One Synth Challenge #160: ADLplug / OPNplug by jpcima (ZioMau Wins!)

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Submissions:
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Welcome to the One Synth Challenge #160! It's a friendly music competition where you can win cool prizes but most importantly, meet amazing musicians, and learn a lot about mixing, sound design, and more!



Awesome open source synths - "FM synthesizer plugins, based on OPL3 and OPN2 sound chip emulations."






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Special Note:
We are offering a secondary prize (on top of the normal prize): FXB Project, or JRR Shop (Uncle E)

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Cherry Audio : (3 Left!) Any one of the following synthesizer instruments: Dreamsynth / Quadra / Mercury-4 / Memorymode / PS-20 / Eight Voice Synthesizer / Polymode / CA2600 / DCO-106 (see Store for details). Also available as an option: Stardust 201 Space Echo Effects or Voltage Modular Ignite Bundle


discoDSP : 1 copy of Discovery (Up to 2 winners may choose this)


KV331 Audio : Bundle of Synthmaster One + Synthmaster 2.x!


Dmitry Sches : Diversion


NUSofting : 1 Copy of Modelonia v2 Synthesizer


ChordPak.com : 1x Pro Pack (Up to 3 winners may choose this)


United Audio Artists : Scratch Master Pro (2 may be chosen per month)


Yuli Yolo Sound Design : (Top 3 Winners get this) Soundsets for Vital: Diversity, Bass Music Wavetables, Noises & Exciters


Luftrum : Two Choices: Either 1x NFR software license of either Bioscape or Lunaris, or two soundsets of choice


Audio Thing : Outer Space (vintage tape echo plugin)


Guda Audio : Euterpe XL


JRR Sounds: Any 1 soundset (This is a secondary prize, you may pick it as well as your main prize)


SoundGym : *NEW* 12 Month Subscription. (SoundGym is a
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JRR Shop : UVI: Digital Synsations (vintage 90's synth sample library and player)


Touch The Universe Productions: LuSH-101 Cloud Layers soundset


The FXB Project by alvfaria : 1 commercial sound bank as an extra prize on top of the regular first prize. See the main site here


Abstract Cats Music : AbiTron Bank for Synthmaster


satYatunes : One of any commercial product


Xenos Soundworks : Choice of any 1 product


Ghostwave Audio : Any two soundsets of Choice


Twolegs Toneworks : Any one soundset


Newloops.com : any 3 sound packs of choice (excluding bundles)


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Aiyn Zahev Sounds: Any 2 Soundsets of choice from the website (Uplifting Trance Presets)


Mulperi : 1 Soundbank of Choice


Bjulin : Inspire soundset for Zebra²


LeapIntoTheVoid : Enchantment Of Absynth Trilogy


Solidtrax : 1 Soundset of choice (except for the Future Chill and Space Trips expansions)


Dream Audio Tools : 1 Indie Fingers bundle (Indie Fingers volumes One and Two)


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[] Peter:H []

First!

Reading through the change log it could be some of you getting poblems with loading state in hosts and/or with ui in windows, see below. the yet unreleased "dev" version seems to fix it, while 1.0.2 is available as release.

If I run into trouble and use the dev branch (https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug/releases/tag/latest) - Allowed yes/no?

Change Log
dev
Fixed state reloading under certain plugin hosts
Linked to pthread on platforms where relevant
Fixed the user interface using 100% CPU on Windows

1.0.2
English translation of the user manual by Bruce Sutherland
modified KSL editing behavior to make it linear with regards to attenuation
[...]
https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug

[Double Tap]

Is this two synths in one package? I can’t download to check as I’ve got no computer access this week.

[RichardSemper]

Reading through the change log it could be some of you getting poblems with loading state in hosts and/or with ui in windows, see below. the yet unreleased "dev" version seems to fix it, while 1.0.2 is available as release.

If I run into trouble and manage to build the "dev" Version from source. Allowed yes/no?

