Does this vsti beast exist?

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ILTK
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Does this vsti beast exist?

Post by ILTK » Thu May 04, 2006 10:58 pm

4 oscilators (osc. waveforms: white/pink noise, sinus, saw, triangle, square)
4 volume envelope generators
4 pitch envelope generators
4 filter envelope generators

So basically volume/pitch/filter EGs for each osc.

Filters, lowpass, highpass, bandpass.

It's for doing drum synthesis if case you'r wondering.

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Post by hoffman2k » Thu May 04, 2006 10:59 pm

Operator? :wink:

Doesn't have the 4 filters or pitch.... unless you use 4 instances.
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Post by Machinate » Thu May 04, 2006 11:00 pm

sounds more like a fun little reaktor-project to me :)
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Post by ILTK » Thu May 04, 2006 11:01 pm

Well I played around with it in demo mode because it looked like it was the ticket, but as far as I could see the pitch EGs were global.

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Post by ILTK » Thu May 04, 2006 11:12 pm

Yeah I thought about reaktor, I'll give running four instances of Operator a try, I like Operator because it's interface is so compact and I don't have to flick through pages and pages of settings, if that's to messy I'll probably give reaktor a try.

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Post by err_fatale » Fri May 05, 2006 1:39 am

man operator is a great synth. I think the GUI hides that.

whoops, i didn't read the separate pitch EG part......sorry....my bad..

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Re: Does this vsti beast exist?

Post by FaX-01 » Fri May 05, 2006 2:43 am

ILTK wrote:4 oscilators (osc. waveforms: white/pink noise, sinus, saw, triangle, square)
4 volume envelope generators
4 pitch envelope generators
4 filter envelope generators

So basically volume/pitch/filter EGs for each osc.

Filters, lowpass, highpass, bandpass.

It's for doing drum synthesis if case you'r wondering.
Dimension Pro :D .

4 Independent layers - each can be a .wav .aiff .sf2 (multisample) or digicyclic wave forms.
Anti-aliasing audio engine for super crisp oscillator transposition.
Each layer has 16 filters types to choose from (including noise & comb).
Each layer has Filter / Resonance / Pitch / Amp / Pan multibreakpoint envelope generators.
Each Filter / Resonance / Pitch / Amp / Pan EG has it's own independent modulating LFO waveform ( 20 different waveshapes ) with tempo sync if needed and + or - polarity modulation.
Each Independent layer has it's own decimator / lo-fi unit + drive circuit (with 5 settings possible icluding warm , tube , asymetric overdrive etc).
Each Independent layer has 3 parametric EQ's with Gain / Freq / Q controls.
Each independent layer can have it's own insert effect (24 too choose from) with wet /dry / feedback and filter controls.
You get 2 master effects with individual send to either or both effects per layer.
You can have anylayer comprising of a digicyclic wave form / .wav /,aiff / or .sf2 multisample or a REX2 file with corresponding midi file (the midi files can be dropped from Dim Pro to your Live midi track and edited.
Each out can have it's own indepent output / midi channel and midi data track if needed.
A HUGE modulation matrix.
You can load impulse repsonses for waveguide (physical modeled synthesis on any layer).
Did I mention it comes with a 7 gigabyte sound/waverom library with all the above mentioned desired waveforms and then some.
High Pass/ Low Pass / Band Pass / Band Reject / All Pass and Peaking filters in 1 pole, 2 pole and 6 pole configurations plus Noise and Comb filters .
Is that sort of what you're looking for :lol: .
Did I also mention it sounds fucking awesome.
Did I also mention that I don't work for Cakewalk.
Did I also mention that it was coded by Rene' of Z3ta , Trinagle I&II and Pentagon fame.
Does everything from ambient , sample and synthesis to sample playback to subtractive to waveguide synthesis and back again.
My aren't the wings of butterflies beautiful and do they not make wonderful perturbations.....

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Re: Does this vsti beast exist?

Post by pulsoc » Fri May 05, 2006 4:22 am

ILTK wrote:4 oscilators (osc. waveforms: white/pink noise, sinus, saw, triangle, square)
4 volume envelope generators
4 pitch envelope generators
4 filter envelope generators

So basically volume/pitch/filter EGs for each osc.

