... one of the optional synths from Creamware you'll just have to buy is Minimax, a modelled emulation of the Minimoog. Hans Zimmer summed it up perfectly when he told us "you know, everybody's done models of Minimoogs, but this one — I put it up against my real, slightly ailing Minimoog and it's absolutely identical." It's impossible to argue — the response you'll get from playing from the very first note, and every one subsequently, will be one of inspirational amazement, because not only does it sound exactly like the real thing, its depth (I refuse to use the word 'fat') will make you realise just how bad some virtual synths really are.
When you take a look at the DSP load, though, you'll soon realise why Minimax sounds so good — it's greedier than Homer Simpson in a doughnut factory. Although a one-voice instance of Minimax took a fairly reasonable 12 percent of the available resources, it's important to bear in mind that this was running on a top-of-the-range 15-DSP chip system! On a six-chip Pulsar system, a one-voice Minimax would probably need over 25 percent of the resources, and with a three-chip Luna system it would probably use well over half. Getting back to the 15-chip board, two voices needed 16 percent, three 20 percent, four 24 percent, and eight voices used 44 percent of the available resources.
However, these figures are meant more as an observation than a criticism, because DSP models that sound as good as Minimax are always going to require a great deal of processing resources. While few would turn down a Minimoog Voyager, it really could be thought of as a monophonic luxury in many ways, compared to the fact a 15-DSP SCOPE system can run two six-
voice or seven monophonic instances of Minimax without sweating. Admittedly, though, I'm comparing different products for different markets here.
Minimax is one of the instruments included in Creamware's upcoming Noah, and I think it's safe to say there'll be many people who wouldn't buy a computer to run the SCOPE Fusion Platform, but will buy a Noah just to get their hands on Minimax — it's that good.
Ik denk dat iedereen die een beetje serieus met muziek bezig is wel doorheeft dat je van een nieuw apparaatje geen betere muziek gaat maken (en deze open deur wordt ook om de haverklap ingetrapt hier op het synthforum om je eraan te herinneren
).
en nog meer maar die weet ik (nog) niet. 
