KVR Audio

arakula · Post by **arakula** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:20 am

pljones wrote:Try http://www.drealm.info/Wolfgang_Palm/Plex2.html - GoDaddy hosting, no bandwidth limits.

Thank you; I added this to the list on the main web site.

Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:05 am

use a mirror - 3 minutes here

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:08 am

Used first mirror here..took 2 minutes.

Opened it up in Reaper...my what sounds!!!

Thanks for doing this up!!

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:20 am

This is directly from the manual:

Basic concept
PLEX uses a new analysis/synthesis technology developed by
Wolfgang Palm. The concept provides the means to split all kinds of
sounds into 4 components which will reproduce the original sound
when applied together. The components are chosen in a way that
each contains certain specific properties of the sound. These are:
• The gradual sound color changes of the original sound over time. A time
varying digital filter is used for the approximation. In the PLEX program, a
yellow icon represents this Filter component.
• The lower frequency spectrum of the remaining signal. In PLEX, a red icon
represents this Base component.
• The upper frequency spectrum of the remaining signal. In PLEX, a green icon
represents this Top component.
• The Level development of the Base and Top signals, i.e. the gain envelopes
that you can set in the Base and Top views of the ADSR envelope page and
apply to other presets by using the preset parameter selector fields in the
Preset Group page.
Although all cover the same spectral range, the Top components of a
piano sound, a violin, or a trumpet each have a different structure.
Each component only contains a certain acoustic domain. A Base
component will only contain the lower harmonics of the original
sound. It won't contain sound color or volume change information.
A Top component is similar, but it contains the high frequencies instead.
The time varying Filter component only contains the sound
color development over time but no other information about the remaining
parts of the signal like cycle length or noise intensity.
This strict separation of important characteristics makes it possible,
for example, to freely interchange all the Base components with each
other and still maintain a natural sound character or sound sequence,
respectively.

Simple, eh?

And the system requirements:

To use PLEX you will need at least:
• A PC with a 600 MHz Pentium III /comparable AMD processor or faster,
running Windows 2000 or Windows XP and at least 180 MB of free RAM.
• A VST 2.0 compatible host application that supports virtual instruments, such
as Cubase SX/SL or VST (version 5 or later) or Nuendo. This must be
correctly installed on your computer.

Which means that you should be able to run about 1000 instances of Plex on a 6-core computer!

Wolfgang Palm: You made my day, sir! VERY nice!

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:48 am

MaxSynths wrote:
EDIT: download speed 54kb/s, 35 minutes left

My 4 gig flash drive and I, are on the next plane to Italy!

MaxSynths · Post by **MaxSynths** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:48 am

abstractcats wrote:
MaxSynths wrote:
EDIT: download speed 54kb/s, 35 minutes left
My 4 gig flash drive and I, are on the next plane to Italy!

blueman · Post by **blueman** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:58 am

This is awesome! Thank you

shanecgriffo · Post by **shanecgriffo** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:34 am

yes..thankyou, this is awesome.. really like this

UliH · Post by **UliH** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:45 am

Thank you for this present.
In Cubase 5.53 64 bit win7 I can see only a little bit of the GUI. In Cubase 32 bit it works fine. Does anybody got it to work in Cubase 5.53 64 bit?

stimresp · Post by **stimresp** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:02 am

I haven't found time to try it yet but I certainly will.

A wonderful gift - Thank you sir.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:04 am

Many thanks to Wolfgang and Hermann for this.

Installation is easy: just add the extracted folder to your vstplugins folder. Works nicely here in Windows 7 32-bit and Ableton Live 8.

Ingo

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:27 am

After messing around with Plex tonight, I gotta say this is a VERY useful tool for commercial sound designers out there looking for a fun sketchpad to give their inspiration a solid kick in the butt on days when writer's block hits. Just move icons around the screen and think "Woah! That sounds pretty cool...now how might I make something similar to this sound on this other synth I'm working on? Now let's twiddle some knobs on that other synth and make something even better". More often than not, this kind of approach inspires something completely different than what I thought I would end up with, as well as several spinoff tidbits picked up along the way.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:29 am

Agreed with that, Xenos. It's really fun to use!

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:35 am

Xenos wrote:After messing around with Plex tonight, I gotta say this is a VERY useful tool for commercial sound designers out there looking for a fun sketchpad to give their inspiration a solid kick in the butt on days when writer's block hits. Just move icons around the screen and think "Woah! That sounds pretty cool...now how might I make something similar to this sound on this other synth I'm working on? Now let's twiddle some knobs on that other synth and make something even better". More often than not, this kind of approach inspires something completely different than what I thought I would end up with, as well as several spinoff tidbits picked up along the way.

I am already thinking about using a signal analysis tool and reprogramming this with the additive oscillators in Synthmaster 2.5.

Ingo

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:50 pm

Nice synth, Thank you for making it free

Some old £169.99 vsti gem from the past -- now FREE!!!