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Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Fri May 08, 2015 10:39 am

Hi Folks,

here's a little preview/demo YouTube video of my new upcoming VST performance synthesizer Kern.
This plug-in is basically designed to work together with a MIDI controller keyboard (mine is the Novation Impulse).
It is extremely light on CPU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHBYqlRuNDE

Cheers, Björn

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri May 08, 2015 10:43 am

Bjorn, glad you posted this. I gotta say I am a big fan of your stuff. Scrooo is one of the most unique synths I've ever run into. I can get sounds out of it that simply can't be duplicated anywhere.

You rock!

Just had to say that.

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Fri May 08, 2015 11:54 am

Thanks man!

I'm thinking about making a tutorial video for the scrooo, too, since its' architecture is unfamiliar but straight forward and not that complicated... *cough, cough*

Cheers, Björn

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:21 pm

Oh wow this looks very cool. Really looking forward to it!

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Fri May 08, 2015 2:18 pm

All your vst synths are kickass and really light on cpu, and love the frequency shifter too

Looking forward this new one ! And thanks for sharing all those free!
Cheers

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Fri May 08, 2015 2:33 pm

looks and sounds awesome, Bjorn! wowww what a year so far for us simple-cpu-efficient synth lovers
cant wait to try 'er out! woot!

syntheticillusion · Post by **syntheticillusion** » Fri May 08, 2015 3:58 pm

Looking forward to this one, you're VST's are mad tops, I like the Mono/Fury synth
but I can't wait until the Raganok MK.II with the saw, I'm dying to get this one
since all your VST Plugins are free, I'm happy with that and I hope you get this
one finished, it looks similar to the Novation Impulse Controller but I hope this
works with any controller with midi learn, I will be waiting until this is released.

fluffy_little_something · Fri May 08, 2015 4:45 pm

Your controller sounds like a Hackbrett

So, Kern is basically made for that specific controller, right? If I use another controller, I probably have to assign almost all controls from scratch, which I can also do with any other synth, though...

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Fri May 08, 2015 4:59 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Your controller sounds like a Hackbrett

That's because of the weird stand I was using during recording. I wish it really would sound like a Hackbrett, then at last I could perform "Lucifer"...

fluffy_little_something wrote:So, Kern is basically made for that specific controller, right?

No.

fluffy_little_something wrote:If I use another controller, I probably have to assign almost all controls from scratch,

Potentially.

fluffy_little_something wrote:which I can also do with any other synth, though...

Yes. Enjoy.

Cheers, Björn

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:05 pm

I think the concept is pretty valid. The 9 sliders + 8 rotary buttons layout is almost a standard in the controllers market. So, a synth designed to use strictly this number of parameters will give to the user a very comfortable and peaceful experience,without the angst of choose which parameter will be mapped to the controller, and which will be left alone.

fluffy_little_something · Fri May 08, 2015 6:41 pm

Zero sliders, two knobs here

I don't like to use the knobs because even when assigned to the right controls, as soon as I touch them, the corresponding controls get set to zero. They don't seem to know what value is currently set for that control on the user interface...
I suppose with endless knobs a kind of status-sensing would be nice.

Full Bucket · Post by **Full Bucket** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:04 pm

Yes, this would be preferable but with the current MIDI standard definition we're doomed

Cheers, Björn

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:27 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Zero sliders, two knobs here

Yeah... My keyboard has only 4 knobs.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:29 pm

alvfaria wrote:
fluffy_little_something wrote:Zero sliders, two knobs here
Yeah... My keyboard has only 4 knobs.

My keyboard has 9 sliders, 8 knobs and a whole bunch of buttons.

I use about 2.

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sat May 09, 2015 12:01 am

wagtunes wrote:
alvfaria wrote:
fluffy_little_something wrote:Zero sliders, two knobs here
Yeah... My keyboard has only 4 knobs.
My keyboard has 9 sliders, 8 knobs and a whole bunch of buttons.

I use about 2.

same here, the pitch and mod wheels!

probably won't use the automation feature as i have not become famous enough to play live.......yet

Kern VSTi Preview/Demo - v 1.0.2 RELEASED