The eleven KS/Kulshan Studios preset packs (except Mystical Psytrance) are very rare, never see around or on sister site.
It would be interesting to try them as soon as the new Unusual Suspect's plug comes out... waiting.

 

Since there's so much interest in getting ALL the JP80x0 soundbanks, why don't we do a group buy?
First, let's make a list of all the soundbanks, and we mark the ones we have and the ones we're missing.
Then we buy them. What do you think?

 

dam sun

 

Oh, I thought they had a native import feature, but I won’t have to take many extra steps once the usual suspects come out… do we even know when it’ll be? Cause I don’t know if it’s gonna be a thing I am constantly excited for and can’t wait till next February or something…

 

The new virtual synth is almost finished, it's currently in beta and some bugs are still being fixed.
I think it will be like Nodal Red—about a month until release.

Announced January 4, 2025 = The Usual Suspects Nodal Red 2x, free Nord Lead 2 emulation, now in public beta
Released February 1, 2025 = The Usual Suspects Nodal Red 2x (DSP56300 Emulator)

 

The possibility to convert Arturia Jup 8000 patches to JP 80x0 patches would be very nice. So we can have a few more banks. Can you do that with this converter thing too?

 

No, unfortunately, that's not possible. You'll need to install and play the Arturia JUP-8000 V!

Features:
✅ I Single Patch Conversion

Automatically converts Roland JP-80x0 Single patches to Arturia JUP-8000 V format.

• Preserves original preset names
  
  
• Saves converted files based on the preset names in the original patch bank
  

 

Maybe DanCrg can update his .mid .syx .pat to Jp8k converter and revert from .Jp8k to .mid or .syx, that would be awesome. That way there would be more banks available.

 

Ok that’s good, I just kinda forgot when it originally first appeared, I thought it was from like later in November last year but word of its existence and alpha/beta footage had existed since the spring… if it’s another kontrast situation I only have to wait another month or so that’s fine. Should probably search the “museum” for confirmation of these dates and find the original Nodal Red thread cause I think that’s where we first knew about it.

 

Checked the release, the first post on this forum here was from August last year, then there are skins which I remember came with the first release in December that year. Could’ve been that entry was a deleted beta version and we would later update to a stable release because how else would skins for a plugin that’s not out for another couple months already be available to download? I don’t think I have the original release but it definitely was longer to wait…

 

The Usual Suspects Nodal Red 2x, free Nord Lead 2 emulation using the DSP56300 plugin, now in public beta - January 4, 2025
https://synthanatomy.com/2025/01/the-usual-suspects-nodal-red-2x-free-nord-lead-2-emulation.html

And then look on the sister site to see when it was posted for download.

The Usual Suspects Nodal Red 2x (DSP56300 Emulator) 1.4.2 MultiOS + ROM's [FREE]
1.02.2025 @ 21:46 Windows, Mac OSX

 

That shows the earliest available one that hasn’t been deleted, it’s possible that there was another version before that or the wait has been longer, we’ve known about it since August last year and that article was probably from when it was almost ready to release. I could’ve sworn there was a version available since December cause there are skins for this plugin that have been available. Only way to have definitive proof is for me to dig up if I have a version from December when it was likely first posted to the museum before deletion.

Now all this is getting me wanting to go back and dive through this monster again

 

its weird but when you extract the rom file in nor lead 2 it says YOUR MOM

hahaha wow

 

I found this version that I downloaded:

NodalRed2x.vst3 = 09.12.2024
The Usual Suspects Nodal Red 2x (DSP56300 Emulator) 1.4.1 Win


Article From August 12, 2024
In the previous article, I reported on Xenia, the latest emulation from The Usual Suspects team. Like the other synths, it’s based on an emulation of the Motorola 56000 chips. Now, a video surprisingly teases the developers’ following plugin. This time, they will take us to a famous Swedish red Synthesizer.
https://synthanatomy.com/2025/01/the-usual-suspects-nodal-red-2x-free-nord-lead-2-emulation.html

Nodal Red 2X Demo Video = 13. August 2024 / bax
https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/2024/08/13/nodal-red-2x-demo-video

 

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Yeah, they must’ve had prerelease versions because if this was from September it means it’s fully possible it was posted to the museum alongside skins for it, but the initial upload was deleted. Who knows how many of us had early builds from before the release? I just know the moment I see a JP8080 in that right column I immediately download for testing and that’s when video demos become easily available, but since this is hardware accurate I can still just watch the hardware demos instead and still receive the same charge

 

we have nord lead 2 emu, access virus and soon JP.. that is amazing. and the vengeance sound soundsets are really good, especially the incubation series. feels unnesesary to buy hardware virus now when you got basically the same

 

I thought Supernova II was next so this is a big surprise.

 

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