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VProm

Drum Machine Plugin by Aly James Lab
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45.00 €

VProm has an average user rating of 5.00 from 2 reviews

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VProm

Reviewed By torridgristle [all]
February 2nd, 2019
Version reviewed: v2.0.3 on Windows

VProm is the single most accurate and useful Linn LM-1 emulation I've found, possibly because it is the only one to actually emulate the hardware rather than play back some recorded samples. The big draw for this is the hihat which is actually a constantly looping sound with an amplitude envelope that opens up over it whenever the hihat is triggered; this causes each hihat hit to sound different which makes it sound more alive or organic. My singular gripe regarding this is the inability to load a custom hihat EPROM to loop like the original hihat, instead it only plays custom EPROMs as a one-shot.

Tuning samples down low causes the sounds to have a familiar gritty sound that you can't achieve in a modern day by just pitching down a sample and playing it back slower, and this is much appreciated as that gritty aliased sound is exactly what I wanted: Gritty, not muffled.

Each sound can have its own unique output from the plugin, allowing you to put your own effects on each drum sound while only using one instance of VProm.

Regarding custom EPROMs, this is where VProm gets even more fun for me. You can create authentically formatted sounds using Promenade from Electrongate (do not use wav2dmx or dmxwav as the math is reportedly incorrect) and load them into VProm to hear your own samples played back through an accurately modelled AM6070 DAC and optionally (on by default) CEM 3320 VCF filters on the bass, conga, and tom sounds that were in the original LM-1 hardware in order to remove noise from the tail-end of the drum sounds.

Additionally, the Oberheim DMX uses the same DAC as the Linn LM-1, and thus VProm can load its EPROMs with no trouble and it sounds, due to the similar hardware, pretty much just like the Oberheim DMX.

If you want an authentic vintage sampler sound, VProm is how you get it.

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murnau
murnau
25 May 2014 at 6:09am

wav2bin? then the samples you bought before not so useless as you said or? :-)

BrockHardcastle
BrockHardcastle
26 May 2014 at 7:14pm

My LM-1 samples are now useless and don't sound half as good as this. I would not load an inferior sample of the LM-1 in to the machine that already has pristine LM-1 BIN files in it. My other samples on the other hand are great to change to BIN and drop in to this thing. Gives them a new life.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
26 May 2014 at 7:42pm

Yes, it's another new evidence that the modelling synthesis is the real future instead of the sample based instruments. First in sample based instruments, the sound can't be alive by itself (it needs effects to give it life) while in physically (or electronically) modelled synthesis the sound is alive in itself, by mathematical progressions, and second... while gigabytes of samples are needed in sample based synthesis, just some megabytes (a thousand times less) is enough for a modelling synthesis instrument... which will have a far better quality.

Thohi
Thohi
3 February 2017 at 4:39pm

The name of this entry really should be changed to reflect the current name of the product.

argealis
argealis
4 March 2018 at 6:53pm

I have a question about your the possibility to load additional banks :
If I load anadditional bank and if after I want to go back to original one, will it be necessary to re-load the default bank?
Where is located (on a Mac) this default bank (maybe called "vProm-Default.fxp")?
Thank you for your help.

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