SWAY - a synth modeled after the Yamaha SY77

[wagtunes]

You don't value something that you get for free/cheap like you value something that you have paid with hard-earned money. Basic human nature.
/JHS

That's true. Omnisphere is one of my most prized synths. Also, one of my best selling patch libraries.

[glokraw]

That's often based on resale value, if not buyers remorse not the actual value the user places on something. Not to mention some plugins are difficult to re-sell. There are free plugins that I value very high, and many commercial plugins I value almost that high, and some other commercial ones that are great that may not get the most hours of usage in a given month. The reverb, synth, ampsim, and rompler plugins I use most are free, but I still love and often use such things from NI, U-he, BlueCat, and IK. Its great to have many choices without considering price when the determining use case.

I realize that resale value, and buyers remorse don't usually apply to Omni!

[DCrown]

Since we - a collaboration - intend to make Yamaha full productions including Yamaha hardware and Yamaha software (Drums, synths, electric piano, piano, guitar and so on) to honor the gold standard of Yamaha instruments, we are still waiting for the release of this plugin to include it and kindly ask the developer to tell date of release. Since your video of your emu gives us a positive impression, we suggest that you think of the idea of also developing and releasing a VL-1 emu, no one has released it yet, are you experienced in physical modeling? Breath control to modulate volume, articulation, and timbre, mimicking real instruments could be made by using a midi controller.
Thank you in advance.

[DCrown]

You don't value something that you get for free/cheap like you value something that you have paid with hard-earned money. Basic human nature.
/JHS

That's why I love Dexed so much

[McLilith]

I have to say, I have a lot of respect for Dexed. It's a very high quality emulation of a DX7, and the developer could have easily attached a retail price tag to it. It sounds more like a hardware DX7 than some of the expensive software alternatives. Also, using eight instances of Dexed is the closest I'll ever come to owning a Yamaha TX816.

And while I'm at it, I could put an instance of Dexed on all 16 MIDI channels and make my own "Frankenstein TX1616"!

But getting back to SWAY, I've already decided I want to buy it. A good emulation of the SY77 architecture is something I've wanted for a long time. If it uses different samples for the AWM2 synthesis, I'm fine with that. As long as the architecture is the same, and it sounds good, that's enough for me. Sheaf can charge any reasonable price he likes.

I'd even pay a little "upgrade fee" after buying SWAY, just to get a nice sample import feature added to SWAY. That would push things into SY99 territory.

[wagtunes]

Earlier in this thread, I asked when this was going to come out and somebody who seemed to know things said "this quarter". Well, the end of March, will end the 1st quarter of this year. So we've got a little over 30 days to go if he's right.

Also, I said that if this didn't come out soon, people would forget about it and move on. FWIW, this has already started as I had to resurrect this thread from page 4. Make no mistake, I know KVR. This thing was dead in the water. The only way this thread was coming back was if the developer himself posted that the synth was available.

Like it or not, this is human nature. News is old 5 minutes after it's news. Especially today. We bore easily and move onto the next thing at the drop of a hat. Combine that with the fact that this is a new developer. It's not like with u-he where we're waiting for whatever.

Take it for what it's worth to you but if this thing doesn't come out soon, people will forget. Some prospective customers will lose interest and move on. Sure the die-hards (like me) will hang in there. But many others will be gone.

You can take that to the bank.

Having said that, I don't want the developer to rush this. I want it to be done right. I mean look at the Phonec 3 train wreck. Released and so broken it had to be recalled.

But the clock is ticking.

[Seafire Mk2]

There is no clock ticking. Just leave the bloke to do his thing and stop bitchin

[wagtunes]

There is no clock ticking. Just leave the bloke to do his thing and stop bitchin

He can do his thing and I can point out potential problems if this thing goes on too long. It has happened before way too many times.

