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Plogue, a Canadian software company, have recently released a (software) emulation of the DX-7 in excruciating detail. Here you can see part of the trouble they
by tgv 5y ago
Plogue, a Canadian software company, have recently released a (software) emulation of the DX-7 in excruciating detail. Here you can see part of the trouble they went through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ97iXQrqzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ97iXQrqzw. Suffice to say that they used a logic analyzer to discover gritty details that no other analysis of the DX-7 I know has ever paid attention of.
- z5h 5y agoI like to think I’m a synth nerd in the know, and certainly chat a lot and read synth forums. But Plogue have flown under my radar. This looks like great stuff at a good price. Do you own any of their soft synths?
- S_A_P 5y agoPlogue has been around for a while but nobody could fault you for missing them. I have been and active member of KVR VST for over 20 years which is where I heard of them but never owned anything of theirs. It was only recently announced that they released this 'sample accurate' DX7 clone. I have TX7 for and the Arturia DX-7V. Typically FM or Phase Distortion(Casio CZ synths) arent really the type of sound I go for, but they definitely shine in clanky metallic dissonance.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoBidule has been around for ages - at least 10 and maybe even 20 years.
- tekstar 5y agoI think they have a decently lengthen demo period for all their plugins. I remember playing with many of them in the past for a period
- tecleandor 5y agoThey have some great things. I bought their Bitcrusher plugin years ago, which is really fun, and I think I still receive software updates for that. Chipsounds is great if you're into 8-bit / chiptunes and the like (they also have a "chipsynths" series of plugins emulating SNES/MEGADRIVE, and other classic game consoles, but I haven't tested them...) And Bidule is quite a thing. Is some sort of modular VST synth with tremendous options for routing that seems very well suited to prepare live performances. The Philip Glass Ensemble, through Michael Resman has used it at least once to make complex live setups: https://www.plogue.com/michael-riesman.html https://www.plogue.com/michael-riesman.html
- tgv 5y agoI have two of their sample players (one for Garritan products, and their free sfz player), I've got Bidule (which is a semi-modular environment where you can combine processing units and plugins in complex graphs; a bit like Reaktor), and recently bought the OPS7, because it sounds so damn authentic and is fun to play with: it has two layers, so you get something similar to the DX-1/5 sound.
- jlarcombe 5y agothey're super great, their software is ace. we used to work with them at my old company and they're lovely people too!
- jacquesm 5y agoThank you, most interesting.
- noizejoy 5y agoAnother venerable DX7 software emulation worth mentioning is the free and open source Dexed[0], which also doubles as a patch librarian for a real DX7. [0] https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/ https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
- yobbo 5y agoMind blown
- jacquesm 5y agoWhy?
- weatherlight 5y agoThe DAC conversion is hard to nail in combined with the 12-bit certain crunchiness to the old Yamaha FM synths.
- AstralStorm 5y agoI think using 15-bit ADPCM u-law would be a quick and dirty approximation. Or similar ADPCM.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoRetro synth emulators are terrible at proper analog audio emulation. Higan (the "most accurate" SNES emulator) uses cubic teaming for the output without an attempt to emulate the stairstepped ZOH DAC or analog lowpass, or implement a brick wall. Plogue is one of the few developers to produce proper analog emulation, and they say they document all their research (https://youtu.be/V3yWXVAZgO0 https://youtu.be/V3yWXVAZgO0), but I'll have to check again to see if I can find it in the video or not.