Introducing the TX16W emulation Cyclone by my personal favorite developer Sonic Charge.
I don't sell it,Plugin BoutiqueBut there is handling.
He is also a developer with many deep-rooted fans.
I haven't updated much, and I haven't released any new plugins,FormThere is a lot of communication at.
Cyclone is a fairly old (2013) release, but I don't think there is a replacement plugin yet.
You will hear a fairly crisp sound.
Adding an effect will change it at all.
Overview and download
Overview
2013 is nearing the end, but this year is a special year for us.First, Sonic Charge and Microtonic are celebrating their 10th year (Drummer Boy, Happy Birthday!).And my career as a music engineer began 20 years ago in 1993 with the release of Typhoon for the Yamaha TX16W sampler.To commemorate this, we stopped completing Synplant 2.0 for a while (sorry, it's been a while late) and made a free gift for you.This is a project I've been working on before Microtonic and it hasn't been completed before. We call it Cyclone because it's a clone of the machine that runs Typhoon, a complete TX16W software emulator in VST and Audio Unit format.
Cyclone is a true low-level hardware emulator.It simulates all the important circuits of Yamaha TX68000W, such as the main CPU 12, Yamaha's original DSP circuit, 400-bit sample memory, and 16kHz non-linear DAC. Not only does Cyclone look like a real TX16W, it sounds like a real TX16W and runs exactly the same software as a real TX16W.
This last sentence is worth elaborating.We're not just creating a new virtual instrument with a vintage sound, nor is Cyclone an updated version of Typhoon. Cyclone has the exact same version of the 14 emulator as the Typhoon released 68000 years ago.For this reason, using Cyclone is a bit more work than a regular modern virtual instrument.But this is also a very rewarding experience. Think of Cyclone as a time travel portal to the past.It's the age of the monster dinosaur sampler.
To get started with Cyclone, we strongly recommend that you read the FAQ and download the installer from the download page. Sounds for the TX16W can be found in various parts of the internet (the installer does not include any additional sounds other than the Typhoon 2000 demo sounds).I will collect links and files in this forum post.
Download
You do not need to register and you can download it.
Transition from the above link and select the OS with the button at the top of the screen.
You can download it by clicking "Sonic Charge Cyclone".
How to make a sound
"Cyclone" is quite special and you can't make any sound unless you do it.
This is because there is no tone in the initial state.
So first download the tone.
Transition from the above link, scroll down a little and download "YAMAHA SYNTH ZONE.zip".
(Unzip it to your desktop etc.)
You can also download tones by scrolling down.
Load the tone image.
Click the floppy disk (red frame in the figure below).
The file selection dialog is displayed, so select the downloaded tone image file.
This alone does not produce any sound yet.
① Click "System Setup"
② Click "Utility"
③ Click "7"
④ Click ">"
⑤ Click "Enter" (wait until the tone is loaded)
⑥ Click "Performance Select"
⑦ Click "Voice Edit"
Now you can hear the sound.
You can change the tone with the "<" and ">" keys.
It seems that this is faithfully reproduced, so the old sound source was like this.
Summary
It's a very distinctive operation feeling and sound.
You can't do this without looking at the manual just to make a sound.
Moreover, at that time, the sound would have been produced by a hardware MIDI keyboard, etc., so the setting should not have been as easy as it is now.
However, I don't think I can say that the sound produced so far is good nowadays because I can't experience it now.
Comment
I used to have a real machine.
Oh yeah, it was such a snappy sound.
The Roland S-50 is ready for action, and the CASIO FZ-1 is the best in terms of usability, but it has a strange habit of lowering the pitch at the time of release, and the sampler also has its own personality.
The TX16W was able to be equipped with an exceptional 6MB memory at that time, but it was divided into small pieces and could not be used for phrase sampling, and the operation was complicated and troublesome.I remember that old Yamaha musical instruments had many such things.
Typhoon is an OS that greatly improves the usability of such TX16W, and it was epoch-making, but by that time Ensoniq ASR10 became the main equipment.
I don't have the actual machine anymore, but if it's VSTi, I'll try using it again.
The names TX16W and Typhoon are so nostalgic that I just commented.
Wildcat
thank you for your comment.
Thank you for your valuable story.
There was such a habit.
I didn't use a sampler, but I used to use the TX81Z, and the number of characters that could be displayed on the display was small, so I was crazy about the poor operability.
I'm looking forward to editing the sound of this kind of sampler.
If you have experience in operating the actual machine, you can use it without much effort. (I'm jealous)
I read the manual a little, but I was dizzy.