Full Bucket Music has introduced FB3, a software instrument for Microsoft Windows (VST2/VST3/CLAP/AAX) and Apple macOS (VST2/VST3/CLAP/AU/AAX) simulating the classic Kawai K3/K3m synthesizer from 1986.
Features:
Simulation of the original wave generator unit
Original factory sounds
Up to 64 voices polyphony
User interface can be used to edit the original K3/K3m units
SysEx and User Wave import and export
Resizable user interface (not “N” version!)
Supports MTS-ESP by ODDSound dynamic micro-tuning
MIDI Learn – all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC
Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit)
Synthesist and developer Ian Dixon shared this overview of his new patch editor and librarian for the Yamaha TX7 synthesizer.
Video Summary:
The Yamaha TX7 is effectively a DX7 in a desktop module, originally designed as an expander for the DX7, but it has its own function memory differences that make a dedicated editor useful.
This tool runs locally in the browser, reads voices from the TX7, saves full libraries, loads DX7 SysEx banks, edits six-operator FM voices visually and lets you send individual sounds when you need them.
Dixon’s Yamaha TX7 Patch Editor and Librarian is available now at his site.
Vintage Emulator Studio (VES) is a free plugin virtual instrument collection that features vintage synthesizers, samplers, drum machines and sound modules emulated by MAME.
Autodafe shared this intro to Vintage Emulator Studio (VES), a free, open-source virtual instrument collection that they say brings vintage synthesizers, samplers, drum machines and sound modules emulated by MAME into a modern, musician-friendly environment.
VES lets you load these machines from a single application, play them from a MIDI keyboard and use many of them directly inside your DAW.
Vintage Emulator Studio, or VES, is designed as a common host environment for vintage digital musical hardware emulations. Rather than creating simplified software recreations or sample-based approximations, VES uses underlying machine emulation to reproduce the original hardware platform, firmware execution, device logic, controls and, where supported, storage devices and peripherals.
VES adds a modern integration layer around these emulations, including machine selection, interactive front-panel artwork, audio and MIDI connectivity, media handling, standalone operation and DAW plug-in support.
The project deliberately preserves the individual workflows and operating systems of the original machines rather than attempting to standardize them into a conventional software synthesizer interface.
VES is available for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux, both as a Standalone application and in plugin formats where supported (AU / VST3)
*Note: VES does not include or distribute any ROM files. The required ROMs must be obtained separately by the user and used in accordance with the applicable licenses and laws. In other words, you need to download the firmware files that you want to use separately.
