NOTE: I’m writing this on my work laptop, which doesn’t have a DAW on it, but the demos for this sound really, really good to my ears. I’m absolutely going to try this out tomorrow.
Morphoice has released Unstable, a free synth plugin (early beta) for Win & Mac, inspired by the Yamaha CS-80.
UNSTABLE SYNTH A modern go at the famous Yamaha CS-80 Synthesizer. ANALOG OSCILLATORS UNSTABLE features two synthesis layers, each offering a noise, sawtooth, and pulse wave oscillator, with adjustable pulse width and variable speed pulse width modulation. Unlike the Yamaha CS-80, the level of each oscillator is adjustable, allowing for free mixing of the waveforms, which are closely modeled after the original.
FILTERS The CS-80 features two state-variable filters in series, which allow for a unique subtractive sound synthesis, unlike most common synthesizers. In UNSTABLE, the high-pass filter is modeled after the original; the low-pass filter, however, features a Moog-style ladder filter with the capability to self-oscillate, providing a vast range of musical harmonics.
RING MODULATOR The Yamaha CS-80 features the most musical ring modulator ever built, and we did our best to model it as closely as possible, with its own analog-style attack and decay envelope modifying the modulation speed.
RIBBON CONTOLLER Use the innovative on screen ribbon controller to pitch bend your sound up to an octave.
ARPEGGIATOR UNSTABLE will feature a sophisticated 16 step arpeggiator with variable note and modulation values. The arpeggiator is functioning, however, all options are not fully implemented yet.
DRIVE A dedicated drive circuit adds analog warmth and subtle harmonic distortion for loudness and crisp presence that cuts through your mix.
EFFECTS UNSTABLE features the popular effect engines of DarkStar Reverb and Delay, as well as the luscious WingMen Chorus, to bring your sound to the next level. Imagine a CS-80 with something along the JUNO-60 Chorus and Blackhole reverb.
Even more, the dev named it, “Unstable.” Clearly , he’s not very branding savvy, following in the footsteps of devs naming products Loopus and the Clap. The name Unstable for a beta plugin definitely does not inspire confidence. But I love the song demos and am giving it a shot despite all of the red flags that tell me, bad idea.
Hey @patrickwichrowski, considering your heavy-duty knowledge of synths, do you know the story behind why the dev might have called this synth Unstable? Was the CS-80 known to be unstable in some way? I was not previously aware of that, if that’s the case.
I believe it’s free in beta version only, starting from v1.0 it will be a paid one. Quote from the site:
While in beta, UNSTABLE is free
His comments on Youtube:
Q: Release when, where, how much?
A: once it’s finished, I can tell you more. It takes ages to develop those things. I’m still learning
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…will be for sale once it’s done. There’s a few more sounds left for me to sample from the original hardware
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I’ll have to sort out a copy protection, sales platform and licensing system, for now I’m just focusing on the sound and function and not yet there to even start thinking about the rest
Also this, quite impressive:
I started learning to make plugins in November all on my own. Timing is not relevant to me at the moment, I’m making this in my spare time whenever adulting permits me and I feel like doing it.
And his next plugin will be a LinnDrum:
This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by mustakatu.
Too bad devs forget the best DAW is Pro Tools and they don’t make an AAX version of their plugins.
That’s quite debatable 😉
But apart from which DAW is best, Protools should’ve ditched AAX years ago and made life easier for all the developers and their customers.
It’s quite absurd to have different formats for different DAWs and them clinging to AAX. I haven’t installed any CLAP plugins yet (apart from any forced ones, where you can’t choose format), but in a perfect world I’d like to see either that, or VST become the only format.
Hey @patrickwichrowski, considering your heavy-duty knowledge of synths, do you know the story behind why the dev might have called this synth Unstable? Was the CS-80 known to be unstable in some way? I was not previously aware of that, if that’s the case.
The Yamaha CS-80 was the tunning nightmare. It has some design flaws that obliged users to made some modifications to make it more reliable.
– Warm the unit up for an hour in a room with stable temperature. Get a large towel or something similar so that you can try to keep the temperature inside from drastic swings. Once you open this up, the temperature will drop, so using a big towel to cover up the areas that you aren’t working on will help a bit. This might be more hassle than it’s worth if attempted on your first try, but once you’ve done it, you’ll appreciate how sensitive the tuning is to temperatures.
Too bad devs forget the best DAW is Pro Tools and they don’t make an AAX version of their plugins.
That’s quite debatable 😉
But apart from which DAW is best, Protools should’ve ditched AAX years ago and made life easier for all the developers and their customers.
It’s quite absurd to have different formats for different DAWs and them clinging to AAX. I haven’t installed any CLAP plugins yet (apart from any forced ones, where you can’t choose format), but in a perfect world I’d like to see either that, or VST become the only format.
I prefer when a native AAX is available but, for VSTi’s I just load them through PluginGuru Unify
While a single standard would be convenient from a User’s point of view, as a software developer I can easily imagine plenty of reasons for Avid using their own format VST (stability, API integration, versioning, licensing, running on accelerated hardware, dealing with undocumented features, dependencies, etc.), it is not absurd
Too bad devs forget the best DAW is Pro Tools and they don’t make an AAX version of their plugins.
That’s quite debatable 😉
But apart from which DAW is best, Protools should’ve ditched AAX years ago and made life easier for all the developers and their customers.
It’s quite absurd to have different formats for different DAWs and them clinging to AAX. I haven’t installed any CLAP plugins yet (apart from any forced ones, where you can’t choose format), but in a perfect world I’d like to see either that, or VST become the only format.
I prefer when a native AAX is available but, for VSTi’s I just load them through PluginGuru Unify
While a single standard would be convenient from a User’s point of view, as a software developer I can easily imagine plenty of reasons for Avid using their own format VST (stability, API integration, versioning, licensing, running on accelerated hardware, dealing with undocumented features, dependencies, etc.), it is not absurd
I’ve actually heard good things about Unify, but relying on it for all of those, given its an unnecessary layer of abstraction (albeit with some potential benefits) means if they ever discontinue it, or it becomes incompatible for whatever reason, the projects won’t open as they should. Natively using the plugins reduces the likelihood of that single point of failure. The problem has already been solved though and that’s just adopt a cross platform standard.
Most of the benefits you mentioned there also apply to VST. Every company could also create their own MIDI standards, or USB, etc. and there could be benefits for them like you mentioned. But those benefits are largely negated by the lack of compatibility.
If a developer needs to code plugins for VST and AAX, that increases the amount of work they need to do to create the plugins and doubles the amount of regression testing needed. It also introduces more chance of errors due to more code and things not working the same across both.
I like being able to open up all my other audio applications and they all just simply work with my VSTs. They’re widely adopted by almost all, apart from Pro Tools.
That’s why a single standard makes everyone’s life so much easier.
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