The Quilcom SIM-PF: Have tinkle on me!
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:46 pm
The Quilcom SIM-PF was the result of a challenge I set myself to create a Pianoforte simulation using FlowStone, but without using samples of a real piano.
I don’t expect anyone to be as impressed with the sound as they would with a professional multisampled instrument, but it doesn’t take up gigabytes of HD space and take ages to load or need lots of RAM etc. I’m quite sure there’ll be valid criticism of the sound etc, but please keep in mind this is a synthesiser, not a sampler! As such, you have a lot of parameter and sound control to shape what you want and a few presets demonstrate what happens when you make more extreme settings.
As well as operating instructions, I go into the technical details in the User Guide, so I won’t repeat them here. But I should maybe mention that I again make use of what I call Phase Scrambling, which I still haven’t found mention of anywhere as a method to reduce that flanging sound with detuning applied.
There are also links to background information on Piano synthesis.
One thing I really appreciate about FlowStone is the freedom it gives to make plugins to simulate real instruments or types of instruments. In my opinion there’s no ready-made general purpose synth available that could make this kind of dedicated in-depth configuration, and many modular systems are confined by what the developers decided would be useful.
Here’s my YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/MF4VROg9Hfg
The download incudes the schematic (3.06), 32 and 64 bit plugins, the User Guide and other stuff:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bctzxxnbn46p1 ... 2.zip?dl=0
EDIT The above link is now for the bug-fixed version, v.1.002. Denormals fixed for the Sympathiser in C-VERB mode.
Enjoy having a tinkle!
Cheers
Spogg
I don’t expect anyone to be as impressed with the sound as they would with a professional multisampled instrument, but it doesn’t take up gigabytes of HD space and take ages to load or need lots of RAM etc. I’m quite sure there’ll be valid criticism of the sound etc, but please keep in mind this is a synthesiser, not a sampler! As such, you have a lot of parameter and sound control to shape what you want and a few presets demonstrate what happens when you make more extreme settings.
As well as operating instructions, I go into the technical details in the User Guide, so I won’t repeat them here. But I should maybe mention that I again make use of what I call Phase Scrambling, which I still haven’t found mention of anywhere as a method to reduce that flanging sound with detuning applied.
There are also links to background information on Piano synthesis.
One thing I really appreciate about FlowStone is the freedom it gives to make plugins to simulate real instruments or types of instruments. In my opinion there’s no ready-made general purpose synth available that could make this kind of dedicated in-depth configuration, and many modular systems are confined by what the developers decided would be useful.
Here’s my YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/MF4VROg9Hfg
The download incudes the schematic (3.06), 32 and 64 bit plugins, the User Guide and other stuff:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bctzxxnbn46p1 ... 2.zip?dl=0
EDIT The above link is now for the bug-fixed version, v.1.002. Denormals fixed for the Sympathiser in C-VERB mode.
Enjoy having a tinkle!
Cheers
Spogg