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Big emulation progress – many ALU instructions and more
The DSP 56300 emulation took a big step forward this weekend. I implemented a lot of ALU instructions and many others, too. To be able to handle the different register types (24,48,56 bits) more...
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Meanwhile, most instructions are implemented, some are still missing though. At the moment, I implement the Instruction Cache Because the DSP 56362 that is used in the Powercore (Firewire) allows...
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Taking big steps forward
Though I didn’t post much, I coded much Nearly all instructions are implemented. My test code is running, but not with the result I expected There are some tricky parts that I have to solve at the...
View ArticleDSP 56300 emulator now open source! Feel free to test it
I decided to release my 56300 emulator project as open source. I added the whole project to bitbucket, feel free to download it here: https://bitbucket.org/nilsschneider/dsp56300
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Kawai K1: Aliasing and K1s native sampling rate
The K1 is full of aliasing, which is obvious when taking a look at the waveform recordings (see previous article). Nowadays, it would be pretty straightforward to eliminate the aliasing by doing...
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Kawai K1: I dumped the K1m Wave ROM!
I was not 100% happy with my waveform recordings, I outlined it briefly in one of my previous articles, where I explained how I recorded them. The recordings still had the issue of being quite large...
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Kawai K1: AmpMod, Velocity, Key Scaling, Vibrato & Autobend
After I had finished dumping & integrating the waveforms, I concentrated on the parameter side again. I finished the implementation of all parameters that make up as Single and browsed in the...
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Kawai K1 VST: Audio Demo 2
A new audio demo is ready. I kept a lot of the old one but added some additional Singles from the ROM cards and a Vibraphone to demonstrate an AM preset. Obviously, a big change is that the samples...
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Kawai K1: VST features, differences & UI mockups
I’ve got many questions about the VST plugin, so I wanted to give some more & updated information about it. VST Version & Operating System Support Initial plugin will be a VST 2.4 plugin (VST3...
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Kawai K1: VSTi released!
During past weeks, I worked a lot on the User Interface. For faster iteration times, I did the layout in Unity3D and wrote an exporter to create an xml and bitmaps for VSTGUI. This allowed me to do...
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Nils‘ K1v: Demo Video by MOSS
Just in case you didn’t see it yet, I am so excited about what Jürgen Moßgraber aka MOSS did. He created a whole song with the K1v. Except for some FX, there are only K1v instances in his music track....
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Kawai K1 VSTi: I dumped all 200 PHm presets – free download
As you might know, I was always interested to have the presets of the Kawai Phm Pop Synth Module. The PHm uses the same synthesis engine as the K1, the only exception is that the 200 presets cannot be...
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Nils‘ K1v now available as Mac/Linux VST & official approval by KAWAI!
Finally, after waiting several weeks, Kawai reported back to me that they have no issues with me developing a Kawai K1 emulation. This is great news for me personally as I was still concerned that...
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Nils‘ K1v now available as Mac AU / future work
The AudioUnit version of the Kawai K1 emulation plugin is now available, too. This enables users of Logic on the Mac to finally use my Kawai K1 emulation. Please visit the K1 homepage to download:...
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Kawai K1: 100% accurate velocity curves – provided by the firmware ROM
Some users reported that the velocity response of my K1v plugin is quite different compared to the K1 hardware. And yes, that is probably the area with the biggest difference between the K1v and the...
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Nils‘ K1v: Version 1.12 released
I just released Nils‘ K1v at version 1.12. It contains two bug fixes and one important improvement, as I mentioned earlier in my development blog: Velocity Curves now very closely match those of the...
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Nils‘ K1v: Version 1.13 released
I just released Nils‘ K1v version 1.13. The most noticeable change is that I have added all 200 PHm Pop Synth Module presets to the plugin, resulting in a total of 968 Singles. As the list of Singles...
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Nils‘ K1v: Version 1.14 released – Multi support!
I’ve just released version 1.14 of Nils‘ K1v – The Kawai K1 emulation VSTi/AU. Biggest change is that it now also supports Multi presets. I added the 32 factory Multis and all Multis from the ROM...
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Nils‘ K1v: VST3 & Apple M1 support
Nils‘ K1v version 1.23 has been released, which brings the following two new features: VST3 Plugin The plugin is now available as VST3 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The VST3 version is identical to...
View ArticleNils‘ K1v – v1.2.4 released
Nils‘ K1v version 1.2.4 has been released, which contains the following improvements / fixes: [Imp] The settings menu now allows you to toggle between Stereo output and 8-Channel output. This should...
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