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eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:31 pm

A "speaking in helium" FX.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 12:40 pm

A fine Ableton Live sampler clone with the record-able looping points and all that...

U-o · Post by **U-o** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:31 pm

I would like to see good
deesser
multiband bitcrusher/lo-fi plugin
really powerful virtual instrument
or granulizer.
Easy on CPU of course.

GruvSyco · Post by **GruvSyco** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:11 am

FM-table or FM-vectoral/FM sequencing with a variable filter type (including some type of wave folder) on each part. Think PPG Wave or Prophet VS with a full 4op FM voice per oscillator or table slot. MSEGs, perhaps each operator being drawable like in Ableton Operator with presets for the standard Yamaha TX81Z waveforms. A fully featured mono mode including glide.

I also love the Voder idea and was surprised someone else wanted one of them.

*edit* oh yeah, Mac and Windows

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:07 pm

A physically modeled "Strat" electric guitar with its most used specific pedals (disto, overdrive, fuzz, wah-wah, octaver) the other effects being easily found yet everywhere. An excellent modeled emulation of such a strat guitar with its effects is really lacking. There are already some of them, but very few.

But I would like also to see existing all these really nice instruments in the stuff of modern software music, and by physically modeled synthesis instead of simply by samples:

A physically modeled flute emulating:

the matter particularity, as bamboo, blackwood, sedge (the Andine Quena), phragmites (the common reed used to make the very popular arabian ney and many children flutes), and metal (the classic Boehm)... and why not, the lead glass.
the type as fipple, pan, transverse and eventually dizi (its so wonderful sound got with rice paper)
with articulations and velocities.

A physically modeled single or double reed flute:

oboe
bassoon
clarinet
duduk
zurna
bawu
hulusi
sheng
aulos
launeddas
zhaleika
arghul
Taepyeongso
Nadaswaram
Piffero
bombard
Shehnai
suona
... and so many more...!

A physically modeled emulation of all the bag pipes:

irish Uilleann pipes
Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe
the little french biniou
the french cabrette
the arabic mezoued
the italian baghet
the italian zampogna
the balkanic and turko-greek gaida
the dozen of spanish gaita
... and so many more...!

A physically modeled zither and harp:

classical harp
medieval zither
dulcimer
Dàn tranh
GuQin
GuZheng
Koto
psaltery
psalterium
qanun
Swarmandal
Cymbalum
YangQin
santur and other many hammered dulcimers
... and so many more...!

A physically modeled lute type instrument:

medieval lute
mandolin
bouzouki
pipa
sitar
- For the sitar play, a very easy adding accompaniment feature would be an emulation of an electronic tanpura by just one or two knobs.
sarod
Saraswati veena
oud
... and so many more...!

A physically modeled vielle or close to it:

ErHu
rebab
sarangi
rebec
hurdy gurdy
... and so many more...!

All these instruments are played everywhere throughout the world... and there is still no VST emulation at all for many of these types of instruments!

There are so many synths and so many effects now... and there are so few of these traditional instruments yet played everywhere in the world... even in modern styles of music!

We always think of techno, house, trance... but there are many other styles of music who wait for modern plugin adaptations, especially by physically modeled synthesis to avoid all the problems of the samples.

And it would be a real new breath and a real challenge for developers beside all those crowds of synths which already exist! We love synths, all of us including me, but these traditional instruments are really underestimated in modern music (except in indian, chinese, and arabic music), and it would be really wonderful to have them much more easier in electronic music.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:26 am

A replacement for the Glottal Pulse model in my old Oasys PCI cards...

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:22 pm

I want a REALLY GOOD sondfont player!

NOT Synthedit (or at least, using a diferent/custom made SF2 module)
With a built in preset manager and a default folder to put soundfont files and presets.
2 or more soundfont oscilators to create layered sounds
Monotimbral (something like Ravity S)
Good internal Reverb and Chorus

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:27 pm

alvfaria wrote:I want a REALLY GOOD sondfont player!

