VINTAGE KEYS - Synth Zone

MASTER MENUABOUT VINTAGE KEYSVintage Keys utilizes digital recordings of real instruments for the basisof its sound. This is similar to a tape recorder except that inside theVintage Keys, the sounds are permanently recorded on digital memorychips.To perform this modern miracle, sounds and instrument waveformsare first sampled into the Emulator III, our top of the line, 16 bit stereodigital sampler. After the sounds and waveforms have been truncated,looped and processed, they are “masked” into the Vintage Keys ROM(Read Only Memory) chips.Conceptually, the sampling process is very simple, as shown in theBasic Sampling System diagram. As a sound wave strikes the diaphragmof a microphone, a corresponding voltage is generated. Tosample the sound, the voltage level is repeatedly measured at a veryhigh rate and the voltage measurements are stored in memory. To playthe sound back, the numbers are read back out of memory, convertedback into voltages, then amplified and fed to a speaker which convertsthe voltage back into sound waves. Of course, playing back 32 channelsat different pitches tends to complicate matters, but this is basicallyhow it works. In Vintage Keys, we have left out the Analog/Digital converter stage since the sounds are already sampled for you.Basic Sampling SystemAnalog/DigitalConverterMemoryDigital/AnalogConverterAmplifier10110011010010100101010010100101010101001010100101010110013V0V-3V1V3V-2V -1V3V-1V -2V14Vintage Keys Operation Manual