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Nils‘ K1v – v1.26 released

I’ve just released Nils‘ K1v version 1.2.6, which contains the following fixes:

[Fix] Limit maximum voice count to 32 voices per Multi section / Single to prevent very high CPU usage for sounds with a very large release time
[Fix] Hold Pedal behavior was incorrect, voices were stopped for notes that were still held while hold pedal is released
[Accuracy] Fix incorrect Autobend & Vibrato behavior when compared to the hardware. On the hardware, they are not independent per
voice, instead, the first voice defines the modulation for all subsequent voices / notes

The new version can be obtained from the Project page

Nils‘ K1v – v1.25 released

Nils‘ K1v version 1.2.5 has been released, which contains the following improvements / fixes:

[Fix] VST3 x64 version did not store/restore plugin state
[Fix] If global receive channel was omni and a Multi was selected, all multi channels received notes on channel 1 instead of the ones selected in the multi parts

Head over to the Download page to grab your copy 👍

Just in case you didn’t see it yet, I am so excited about what Jürgen Moßgraber aka MOSS did. He created a whole song with the K1v. Except for some FX, there are only K1v instances in his music track. When listening to it, it instantly reminds me of the 80s. Thank you very much Jürgen for doing this! 👍😊

If you want to know more about him and his work, checkout his website: http://www.mossgrabers.de/

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! 👍

If you want to support me, feel free to donate:

The product page is located here: Nils‘ K1v

Product Listing on KVR: Nils‘ K1v

Kawai K1: VST features, differences & UI mockups

I’ve got many questions about the VST plugin, so I wanted to give some more & updated information about it.

VST Version & Operating System Support

Initial plugin will be a VST 2.4 plugin (VST3 later)
Two versions will be available from start, x86 and x64
As I don’t own a Mac and I’m not familiar with Mac programming, I can’t port it easily to a Mac AU. I have a colleague that could help out here, don’t expect it too soon though.

Features

Instead of the original voice limit of 8/16 voices, the plugin will have unlimited voices
It will contain the K1 factory bank, the K1-II factory bank and all ROM cards, giving a total of 768 Single presets. Multi support is not planned for the first version.
Full editing capability (see UI section below)
SysEx import & export, which will basically make the plugin become a possible editor for a real K1
All Single parameters can be VST automated + the Source Mix Stick will get two automatable parameters

MIDI

The plugin will support all MIDI messages that the real K1 supports such as program changes, Midi CCs, receiving Sysex is supported as well:

All Data Block Dump (i.e. a full Bank of Singles)
Single Data Dump (one Single)

I extended the MIDI feature list compared to a real K1 to now include support for the following additional midi messages:

MIDI CC 10 (Panning, which the K1 did not support)
The K1 Source Mix stick will be mapped to two Midi CCs
Bank Select – Used to switch between the various factory banks and ROM cards. As usual, Bank Select must be send before a Program Change
Pitch Bend wheel will use full precision (K1 is limited to 8 bits)
Most of the Single parameters will be mapped to Midi CCs so they can be edited via an external Midi Controller

UI Mockups

I’ve received a lot of feedback for the very first UI mockup, which wasn’t even finished. I continued working on it to clarify some things. My intention was to have something that someone instantly recognized as being a K1. But of course, at the same time I always wanted the UI to be functional, including full editing capability.

Below are the two editing pages (Common + Source) and the „Play Mode“, where you can browse through the banks / singles.

Hope this clears things up a bit 🙂 And yes, the VST window will be resize-able, maximum resolution is 2560 x 1440

Schlagwort: 1988