Synths you would like to have made a Kontakt instrument of

[Numanoid]

I don't think I have seen any library for Kontakt for these synths, would be nice to have them sampled:

Studio Electronics Omega8 and SE-1
Jomox Sunsyn
Quasimidi Sirius
Ensoniq Fizmo

Other suggestions?

[Sendy]

MT-32

I nearly picked one up for cheap the other day, but realized I'd rather get a similar sound ITB than faff around plugging and unplugging cables and wotnot.

[EvilDragon]

Some of Hideaway Studios libraries contain Omega 8 samples amongst their soundsources.

MT-32

I nearly picked one up for cheap the other day, but realized I'd rather get a similar sound ITB than faff around plugging and unplugging cables and wotnot.

Probably won't happen because samples that are part of it are copyrighted by Roland, just like in D-50.

[Numanoid]

MT-32

That's the synth you would dream about a Kontakt lib for That's like a General Midi module, there's lots of such soundware around already, like Omnisynth for SampleTank for example.

[ccDuckett]

ETI 4600? Maplin 5600?

[tehlord]

Emulator libraries.

All of them.


Copyright be damned.

[Numanoid]

ETI 4600? Maplin 5600?

Yeah, those would be cool

[ghettosynth]

MT-32

I nearly picked one up for cheap the other day, but realized I'd rather get a similar sound ITB than faff around plugging and unplugging cables and wotnot.

This is a good idea if we think about the actual request. Sendy is asking for a similar sound, not a blatant copy, and, the MT32 is budget LA synthesis so much of the character comes from how you build the sounds. This is a big enough project that doing it right would take some effort because you'd want to try to nail the architecture. As a first draft try to find as many free samples that come close and then study what's different. You may simply have lo-fi some of the free samples by stretching out the multisamples further, rolling off the release, etc. The simple filters are well within the capability of Kontakt so this is a good fit.

I think getting the architecture right and using free samples will get you a more faithful and usable ITB variant of a lo-fi LA synthesizer than if you just multisampled the presets for yourself. Go the extra mile to try and nail the cheesy reverb and DAC output distortion issues, and you're there!

[Numanoid]

This is a good idea if we think about the actual request. Sendy is asking for a similar sound, not a blatant copy, and, the MT32 is budget LA synthesis

Buy the JD-850 lib that CL-Projects just put out then

[whyterabbyt]

ETI 4600? Maplin 5600?

Yeah, those would be cool

I used to have that.

[EvilDragon]

This is a good idea if we think about the actual request. Sendy is asking for a similar sound, not a blatant copy, and, the MT32 is budget LA synthesis

Buy the JD-850 lib that CL-Projects just put out then

Totally not the same thing at all.

[Numanoid]

This is a good idea if we think about the actual request. Sendy is asking for a similar sound, not a blatant copy, and, the MT32 is budget LA synthesis

Buy the JD-850 lib that CL-Projects just put out then

Totally not the same thing at all.

Did you see: "...is asking for a similar sound" ?

I believe both MT32 and JD-800 got a common link in LA synthesis.

[EvilDragon]

JD-800 isn't LA synthesis, as it doesn't have VA generated waveforms.

[ghettosynth]

This is a good idea if we think about the actual request. Sendy is asking for a similar sound, not a blatant copy, and, the MT32 is budget LA synthesis

Buy the JD-850 lib that CL-Projects just put out then

Well then, perhaps that's a good recommendation for Sendy, I don't know. If it were MY request, I would have spent some time looking, as I have absolutely zero need for an MT-32, I don't know about the JD-850 lib. It's certainly not as obvious as your would suggest.

So, taking a quick look at the JD-850, I think that you're way off base. The JD-850 is not "lofi" LA synthesis. It is a ostensibly reasonable clone of the JD-800, a synth that I still own. I don't know how good the simulation is; off the cuff, they seem to have used AHDSR envelopes which is perhaps good enough, but perhaps not, I don't know. SInce I've also owned both the MT32 and the D110, however, I can assure you that both the engine and the effects of the first generation budget LA synths sound nothing like the the JD800. The JD-800 effects are not lo-fi AT ALL, and, in fact, are a key element in its sounds. The samples are certainly different, and that was a key element of my suggestion, to reduce the multi-sample spread of the free samples. I bet you money that the JD-850 does not do that because it is not a lofi instrument.

I can't speak for Sendy, but knowing what I know about Sendy's music, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the lo-fi nature of the MT-32 are part of the appeal. I'm sure that I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

In any case, unless you know something about the JD-850 that isn't clear by their page, I don't think that you grokked the detail of what I'm talking about. The JD-800 is a rompler with knobs, not a lo-fi LA synthesis machine.

[Numanoid]

JD-800 isn't LA synthesis, as it doesn't have VA generated waveforms.

You should update the Wikipedia article then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_JD-800

"The JD-800 combines sample playback with digital synthesis, a process that Roland calls Linear Arithmetic synthesis"