Synthmaker bundle

[DrewDale]

Hi Kevin.
The Yumaha CS75M text (all top right name area) is not showing correctly. Thanks.

[k brown]

Fixed now.

[DrewDale]

Cheers Kevin. Thanks for all your hard work too, most appreciated

[k brown]

Here's a simplified FM instrument - based on the basic idea of the pretty obscure Korg DS-8, which was built around the voice of the Yamaha FB-01 4-op FM module. In place of the then-bewildering Ratio Tuning and Modulation Index way of producing waveforms, it had a set of pre-formed FM waves that one could shape 'up' from sine - a bit like the way the Casio CZ instruments worked but with FM instead of Phase Distortion. It also had only two algorithms - a pair of Modulator/ Carriers (like DX100 algo 5) and a 4-op stack.

With this vst, I've pushed it to a more conventional Ratio-tuned FM instrument and expanded it to six operators; also two algos - three 2-op pairs or a 4-op stack (X-Mod) plus one 2-op pair. I've retained much of DS-8's more conventional analog synth nomenclature and the Coarse/Fine tuning of the operator pairs (Oscillators). Also given it a second LFO.

A much friendlier way to FM, but less limited than DS-8.

Chorg DS-600 :

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[DrewDale]

Some nice new synths your creating Kevin. Have you thought about doing a Korg Polly 800 variation ?

[k brown]

Thanks, but I'd have to find something extremely intriguing and unusual to do something new from scratch; all the stuff I've posted recently is not new, new, they just hadn't been included in the original Bundle for a variety of reasons.

[DrewDale]

Shame. I always thought the Poly 800 was intriguing, quite an interesting little synth with some character of it's own. It would be cool with sLFO. I don't understand synthmaker or flowstone enough to create one

Do you have any other stuff not from the original bundle yet to be released ?

[k brown]

Yes, a few.

[BobF]

Hi Kevin,

Would not making a new synth be fairly easy? You have all the modules from your other synths to cut and paste from. It would just be a matter of connecting everthing together and creating the gui. The gui I would think would be maybe the hardest, but I am sure there several here that would help you out. Maybe then?

Cheers, BobF.....

[k brown]

It's not difficulty that's the issue but time; I'm trying to tidy up and finish stuff I've already started, so I can get back to spending most of my time painting.