SynthEdit doesn't mean bad! Adam Szabo's Viper's GUI was made in SynthEdit and it's a fantastic design that's easy and intuitive. But I do agree that even a mega simple Synth1-style gui would be more than acceptable. That's a synth with literally thousands of patches freely available and part of that comes down to it being very simple and easy to use.

My goodness. A Waldorf Q and Novation Supernova in my DAW. The dream may yet come true! I wish you guys success!

 

The "Synth1" comment from me was just a joke, it will be much much better ;)

 

When you have DSP emulation and ROM - how far away are we from a "working copy" of that synth we're looking for? So, TI2 ROM + DSP == TI2 VST ??
Furthermore, there are GUIs for existing hardware, e.g. TI2 or Nord Lead, so how much work is it to put these things together?
We have DSP, ROM, GUI...

I'm just curious...

 

While possible, being able to use the VTI VST would require USB Emulation. There's still a long road down there.
However, simply using the ROMs on their own emulated environments... is a different thing.

 

I definitely recommend looking at the Mystery Island editors for inspiration or possibly even talking with Jani. Even though his editors never worked well for me, it's undeniable his editors look visually very impressive. If there's any chance of possibly working with him or even leveraging his GUI's for the plugins, it might make the work even easier. He himself even said he had in mind to someday make native plugins based on some of these hardware synths, so there might be a possible relationship there.

 

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Tell me about it! even to this day, there is no official Virus plugin. A synth that was 'the' EDM dance synth for an extremely long time, with different versions since the 90s, and not one single plugin other than one made by a one-person company. It's so odd how historical many of these synths are, but you hear crickets coming from these companies. It might be that indie-projects really are the one way to get these off the ground.

I'm curious if the list from the first post is represents the whole list of possible synths or there's others? Yamaha AN1x perhaps?

 

Invite him along, the more the merrier

 

We may have missed a few, people keep adding along the way The Yamaha AN1x does use a DSP, but from what I can see I dont think its a Motorola dsp563xx unfortunatley

 

The list from the first post represents a list of synths with the Motorola DSP56300 chipset.
Yamaha AN1x seems to use a completely different DSP, so you're out of luck here.

 

No worries there! even if that's the definitive list, no ands or buts about it, that's a fantastic collection of synths, all of which have zero native plugins currently available. That would be more than enough for any 90s/early 2k aficionado to get their kick. It certainly would for me!

 

Yep, they are missing a trick here for sure. The problem with it is the time it would take to convert all of the Virus Code over to another coding language such as C++ to take away the need for the DSP. Seems like a pretty big project from what I can gather

Hopefully they are working on it as we speak

 

It's just a list of the most relevant DSP56300 based synths.
There are also DSP56000 synths (like the Nord Lead 2) that weren't listed here.

 

Holy crap dude. This project is awesome. If it is completed it would be legendary!!!

 

Aaaaa! Synth1 may actually have a worthy successor! I'm starting to get hyped!

 

Hi this is Pablinimaxd, I made GUIs for audio plugins, I have reskined waves plugins and I am working with a new audio brand at the moment, maybe I can do something for you, I am working with 3D modeling and Photoshop check my patreon www.patreon.com/pablinimaxd cheers!

 

i still run happily my poco Virus. would be great if everyone could enjoy it even without the powercore

 

Hey dude! ive seen your skins they are pretty dope! come and join in the Discord if you fancy it