PG-8X is inspired by the Roland JX-8P with the PG-800 programmer. The synth architecture is a standard 2-oscillator Filter VCA design. These elements can be modulated by a common LFO and one of two ENVELOPEs. The PG-8X is patch compatible with the JX-8P and can read and write JX-8P Sysex data. Up to 12 voice polyphony. With its fat bass sounds, warm pads, and analog leads, PG-8x is the free synth VST plugin of choice for vaporwave, synthwave, and other 80s-inspired electronic music genres. If you want more analog synthesis nostalgia, you should take a look at the OB-Xd virtual synthesizer plugin by discoDSP. This plugin emulates the Oberheim OB-X, OB-Xa,.
UPDATE: new native C++ version is being developed. News on the status can be found on my FaceBook page.
Pg8x Vst Presets
Beta versions can be downloaded from my Dropbox.
Features:
- 6 voice polyphony
- Two DCO's with Saw, Square, Pulse, Noise
- Hard Sync and Ring Modulation
- Two exponential envelop generators
- 24 dB resonant LP filter
- HP filter (3 stages)
- Stereo Chorus
Technical information:
Pg-8x Free Vst
- Framework (GUI) in Synthedit
- Sound generation (DCOs and VCF) entirely in custom modules
- C++/Assembler
- SSE code
- up to 4 x 16-fold oversampled oscillator
- 4-fold oversampled filter
- Custom voice allocation
- 6 Key assignment modes:
- Poly (re-assignment of voices)
- Poly2 (round robin)
- Unison (two voices in unison)
- Unison2 (second voice shifted by 1 octave)
- Mono
- Mono2 (all voices in unison)
- MIDI Learn: MIDI Controllers can be assigned by right-clicking on the slider
- Automatic adjustment of samplerate
- Manual and automatic settings for oversampling of the oscillators
A manual will follow soon.
Acknoledgements: Best hip hop vst plugins for fl studio.
/soundtoys-vst-free.html. Thanks to Dave Haupt and Kelly Lynch for some of their modules and, of course, Jeff McClintock for the Synthedit.
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This VST is still under development, and some features might not be working at this time. Please, use it at your own risk, and feel free to provide any feedback, bug reports or suggestions, preferably through the comments below.
Pg 8x Presets
This version contains some factory presets to demonstrate the sound.
Pg 8x Synth
The VST can be downloaded below in the attachments section. In order to play it as a stand-alone synth, one can use SAVIHost.
There is a thread discussing this synth on the KVR forums.
Pg 8x Vst Free
If you find this synth useful and want to support the development, feel free to donate something..