KVR Audio

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:18 am

BlackWinny wrote: It will be probably hard, because I think that I have never even seen any bank for it.

It's weird how much some gems like this one can have so few success in the world of the sound designers...

Very true it is indeed a gem

I have a soundfont set of CZ101 patches, but that's all. I wish I had kept my CZ programming books, at least then I could have given a soundbank a try on the Kassiopiea.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:27 am

DrewDale wrote:
BlackWinny wrote: It will be probably hard, because I think that I have never even seen any bank for it.

It's weird how much some gems like this one can have so few success in the world of the sound designers...
Very true it is indeed a gem I have a soundfont set of CZ101 patches, but that's all. I wish I had kept my CZ programming books, at least then I could have given a soundbank a try on the Kassiopiea.

I have them if you want! I'm gonna let you a link on my web area! Just a few minutes and it will be ready!

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:23 am

It is ready.

The file is called "Casio.zip", its size is 98.978.551 bytes, it is in my Depositfiles area (no need to login to download) and it contains:

Casio - CZ-1 - Operation Manual
Casio - CZ-101 - Operation Manual
Casio - CZ-101 - Operation Manual (another copy)
Casio - CZ-101-1000 - Service Manual Diagrams
Casio - CZ-230S - Operation Manual
Casio - CZ-230S - Operation Manual (another copy)
Casio - CZ-3000 - Operation Manual
Casio - CZ-3000 - The quick approach to sound synthesis
Casio - CZ-5000 - Operation Manual
Casio - CZ-5000 - The quick approach to sound synthesis
Casio - CZ-Series - Andrew Schlesinger - An insider's guide to Casio CZ Synthesizers
Casio - CZ-Series - Sound Data Book (the parameters of 48 patches!)
Casio - CZ-Series - Sound Synthesis Handbook (learning the Phase Distortion synthesis)
Casio - HT-700 - Operation Manual
Casio - RZ-1 - Owners Manual
Casio - VZ-1 - Owners Manual
Casio - VZ-8M - Owners Manual

Of course they all are in English, and some are multilingual.

Some of these books are highly interesting to build one's own patches.

Those called "The quick approach to sound synthesis" are slightly different each other because each one is made for a different synth of the Casio products.

And I highly recommend also to read the book of Andrew Schlesinger! It is very good! It is included in my collection above.

In addition, I have put in the zip file the direct links to these Phase Distortion synths in the KVR database:

(HT-700 emulation) plastique by de la Mancha (the only synth in this collection which is not Phase Distortion but an excellent emulation of the Casio HT-700 of which you have also the PDF manual in the collection of PDF files above)
Analog Warfare by Angular Momentum
Bazille by u-he
BLUE by Rob Papen
Cosmos by B.Serrano
CZynthia by AlgoMusic
Digits by Extent of the Jam
ElectraX by Tone2 Audiosoftware
Gladiator by Tone2 Audiosoftware
Guitar Controlled Bass Synth by Fretted Synth Audio
Kassiopeia! by Sonic Assault
KickMaker by Teragon Audio (a wonderful drum-machine based on Phase Distortion synthesis)
KXOMNI 600 by KX77FREE
Motion by Ugo
MuLab by MUTOOLS (a DAW containing MUX which uses many synthesis types)
MUX by MUTOOLS (the VST version of MUX above)
Nemesis by Tone2 Audiosoftware
PhadiZ by AlgoMusic
PhazOsc - Phase Distortion Synth by Fretted Synth Audio
PlastiCZ by reFX
Sinthecyza!2 by Sonic Assault
Sinthecyza!4 by Sonic Assault (Sinthecyza!2 and Sinthecyza!4 are not at all the same synth)
Zebra by u-he

And I have added too the link to the products of Fretted Synth Audio at Rekkerd. Two of his products for electric guitar are awesome VST Phase Distortion Synths that you can drive by an electric guitar. The file is called:

Fretted Synth Audio, freeware VST effect and instrument plug-ins

Have fun!

DrewDale · Post by **DrewDale** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:46 am

Woah!
You BlackWinny are a star, there is some good reading to be had there, thanks for your time, I have plenty of reading and trying sounds out over the weekend. Respect to you.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:49 am

DrewDale wrote:Woah!
You BlackWinny are a star, there is some good reading to be had there, thanks for your time, I have plenty of reading and trying sounds out over the weekend. Respect to you.

