Can I turn my vintage keyboard sounds into VSTI plugin ?

doug4350 · 29 Dec 2006

Hi odewos & welcome to the forum...

By vintage, do you mean analog??? What kind of keyboard to you have??? If it is analog, it would probably be easier redoing the patches rather than trying to sample your board. Especially if there is portamento or arpeggiation involved.

If it's a sampler/rompler, then the best way would be to convert the original samples if possible. If you're planning on redistributing your vsti, you'll have to be careful of the copyrights though...

I would use recording as a final option when nothing else works. That's a lot of work. If it comes to that, you could record a range. What I mean by that is record a F4 to be for the range C4-B4. That would be easier. Also, that's how my synths do it for acoustic instrumental sounds.

Aloha, Doug

odewos · 29 Dec 2006

Hello Doug and thank you for your reply .

Yes by vintage I meant a regular analog keyboard, I have my old Korg O1w that got some amazing sounds but what I really wanna do is to turn some unique sounds into VSTI, I wanna make "dry" sounds without any effects, and no I have no intention to distribute this IF it will work in any way, I wanna do it just to make the whole recording process a lot easier for me so I could work digitally only from now on .

You said it's possible to redo the patches ? you mean like creating the sounds by myself ? Is it even possible to make the exact sounds without sampling the original first ? just a thought .

Doug, please tell me what are my best options to make something like that work . thank you for your time .

Odewos

infuzion · 29 Dec 2006

OK, here's a bit of insight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg_O1w As I see it, you have 2 options:

1) track down the full synth algorithms and somehow get the full ROMpler samples onto your HD, then reverse-engeneer how the synth works & construct a SM schematic

2) create whatever patches you have on the 01/W, then sample them, & use SM or whatever sampleplayback you want.

good luck

odewos · 29 Dec 2006

Thank you for your reply infuzion, the scary thing that the more I read the less I understand, all these technical terms are like chinese to me, I only discovered SynthMaker like yesterday and I never ever got too deep into the actual sound making process, so please don't get mad, but what are :

1) synth algorithms 2) ROMpler samples

how I can start any of this, please .

sequencer · 30 Dec 2006

Hi Odewos

Do you have the manuals for the Synth ? If not head for this page:

http://www.korguksupport.co.uk/page.cfm?pageid=357 and download the manuals for the Synth.

Once you've downloaded them (or you have them anyway) open the quick guide and go to page 7. On page 7 there is a structure diagram of the sound making process. This diagram forms what you would be required to emulate in SynthMaker in order to recreate the synth, i.e. how the oscillators connect to the waveshapers and the envelope and so on.

Once you have constructed that (good luck 😉 ) you need to sample every waveform of the synth (no effects). Put those sampled waves into the SynthMaker wave player (this is the oscillator in the structure diagram) and adjust the rest of the Synthmaker modules to get the correct sound back, i.e. a recreation of the original sound on the keyboard.

Once you've done that, sit back and relax and look back over the last 3 years you've spent doing this project... 😉

Just kidding, although you do have an almighty task ahead of you. Good luck

matti · 30 Dec 2006

odewos wrote: Hello people, I just found out about SynthMaker and I downloaded the demo but my main question is : is it possible to turn the sounds from my vintage keyboard into VSTI ? lets say if I can record as .wav files all the notes from a sound, can they be imported into VSTI ? any help would be appriciated .

It is possible but i would suggest you'd use a regular sampler for that(they do come in vsti form too). That way you can have your sounds in your productions in days, rather than years or months.