Full Bucket Music has introduced FB-7999, a virtual instrument for macOS & Windows that emulates the KORG DW-6000 and DW-8000 synthesizers from the 1980s.
Features:
- Two digital oscillators with 16 + 16 different waveforms
- Poly and Unison modes
- Built-in pseudo-stereo delay
- SysEx data communication, import and export
- Extended polyphony (up to 64 voices)
- Supports MTS-ESP by ODDSound dynamic micro-tuning
- Resizable user interface (not “N” version!)
- MIDI Learn – all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC
- Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit)
Video Demo:
Pricing and Availability
It’s available now as a free download.
Full Bucket makes great emulations in general. This one just needed a little more beef. I can beat 16 waveforms with anything else I have. I play several Korgs; the sound & dual voices nail it, within its limits. I don’t mind the simple delay or missing arpeggiator, either. I just wish the voice was enlarged a bit and not quite so vintage-accurate. Its still a good building block synth, though.
+1. The bass doesn’t quite match the original.
This is just ace. A good freeware synth that I actually will use – with a zoomable GUI in a time when many highly priced VSTi’s still have tiny hard-to-read graphics (Yes! I am looking at you Reaktor), is just plain awesome. The fact that FBM use a prewar webpage just adds to the funny side of this. They concentrate on making good stuff instead of marketing. IMHO well worth a donation.
Pretty nice for a freebie! But I spent about an hour comparing it with my EX8K and the hardware wins hands on. But the vibe is here for sure.