KVR :: Instruments » Recommended early-90s-style wavetable/ROMpler VSTs? [View Original Topic]
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lossf - Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:59 am
I've been playing around with an old Yamaha TG55 I found at a garage sale and it's making me want to work on a totally cheesy early-90s sort of project.
I'm wondering what VSTs do a decent job of the TG / M1 / D-50 sorts of sounds and/or aping their basic architecture, payware or otherwise.
No, I'm not looking for monster sample-playback synths with banks that take up 5 gigs on my hard drive-- I want it light in disk / CPU footprint, and I want it fast. But a good bank of suitably-90s sounds right alongside would be TOTALLY welcome.
(oh yeah - Win7 / REAPER user here.)
Karmacomposer - Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:01 am
Sampletank is what you are looking for.
Also, Wusik is great, just dump what sounds you don't want and use the ones you do for sake of 'lightness'.
Mike
lossf - Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:04 am
Karmacomposer wrote:
Sampletank is what you are looking for.
Also, Wusik is great, just dump what sounds you don't want and use the ones you do for sake of 'lightness'.
Mike
Also, Wusik is great, just dump what sounds you don't want and use the ones you do for sake of 'lightness'.
Mike
Well, I've played with Sampletank before and it's exactly what I meant by "huge sample playback synths that take up 5 gigs on my hard drive." Wusik has always looked much the same to me although I've never played with it.
ROM-based devices of this period worked on short samples / wavetables by necessity. I want *that*, not minutes of multisamples per patch and all the resultant waiting / instability.
whyterabbyt - Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:23 am
you could try Korg M1, SQ8L, and possibly Kubik.
EvilDragon - Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:51 am
Korg M1 and Wavestation, definitely.
Crackbaby - Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:59 am
EMU ProteusVX and SQ8L are free
There was a synth called Ravity(s) that worked like them also but it's gone now, replaced by some "bigger" synth. ProteusVX is a mess to work with though. Just figuring out how to load the bank can be a headache.
Depending on what music you're doing, the filters are very important. EMU has the advantage here of course.
Wusik ..... I fell for the groupbuy two years ago. Quite possibly possible to make something useful with it. Too bad the bloated soundbanks wont show it.
Another option is TX16Wx and load soundfonts from EMU. Im not sure if they are available still, but i think bought them all when they were for sale. The samples were from XL-1, Mo'Phat, Planet Waves etc. If nothing else, it feels like going to a museum of sounds of yesteryear goign through the presets
bpblog - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:00 am
Proteus VX, for sure!
Shy - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:14 am
WaveStation as mentioned and get Plex 2.
thecontrolcentre - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:15 am
lossf wrote:
I've been playing around with an old Yamaha TG55 I found at a garage sale and it's making me want to work on a totally cheesy early-90s sort of project.
Why not use the TG55 to do it? It'll sound totally authentic. AtaRaxis - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:22 am
Korg M1 and or Wavestation
zeep - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:28 am
That old steinberg one, Hyper-something II.
Yes and Ravity, by the same guy who made one of the best free fx plugins of all time, ehm, can you believe i also can't remember that name!?
Someone help me out here.
Nothing beats a jv1080 though. The day roland finally ports that to vsti will be a blessed one.
Crackbaby - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:39 am
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/lfx_1310_by_luxonix <- there it is
Yeah, especially for it's time.. wow 
lossf - Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:57 am
Wow, thanks everyone. Will check all these out. I didn't know there was an M1 VST out there. Hopefully it won't be too bloated (I've not been super-impressed with the handful of Korgsoft I've tried out). Also hoping I can still find those e-Mu soundfonts, that sounds great as a source of period-authentic preset sounds if nothing else.
LFX-1310 is good stuff, yes. I've been utterly in love with SQ8L for years but it has more of a ca.-'87 sound to me... and I'm kinda going for ca.-'91.
lossf - Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:00 am
thecontrolcentre wrote:
Why not use the TG55 to do it? It'll sound totally authentic.
I will probably involve it somehow, but the eBay profiteer in me keeps telling me I could make a whopping hundred bucks on it throwing it up there. I mean, this thing is in MINT shape.
Given that I've also recently stumbled into a few other period-correct machines as well, I'm torn between doing this with all real hardware-- perhaps even without sequencing, wouldn't that be insane!-- and doing it with VSTis as usual. I know it'll take me ten times as long to do it with real hardware, so if I can find a good lazy VST alternative, that will be highly tempting.
pdxindy - Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:56 am
Adding my vote for M1 and Wavestation
Also, if you happen to have Zebra then the Hybrids soundset from MKastrup will give you a lot of D-50 type sounds... Zebra is synthesis only and not a rompler, but he does a great job with his soundsets... you can listen here...
http://www.xsynth.com/hyz.html
A used D-50 is also not expensive and can be sold when the project is done
EvilDragon - Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:37 am
Korg's VSTs bloated? Uhmmm, no, they are acutally very CPU-efficient!
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