NAMM 2023 - Dave Rossum - Sound Semiconductor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- At NAMM 2023, Sonic State caught up with Dave Rossum, the founder of Sound Semiconductor, to discuss the company's exciting developments. Sound Semiconductor is a development from SSM, a company that designed synthesizer chips for the first Prophets in the early 1970s. SSM went on to produce chips for professional audio and was later acquired by Analog Devices. In 2016, Rossum, along with Marco Alpert and a little bit of seed capital from Universal Audio, started Rossum Electro Music. At NAMM, they met Dan Parks, who used to run SSM, and talked about the idea of resurrecting the classic SSM chips. Six months later, they started Sound Semiconductor, which includes some resurrections of the classic SSM chips and some new ideas.
Rossum explained that the analog chips give instruments their own unique character, which digital processing cannot achieve. Analog chips have variations from unit to unit, and the designer's job is to make those variations as small as possible while allowing those variations to give instruments their own individual character. Analog distortions are also natural, making them more appealing to the ears than digital algorithms that give aliasing, and Dave told us he finds designing analog chips to be more artistic and enjoyable than designing digital ones.
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Any interview I watch of Dave makes me so happy. What a genuine human being
THIS IS THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THIS NAMM EDITION 🙏.
Thnx David for your immense contribution to music with your legendary Chips, hope u will bring back all the vintage CEM and SSM seeing the speculative prices so we will be able to maintain vintage gears for decades, maybe some serious Clones of Roland Chips too would be amazing as roland don’t intend to go back to their roots ever.
Dave is personally responsible for many of the most important technologies that enabled modern synthesis and music, it’s amazing
And so humble ,and kind , just amazing
Dave is such an awesome guy! Had the pleasure of talking to him and Dan Parks at NAMM this year and learning about the sound semiconductor lineup. His knowledge and personality is as top notch as their chips and documentation. So happy they are making these classic and new chips in modern SMT packages for modern designs. I've already prototyped with many of their chips and they are sounding excellent! Also glad I got to meet a legend in the synth world! A highlight of all my NAMM experiences.
As someone who grew up on hip hop and still makes boom bap beats, we owe an immense amount of gratitude to Dave and his SP1200 creation. We may not have had some of the greatest albums of the late 80s and 90s had it not been for that machine 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This video exemplifies exactly what I love about TH-cam: someone talks about something that isn't necessarily something that directly interests me at the detail level it is discussed, but it is a display such a passion and enthusiasm, and I just love watching it. And with the added bonus it is in essence about creativity and someone's own creative passion leading to inspire others to be creative. That is, in a nutshell, what creativity at its best is all about.
He was born to do what he does.....keep on trucking Dave!
Absolute legend.
Great interview with good questions! Dave is such a hugely talented yet humble guy - always a pleasure to listen to.
Hope you have a video on Rossum Electro-Music Locutus coming! Only NAMM thing I'm excited about and the internet has nothing...
Rossum electro weren't actually displaying at NAMM this year unfortunately....
Haven't heard of it, what is Locutus?
Thumbs up for Dave!
Legendary and such great works,then and now, I love this. Go Dave!
Always great to see the positive energy of Dave. Total legend.
I think by far the most legendary, genius in electronic music history: even the original SEM features things from Dave . Of course then SSM filters everywhere and just a little very insignificant things like the Emulator 1 , II, III, IIIX , IV , 4 platinum, , SP 12, SP 1200 , Morpheus , even proteus 1 one ahead of his time , and all the modules at Rossum Electro-MUsic . THE BEST OF ALL FOREVER
Man, Dave is a National treasure!
Thanks to Dave the genius!
Nice informative interview. Thanks, Dave...for everything. In view of how hard it is to find SSM2040 filter chips, and how pricey they are if you *do* find them, the most critical question to be asked, for Prophet 5 owners, is the one you never asked Dave: Will this 2140 chip be pin-compatible with the SSM2040, so that Prophet, or other synth owners experiencing a burnout can buy one and just pop it in to resurrect their synth?
Not pin compatible, as this IC is in a different package, SMD instead of DIP. But there are adapter PCB’s that make it pin compatible.
He is such a nice, down to earth person. I talked to him at his booth at a few different synth gear expos. Despite his deep history in synths he was always willing to patiently explain his products. And was pretty fun to talk to as well.
legend !!!
WOW.. can't wait to hear them 🤓
Legend!! Dave has had a significant impact on synth development over the years 🙏🏻🎹🙌
So much so noice much love yay!
Synthsational!!!
absolute legend!
Rossum is a happy guy.
Do any of you know any module which is using that new oscillator chip already?
Are these the new filters that are in the 3rd Wave Synthesizer?
Synth Sensei 🎹
Dave if you see this, could you please send me a sp1200? i am too poor to afford one and i feel like they were made for people like me.