KVR Audio

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:32 pm

Stefken wrote:Any chance there will be a demo version of PortaFM.
So we can take it for a spin?

Thats the plan, for the first public update, ... hope in a week.

Ikalou · Post by **Ikalou** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:20 pm

davidv@plogue wrote:It all depends on you guys, I would want nothing more than to keep doing those for the next years.
More FM, Casios, all major (and minor) consoles etc. As long as there is something unique to it.

I'll be happy with anything new you put out, but my selfish wish would be for there to be a YM2203/YM2608 entry. Unlike some more popular Yamaha chips, they have no existing VSTs. Although I understand some would find it redundant with Chipsynth MD and it might not sell very well for that reason. I suppose that's what you mean by "unique".

nichttuntun · Post by **nichttuntun** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:09 am

davidv@plogue wrote:
nichttuntun wrote:Hi. That's so cool. Will the next instalments of this series be standalone plugins too? Or will these be released as modules? Cheers.
All standalone products in a series yes. There are 5 announced so far, but if there is demand for more, the list could grow to more than 15.

It all depends on you guys, I would want nothing more than to keep doing those for the next years.
More FM, Casios, all major (and minor) consoles etc. As long as there is something unique to it.

The original idea was to make "chipsounds 2" an all-in-one-big-thing, but we quickly realized that the only way to be more accurate and truer to a particular platform, its history and music, is if we cut it in pieces, with custom UX workflow, sound generation and inter-channel behavior, mixing, and preset flavor for each of them.

Cheers

Hi and wow!!! Totally amazing plan which I will support with pleasure. I own several CASIO hardware units and would love to see such amazingly unique emulations of them in the future, for example the VZ-1 with some great extra modulation features as in PortaFM...that would be simply PD-heaven. I am so glad I found you and wish you all the best to forfill your plans.

Have a joyful time. Regards

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:01 pm

Ikalou wrote: I'll be happy with anything new you put out, but my selfish wish would be for there to be a YM2203/YM2608 entry. Unlike some more popular Yamaha chips, they have no existing VSTs. Although I understand some would find it redundant with Chipsynth MD and it might not sell very well for that reason. I suppose that's what you mean by "unique".

Pretty much every variant of the OPN family will be included in MD (minus the copyrighted ADPCM ROM Data of course), at least thats the plan right now. They are too similar to warrant a separate chipsynth imho.

Ikalou · Post by **Ikalou** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:30 pm

davidv@plogue wrote:Pretty much every variant of the OPN family will be included in MD (minus the copyrighted ADPCM ROM Data of course), at least thats the plan right now.

Oh Wow. I really wasn't expecting you to go the extra mile and include a bunch of different OPN chips in MD. At a $30 price point I feel like I'd be stealing from you.

nichttuntun · Post by **nichttuntun** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:56 am

Just bought The Bag Of Chipsounds bundle. Thanks guys for your amazing work!!!
Regards and joy to you. And good luck with your upcoming products.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:05 pm

nichttuntun wrote: I own several CASIO hardware units and would love to see such amazingly unique emulations of them in the future, for example the VZ-1 with some great extra modulation features as in PortaFM...that would be simply PD-heaven.

I would like hardware integration, similar to VirtualCZ, Ive got a VZ-8M that I really want an editor for

Liero · Post by **Liero** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:37 pm

Do the new Plogue products still require Aria installers and other extra installations? I'm interested in the synths but picky about OS bloat.

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:00 pm

Liero wrote:Do the new Plogue products still require Aria installers and other extra installations? I'm interested in the synths but picky about OS bloat.

Aria is our instrument/effect framework, instead of bloating the VST/AU/Standalone dlls with the same copy of the core engine stuff we put it in one place, so there is in fact LESS bloat this way, since all our products use it and there is no duplication in every VST.

PortaFM and all our future products uses 'Plogue Fermata' which is our new framework. Similar thing, but improved. Again its the inverse of bloat.

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:07 pm

nichttuntun wrote:Just bought The Bag Of Chipsounds bundle. Thanks guys for your amazing work!!!
Regards and joy to you. And good luck with your upcoming products.

Thanks a lot!

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:53 pm

Is there any way for an existing user to get a deal on a bundle if we already own something in the bundle?

spunkmuffin · Post by **spunkmuffin** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:47 pm

davidv@plogue wrote:Again its the inverse of bloat.

If you invert bloat you kind of get plogt.

Liero · Post by **Liero** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:03 pm

davidv@plogue wrote:
Liero wrote:Do the new Plogue products still require Aria installers and other extra installations? I'm interested in the synths but picky about OS bloat.
Aria is our instrument/effect framework, instead of bloating the VST/AU/Standalone dlls with the same copy of the core engine stuff we put it in one place, so there is in fact LESS bloat this way, since all our products use it and there is no duplication in every VST.

PortaFM and all our future products uses 'Plogue Fermata' which is our new framework. Similar thing, but improved. Again its the inverse of bloat.

I guess I should have said "dependency hell" instead of "bloat", but thanks for the information - good to keep in mind. Still would wish that more devs would take the FabFilter road, with a single DLL that requires no installation, has zero depencies, has built-in serial authorization and still manages to be among the best plugins out there quality-wise. Saves a lot of time for example when reinstalling an OS to not have to run multiple installers for every single vst plugin. But back on topic ---> Looking forward to the demo.

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:40 am

Some casiotones emus would be nice...

nichttuntun · Post by **nichttuntun** » Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:24 am

davidv@plogue wrote:
Ikalou wrote: I'll be happy with anything new you put out, but my selfish wish would be for there to be a YM2203/YM2608 entry. Unlike some more popular Yamaha chips, they have no existing VSTs. Although I understand some would find it redundant with Chipsynth MD and it might not sell very well for that reason. I suppose that's what you mean by "unique".
Pretty much every variant of the OPN family will be included in MD (minus the copyrighted ADPCM ROM Data of course), at least thats the plan right now. They are too similar to warrant a separate chipsynth imho.

Hi again. I now dig that MD stands for emulating the OPN chips what means that this are Yamaha game console chips. If I am not mistaken.

In your upcoming CS series there is a lot of other stuff mentioned. I already learnt that FC stands for Famicon (I still own the old SNES). What stand 64 and FSC for? I got very curious

And where would you implement the CASIO emulations? Will they get an extra part inn this series?

What's up at Plogue?