If you look at the GUI in the video you can see at the bottom that it uses the JP-8000 rom.
Oh you are right. The ābestā non-JP supersaw so far Iāve tried, was dspdisco Discovery Pro (Clavia NL2 typish synth) , but that one is 199,- EUR. I think the emu is avaible for donators, so it might be around the corner.
Iām a donator and iām testing it since some weeks now. It will run with the original JP-8000/8080 firmware. It still is in alpha state and not all features of the hardwares are implemented yet. For now it only supports all the JP-8000 features and firmware. The 8080 extra features and firmware supports are not implemented yet. So i think it still takes one or two months.
Until now it runs like a charm on my machine. I compared it a lot with my original JP-8000 and it sounds exactly as my original hardware. Maybe with one very slight difference: it may miss the sound coloring of the DAC of the hardware. But this makes nearly no difference. Compared to my hardware i really canāt hear any differences.
The only problem is, you need the original firmware. But youāre only allowed to use the firmware if you also own the original hardware because the firmware is copyrighted by Roland. You have to dump the firmware from your original hardware or, as a registered JP owner you can download it directly from the Roland site. This is the only thing what i can tell you because we donators are not allowed to talk too much about the firmware outside of the discord server.
But i can promise youāll not be disappointed after its official release.
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What about the cpu usage, is it similar to their other projects? Or is this emulating a far more simple dsp chip than Virus etc?
I think the CPU consumption is a bit better.
On my AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-core 3.7 GHz one instance is using around 2% to 3% in Renoise with the pluginās internal latency set to 1 block (default).
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Ah, to measure it correctly, you need to set it to 0, I think, because the daw will not show the multi core usage.
You can measure it also with set to 1. But you have to do it with the activity monitor on Mac or with the task manager on Wimdows because most DAWs will display the total CPU usage of all cores.
Thereās also a test console available to measure the CPU usage for one instance on one single core.
The test console shows how many instances can run on a single core with latency block 0. 100% means it can run 1 instance per core, 200% means it can run 2 instances per core, etc.
My AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-core 3.7 GHz that was released in 2018 can run 2 instances on a single core without any problems. I can run 16 instances with a total CPU usage of 96%.
Most users with older multicore CPUs reported they can run 2 instances per core.
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Now the JE-8086 is in public beta for everyone.
Important: please also read the pinned messages in the announcement and JE-8086 support sections. Especially the ROM statement.
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New freeware tapemachine and vintage compressor:
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This is probably already known to most people, but recently the developer added a āMute Arpā feature to BlueArp thatās especially helpful for trance melodies. I made a short video about it as well. I think itās extremely powerful:
BlueArp can be downloaded for free as a VST2/3 and MFX here. This is the official website of the developer Oleg:
https://omg-instruments.com/wp/?page_id=46
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I stumbled across Amorph a few days ago and ended up spending about half a day experimenting with it. With the help of an LLM and Amorph, I built my own custom MIDI plugin that recreates the trance arp trick I posted about earlier.
The development time was surprisingly short, roughly half a day. If I had implemented the plugin completely from scratch manually, it would have taken significantly longer.
Amorph is designed around prompt-based plugin creation, but you can also program everything manually if you prefer. You can generate your own MIDI plugins, instrument plugins, and audio effects. The workflow with an LLM is simply copying prompts and code back and forth, there is no direct integration required.
Amorph by Artists in DSP is FREE.
If anyone is interested in trying it, the current beta is available on their Discord and I shared the preset I used in the patch-exchange channel.
Website:
Amorph video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AikZDPCQDuc
Discord:
https://discord.gg/2HHudsnX
I also made a short Video showing my custom midi plugin made with Amorph:
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