[wagtunes]

For all you thinking I'm crying wolf, would you like me to list all the failed VST releases (or non releases) over the last 12 years? The list is long enough to choke a horse. Or all those 32 bit VSTs that were such failures that the dev never bothered updating them to 64 bit. That list is even longer. I have a hard drive filled with VSTs that I can't even use anymore.

I'm just trying to keep this thing fresh in everyone's mind and if that means I have to "bitch" in order to do that, so be it. Hell, I will keep bumping this thread every time it falls off of page one if I have to.

[DCrown]

Let us forget about SWAy,
a Yamaha SY77 emu would be great,
wouldn't it?

There are so many Roland emus and some next release of some dev will be some Roland again, Roland is good, no doubt, but there are still so many unreleased Yamaha synths, it's a shame.

[DCrown]

For all you thinking I'm crying wolf, would you like me to list all the failed VST releases (or non releases) over the last 12 years? The list is long enough to choke a horse. Or all those 32 bit VSTs that were such failures that the dev never bothered updating them to 64 bit. That list is even longer. I have a hard drive filled with VSTs that I can't even use anymore.

I'm just trying to keep this thing fresh in everyone's mind and if that means I have to "bitch" in order to do that, so be it. Hell, I will keep bumping this thread every time it falls off of page one if I have to.

Hey Wagtunes, I found following plugin, let's try this one meanwhile

[wagtunes]

Let us forget about SWAy,
a Yamaha SY77 emu would be great,
wouldn't it?

There are so many Roland emus and some next release of some dev will be some Roland again, Roland is good, no doubt, but there are still so many unreleased Yamaha synths, it's a shame.

Yes, it is a shame

[IvyBirds]

For all you thinking I'm crying wolf, would you like me to list all the failed VST releases (or non releases) over the last 12 years? The list is long enough to choke a horse. Or all those 32 bit VSTs that were such failures that the dev never bothered updating them to 64 bit. That list is even longer. I have a hard drive filled with VSTs that I can't even use anymore.

I'm just trying to keep this thing fresh in everyone's mind and if that means I have to "bitch" in order to do that, so be it. Hell, I will keep bumping this thread every time it falls off of page one if I have to.

Please stop with sky is falling doom and gloom, no one has forgotten about Swayed and there are many examples of plugins that have been in development for far longer that came out and were popular on KVR threads and the marketplace. With hindsight being 20/20 anyone can cherry pick doom and gloom

Swayed isn't a 32bit VST from years ago trying to have relevance in a 64 bit world.

The very fact there is any interest at all in 2026 in a Synth plugin inspired from a hardware synth that came out in 1989 kind of blows your entire Chicken Little narrative out of the water

As always however feel free to continue your sky is falling routine if the plugin isn't called what you want, doesn't cost what you want, doesn't have the presets you want, and doesn't come out when you want it to

No one needs anyone to keep this at the top page of KVR especially if it's just shit posting about how terrible Sheaf is for doing things differently than they would do them, or that interest on a plugin inspired from a hardware synth that came out in December of 1989.

That was 435 months ago. I think we can all wait to month 436 or 437 or even 450 or 500 if we need to. When it comes out this thread will be on the front page, people like me will buy it instantly and we will talk about how awesome it is

[mambo888]

If it comes out, good, if it doesn’t come out, people already have Montage M, Modx M and the ESP which is kind of the same thing. When the development of SWAYED started there was no ESP and Modx M and people didn’t have options, now it is no longer the case. My only issue with the ESP is that it consumes too much CPU for what it does, so we are still waiting for SWAYED.

[DCrown]

Some things really too long
New version or Omnisphere
Current Avenger version
Zebra 3
NI (forgot the name)
and fore sure some more

How many years?

Well, they all releases V1 at least

People already have Montage?
I d say most do not have it, cuz they are still waiting to get Montage for 30 bucks on sales from Plugin Alliance page or bluginboutique. At the moment no plugin without purchase of hardware. You already might get it second hand.