NOT Synthedit (or at least, using a diferent/custom made SF2 module)
With a built in preset manager and a default folder to put soundfont files and presets.
2 or more soundfont oscilators to create layered sounds
Monotimbral (something like Ravity S)
Good internal Reverb and Chorus

This one is REALLY GREAT:
TX16Wx Software Sampler

It has all what you ask for... and much, much, much more !

And for free.

Visit the website and you'll see that you've perhaps missed something which is really extraordinary!

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:34 pm

BlackWinny wrote:
alvfaria wrote:I want a REALLY GOOD sondfont player!

NOT Synthedit (or at least, using a diferent/custom made SF2 module)
With a built in preset manager and a default folder to put soundfont files and presets.
2 or more soundfont oscilators to create layered sounds
Monotimbral (something like Ravity S)
Good internal Reverb and Chorus
This one is REALLY GREAT:
TX16Wx Software Sampler

It has all what you ask for... and much, much, much more !

And for free.

Visit the website and you'll see that you've perhaps missed something which is really extraordinary!

I tried it. Too much complications.

I'm thinking in something more like this: http://www.maxsynths.com/vsti_cryologic.html
only with better sound quality. Synthedit stock SF2 module is not that good.

Chandlerhimself · Post by **Chandlerhimself** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:02 am

GruvSyco wrote:FM-table or FM-vectoral/FM sequencing with a variable filter type (including some type of wave folder) on each part. Think PPG Wave or Prophet VS with a full 4op FM voice per oscillator or table slot. MSEGs, perhaps each operator being drawable like in Ableton Operator with presets for the standard Yamaha TX81Z waveforms. A fully featured mono mode including glide.

I also love the Voder idea and was surprised someone else wanted one of them.

*edit* oh yeah, Mac and Windows

I 2nd this. I'd like an FM synth that can do vintage and modern sounds.

Maomoondog · Post by **Maomoondog** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:56 pm

Something that can create realistic ethnic wind instruments, I have still to find an authentic shakuhachi apart from a really bad soundfont take on it.
I would also like to see something on the lines of the Augur being explored a little further.

michat · Post by **michat** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:42 pm

And (like the years before) I want a synthesizer with similar possibilities like the Kurzweil VAST synthesis

PLEASE??????

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:11 pm

Your wish connects in an excellent way all my wishes just above, Maomoondog.

Apart by very average samples (very few are rather good as in the Sampletank collection or in the Kontakt collection or the excellent (for its price) EMM Knagalis but all that is always samples so somewhat limited in articulations and nuances), traditional instruments are the most disadvantaged and the most forgotten in the electronic music. They have though so much to bring in creativity!... and they could improve hugely the upholding of a worldwide traditional music having so many styles, and contribute to the restoration of very old tunes, very old scores,very old tablatures... and also contribute to new creations!

And more and more musicians don't hesitate now to use them in modern music.

Being myself an humble amateur ErHu and flute player (first the recorder as everybody when young (I sometimes played in baroque recitals), then later Boehm, bansuri, nay, pan flute, shakuchachi (the traditional in D), and Xiao, but also BaWu, and native indian flutes) for about 45 years (I'm 55), for the moment the best cheap (I point out) reproduction of a shakuhachi that I have found in a software is one of the presets called "Sounds of the World" made by Nori Ubukata for KV331 Synthmaster, it is the most convincing:

(the first extract heard)
https://soundcloud.com/kv331synthmaster ... ata-sounds

I have all the presets made by Nori for Synthmaster (and a few for other VSTIs like FM8 for example), he is really my favorite sound designer.

And... thanks Maomoondog for your comment on my suggestion of skin for our beloved women on the OBXD thread

IrionDaRonin · Post by **IrionDaRonin** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:41 am

I forgot to mention.
A plugin alike to Bitspeek would work too!!
I love unique vocoders.

Have a nice day

yemski · Post by **yemski** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:32 pm

Another Lpc Vocoder like bitspeak would be nice.Although something like Sam for the Commodore or Currah Microspeach for the ZX Spectrum would make an interesting template rather than Speak and Spell. Something that sounds like buffering you get on a bad cellphone connection,( a bit like a cross between timestretching and lpc),would be cool as well.

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