>Above all, one cannot overstress the importance of the attack transient.
Roland used this fact to produce surprisingly realistic sounds at low cost. When memory was too expensive to sample the whole note, you could get excellent results from sampling just the transient and using traditional subtractive synthesis for the rest:
Roland used this fact to produce surprisingly realistic sounds at low cost. When memory was too expensive to sample the whole note, you could get excellent results from sampling just the transient and using traditional subtractive synthesis for the rest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_arithmetic_synthesis