Change Log
dev
Fixed state reloading under certain plugin hosts
Linked to pthread on platforms where relevant
Fixed the user interface using 100% CPU on Windows

1.0.2
English translation of the user manual by Bruce Sutherland
modified KSL editing behavior to make it linear with regards to attenuation
[...]
https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug

Perfectly acceptable. Could also be helpful to others if anyone does run into these difficulties.

Is this two synths in one package? I can’t download to check as I’ve got no computer access this week.

They can be downloaded separately. We can use either one or the other.

[] Peter:H []

In the mean time I found that there's even a dev branch release - updated my post above.
Find the build here:https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug/releases/tag/latest

[Rahodees]

This is odd, never had this happen before. I'm running Reaper on an x64 system, I use a lot of VST3 and VST3i plugins. With these two, when I moved the dll from the VST3 folder to my own VST folder, then started up reaper, it scanned them as usual, but they are not showing up on my list of plugins when I try to actually open an instrument track with them. They do show up in the list of "plug ins that failed to scan," and very often when that happens I can just click on the plugin and it works after that. But this time no dice.

With all that said, the VST2 dlls work just fine.

But what could possibly be keeping Reaper from playing nice with the VST3 versions?

(Is there any significant difference between the two versions?)

[AmoralAudio]

This is odd, never had this happen before. I'm running Reaper on an x64 system, I use a lot of VST3 and VST3i plugins. With these two, when I moved the dll from the VST3 folder to my own VST folder, then started up reaper, it scanned them as usual, but they are not showing up on my list of plugins when I try to actually open an instrument track with them. They do show up in the list of "plug ins that failed to scan," and very often when that happens I can just click on the plugin and it works after that. But this time no dice.

With all that said, the VST2 dlls work just fine.

But what could possibly be keeping Reaper from playing nice with the VST3 versions?

(Is there any significant difference between the two versions?)

Happened to me in Cakewalk as well only the vst2 seem to be working.

[RichardSemper]

personally I would never recommend using a vst3 except where there is no alternative available

[Rahodees]

personally I would never recommend using a vst3 except where there is no alternative available

That's cool but can you say a little about why? As I indicated, I do not know what the difference really is.

[RichardSemper]

personally I would never recommend using a vst3 except where there is no alternative available

That's cool but can you say a little about why? As I indicated, I do not know what the difference really is.

From a user perspective, I have yet to see any benefit or advantage to the format. Only negatives. First location of the plugin files is predetermined, unlike vst2, second the categorisation of the plugin is also predetermined and unalterable. I prefer to be able to sort my plugins to suit myself. Third, the preset management is also restricted more than the older vst2 format. Developers do not seem to be particularly happy with it either, and Steinberg is trying to force them away from vst2 rather than encouraging them with better features. Even after all the time since vst3 was introduced it still seems that many plugins are faulty in the vst3 version whilst working well in vst2

[Daru925]

change the dll extension to vst3

[FrogsInPants]

For clarity, is this a choice of one or the other, but not both?

[z.prime]

For clarity, is this a choice of one or the other, but not both?

Yes, Richard noted this above.

[z.prime]

From a user perspective, I have yet to see any benefit or advantage to the format. Only negatives. First location of the plugin files is predetermined, unlike vst2 ... preset management is also restricted more ... Developers do not seem to be particularly happy with it either, and Steinberg is trying to force them away from vst2 rather than encouraging them with better features. Even after all the time since vst3 was introduced it still seems that many plugins are faulty in the vst3 version whilst working well in vst2

My 2 cents here: VST3 is a bit clunky compared to VST2, but the fact many plugins have faulty implementations isn't actually a problem with VST3 but the individual developers. Is it harder to implement? Yeah, it seems so, which is bad for having a lot of people adopt it properly.
However, there is one very specific benefit of VST3: sample accurate automation. This is not possible with VST2.

[HiEnergy]

What a pity the AU fails Logic's validation for me. Anyone else on MacOS having trouble with those?