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Syntilla · Post by **Syntilla** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 10:40 am

bjporter wrote:... next month is January, and you know what that means.

A Mac-only synth?

psmacmur wrote:Have you tried any of the HGFortune synths?

More than a year since he passed, and still no OSC.
All but a handful of his earliest instruments were re-compiled with the multi-core friendly version of SE, and I've not heard of anyone having much problem bridging them.
But it's important to bear in mind that nearly all of his iconic synths and 'magic machines' depend for their sound generation on his specially-developed 'pcm oscillators' - normally distributed as soundfonts (until they appeared on just one too many a pirate site): ie, samples. Even the relatively conventional 'VA' Alphatron has a 'wave' oscillator.
The only ones that come to mind as being OSC-friendly would be the early Fortune Cookie from 2005 (recompiled in 2012) and the wonderful Altair 4 - closer in spirit (though little else) with the VCS3 than most of the actual Synthi clones, it would certainly make for an interesting OSC!

rghvdberg wrote:Heads up!
All MaxSynths vsti are now freeware
http://www.maxsynths.com/index.html

Crisalys is a beast, and Nero and Latte are both of the 'simple' type that some people are asking for. Not absolutely sure about Crisalys, but the other two were built after the multi-core/multi-instance issues with SE were sorted.
Unfortunately, they use quite a few third-party modules - so the chances of their being re-compiled for Mac or 64-bit are pretty remote.
But the extra attention an OSC brings ought to generate a few additional donations for the dev - which I get the impression he might particularly welcome right now.

Syntilla · Post by **Syntilla** » Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:32 am

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=453276

Well, it's posted in Instruments, so maybe ... ?

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:29 pm

Syntilla wrote:http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 1&t=453276

Well, it's posted in Instruments, so maybe ... ?

all 32 bit synthedit vst synths

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:04 am

bjporter wrote: Just relax please, because next month is January, and you know what that means.

Any One Synth ?

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:09 pm

bjporter wrote: Just relax please, because next month is January, and you know what that means.

Cold weather! Oh wait... it was 74F here yesterday...

mehum · Post by **mehum** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:07 pm

These parts of Sweden finally saw some snow yesterday, so that the polar bears can feel at home.
Fun for the kids but means I have to break my back shoveling

Anyway, Any One Synth could be fun. I've explored Rhino way too little since I bought it so I guess I'd do either that or Wusik8k.

Dee.P.Tree · Post by **Dee.P.Tree** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:36 am

http://tytel.org/helm/

Helm by matt tytel.

I hope this may come to OSC....

BPB rated this one as third best freeware instrument (practically best VA synthesizer as per BPB because... The first and second are grace sampler and alter/ego respectively, which are of separate category instruments).

For Details... Visit:

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2015/12 ... gins-2015/

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:48 am

Dee.P.Tree wrote:http://tytel.org/helm/

Helm by matt tytel.

I hope this may come to OSC....

BPB rated this one as third best freeware instrument (practically best VA synthesizer as per BPB because... The first and second are grace sampler and alter/ego respectively, which are of separate category instruments).

For Details... Visit:

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2015/12 ... gins-2015/

+1

rghvdberg · Post by **rghvdberg** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:27 am

Helm is updated to 0.6 ...

...

just saying

mehum · Post by **mehum** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:42 am

Has anyone tried it out for stability and performance? I haven't had time unfortunately...

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:44 pm

mehum wrote:Has anyone tried it out for stability and performance? I haven't had time unfortunately...

Very important point! Definitely give a report on any synth you recommend

Basic stuff to check:
-CPU Usage / Latency
-Ram Usage
-Does project crash if saved, and loaded?
-Do the presets save when project is saved?
-Which daw did you use?

z.prime · Post by **z.prime** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:47 pm

bjporter wrote:
mehum wrote:Has anyone tried it out for stability and performance? I haven't had time unfortunately...
Very important point! Definitely give a report on any synth you recommend

Basic stuff to check:
-CPU Usage / Latency
-Ram Usage
-Does project crash if saved, and loaded?
-Do the presets save when project is saved?
-Which daw did you use?

... and can you use multiple instances without issue? <-- especially older synthedit synths, this sometimes is simply overlooked

bjporter · Post by **bjporter** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:04 pm

yes yes yes awesome point

Dee.P.Tree · Post by **Dee.P.Tree** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:50 pm

z.prime wrote:
bjporter wrote:
mehum wrote:Has anyone tried it out for stability and performance? I haven't had time unfortunately...
Very important point! Definitely give a report on any synth you recommend

Basic stuff to check:
-CPU Usage / Latency
-Ram Usage
-Does project crash if saved, and loaded?
-Do the presets save when project is saved?
-Which daw did you use?
... and can you use multiple instances without issue? <-- especially older synthedit synths, this sometimes is simply overlooked

I'll take care in future before I suggest any. I thought BPB rating would have been given after proper usage.

Dee.P.Tree · Post by **Dee.P.Tree** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:02 pm

And... Happy New Year 2016... To KVR OSC Community.

(In advance for some part of the world...

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