Hardware synthesizer emulations available in MAME

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  1. Legotron

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    This WIP project builds on hardware synthesizer emulations available in MAME. AMAME fork provides a custom osd to run the synth emulations as VST2 plugins, with an embedded webview to host the GUIs. Custom front panels are implemented using web technologies. AMAME also provides a tiny frontend to enable device hot swapping, sysex import and export, and virtual midi keyboard.

    The plugins are quite CPU intensive because the emulations strive towards sample accurate preservations of their hardware counterparts. Full polyphony takes 30-40% of single CPU core, but the synths sound great. The emulations require original ROM images from the synths. This project will not provide ROMs.

    Currently emulated devices are:

    manufacturer model year
    Ensoniq VFX 1989
    Ensoniq VFX-SD 1989
    Yamaha FB-01 1986

    GitHub - jariseon/amame: AMAME : mame synths as VST plugins
     
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  3. mondomorte

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    The only video I could find demonstrating the project.
     
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    How to get these working?
     
  5. Synclavier

    Synclavier Rock Star

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    One can play with YM2414 (OPZ) chip emulation from TX81Z in FurnaceTracker and Ensoniq ES-5506 (OTTO) chip emulation working already which was used in Ensoniq VFX/SD-1 and TS10/TS12 synthesizers EPS16/ASR10 samplers too but not the exact Ensoniq synths emulation

    MAME project is great
    These are possible next pro audio gear emulations but the main developers goal are game and old computer systems
    https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Synthesizers
     
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  6. DarkV

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    Iirc MAME even had some basic support for Fairlight CMI. At least I saw videos of booting the GUI.

    Addition: seems that the project is dead - last commit was way back in 2018. Shame, very interesting concept, especially with dsp560x lurking around.
     
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    this Ensonic sounds great
     
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