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 synthesizers 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

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 |

Join us on Discord

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