Videos added the 08/04/2012:
I give my apologies to the listeners, it's an improvisation, just play and rec.
This is a demo because I mute some tracks when the music is playing.
The strings (Kx-modulad) are played on the left of the keyboard and the kx-synth-x16's lead is on the right. I use the Kx-Midi-Filter to transpose all tracks with the bender in real time.
The SF2 drums (Kx-modulad) pass into the Kx-synth-x16 FX and a Kx-Delay is used for some tracks.
So, if I had not listened the Klaus Schulze's albums, specially those of the 70's , I would never have done it all.
Kx77free - Demo (Thank you Mr Schulze)
An improvisation again, just play and rec.
The Vco1 is synchronized by the vco 2 and its frequency is modulated by the mod Env, the Joystick and the Lfo.
The Egs of the strings (Kx-modulad) are synchronized with the tempo and looped.
Kx-synth-x16 : synchronized Lead and Joystick
This is a demo about the way to work with the relative parameters of each voice to create acoustic effects on poly brass preset. The metallic sounding is created with the vca signal to the ring modulator (limited and equalized), which does a feedback resonance. The Vco 1 is synchronized with the Vco 2 to add a medium timbre, the Mod Env controls its amount.
Kx-synth-x16 : Kxmod and mono presets
Kx-synth-x16 : sequencer with kxmod
modified the 25/02/2012:
Recently I see that a commercial compagny implemented a similar voice controller (with relative parameters) of my extended KXMOD system (06/2009) inside an emulation of the famous Oberheim SEM synthesizer.
So I'm glad to see that this concept is exploited by the other devs.
So, the original features of the KX-SYNTH-X16 are:
- Total control of the 6 voices with 57 relative parameters per voice (KXMOD)
with or without cycle voice management (CS or SCI).
- Matrix with mini knobs.
- Numerical fields to use millivolt voltage controls !
- CV (volt octave) and Gate modularity.
- A modular 6 tracks CV and Gate sequencer.
- Possibility to use the waveforms of the Kx-Modulad and built them with its Kx-WaveTracer (100% aliasing free).
- Synchronized Vcos on note on.
- Envelopes with velocity controls (On, A,D,S,R), reset, reset loop.
- Tuned filter (volt octave).
- Frequency displays.
- Hi quality Vco synchronization and Ring Modulator with oversampled limiter.
25/02/2012: KX-SYNTH-X16 update, ver 4.3
- Improvement of the KXMOD modularity, the levels of the inputs (1, 2) can be modfied for each voice.
- Now the waveform selectors are not controlled by the Program Change and if you replace the initial waveforms by these of the Kx-Modulad all presets which use them will be modified.
Fixed bug:
- The short Asio buffers were dropped when the program change if a sequencer file was loaded. So I recommend that you replace the 4.2 by this one.
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modified the 01/01/2012:
One thing was absent of the VCS3 possibility, this is the PWM, so I added the possibility to modulate the vco shape parameters to do similar results.
KX-SYNTH-X16 update, ver 4.2
Improvement of the matrix modularity, now the volume control inputs can be replaced by Pan or Shape control inputs.
Several sources to the FX modulation have been added.
Fixed bugs:
The joystick values were wrong when the offset of -10 to 10 was selected (M and FX versions).
modified the 27/12/2011:
This morning I installed the Sonar Trial on my old athlon xp 2000 with 512 mo of ram and the v4.1 works fine, the older versions have the output bug but not the v4.1 ...
In fact, the Sonar users used old versions and theirs reports was wrong that why I thought the Sonar bug was not solved. They confirmed me that the v4.1 works fine with Sonar.
I deleted the wrong infos about this bug.
modified the 19/12/2011:
I did a little update this week end, I wanted just update my help files but finally I worked on the Midi Learn.
KX-SYNTH-X16 update, ver 4.1a
- Improvement of the Midi Learn, now it's not necessary to sustain a Midi note which is used to control a button, just to play it again to stop the control. Useful to control the sequencer on/off (Pause button) with a Midi keyboard.
- A selector has been added for the Midi Learn channel.
ex: You could create two tracks on Cubase, one for the melody on the channel 1 and the second for the Midi Learn on the channel 2.
modified the 11/12/2011:
"KX77FREE's demo : FX with the KX-SYNTH-x16-FX " video link added.
modified the 06/12/2011:
"The Bass follows me" video link added.
modified the 29/12/2011:
Last is not last...
KX-SYNTH-X16 update, ver 4.1
- Improvement of the matrix modularity, the In1, In2, X Mod, Y Mod matrix sources have the same choice of modulations (new: Vca Env are also included). The X Mod and Y Mod sources can modulate the Ring Modulator.
- The joystick has now two offsets, 0 to 10 or -10 to 10.
- Peak follower on audio inputs and Midi output added on the FX version.
Fixed bugs:
- Possibility to hold the trigger button, a way to put the effect alway on (Fx version).
- The audio inputs are muted (4 sec) when the initialization of the plug-in (FX version).
- The Midi input channel was always set to All and its selector followed the program change.
- The bug of the audio outputs with Zynewave and Sonar has been fixed.
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This year I wanted to do a new plug-in based on a poly sequencer but finally I decided to update the Kx-synth-x16 with this one.
http://kx77free.free.fr
11/11/2011: KX-SYNTH-X16 update, ver 4.0
- Now the built-in sequencer is polyphonic with 6 tracks of 256 steps. They are 6 data per step: cv, gate state, accent 1, accent 2, length, trigger2. All of these data are saved on the hard disk. More possibilities to synchronize the sequencer with the host. The old files *.x16 are compatible with this new version.
- Improvement of the ring modulator with 4 new limiters (oversampled).
- An hermite interpolator have been added to the delay.
- Possibility to transpose the vcos directly with pop-up menus.
- A bank of 32 new presets is provided with the plug-in (160 KX's presets).
- All sequencer presets has been rewritten.
Important! You can use the Midi ouput of this plug-in to control your favorite VSTs, of course your host must be compatible with the Midi output VSTi features.
Fixed bugs:
- A management of the output signals (left, right, meter) has been added to avoid a recent bug with Sonar and Zynewave.
- Strong entries of the pitch values could crash the frequency displays, each display is limited now.
This is a simple demonstration of how you can control with the built-in sequencer your favorite VSTis by using the Midi out features of your host.
With the KX-SYNTH-X16's sequencer I control 6 Novaflah's plug-ins (Phyzmod V1) and I love to simulate acoustic instruments with the Kx-Synth-x16 like this detuned accordion lead, the result is a little strange:
Youtube : Best KX77FREE's : KX-SYNTH-X16-V4 Sequencer - Midi out to VSTi
Another way to use your Midi keyboard, the steps are triggered by each note on. As the midi sequencer input is monophonic, you can choice the note priority, hi, low or last. You can create continuous group of steps to sustain the sequencer notes (blue steps). For this example I used the first poly preset, an emulation of an imaginary EP. I transpose the sequencer in real time with the bender.
KX-SYNTH-X16 V4 sequencer - the bass follows me
A demo about the FX vrsion of the Kx-synth-x16, I use the Kx-Modulad to play SF2 drums and the Kx-synth-x16 to add delay, ring modulator and filter FX.
The sequencer is triggered by the audio inputs and it controls the EGs, etc...
KX77FREE's demo : FX with the KX-SYNTH-x16-FX
11/2010: The KX-SYNTH-X16 has been selected by Computer Magazine,"C M Essential Selection 2010".
Xavier
