{"id":10281,"date":"2016-05-22T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:01:04","slug":"v2-of-free-roland-synth-emulator-plugin-sounds-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/v2-of-free-roland-synth-emulator-plugin-sounds-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"V2 of Free Roland Synth Emulator Plugin Sounds Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Plugin developer Martin L\u00fcders returns with version 2 of his PG-8X which plays brilliantly, sounds epic, and is totally free to download.<\/h4>\n<p>PG-8X is a virtual analog synthesiser that emulates the classic Roland JX-8P. The developer behind this great free synth, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mlvst0\/Welcome\">Martin L\u00fcders<\/a>, has just updated PG-8X to make it even better for the people lucky enough to find it.<\/p>\n<p>The first improvement you&#8217;ll notice from the older version is the updated user interface that looks gorgeous and now stands confidently next to any premium synths. The flesh of the synth&#8217;s functions haven&#8217;t been altered much focussing mainly on bug fixes, but when you already have a great synth emulator why try and change it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what you get with the free PG-8X 2.0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 12 voice polyphony<\/li>\n<li>Two DCO&#8217;s with Saw, Square, Pulse, Noise<\/li>\n<li>Hard Sync and Ring Modulation<\/li>\n<li>Two exponential envelope generators<\/li>\n<li>24 dB resonant LP filter<\/li>\n<li>HP filter (3 stages)<\/li>\n<li>Stereo Chorus<\/li>\n<li>Import and Export of JX-8P Sysex data<\/li>\n<li>6 key assignment modes:\n<ul>\n<li>Poly (re-assignment of voices)<\/li>\n<li>Poly2 (round robin)<\/li>\n<li>Unison (two voices in unison)<\/li>\n<li>Unison2 (second voice shifted by 1 octave)<\/li>\n<li>Mono<\/li>\n<li>Mono2 (all voices in unison)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MIDI Learn: MIDI Controllers can be assigned by right clicking on the slider<\/li>\n<li>Automatic adjustment of oversampling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mlvst0\/\">You can download PG-8X yourself from here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out how it sounds with a video of version 1 below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PG8X 2015-02-22 beta ML-VST\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LFEIZiXxUIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plugin developer Martin L\u00fcders returns with version 2 of his PG-8X which plays brilliantly, sounds epic, and is totally free to download. PG-8X is a virtual analog synthesiser that emulates the classic Roland JX-8P. The developer behind this great free synth, Martin L\u00fcders, has just updated PG-8X to make it even better for the people lucky enough to find it. The first improvement you&#8217;ll notice from the older version is the updated user interface that looks gorgeous and now stands confidently next to any premium synths. 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