Eplex7 DSP has released Techno Percussive 1, a VSTi & AU instrument plugin with 21 multi octave / multi percussive banks for Windows and MacOS. It works in the Free Eplex7 Player plug-in or can be used also as expanding library in other Eplex7 DSP’s plug-in instruments.

This multi-octave instrument includes techno percussions, drums, fx drums, melodic percussions and more. The sounds are designed mainly for techno, minimal, Detroit techno, Berlin techno, schranz, hard techno, broken beat techno, industrial techno, illegal tekno as well as almost all electronic music styles like Chicago / Detroit house, electro, tech-house, ebm, dark ambient, darkpsy, darkprog, experimental, film music and others.

Techno percussive 1 is a modern and easy-to-use plug-in instrument with multi-octaved / multi-sampled drums and percussions. The sound quality is retained on a professional level in a wide range of tones/octaves from C3 to C7 or more.

All sounds can be modified by internal parameters like LFO rate/depth (Triangle, Sinus, Saw, Square, Exponent) with Pitch, Expression and Pan modulation. Low pass / High pass filter with cutoff, Reverb/Space, Amplitude envelope, Pan. You can play in various modes: polyphonic, Monophonic or Legato with Glide function. You can use external VST plug-in effects from Eplex7 or other manufacturer to significantly modify all included instruments and create brand new sounds fast and easy.

Pricing and Availability

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Techno Percussive 1 is available now.

Klerhaim N1 Analog Synthesizer with Virtual Circuit Emulation Technology

Eplex7 DSP Klerhaim N1 – analog VST plugin synthesizer with virtual circuit emulation technology.

Eplex7 DSP claims: There are many analog emulation synthesizers available, but unfortunately, 99,5% of them are far from real analog hardware synths (sounding sterile, digital, cold, boring, robotic, uniformly, numb and sharp).

Why? Firstly because they are made by coders, not electronic engineers. They perfectly understand the code but not circuits, electronic components and physics. We are both: programmers and educated electronic engineers with more than 18 years of experience. And also… basic code cannot behave like electricity in real analog circuits. That is a reason why we developed our own virtual circuit technology. We are emulating whole analog circuits, electronic components and modules of synthesizer + their behavior in various situations, noises, feedbacks, interfering signals etc.

In real analog synthesizer everything is moving, changing, modulating, living…analog synth is like a living organism. Nothing is static. The electricity and circuits are in constant “chaos”. Analog oscillator waveforms are not precise, sharp and always the same like in digital synths. They are changing their shape, have a noise, harmonics, ringing, modulating their tone / pitch, volume etc.

Also output from oscillator module is saturated. It is not just output of whole synthesizer but output of every circuit / module. More volume of oscillator = more saturation and color.

Analog envelopes (modulating filter, amp or pitch) are not linear like in digital synths. They are exponential and changing their shape in time / different one with every different note. Including some noise and harmonics too. The peaks / spikes are not digitally sharp but analogue round.

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The filters are creating small distortion/harmonics. They are not perfectly stable. The values are changing 0,1%. Including is the noise and output are saturated. Simply everything is “living” in an analog synthesizer because of the laws of physics/electricity. Every note sounds a little bit different, that is why analog sound is rich, organic, warm, fat, and like a real instrument.

Eplex7 DSP have successfully emulated analog behavior, individual circuits and electronic components. Klerhaim N1 is not exact emulation of one existing analog synthesizer. Eplex7 DSP preferred to analyze more than 5 analog synths of vintage 60s 70s and 80s era. The analyze of individual circuits (oscs, filters, lfos, envelopes, etc.) not just output sound and combine various different vintage analog circuits to one complex synthesizer VST plug-in emulation.

Pricing and Availability

Klerhaim N1 is available now – Windows only. There is an introductory price for first 100 customers.

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Vintage Vacuum Tube VD76 Plugin

Eplex7 DSP has released Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plugin effect (VST for Windows, 32-bit / 64-bit).

Vacuum tube (or also called valve in Great Britan) is electronic component / device used in audio industry mainly as amplification component before transistors were found.

While transistors are cheaper and more effective with longer lifetime, vacuum tubes are very popular until today and preferred by many audiophiles from hi-end listening rooms (vacuum tube amps) to professional recording / mixing studios (equalizers, preamps, compressors, warming devices).

The type of vacuum tube known as a thermionic tube / valve uses the phenomenon of thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode (electrons are emitted in vacuum tube space of glass tube) with use of heater supply (that is why tube is glowing) and is used for a number of fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplification.

Thanks to heather inside tube not just vacuum tube is hot, but an also sound is significantly warmer. Signal is not going thru wires but thru vacuum tube “space” and electrons are “flying” from hot cathode (warmed with heater) to anode – where amplified signal is received.
This phenomenon affect signal / sound in way appreciated by audiophiles – transients and trebles are not so sharp – they are smoother, rounder and more pleasant to ears, signal is saturated – bass is fatter and warmer, mids and trebles are colored.

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Vacuum tube also produces range of unique sounding higher harmonics.

Comparing to sterile / precise sound of transistors vacuum tubes add life and vintage warmth to sound which is very desired in today’s digital music production.

Thanks to our more than 17+ years of experiences with digital sound processing and education in analog electronics we created unique algorithm simulating real vacuum tube in very realistic way + thanks to our virtual analog circuit simulation technology we also recreated real analog circuits around tubes which significantly affect sound of whole tube devices (such as production of 1st harmonics and very fat sound).

While most of digital tube plug-in emulations just produce digital distortion and unwanted, harsh sounding digital artifacts which are amplified after mastering / limiting (and not so much rounding of transients) you can hear significant difference when testing and comparing with our analog simulation algorithms – first thing you can hear transients and trebles are really softer, rounder – more pleasant to ears, there is no digital distortion but nice analog saturation, signal is really fatter when circuit power knob is turned right, signal is significantly warmer with little bit of color.

You can use Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plug-in with drums – electronic or acoustic, bass, to make synthesizers warmer and rounder, guitars, vocals, percussion or any other elements of your mix.

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Vintage Vacuum Tube VD76 Features:   

• Eplex7 unique analog emulation technology combining virtual analog circuits, emulation of individual components (like tubes), and hardware capturing methods in selected parts of virtual circuit/scheme of the plug-in.
• Input knob (more input = more color and saturation of the whole system)
  
  Triode (Fatter and Warmer type saturation of Triode tube, emulation of triode tube type saturation)
  
  Pentode (A more vintage, thin and dirty type of saturation of Pentode tube, pentode type saturation emulation)
• Circuit power (to add heavy “fatness” to your sound and makes bass/drums big and massive. Pleasant warm and fat sound of vacuum tubes is not generated only by vacuum tubes itself but also thanks to special electronic circuits around them – this knob control virtual circuit which emulates the behavior of circuits around vacuum tubes)
• Bass cut filter from 0 to 70 Hz to eliminate deepest sub bass
• Circuit / Tube temperature – in electronics higher temperature usually means more noise, because higher temperature means more movements of electrons. Noise is not always unwanted, a little bit of analog noise can make the signal more natural, more pleasant, less sharp and can eliminate sharp distortion.
• Tube age this special virtual emulation allows you to switch between 3 different types of tubes:
  2001 – bright, modern, and precise sounding tube,
  1950 – old vintage tube with round transients and dark smooth sound,
  1976 – vintage tube with silky round transients, trebles and crunchy sound.

Pricing and Availability

VD76 plugin effect is available now. Introductory price for the first 80 customers is €17.90.