Adam Szabo - AIRWAVE Out Now! (JP-8080 VST)

[_leras]

more music? Please no. About 100.000 new uploads on Spotify every day!!!!
And thanks to AI in 5 years provably 1 Mio uploads every day.

No one said you had to try and listen to it all, just like no one can see every local band let alone bands from the next town. Good music and artists will be found, not all of it, but enough to listen to.

I think people don't want AI music. Hopefully there will be some drive to identify it and ensure people know what is fake.

[havran]

Who needs another analog synth emulation? I mean is there not enough already? Don’t get me wrong, for fun why not but what is really the point.

Why another analog human emulation, for that matter? It's nearly 2026.

[DCrown]

more music? Please no. About 100.000 new uploads on Spotify every day!!!!
And thanks to AI in 5 years provably 1 Mio uploads every day.

No one said you had to try and listen to it all, just like no one can see every local band let alone bands from the next town. Good music and artists will be found, not all of it, but enough to listen to.

I think people don't want AI music. Hopefully there will be some drive to identify it and ensure people know what is fake.

People don't want AI?, well, many comments on AI generated music on YouTube speak a different language, though and some AI track with AI "artist" is number one at "Shittyfy" charts.
Fact is there will be more AI music by AI "arists" or fake "musicians".
I could present you some AI song pretending I made it (I won't ever use AI, though).
future will show and the future is the next generations, so we all are just speculating,
but there already seems to be an obvious trend now, but trends come and go, we will see and when will not be able to see any more, we won't care any more.

[rasmusklump]

If you're looking for something to emulate, I reckon you could do a lot worse than the Korg Delta. OK, it's a very simple synth, with some unique features, but it had such a great sound. If you could emulate that sound and add useful features to it, like an ensemble effect for the string section, it could be a real winner.

I am with the existing emulation very, very happy, no matter if the snobs here say it sounds faithful to the original or not.

[xmstkvr]

I am with the existing emulation very, very happy, no matter if the snobs here say it sounds faithful to the original or not.

Yup! Adam plugins are really, really high quality. And I also use The Usual Suspects thing as well, and still find his plugins really good.

[BONES]

I am with the existing emulation very, very happy, no matter if the snobs here say it sounds faithful to the original or not.

Which emulation? The only Delta emulation I'm aware of is a Kontakt library, which I am not willing to buy Kontakt to use.

[frag]

This is literally a continuation of your "Arturia Jup-8000 V" opinion. We get it. You love Arturia's Jup 8000. Breathe. This is just a thread announcing Adam Szabo's Airwave.

My post is not even about plugins, it's about auditory perception.
Many times people who can't differentiate between C and C# argue about accuracy of emulations. It's a sick joke.
Try listening classical music recordings in FLAC at least half an hour a day. Then you'll see that some of your favorite EDM mixes are incomprehensible garbage (though they're still fun ).

So you think you have big selection on the VSTi market? In the end, there is only a handful of instruments which make composition & arrangement easy, everything else is a distraction. I don't even use Ostirus, it's not anywhere near the experience of playing HW Virus through analog outputs... It feels like an ordinary VST instrument.
There will never be "100% accurate emulation" even with DSP code. It's physically impossible.

You only need to figure out which instrument makes you write whole musical sentences. Such tools are very very rare.

Also, I think Adam Szabo should join a bigger team, such as Cherry Audio, NI, Arturia, even TUS. He himself pointed out he gave up on AN1x. I don't think he can pull analog emulations by himself, he's just not into that kind of sound.

[Matt67]

Also, I think Adam Szabo should join a bigger team, such as Cherry Audio, NI, Arturia, even TUS. He himself pointed out he gave up on AN1x. I don't think he can pull analog emulations by himself, he's just not into that kind of sound.

Why should he join Arturia or others as long as his plugins are better than theirs in my opinion? That would be a step backwards.

[DCrown]

"Also, I think Adam Szabo should join a bigger team, such as Cherry Audio, NI, Arturia, even TUS. He himself pointed out he gave up on AN1x. I don't think he can pull analog emulations by himself, he's just not into that kind of sound."

To fall from high level down to less than mediocre Arturia or NI level?

[Caine123]

i wonder, if anyone tests Airwave vs. the Ususal Suspects one would be interesting!

[omac]

"He himself pointed out he gave up on AN1x"
That was in context to him not desiring to compete with the perceived direction of TUS. He didn't say he was not capable of doing it himself. I'm viewing Airwave as a labor of love considering Adam's trance production background. I think it's great when someone can work on a project that they have feelings for. I hope he keeps doing projects that he has an emotional connection to.
As long as his development platform is not on the mac, there's going to be a lot of discontent from those who don't have the chance to get it. I think that partly drives some of the vitriol directed at his projects ... along with the "never as good as hardware" folks. I don't hate on hardware. I have some of my own, but I also like the idea of the sound and feel of the hardware without some of the limitations. If it's monophonic- why not make a switch to make it polyphonic in a software recreation?
P.S. Yamaha CS6X?

[JonSolo]

This is such a good emulation! Just wanted to chime in that my first 24 hours with it have been a lot of fun and inspired some new tracks!

[DMG68]

I am with the existing emulation very, very happy, no matter if the snobs here say it sounds faithful to the original or not.

Which emulation? The only Delta emulation I'm aware of is a Kontakt library, which I am not willing to buy Kontakt to use.

Full Bucket’s Nabla probably.
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/nabla.html

[skarvika]

For me, however, playing it feels like a generic VSTi from 2005 - there's nothing unique about the sound (though I'm extremely picky). It sounds somewhat hollow, unreal

Agree with this. Airwave feels egregiously thin to me. Reminds me of the days when Vanguard and Sylenth were the VSTs to beat. How spoiled we are for choice now. May be a matter of taste, but I'll stick with the JP6K, which is phenomenal. Airwave does run astonishingly well though, Adam's a wizard when it comes to plugin efficiency.

[wikter]

My next project was going to be the Yamaha AN1X, but now that this french (i think) guy joined their team who can reverse engineer anything with a microscope, I bet you right now that they will do it. They will do anything that has a chip in it which needs firmware. So I will stay the hell away from any synth like that from now on. I will only consider something Analog that has no firmware.

Ohhhh. No matter if there's another emulated hardware, right now there's no serious AN1X competent emulation.
I tried to do it with Synthedit some years ago but the FM part is a bit complex to recreate.