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The secret’s out! The Usual Suspects developers cracked the code on what gives the JP8000 SuperSaw its unique character, and… it is not what you’d expect
(88.2 kHz sample rate, is the answer, apparently)
The devs go into greater detail in this video
Adam Szabo, the maker of the JP6K and Viper VSTs just released a JP-8080 VST clone, and it sounds awesome! It’s called Airwave, and from the demos, it sounds spectacular!
If you’re wondering if our JP banks will load into the new Airwave JP-modeling plugin, the answer, direct from the developer to us, is YES.
If you have been wanting a proper JP, and want a plugin that natively loads our banks, and sounds like the original, Airwave is IT!
Grab it, and our banks, and start making your classic-flavored trance anthems today!
The Usual Suspects are back, and it looks like this time they’ve figured out how to emulate the elusive and legendary Roland JP8080!
From what we can hear in the demo, it sounds like a fully exact emulation, excluding perhaps the DAC’s specific sound. But as far as we can hear on our end here in the studio, all the JP8080 oscillator and effect and filter behaviors and tones are precisely captured, so it sounds like this will be the definitive software clone of the JP8080! So classic trance sounds will live on even after the last JP8080’s chips give out and there’s no replacements left!
Take a listen below and see what you think
No word yet on whether or not our performance banks will load into it, but given that our Virus TI2 and Nord Lead 2X sound banks load into the OsTIrus and Nodal 2X Red emulations, it seems more than likely that our JP8080 performance banks will also load fully into the plugin. It sounds truly fantastic, and we’re super excited to see another of our favorite classic VA synths immortalized in a software emulation that can outlive the original.
…Now we’re just waiting on a Novation Supernova II clone
Keep an eye on The Usual Suspects’ site and this space for further updates!
Dawnchaser is a Pacific Northwest-based electronic music producer, mountaineer, documenter of all things adventure, mountain, and travel-related, and manager of Kulshan Recordings. If he’s not in the studio writing music about adventures, he’s out on one.
