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Showing posts with label The Usual Suspects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Usual Suspects. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Elektron Monomachine emulator (Gearmulator MD/MM v0.1.0 alpha.12)


video upload by Ticco Ross

"Here is a small demo of this Monomachine/Machinedrum emulator. Yes, you read that right. A true emulator with all its functions included, even parameter locks. Still in Alpha stage and you can see its peaking 75% CPU but its working flawlessly.
You´ll need your original Rom for MD/MM.
Macbook Pro M1 MacOS 12.3 //// Ableton Live 12.2.7
Link to project:
https://github.com/joelanders/gearmul..."

Also see Elektron Machinedrum & Monomachine Emulations Come to Software

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Retromulator for iOS



"Retromulator is a multi-core retro hardware emulation app and AUv3 plug-in that brings legendary synthesizer, sampler, and keyboard cores back to life through authentic low-level emulation. Each core runs its actual firmware, physical model, or sample data — delivering the unmistakable character of the hardware that defined electronic music from the early 80s through the 2000s.

— EMULATED CORES —

VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHS

Motorola DSP 56300 recreation (interpreter mode), built on the open-source Gearmulator by the dsp56300 team:

• Access Virus A, B and C
• Access Virus TI / TI2 / Snow
• Clavia Nord Lead 2X
• Waldorf microQ
• Waldorf Microwave XT

FM SYNTHESIS

• Yamaha DX7 — original chip set emulation, based on VDX7 by Charles Chiaccona

• Yamaha OPL3 — Nuked OPL3 cycle-accurate FM by Nuke.YKT

Elektron Machinedrum & Monomachine Emulations Come to Software

Elektron MD + MM emulations playing 2008 Autechre Echoplex sysexes

video upload by Joe Landers

"Thank you to ios for the very detailed Reaper project with all the program changes and automations: https://watmm-archive.com/t/96054/2#c...

Thank you to The Usual Suspects for the gearmulator project.

For the Machinedrum and Monomachine emulations, see my fork of gearmulator here: https://github.com/joelanders/gearmul...

There's a Discord server here: / discord

Please note I'm not affiliated with TUS, so please don't ask for support on their Discord :)

Thank you to all of my tireless alpha testers on Discord :)

Thank you to Elektron for decades of cool gear :)
Thank you to Autechre for the music :)"

Monday, September 07, 2026

The Usual Suspects Reveals Blue Giant - Emulation of the Novation Supernova II


video upload by Numero Uno

"Blue Giant is a bit accurate emulation of the Novation Supernova II

Running 4 instances in this project, performance mode, each instance running 9 DSPs, 8x DSP56362 and 1x DSP56303

It is 8 part multitimbral, offers 4 stereo outputs and has 24 voices, expandable to 48"

See The Usual Suspects label below for additional emulations by them. These essentially run the same code/OS as the original hardware, ported featuring a software UI.

Monday, August 17, 2026

10 Amazing Skins for JE-8086 You Need to See


video upload by Autodafe

Kind of interesting to think what the original JP-8080 might have looked like.

"Here are 10 of my favorite skins for JE-8086, the free Roland JP-8000/JP-8080 inspired synth by The Usual Suspects.

🎨 JE-8086 Skin Repository:
/ discord

A quick 90-second showcase of some of the coolest interfaces available for JE-8086 — from classic hardware-inspired looks to completely different designs.

🎵 The background track was made entirely with 4 instances of JE-8086 — no other synths used.

Which skin is your favorite?

#JE8086 #JP8000 #JP8080 #Synthesizer #VST"

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Integer digital-analog modeling delay – with JE-8086 emulator


video upload by Sinevibes

"Integer is a highly charismatic digital-analog modeling delay, designed and developed by Sinevibes. Available as a plugin for Mac, Windows and Linux: https://www.sinevibes.com/integer/"

Monday, August 03, 2026

JADE Is Here! | First Look at the Roland JD-990 Emulator


video upload by Autodafe

"Today I'm taking a first look at JADE, the brand-new Roland JD-990 software emulator developed by The Usual Suspects.

In this video I'll give you a quick overview of the project, explain how to get access to the current alpha, and let you hear a few sounds from this amazing emulation.

If you enjoy vintage Roland synthesizers, this is definitely a project worth following!

The Usual Suspects
https://theusualsuspects.io/

Donate to get access to the Alpha on Discord:
/ discord"

Roland JD-990 Lives Again! | JADE Demo Songs (No Talking)

video upload by Autodafe

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