Kawai K1: VSTi released!

During past weeks, I worked a lot on the User Interface. For faster iteration times, I did the layout in Unity3D and wrote an exporter to create an xml and bitmaps for VSTGUI. This allowed me to do adjustments to the layout very quickly:

The first layouts that I posted some time ago had to get some updates. I forgot a section to set the name of a Preset and the Play mode page had to get some additional buttons, plus a search box to find presets quickly.

Some people pointed out that it would be better to have all sources on one page for faster editing. I tried it, but it just didn’t fit on one page properly. I didn’t want to ruin the design completely and the editing functionality is already really good in my opinion.

For the emulation engine, I had to do some minor finishing touches and fixed some bugs:

• Ring Modulation didn’t behave correctly when being set to reverse mode
• Fixed ring modulation caused envelopes to be applied twice, resulting in wrong decay & release behaviour
• Implementation of Poly 2, Poly 1 and Mono modes was still missing
• K1v will now correctly respond to Sysex messages, just as a real K1 does
• Support to mix Source levels with the Joystick
• Some code fixes to support 64 bit compilation
• Midi: Pan, Main Volume, Program Change including Bank Select, Hold Pedal, All Notes Off
• State serialization to make it possible that the state is saved as part of a DAW project
• Wrong key scaling curve 4

And lots of other smaller things! 👍

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The product page is located here: Nils‘ K1v

Product Listing on KVR: Nils‘ K1v