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I haven't had a chance to actually try them since I installed them the other day, but the Tukan Studios plugins for Reaper are supposed to be good:

 

https://stash.reaper.fm/v/43504/TUKANPLUGINS.png

 

.JS only, but there's a VST wrapper for JS if you're a Windows user.

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On 4/28/2022 at 1:42 AM, iococoi said:

I like nature sounds and enhanced brain waves. I'll see if I can use it. Thanks, car company.

 

Update: It's pretty cool. Basically just a sampler with fixed samples which just loop in the background and a mono, legato oscillator that has a few waveforms.

I'm definitely going to go buy a КИ now. Thanks, КИ.

 

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free samples:

 

4ms released a firmware update for the STS sampler and w/that comes a bunch of new samples. if you go to the link and click on "manuals/firmware" tab the "samplePack 2022" is there w/other samples and that will take you to a drop box where you can download all the samples. some contributed by me but others from some more well known artists.  it's a nice selection of one hits and loops and field recordings. 

https://4mscompany.com/sts.php?c=5

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Might have been posted before but Vital.

The synth i use the most these days.

Absolute powerhouse. Superb layout and sound engine.The best VSTi currently imho.

(additional wavetable needs to be bought tho but fully usable with free version)

https://vital.audio

 

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On 6/10/2022 at 1:06 PM, thefxbip said:

Might have been posted before but Vital.

The synth i use the most these days.

Absolute powerhouse. Superb layout and sound engine.The best VSTi currently imho.

(additional wavetable needs to be bought tho but fully usable with free version)

https://vital.audio

 

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honestly, the built-in spread parameter is a touch of class. that alone makes trying it worthwhile

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stemroller enables anyone to make karaoke, vocal, and stem tracks from their favorite songs. Simply type the name of a song into the search bar - StemRoller will find the song online and split it into four stems: vocals, drums, bass, and everything else.

https://www.stemroller.com/

somehow searches trough yt for the song and then stemming it with ai.. :catbed:

 

 

 

 

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Windows 95 physical modeling synthesis, compatible with a DIY-only hardware DSP platform that is only documented in a 1996 back issue of a German computer music magazine.

 

http://www.markwhite.com/vsp/phymod.html

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On 8/10/2022 at 4:43 PM, TubularCorporation said:

Windows 95 physical modeling synthesis, compatible with a DIY-only hardware DSP platform that is only documented in a 1996 back issue of a German computer music magazine.

 

http://www.markwhite.com/vsp/phymod.html

Not obscure enough for me.

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Agreed, needs to at least have the download link pointing to a USENET binary newsgroup in something like a .lha.arj compressed format (preferably to just the pascal source code)

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this DDSP thing works! (free)
It's an a.i. trainable audio transmogrifier, either a synth or an effect. turn a voice into a violin for example:
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp-vst

This next dev, Uhhyou/Ryukau is doing some promising (free) xoxos-like physical modeling, esp: cymbals:
https://ryukau.github.io/VSTPlugins/


 

 

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On 8/13/2022 at 10:04 AM, rek said:

this DDSP thing works! (free)
It's an a.i. trainable audio transmogrifier, either a synth or an effect. turn a voice into a violin for example:
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp-vst

This next dev, Uhhyou/Ryukau is doing some promising (free) xoxos-like physical modeling, esp: cymbals:
https://ryukau.github.io/VSTPlugins/

Ronan Fed is putting out some promising stuff:
listen to these kits: https://ronanfed.wordpress.com/rf-drums-2/
 

 

Alas, the Magenta plugin is v3, and thus cannot be used in Reason.

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DSP56300 Emulator currently runs the Access Virus Synth in a vst but it's a cpu chomper.
 there's a thread about it on KVR 

but the DSP56300 emulator authors don't distribute the roms. Just the framework. It's like MAME I guess.
The roms are usually found in MAME rom bundles that seem to contain every rom in existence for some reason.
If a toaster or a refrigerator runs on a rom, it's probably in some MAME rom pack.

 

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The ROMs are on archive.org.

 

I wonder how this runs on a Pi 4. 

At first I was thinking it would be pretty great to run it headless with a purpose-built MIDI controller, but looking at the used prices of a real Virus C, the cost of making a one-off, DIY clone wouldn't be that much lower than just buying a Virus. Assume $200-$300 for the front panel, another $100-$150 for a custom PCB big enough for all of the controls 9unless you wanted to do all of that off-board), $20-$30 for an Ardiuno Nano these days, at least $100 in other parts because encoders and switches add up pretty fast, over $150 for a Pi 4 because of the supply chain issues, and that's assuming he enclosure was made free from salavge plywood or something.  So let's say conservatively, if everything went perfectly and you were good at scavanging materials, minimum $650 but easily closer to $800, plus a lot of time and effort designing it.  You can get a virus C on reverb right now for just over $1000 shipped, so DIY would only be worht it if it was because you wanted the challenge.

 

But running it on a Pi 4 with a touchscreen would be great, and now I kind of regret returning the 11" touchscreen I bought with my last tax return and decided was too small for making a dedicated ReNoise box.  A standalone Virus clone would be really handy for me right now.

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the devs/scene around the emu are cagey about discussing where to find the roms, back when i first tried to use it i had a hard time finding one. it's probably much easier to find one now. back in the day, the roms were simply distributed openly as hardware updates i suppose, they probably never imagined there'd be some geeks who could build a plugin container for them, which is kind of amazing. similar to how they chopped open the yamaha FM chips to create software emulations (and even just hardware controllers)

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Yeah, the archive.org download was literally my first search result.

 

Sounds really good, and I wouldn't want to use it in a session with other plugins on the old laptop I have but on its own it's performs really well.  One instance using 3-4 voices of polyphony uses about 16% realtime CPU and 1.5% total CPU on a laptop that's about 6 years old with a 2.5gHz, Core i7-6500u CPU.  Not bad at all, you could definitely get a secondhand mini-ITX PC with similar specs for like $75 on eBay and use it as a dedicated machine for this.  I'll try it on the Pi4 eventually.

 

Only thing not right so far is that whenever I open the GUI in Reaper, it's scaled to 200% (even though the menu says 100%) and when I change it the window scales proportionately, so any time I open it I have to manually change the scalingto something other than 100% and back to 10%, then drag the window so I can see the whole thing.  No big deal, if I could remember my KVR password I'd post it in the thread.

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On 9/2/2022 at 9:36 AM, rek said:

DSP56300 Emulator currently runs the Access Virus Synth in a vst but it's a cpu chomper.
 there's a thread about it on KVR 

but the DSP56300 emulator authors don't distribute the roms. Just the framework. It's like MAME I guess.
The roms are usually found in MAME rom bundles that seem to contain every rom in existence for some reason.
If a toaster or a refrigerator runs on a rom, it's probably in some MAME rom pack.

did you get the emu?

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On 9/2/2022 at 9:47 PM, TubularCorporation said:

Only thing not right so far is that whenever I open the GUI in Reaper, it's scaled to 200% (even though the menu says 100%) and when I change it the window scales proportionately, so any time I open it I have to manually change the scalingto something other than 100% and back to 10%, then drag the window so I can see the whole thing.  No big deal, if I could remember my KVR password I'd post it in the thread.

at their Discord they are more likely to use your feedback than on KVR.
also, with cpu Reaper doesn't report all the chomping it does. it can consume a whole core of your cpu during operation.

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