JBM 61h

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Let's go back in time. Way back! Back before VST's was a standard part of any studio. Back to the time when the normal PC counted it's cpu speed in low Mhz numbers. Back to the time when a normal PC costed around €3000 if not more. Back to the time when the only sound the PC could emit was the tiny beeps from the internal PC speaker. Yes we're back in 1989 people. It is here I'm gonna unleash my new music tool to you.

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JBM 61h is a PC speaker emulator. It emulates the way the PC speaker had to be programmed to emit complicated sounds:

Listen to it

This demo shows how this plugin sounds like. To program complex sounds you had to alter between two frequencies with the PC speaker giving the illusion of real sounds. You had no volume control what so ever to work with. You could program simple vibrato's and arpeggio's. And that was about what you could do.

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Here is the controls:

Main:

GL controls the glide time

Altered frequency parameters:

O controls the offset between the two different frequencies
ADSRL controls the altered pitch's envelope where L controls the level.

LFO:

DL controls the delay
SW controls the sweap
RT controls the rate
DP controls the depth
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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Sounds like fun...downloading now. :)

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Hope you like it.
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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It's awesome, real powerful. You're on a roll again! Thanks.
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You evil bastard. You've thrown me into a galaxy far, far away. I'll NEVER get back now! :cry: :D

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That IS my sinister masterplan after all. :D
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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I acutally was on an 800mhz computer today, just loading drivers.

Right now, I'm on a decent desktop with the same monitor I used with my first computer, the hard drive was so small I could barely fit the demo of Wolfenstein-video game, which was like 2 MB.
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Haha nice one.

A little info on the name 61h. When you wanted to program the PC speaker then you had to program it via hexadecimal port 61. Hence the name 61h.
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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Ha, my first PC was 4.77MHz, 640K of RAM, Hercules monochrome graphics card with a very slow-fading 14" greenscreen monitor, and am amazingly large 30MB hard drive.

Good times. :)

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I agree. This comes just to show how much you could do with a simple computer. And I'm currently thinking about expanding this little synth...
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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foosnark wrote:Ha, my first PC was 4.77MHz, 640K of RAM, Hercules monochrome graphics card with a very slow-fading 14" greenscreen monitor, and am amazingly large 30MB hard drive.

Good times. :)
ah yeah :tu: ...I ran one with nearly the same specs (AT&T 80886...monitor is a 12"...still decorates my studio space ;) ) ran Voyetra Gold sequencer. Man... I still think of what that thing could do. It took quite a while to convince me that a Windows based system was worth the jump from DOS :hihi:

(when I did upgrade to windows, I had to re-calculate ALL my AKAI samples since the 5mhz clock vs the whooping 33mhz clock threw ALL my timing outta whack :shock: ...but yeah: Good times! 8) )

JMB- thanks for this! I'll give it a nostalgic spin in the morning :zzz:

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So my extension of this plugin is done. Now I cannot decide if I'm just gonna hold my position and let you guys sweat and drool over the next upgrade while I fix another 20 patches... You should check the music café for a track by me coming up soon. This track shows off some of the new features. Here it is
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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Puuure acid. And sounds good even on my built in laptop speakers!! ;)

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Nice one. And if anyone makes some music with this synth then please let me know. I want to hear it.
Best regards from Johan Brodd.
JoBroMedia since 1996.

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I would rather wait until you put in more presets, I found it hard to totally dial in from scratch, easy to tweak.
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