Hi guys
I’ve been having fun with one of Kevin Brown’s synths; the minDy.
Kevin Brown created a wonderful synth, heavily inspired by the Minimoog. He did all the hard work but I was inspired to “enhance” the sound by adding my analogue modelling modules and techniques. I’ve had the cheek to name it minDy S too!
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I’ve made use of Martin Vicanek’s excellent and CPU-efficient oscillators, but the CPU is a little higher than the original, due to the modelling overhead. If that’s important for you then use his original one.
You can get it here:
EDIT: this now has its own topic with new versions and lots of nice banks to play with:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40801#p119718This is a list of the changes made:
• Oscillators 1-3 now use analogue sounding enhancements. These include a low level noise component, free-running emulation, minor scaling “errors”, slew rate emulation and wave-shaping based on published waveform images.
• Replaced the filter with an emulation of a 24dB/Oct low pass ladder which can be “overdriven” and can self-oscillate.
• The envelope generators emulate the original Moog shape and behaviour. The attack section is about 0.6 of an inverse exponential curve and the decay and release are exponential. The famous "snap” is also modelled.
• Added a front-panel preset manager with several generic presets.
• Oscillator’s tuning corrected to +/- 7 semitones (was -12 to +7) and centre detent removed to allow for finer detune settings. The zero position can now be set using a double-click, as well as the original cntrl-click.
• Internally changed the frequency modulation to emulate 1V/Oct behaviour which allows for real FM and equal pitch deviation across the whole keyboard range.
• Corrected the Low Frequency settings for Oscillator 3 so no “negative” frequencies (phase inversion) are created below the centre fine tune position. Changed the rate range to 0.1 Hz – 20 Hz.
• Changed the “pressed” colour on the red rocker switches.
• Used Martin Vicanek’s LFO oscillators for the separate LFO and halved the output swing for better modulation control range from the mod wheel.
• Some changes made to internal levels to suit new modules.
• Added vintage analogue electronic noise and hum at a very low level.
Kevin, please feel free to add this to your ever-growing archive if you wish. Also I’d like to feature it on Flowstoners under Flowmates, but only if you think that’s acceptable.
Cheers
Spogg