Gearmulator

Low Level Emulation of classic VA synths & effects of the late 90s/2000s

This project emulates the used ICs of various musical devices to run the original firmware - aka ROM - as audio plugins.

The supported plugin formats are FST, VST3, AU, CLAP and LV2.

Supported architectures: 64 bit x86 aka x64 and ARM aarch64 (Raspberry Pi, Apple Silicon). Note that 32 bit architectures are not supported!

Platforms: Windows 7+, macOS 10.13+, Linux

At the moment, the following devices are supported:

• Osirus: Access Virus A,B,C
• OsTIrus: Access Virus TI/TI2/Snow
• Vavra: Waldorf microQ
• Xenia: Waldorf Microwave II/XT
• Nodal Red 2x: Clavia Nord Lead/Rack 2x
• JE-8086: Roland JP-8000
• 88emu: Roland MT-32 (both boards), CM-32L, CM-32P, CM-64, MV-30 and Sound Canvas family (SC-55, SC-88, SC-88pro, SC-8820, SC-8850 and variants)

Compiling

The emulator compiles on any platform that supports C++17.

The build system used is cmake.

cmake options

Variable	Description	Default
gearmulator_BUILD_JUCEPLUGIN	Build Juce based audio plugins	on
gearmulator_BUILD_JUCEPLUGIN_CLAP	Build CLAP plugins	on
gearmulator_BUILD_JUCEPLUGIN_LV2	Build LV2 plugins	on
gearmulator_BUILD_FX_PLUGIN	Additionally build FX versions of all plugins	off

Additional options to select which devices to build:

Variable	Description	Default
gearmulator_SYNTH_OSIRUS	Build Osirus	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_OSTIRUS	Build OsTIrus	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_VAVRA	Build Vavra	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_XENIA	Build Xenia	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_NODALRED2X	Build Nodal Red 2x	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_JE8086	Build JE-8086	on
gearmulator_SYNTH_88EMU	Build 88emu	on
gearmulator_COMPONENT_DSPBRIDGE	Build the DSPBridge server and the device plugins it loads	on

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If you want to help or just want to follow the state of the project, feel free to join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/WJ9cxySnsM

Visit our Homepage

🎵 Visit our homepage for Audio and Video examples 🎧: The Usual Suspects Website