. Creative Music Synth [220]
2. Digital hardware FM synths other than Creative Music Synth [220],
non-FM digital synths [including *real wavetables*; excluding sample
playbacks, soundfonts, and emulations], and analog synths
3. Sample playback synths, soundfonts, softsynths, and emulations of
synths.

Sample playback synths, soundfonts, softsynths, and emulations are the
worst. They all STEEEENK!!!!

Soundfonts = thick stinky diarrhea kakaa foam of humans

Sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts
are the worst audio equipment ever. They are stinky, tickly, itchy,
creepy, irritating, farty, foamy, hissy, terrifying, disgusting, and
annoying.

I like the audio quality of Creative Music Synth [220]. It sounds so
warm, fresh, bright, rejuvenating, lively and effervescent.

The only thing about Creative Technology that I like is their Creative
Music Synth [220]. Other than that, they are a piece of kakaa.

Creative Technology is one f--king piece of crap that provides sh--ty
customer service. Their tech support is so limited.

Creative Technology used to be such a great company 13 years ago. Now
there are nothing but stinky-diarrhea-kakaa-foam-of-humans.

I've asked them about Creative Music Synth [220] -- through a variety
of means, including but not limited to phone, fax, and their online
tech support -- only to be totally-ignored. I asked them about this
for the past 5 years. Never got a decent answer. In addition, most of
their online tech support is pre-written garbage.

Creative Technology also uses such f--ked up sickening disgusting
sample playback synths in their PCI cards.

I wish that a gang of persons who support Creative Music Synth [220]
would attack Creative Technology and force them to make hardware
versions of Creative Music Synth [220] -- in PCI cards that are
compatible with PCI slots and Windows XP -- upgraded from 16-bit to 64-
bit-resolution and from 44.1 KHz to 2.88-Ghz-sample-rate. And from
there, keep on upgrading! When XP and PCI are obsolete then Creative
Technology should be forced to make even newer hardware versions of
CMS220 -- with even wider bit-resolutions and higher sample-rates --
that are compatible with the newer hardwares and softwares that will
exist in that future time.

If Creative Technology refuses, I hope the CMS220-advocating gang ties
up the people who make up that company and torturously forces them to
repeatedly listen to sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths,
emulations, and soundfonts until those Creative personnel are annoyed
with burning headaches and are deathly desperate for an escape. Only
then will the people of Creative Technology do the right thing -- make
upgraded versions of Creative Music Synth [220].

A rich spoiled-rotten company like Creative deserves to be heinously
hijacked and forced to do their duties.

The least Creative Technology Ltd could do is put a *real* 64-bit-
resolution, 2.88-Ghz-sample-rate, version of Creative Music Synth
[220] in a PCI card. But noooooooooooooooooooooo! They are too f--king
lazy.

Its not just Creative Technology that's responsible. Its also the
fault of self-destructive customers who don't mind paying $$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$ for those crappy sample playback synths. F--k those customers
as well. Masochistic perverts! I don't care if those customers destroy
themselves. Though, I sure as f--k don't want them destroying me! Such
customers should eat their own stinky diarrhea kakaa foam. If you feed
a scum, then you're just as filthy as that scum and I sincerely hope
you suffer just as much.

I feel like torching the chips of soundfonts, softsynths, emulations,
sample playback synths with oxyacetylene flames to distort their audio
output.

Creative Music Synth [220] is my favorite MIDI synth.

Its those sample playback synths that are crap.

Sadly most MIDI magazines advertise the kakaa-stinky sample playback
as a good thing often referring to them as 'wavetables'. These sick
marketers call sample playback synthesis 'realistic sounding'.

Sample playbacks synths are nothing more than the sound of a stinky
fart emitted from a human colon.

I've been looking hard for true FM synths. No luck. Most PCI cards
have OPL emulation. I hate FM emulation. FM emulation -- much like any
sample playback synthesis -- is to the ear what human kakaa is to the
nose.

I want *real* FM synthesis not some stinky trashy out-of-a-human-
behind emulation.

Those stinky-f==king marketers who refer to sample playback synthesis
as 'wavetables' deserve to be thrown into the sewer and made to eat
their own crap.

There is a world of different between sample playback synthesis and
wavetable synthesis.

If you still believe the marketer-induced myth that wavetable
synthesis and sample playback synthesis are the same thing, then
please educate yourself with the hardcore scientific facts presented
on the following link:

http://www.musicdsp.org/files/Wavetable-101.pdf

Wavetable synthesis is so much better than any kakaa-spitting sample
playback synth but not nearly as heavenly as *true* FM synthesis. Of
all the *true* FM synths, Creative Music Synth [220] is my favorite.

If a synth is *not*:

1. *Real*

AND

2. *Digital*

AND

3. *Real-time*

AND

4. *Hardware*

then it,
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For those of you who think MIDI is something of the past, there are
many people who still care about MIDI but unfortunately, these are the
sick f--ks who actually like sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths,
emulations, and soundfonts.

