borion wrote:Imagine a synth that produced a good quality cymbal sound with full dynamic control of spectrum, attack, etc. A synth is more flexible than a sample, thus potentially has a greater range of expressivity.
When I imagine such a thing, I imagine it is sample-based. Load a sample into teh Sampler and you get a Cymbal synth. Load it into Drumrack and you get much of the same flexbility.
Despite the fact that clearly everyone here has decided that cymbal synthesis can never work, companies like ImageLine and Xoxos oddly enough appear to think there is enough interest to devote significant development effort into it. You should contact them and tell them how foolishly misguided their efforts have been.
You only need to hear the results to know that. Samples are still much, much better than those things.