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:37 pm

MidiMobiles have some stuff I haven't noticed before: http://midimobiles.blogspot.fr/ Here's a Google Translate english version of the site

It's the developer who made a few MIDI utilities in the 2012 Developer Challenge. http://www.kvraudio.com/developer/midi-mobiles

I haven't tried them yet, wants an email address for the downloads. Just a heads up for now.

That page also leads to http://www.dr-midik.fr/site/index.php?c ... usique/vst with some more MIDI utilities.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:09 pm

Some oldies with new/sometimes-hard-to-find links:

http://bitterspring.net/pitchshifter/

http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/vst-plugins/

http://bserrano.free.fr/

http://dsp.trilete.net/

http://www.echotapper.nl/etap2/index.html

http://www.asseca.org/loser/index.html

--

I miss arcDev's site. You had to use DOS prompts to navigate haha.
Last post on his site said: "arcDev Noise Industries will be back soon(ish)." (2011)

His most famous delay:
http://rekkerd.org/arcdev-noise-industr ... es-et-301/

And the arcDev Complete Package, uploaded by KVR user Zeep:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4nxzytq6oaoieqv

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:24 pm

arkmabat wrote:Some oldies with new/sometimes-hard-to-find links:

http://bitterspring.net/pitchshifter/

http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/vst-plugins/

http://bserrano.free.fr/

http://dsp.trilete.net/

http://www.echotapper.nl/etap2/index.html

http://www.asseca.org/loser/index.html

--

I miss arcDev's site. You had to use DOS prompts to navigate haha.
Last post on his site said: "arcDev Noise Industries will be back soon(ish)." (2011)

His most famous delay:
http://rekkerd.org/arcdev-noise-industr ... es-et-301/

And the arcDev Complete Package, uploaded by KVR user Zeep:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4nxzytq6oaoieqv

Hard to find, B. Serrano? Quite the contrary... he has never been as active as now. He is fully active (several wonderful new products just for the past six months alone!). And in addition the URL of his website has never changed.

I know him well.

Very, very few of his old products are discontinued, and those very few which are discontinued it is simply because they have been replaced by exact equivalents with new features and he has taken the opportunity to change their name because the GUI was much more "modern" in addition to these new features! If Benoit is considered as a developer of products classified "gems from the past"... therefore you can call all the products of all the developers as well. The products from Benoit are not at all from the past, they are actually and totally from the present.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:16 pm

Sorry, my mistake.

In my defense, from his website: "SynthEdit: © 2003" and "Windows 2000 users should install gdiplus.dll in c:\winnt"

He has released things recently though. I apologize.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:54 pm

arkmabat wrote:In my defense, from his website: "SynthEdit: © 2003" and "Windows 2000 users should install gdiplus.dll in c:\winnt"

Yes, he keeps on mentioning this little point because there are still persons who have those very old versions of Windows (and sometimes via a very old version of Linux).

I take the opportunity to invite you to try Selena (made at the beginning of the year) and even more... Horus MKII (a new version made just some days ago of his Synth/StringSynth all-in-one). They are wonderful!

And also his brand new kit of 6 effects (there's even a paraphonic filter!) called IO where each effect has a multi-stage (32 stages!) envelope and which can run from 1 nanosecond to hours!!!

And listen also to all his superb songs in his Soundcloud channel (incredible, many of these songs are made simply with his free plugins! Very, very few are made with plugins from other developers):
https://soundcloud.com/benoit-serrano/

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:13 pm

Thanks. In a way, I'm glad I made this mistake in order to discover his new creations.

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:16 pm

arkmabat wrote:Thanks. In a way, I'm glad I made this mistake in order to discover his new creations.

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 6:51 pm

(doh, why has it taken me this long to turn on KVR notifications
for 'Free'?... get links to all new free KVR stuff in your inbox...)

hey BlackWinny > Gaston Lagaffe, The Man!

Maomoondog · Post by **Maomoondog** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:45 pm

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:22 pm

Sketchy page with with some oldies:
http://mp3.deepsound.net/plugins_divers.php

-BigTick Hexalign
-Voxengo Radio
and more.

Old Free VSTi Gems From The Past