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bmanic
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Audio rate modulation in general, whatever the targets are, seems to be the final frontier when it comes to digital recreations of analogue synthesizers. It's where most of them fall apart. The amount of harmonics that get generated and the complex interactions really quickly add up.
.. that and guitarists complex serial stomp box chains. I have never been able to get a convincing uber fuzzed up, complete breakup tone in the box to mimic 3-5 characterful stomp boxes in series in the analogue domain. The amount of harmonics generated and noise/fizz/fuzz just sounds rather brutal ITB.
There’s two fronts on that. First, there’s a push-and-pull interaction between a true fuzz and your passive pickups that can’t be emulated. Second is that the amount of oversampling needed to do multiple distortion stages would push most CPUs into the red. I’ve seen some decent attempts. Neural DSP is pretty good, but their plugins are very hungry. That’s why I still use an AxeFX 3. I’m not sure it actually sounds a lot better, but it definitely has the resources on board to do the kind of emulation we’re talking about and even do it with dual stomp/amp paths. I definitely keep a fuzz and tube stomp nearby, though. They really get it over the finish line.