Filters, lowpass, highpass, bandpass.

It's for doing drum synthesis if case you'r wondering.
Karma FX modular should be able to do it. And it's free/donationware.

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Post by ILTK » Fri May 05, 2006 10:32 am

Thanks all, I'm checking these out, looks like KarmaFX modular fits me very well so far, I can make a patch and have all modules on one page for easy tweaking and the price is just right :)

Going to be nice not to have to use SoundForge to do drums from scratch, it takes freakin forever.

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Post by spiderprod » Fri May 05, 2006 2:42 pm

it's a nice synth ,i prefer this one over operator .

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Post by Machinate » Fri May 05, 2006 3:08 pm

ILTK wrote:Thanks all, I'm checking these out, looks like KarmaFX modular fits me very well so far, I can make a patch and have all modules on one page for easy tweaking and the price is just right :)
Made in Denmark, IIRC ;)
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Post by err_fatale » Fri May 05, 2006 3:09 pm

off the subject slightly but still useful to some.......

another killer free synth I have been using a lot lately, an emulation of the Nord Lead called SYNTH1:
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http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/soft ... .html#down
download link:
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/soft ... h1v107.zip

i think it sounds great

and another called triangle II

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http://www.rgcaudio.com/triangle_II.htm

download link:
http://www.rgcaudio.com/downloads/freeware/T2111.exe

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Post by protocol » Fri May 05, 2006 8:44 pm

Machinate wrote:sounds more like a fun little reaktor-project to me :)
I copied the "Rapture VSTi" design (also Cakewalk), complete with multistage envelopes, for testing. With only 4 OSCs (Rapture has six) it blew away the CPU. It didnt sound convincing too. :(

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Post by ILTK » Fri May 05, 2006 9:36 pm

I been experimenting for a couple days now, I think I have found a solution that gives me a good balance between flexebillity and ease of use for drum design/synthesis.

What I have come up with is basically a Live project setup only for this purpose.

Here's my Live project so far:

Track 1:

Impulse, this track is called 'transients' because it is only used to drop in oneshots that I trim down so I can steal the attack portion of a sample if that is to time consuming to create from scratch for whatever drum sound I'm doing.

The following tracks is for the basic waveforms to build drum sounds, I use Athmosphere (Yes the massive pad beast and it's going "hum", "fstt" and "bleep" lol) because I love the big retarded interface, it could be any synth with the basic waveforms and ADSR and pitch envelopes but Atmosphere has a basic waveform section that sounds great but something like Operator would work fine to.

All the synth tracks with the basic waveforms has a clip with notes playing a basic 4/4 pattern so when you stack waveforms they all play on the same notes.


Track 2:
Pure Sinus wave.

Track 3:
Pure Triangle wave.

Track 4:
Pure Square wave.

Track 5:
White noise wave.

Track 6:
Pink noise wave.

If I'm doing a more complex sound I can just drop in more tracks with the needed waveforms.


Track 8:
This is a submix track I routed all the waveform tracks to, on this track I have a ringmodulator sitting for making metallic timbres, hihats, shakers etc.. I just have it turned of when I don't need ringmod.


Track 9:
Submix track again, the output from the ringmod track goes here, I have distortion on this one for spicing up things like kicks to give a bit more bite and character.

Track 10:
Submix track that the distortion track is routed to, here I have EQ/Compressor for tweaking.


Track 11:
Last submix track, this is simply an audio track that the distortion track is finally routed to, on this track I have nothing but a dummy clip, the dummy clip is used for volume automation, by drawing in volume points I can create a final envelope with as many points as I like, sort of like an ADSR envelope for audio, it's good to have because then you don't need to spend so much time tweaking the individual waveforms sustain/release times to make them all similar, I can just adjust it here.

Track 12 is just an audio track set to 'resample' so when I'm done I just record enable it and record my final drum sound.

Sounds kinda complicated but it's real easy to work with, and it's working realy great, I can whip up Kicks, snares, toms, claps, open/closed hihats, shakers, tambourines in no-time flat all within Live.

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