You are SOOOOO wrong if you think MIDI is obsolete. Its just that
today's MIDI audio often takes the stinky sample playback MIDI synths,
softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts. I feel like burning all sample
playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts along
with their consumers, and their companies. Sick pieces of stinky thick
diarrhea human kakaa foam they are. Vaporize all of those involved
with nuclear-fusion flames!!!!!

So yes. There plenty of those sample-playback-loving scumbags who
still indulge in the evils of sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths,
emulations, and soundfonts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got it????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?! ?!?!?!?!

There are tons of evil lovers of sample playback MIDI synths,
softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts in the entire world.

Try visiting the newsgroups: comp.music.midi and alt.music.midi

Majority of those sick f--ks continually hurl insults at Creative
Music Synth [220] while praising sample playback MIDI synths,
softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts. I feel like surrounding those
scumslimes with superhot flames resulting from localized nuclear
fusion.

I would like to make some replicable magnetic electronic nanobots that
will search for sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations,
and soundfonts in any part of the world and attach to the digital
chips of sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and
soundfonts. These nanobots should contain magnetic receivers that will
extract any random environmental magnetic audio signals from 2 kHz to
50 kHz [excluding spikes, square-waves, white noise, brown noise, pink
noise and bass sounds]. The nanobots then amplify those signals to the
point where they would significantly interfere with -- and cause
inductive crosstalk in -- the audio signals in the digital electronic
chips of the sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and
soundfonts. This will cause sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths,
emulations, and soundfonts to be full of annoying -- and perhaps even
frightening -- auditory disruptions from environmental magnetic
interference**.

That way all companies will be forced to abandon all their sample
playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts. In
addition, all listeners will be forced to endure the pollution of
sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts.

For those who miss their stinky human kakaa foam of soundfonts,
emulations, and sample playback synths, well, f--k them!

Voila! No more sample playback MIDI.

I demand that MIDI either use CMS220, or that MIDI audio not be used
at all.

Death to MIDI other than Creative Music Synth [220].

All sample playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and
soundfonts must be burned badly. That way those involved in MIDI audio
will not have much choice other than to listen to [or produce]:
1. Creative Music Synth [220]
2. Digital FM synths other than Creative Music Synth [220]
3. *Real* wavetables
4. Other digital synths [excluding emulations, soundfonts, and sample
playback]
5. Analog synths

OR, the other option for those sample-playback-loving, emulation-
supporting, soundfont-advocating, softsynth-desiring f--kheads is to
totally give up on MIDI, get depressed -- due to the absence of sample
playback MIDI synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts, and jump
off a cliff!!!!

I'll see to it that revenge is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Note: The magnetic signals that interfere with those digital chips
should be purely-analog. I just love it when purely-analog magnetic
signals cause significant disruptions in purely-digital chip-based
parts of electronic devices that I don't like. Sample playback MIDI
synths, softsynths, emulations, and soundfonts are an example of
digital electronic devices that I don't like so I want to victimize
them in this manner -- i.e. via magnetic interferences.

I try playing Creative Music Synth [220], through my so called
'karaoke voice canceller' -- which inverts the phase of one stereo
channel [right or left] and then combines it the other channel --
which results in anything identical in both the left and right
channels being removed. I get a mono of what was different in the left
and right channels.

When I play Creative Music Synth [220] audio through the voice-
canceller, it sounds more treble, sharper, brighter, warmer, and
crisper than when I don't use the voice canceller.

Due to the above, my MIDI synth dream would be a mono, 64-bit-
resolution, 2.88-Ghz-sample-rate, version of Creative Music Synth
[220] based on the signals that were phased differently in the
original CMS220. CMS220 is a stereo FM synth who left and right
signals are phased differently, this is why I get a different sound
when I play throught voice-canceller. The signals of CMS220 that have
the same phase for both L and R have a more cheesy sine-wave quality
which I don't care for. The signals in CMS220 that are phased
differently in L and R tend to resemble a fresher sawtooth-wave
quality which I like. That is why I want my version of CMS220 to be
based on the sounds that were phased differently in the original
CMS220. I want my version to be monoaural because I want all speakers
to give out the same signal.

Try listening to a sample playback MIDI synth -- such as SoundMax's
MIDI synth -- and compare that to Creative Music Synth [220]. You'll
*definitely* notice the difference.

SoundMax MIDI synth audio is to the ear what stinky thick diarrhea
kakaa foam of humans is to the nose.

The Crystal soundfont is even worse than SoundMax.

Creative Music Synth [220], OTOH, is auditory paradise.

Any understanding, cooperation, and assistance is greatly
appreciated.


Thanks,

Radium

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