Aly James Lab 发布了 VSDSX（Virtual Simmons Drums System Extended）插件 2.0 版本，新增原生 64 位支持和原生 Mac AudioUnits 格式。这是一个全新版本的鼓合成器。
传奇模拟鼓合成器，现已推出 V2 版本
您可能已经听过 Simmons 鼓合成器，只是可能并不知道……想知道是什么产生了如此震撼的鼓声？
Simmons 六边形电子鼓在 80 年代的无数唱片和现场演出中随处可见，Genesis、King Crimson、Jean Michel Jarre、Prince、Herbie Hancock、Pink Floyd 等艺术家和乐队都曾使用过它……
它的声音并非特别逼真，但却拥有独特的、震撼的、用途广泛的音色。
最著名的鼓合成器是 SDSV 或 SDS5，它由 Dave Simmons 发明，是一款鼓合成器，它将合成技术带到了鼓手的手中，同时也定义了一代人的声音。
SDSV 模块通常被偷偷地用来生成迪斯科风格的"pewww pewww tom"音色，但它可以产生各种各样的音色。它拥有极佳的冲击力和灵敏度。
SDSV 的继任者 SDS7 添加了数字低保真采样和额外的功能，例如弯曲方向或 FM 调制，从而可以产生更广泛的音色。
SDSV 是一款历史悠久的模拟设备，在 80 年代的音乐中占有一席之地，至今仍被用作秘密武器、鼓层或特定音乐流派的核心部分。
这种鼓脑仅生产了约 5000 个，所以不要指望能轻易且廉价地找到一个能用的。
由于当时没有针对这个传奇的 VST 音源……
我不得不制作 VSDSX，一个完美的复刻版本，并添加了大量的新功能！谨以此献给 Dave Simmons。
VSDSX，全称 Virtual Simmons Drum System Extended，提供最接近真实鼓组的体验。它精准模拟了每个音色（或模块）的模拟声音生成、内部电路调音、触发力度灵敏度，所有细节均可在专用手册中找到。
对于混合音色（HIHAT、CYMBAL、PROM 和 CLAP，均为模拟/数字混合），时钟和计数器以可变采样率读取 EPROM 内存，并进行实时完美模拟。
它模拟了 SSM2044 滤波器，可对内部控制电压、触发波形和 VCA 响应进行精细调节。它还能模拟模块在被打击垫或音序器触发时的反应……无论您使用真实鼓组的触发检测还是钢琴卷帘式作曲，MIDI 力度都会显著改变合成音色。
VSDSX 为您的 DAW 提供多输出功能，为您带来传奇般的强劲模拟冲击力！更棒的是，一个声音可以加载您自己的外部 EPROM 图像数据（数字样本），就像在真正的 SDS1（基于 EPROM）打击垫上一样……提供全新的音色。
VSDSX 现已推出 2.0 版，除其他酷炫功能外，还包含一个完美模拟的 Simmons Digital ClapTrap 模块。这是一款结合了可变采样率数字源和音调模拟噪声的拍手合成器。该设备的原始功能是永远不会重复发出相同的声音。虽然它集成在 VSDSX 中，但作为额外功能，它还提供了一个专用插件，具有立体声扩展和半音（每个音符）触发功能。
VSDSX 本身就提供了强大的合成鼓音色，也可以高效地用于鼓的分层。参数自动化和调制可以将其变成一个疯狂的创意音源。
将它与 VPROM 一起使用进行分层，可以产生一种混合了模拟和早期数字的、令人讨厌的 funky 声音！
Aly James Lab has released version 2.0 of the VSDSX (Virtual Simmons Drums System Extended) plugin adding native 64-bit support and native Mac AudioUnits format. This is a completely new version of the drum synth.
An analog drum synth legend now in V2
You probably already heard a Simmons drum synth without even knowing it... wondering what was used to produce that huge drum sound?
The Simmons hexagonal shaped Electronic drums were all over the place on countless records and live shows during the 80s , used by artists and bands like Genesis, King Crimson, Jean Michel Jarre, Prince, Herbie Hancock, Pink Floyd etc...
The sound was not especially realistic but it got a sound of is own, huge and versatile.
Invented by Dave Simmons, the most famous drum brain was called SDSV or SDS5 , a drum synthesizer, bringing synthesis into the drummer's hands at the same time as defining the sound of a generation.
Often used in a lazy way to generate disco-esque pewww pewww tom sounds, the SDSV module could produced a wide range of sounds. It got great punch and sensitivity.
The SDSV successor called SDS7 added digital lo-fi samples and additional features such as bend direction or FM modulation as means for broader range of possible sounds.
The SDSV is a historical analog gear that has a place in the sound of the 80s and is still used today as secret weapon, drum layering or central part for genre defined music.
Only around 5000 of these drum brains where produced so don't count on finding a working one easily and for cheap.
As there were no accurate VST for this legend out there...
I had to make VSDSX, a perfect recreation with tons of added new features! this is dedicated to Dave Simmons.
VSDSX, which stands for Virtual Simmons Drum System Extended, provides the closest experience to the real thing, for each voice or as it was called (module) it models accurately the analog sound generation, internal circuitry tuning, trigger velocity sensitivity and all the details you can find explained inside the dedicated manual.
For its hybrid voices (HIHAT, CYMBAL, PROM & CLAP are a mix of analog/digital) clocks and counters reading EPROM memory at variable sample rate are perfectly emulated in realtime.
It models the SSM2044 filters offering fine tuning control over internal control voltages, trigger shapes, and VCA response. It also emulates how the module will react if triggered with pads or sequencer...MIDI velocity will change the synthesized sound drastically whether you use real drums trigger detection or piano roll style composition.
Offering multi output capability for your DAW, VSDSX will give you that legendary powerful analog punch! On top of the cake, one voice can load your own external EPROM image data (digital sample) like on a real SDS1 (EPROM based) pad...offering a whole new range of sounds.
VSDSX is now on version 2 and features among other cool things a perfectly emulated Simmons Digital ClapTrap module, a clap synth which combines a variable sample rate digital source combined with pitched analog noise, an original feature of the unit was to never produce the same sound twice. Although it is integrated inside VSDSX a dedicated plugin with stereo widening and chromatic (per note) trigger capabilty is provided as a bonus.
VSDSX provides a huge synthetic drum sound by itself and can also be used with great efficiency in drum layering. Parameters automation and modulation can turn this thing into a crazy an creative sound source
Using it for layering with VPROM can produce a nasty funky sound which combines analog and early digital!
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