SynthMaker

Studio hardware analyzing and vst creation project

Archive · 2011 2 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

fredrikcarn ·

Hello Forum My name is Fredrik and I'm very new to synthmaker, infact I just registered today 🙂 but I must say I'm very intrigued by it's possibilities.

what do you guys say about creating vst plugins based on studio outboard with synthmaker to reveal it's limitations and functions.. making the outcome "freeforall" in the public domain well documented so that people with less dsp skills can learn and use the code themselves.

I'm as I mentioned above a complete novis on dsp programming.. however, my background is from the old school big studio world and I have access to loads of classic studio eqs and compressors.. like the 1073 and 1176 My part could be to measure and take samples of the hardware so that the programming could be close to what the hardware does to the sound...

I do know that closed source plugs on hardware emulation is avalible 🙂 I just thought it could be neat to making it free and open. also there might of course be trademarks infringments all over this, so it's best to do like everybody else and call them n73 and u76 or something 🙂

How can this sort of complex collaboration best be done? or it mabye shouldn't be done? any ideas on this

Best Fredrik

Andrew J ·

Hi Fredrik - sorry about the late response, but after a month I'd like to say welcome to the forums!

You are in a fortunate position to have access to classic gear like that, and I find it very tempting to be involved in a measurement and simulation project. However I am very sorry to say that I'm just too busy with other priorities right now.

Perhaps in the future something would be possible, but it would be a lot of work to do properly. Detailed measurements alone would take considerable effort!

All the best wishes for your project. If you'd like to communicate a bit more offline, send me a pm.

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