If the ACD synth on the play+ is analogous to the Roland Juno 106, what are the FAT, VAP, and WTFM analogous to?
My motivation behind this question is, as a total synth noob, watching tutorials on the Juno 106 gave me a much better understanding of the ACD synth. I’m hoping to do this for other synths too.
I don’t think they’re meant to be direct clones, but they’ve been inspired by classic synths for sure.
I think the ACD is based more on the SH-101 than the Juno, but they’re pretty similar apart from the polyphony. A basic Roland synth with one oscillator and a sub, filter, and ADSR envelope.
The VAP seems to be a standard virtual analog synth, which would be comparable to something like the MicroKORG or KORG MS-2000
FAT says it’s based on a classic 3-oscillator mono, which makes my mind immediately jump to the Minimoog. I have no idea if the filter is designed to match the Moog one, though.
WTFM is a 2-op FM synth which doesn’t really line up with the Yamaha DX series, probably more like analog FM perhaps? It’s the one I’m least familiar with.
Hope that helps!
I’d say that is pretty accurate except for the VAP, which emulates classic Polyphonic Analog synths (think Korg Poly6, Yamaha CS-80, Oberheim SEM)
WTFM is a “Wave Table FM” synth. I’m sure there are wavetable synths out there that do FM (the Synthtech E352 sure does), but I think this one is unique as it doesn’t really have anything to compare it to directly, as far as I know.