Synthmaker bundle

[RJHollins]

You, Sir ... are amazing.

I'm not much involved with the synth world ... but I, nonetheless, respect

[k brown]

Well, thanks.
Are you more involved with the robotics side of things around here?

[RJHollins]

no ... I work Mastering audio [along with some mixing].

My involvement with SM/FS have been special MIDI utilities, controller GUI to handle up to 16 other VST plugins.

Other than that, a little dabble in special audio processing utilities.

All basically tools to assist my workflow.

[k brown]

For those who may be using tonus Pro Colorist - there's been a minor update; fixed a few errors.
-PWM changed to positive-going only; sounds better.
-AT/Wheel Vibrato can toggle to Tremolo (was done internally on the Pro Soloist's presets).
-Noise was inadvertently pre-filtered.
-Included four simple presets (NOT emulations of the PS's sounds).

Hang onto the first version if you've made presets for it; new version is identified as "tonus ProColorist b".

[k brown]

Sorry for the confusion folks - go get it again; found a couple more things. Mainly put Pitch Bend back onto the row of performance controls where I'd put PWM. Now that button toggles P-Bend/PWM. Your MIDI bend wheel will still do +/- a fifth.

[k brown]

Tinker, tinker - can't leave well enough alone.

A version of tonus Explorer to which has been added several of the aftertouch (or mod wheel) controls from the Pro Soloist. In this case though, each has it's own dedicated sensitivity control.

tonus Explorer AT :

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In it's own sub-folder in the Explorer II folder.

[k brown]

Sittin' there staring at CS75M and looking at the amount of panel space devoted to the stepLFO that I don't care much for and use very little - just cried out for that space to given to an additional oscillator per synthline, one of the more frustrating things about the CS-series instruments is the single oscillator in each channel. So that gives us:

Yumaha CS78F :

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Name derived from the GUI borrowed from CS-'8'0 and the fact that it has 'F'our oscillators.

[DrewDale]

Great work on the updates Kevin, also top class work on the CS78F. Can imagine creating some decent patches for this one.

[k brown]

Thanks, - any chance you would share some of your patches?

[k brown]

Doesn't seem to be a great appetite around these parts for modular-based stuff, but here's another based on a small ARP 2500 system. It was described in one of their brochures as "Sample System 6", their smallest.

Lots of envelopes, three oscillators, three filters (two are multimode); of particular note is the module second from the right, called a 'Voice'. - it's basically a complete synth in one module: VCO, VCF wEG, VCA wEG.

Patching by drop-downs at each input - I did actually attempt an emulation the switch-matrix patching, but it drove me nuts; sluggish and hard to follow visually what's patched to what on a computer screen.

tonus System 6 :

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The only deviation from the module compliment of the Sample System 6 is the swapping out of the Modamp with an approximation of the Filtamp (with added ring mod).