KVR Audio

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:29 pm

manducator wrote:
artao wrote:The download link is dead. I read back a few pages to see if a new link had been posted, but saw nothing. Not gonna dig thru 150 pages of thread to find it.
I just want to get the 64-bit version, cuz I've only got the 32-bit version installed right now -- my previous OS was 32-bit, so I discarded the 64-bit version at the time.
Thx
I don't know if it's the latest version, but I found this:

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=1844

Site is here: https://obxd.wordpress.com/ I think that's where you can get the latest versions. It's a pity this project got abandoned. I had great expectations...

EDIT: I just saw what you meant. The link for downloading is broken. So, this is going to die silently.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:42 pm

Tbh, i always wondered what the fuss was about it. For the (massive) CPU consumption, it sounds rather average. YMMV, IMHO, etc.

sprnva · Post by **sprnva** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:44 pm

The downloads at vst4free seem to be the same as the one from the official site (just compared the mac vst).

Would anyone be able to compile the current source version for Mac with 64-bit support? There's a newer build in the comment section on the obxd page, but it's 32-bit only. Looking at the commits after February 2014 there's been a few improvements.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:20 am

chk071 wrote:Tbh, i always wondered what the fuss was about it. For the (massive) CPU consumption, it sounds rather average. YMMV, IMHO, etc.

TBH, for what it is (an oberheim OBX emulation) it does it quite well.
good sounding raw oscillators that are not sweetened with effects like other popular synths.

and i don't know what version you are talking about with that massive cpu consumption
comment, but the win32 version is quite low at 5.2% holding down a 3 note chord with all
8 voices enabled in savihost on my winxp 3ghz HP Elitebook.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:36 am

sprnva wrote:The downloads at vst4free seem to be the same as the one from the official site (just compared the mac vst).

Would anyone be able to compile the current source version for Mac with 64-bit support? There's a newer build in the comment section on the obxd page, but it's 32-bit only. Looking at the commits after February 2014 there's been a few improvements.

You could run it in a 64 bit Mac environment using 32Lives by Sound Radix. Every 32 bit audio plug I've thrown at it is gracefully converted to 64 bit.

/Joachim

sprnva · Post by **sprnva** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 11:25 am

I'm still thinking about buying that, but for what it does (well) it's a bit steep in price, and jBridgeM didn't feel good.

Besides, the official obxd release supported 64-bit, so I don't know why that newer build was 32-bit only.

I can compile basic stuff fine with xcode or make, but wouldn't know where to start with something like this.

zmix · Post by **zmix** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 12:19 pm

layzer wrote:
chk071 wrote:Tbh, i always wondered what the fuss was about it. For the (massive) CPU consumption, it sounds rather average. YMMV, IMHO, etc.
TBH, for what it is (an oberheim OBX emulation) it does it quite well.
good sounding raw oscillators that are not sweetened with effects like other popular synths.

and i don't know what version you are talking about with that massive cpu consumption
comment, but the win32 version is quite low at 5.2% holding down a 3 note chord with all
8 voices enabled in savihost on my winxp 3ghz HP Elitebook.

I have been running a lot of tests on various softsynths and the OBX-d is consistently amazing. I am running it as a 64-but Audio Unit plugin, and though I own "32 Lives" it isn't required.

The oscillators in the OBX-d do not alias, even at 44.1kHz and the residual artifacts are around -130dBfs.
I have not seen *any* commercial soft synths that are as free of digital artifacts as the OBX-d. The OP-X was one of the worst, by the way.

Impressive.

I hope that some of us here can keep this thing running. I am dismayed that the AU version does not remember controller assignments, apparently the VST versions have a toolbar to save these things.
What would it take to update the functionality?

Also, layzer, how is it that the version you're running looks like an OB-8 with the black and blue graphics?
In OSX it looks like an OB-x...!

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:40 pm

zmix wrote: layzer, how is it that the version you're running looks like an OB-8 with the black and blue graphics?
In OSX it looks like an OB-x...!

The OB-8/OBX-A skinned version was my own design done at the request of the keyboardist of the band Alphaville.
it was also available to people in this forum emailing me for it. only in win x32 & x64 bit though.

electro · Post by **electro** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:36 pm

zmix wrote:The oscillators in the OBX-d do not alias, even at 44.1kHz and the residual artifacts are around -130dBfs.
I have not seen *any* commercial soft synths that are as free of digital artifacts as the OBX-d. The OP-X was one of the worst, by the way.

But OP-X really sounds like an OB-X! How can you dislike it?

zmix · Post by **zmix** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:07 pm

electro wrote:
zmix wrote:The oscillators in the OBX-d do not alias, even at 44.1kHz and the residual artifacts are around -130dBfs.
I have not seen *any* commercial soft synths that are as free of digital artifacts as the OBX-d. The OP-X was one of the worst, by the way.
But OP-X really sounds like an OB-X! How can you dislike it?

I've played a lot of OB-Xs (I engineered for Prince back in the 1980s) .. the OP doesn't sound as much like one as the OBX-d, plus I find the user interface arcane and troubling, too much like the OB-8 with all the hidden functions.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:18 pm

layzer wrote:
chk071 wrote:Tbh, i always wondered what the fuss was about it. For the (massive) CPU consumption, it sounds rather average. YMMV, IMHO, etc.
TBH, for what it is (an oberheim OBX emulation) it does it quite well.
good sounding raw oscillators that are not sweetened with effects like other popular synths.

and i don't know what version you are talking about with that massive cpu consumption
comment, but the win32 version is quite low at 5.2% holding down a 3 note chord with all
8 voices enabled in savihost on my winxp 3ghz HP Elitebook.

Maybe i need to try it again. I can't really say the last version i tried, but it was eating my CPU MASSIVELY. Anyway, maybe that has changed with the latest versions.

ThePresent · Post by **ThePresent** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 7:49 pm

It does suck some juice from the CPU indeed, but the sound is totally worth it. Have been using it regularly since it was a OneSynthChallenge synth. Great, great sound!

beely · Post by **beely** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:39 pm

It would be good if someone with the necessary experience could do a new Mac compile of this latest version, with Layzer's updated gui, for the good of the community* .

(* by that, I mean me...

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:51 pm

layzer wrote:
zmix wrote: layzer, how is it that the version you're running looks like an OB-8 with the black and blue graphics?
In OSX it looks like an OB-x...!
The OB-8/OBX-A skinned version was my own design done at the request of the keyboardist of the band Alphaville.
it was also available to people in this forum emailing me for it. only in win x32 & x64 bit though.

maomoondog was a fraud.

Lovely skin btw..

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:22 pm

murnau wrote: Lovely skin btw..

Indeed. That's the one I use in Windows (without the "light reflex"). Kudos to layzer for that

Obxd synthesizer