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Message: [QUOTE="Bombastus, post: 93764, member: 2178"] DiscoDSP has packed its Oberheim TEO-5 emulation into TED-8, with eight synth voices rather than the hardware's five. The developer says it took thousands of tests on a real TEO-5 to get the software to behave and sound just like the physical synth. Even small changes in its controls and effects got checked. Under the hood, TED-8 has a pair of oscillators, sub tones, noise, an SEM filter, dual envelopes, and two LFOs. Glide, unison, an arpeggiator, 64-step sequencing, drive, reverb, and 12 effect types are there as well. Poly Unison can pile six voices onto each of eight notes. For sound design, a 16-slot modulation grid lets users route velocity, pressure, envelopes, LFOs, and the second oscillator. Each voice has slight shifts in pitch and volume. That helps mimic the subtle quirks of analog gear. And the hardware link is neat. A USB cable lets TED-8 manage patches on a real TEO-5, with edits and sequences synced in both directions. Users can save the full bank of 256 patches in one file. Compatibility covers Windows, Linux, and macOS. Formats range from VST and VST3 to AU, AAX, and a stand-alone app. TED-8 costs $99 during its launch deal, rather than the usual $199. Users with Discovery, Discovery Pro, Corona, OB-Xd 2, or OB-Xd 3 qualify for a $49 offer via their DiscoDSP accounts. Retromulator 2.0 gets quite a bit of love as well. Its main trick is running vintage synth code or circuit emulations, and its 17 cores have gained far more hands-on access. An earlier 1.11 release brought in the CA-72, based on the Minimoog Model D. Most cores can display a tabbed panel beneath the rack, with sound controls laid out much like the gear they mimic. CA-72 and Tracker are the two exceptions. Edits use native MIDI messages, while the panels react to presets, automation, and external MIDI input. Anyone keen on DAW control can assign panel knobs to 128 host parameters via a right-click. MIDI output can capture edits or talk to actual synth gear. There's even an editor-only setup that skips audio emulation and sends commands straight to the hardware. Beyond that, NRPN access covers every setting, and MIDI can pick which core runs. Idle Foundry's CA-72 has a circuit-based design, three quality modes named LO, HI, and ULTRA, and support for .fxp patches. Existing Retromulator users get the update at no cost. Discovery Pro 9.7 is another fairly packed release. This four-layer synth and sampler gets fresh Juno-style chorus modes and a Stone OTA phaser with four stages. An effects editor shows response and delay graphs, while each layer can keep its own settings. Older presets still use the prior effects models. Seven detuned saw waves can spread across the stereo field through the Super 7 editor, without altering the mono mix. The UNISON tab remains available for other voice settings. Meanwhile, the Ladder filter gains a Minimoog-style output amp model, with self-oscillation tracking pitch as high as 15 kHz. Classic, Ladder, and Ladder X/Y filters also keep a stable response across oversampling settings. Higher-quality exports should match normal playback more closely. CPU savings are a big part of the update. A new 2x oversampling method cuts HQ distortion load by 58% to 79% per voice and drops unwanted folded harmonics by 33 dB. Drive and tone stay intact. Apple Silicon users get a 15% CPU cut for SEM filters. Wave playback and export speed get a lift as well. Editor automation recording works again, and high-quality square and PWM oscillators no longer have the prior aliasing fault. Anyone on Discovery Pro 9.x gets these changes free. OB-Xd 3.25 gains a Circuit filter shaped using tests on real Oberheim hardware. Older presets stick with their Classic setting, which should help preserve their prior sound. Blub 0.9 adds an SEM filter, MultiFX, a MIDI Tracker, midi.guide CC mappings, MIDI clock output, hardware latency tests, and safer scans for plug-ins. WavePrompt 1.2 can display waveforms with frequency-based colors. Users can pick sections and make fresh loops from a full render. Windows users can also work offline right from the first run. Roboto 1.3 brings Italian and Portuguese support, new switches and sliders, and samba music among its built-in tracks. Discovery 6.7.1 deals with unwanted aliasing from HQ square and PWM waves. MidiKeys 1.9.5 trims CPU demand by drawing only the keyboard keys that have changed. [/QUOTE]

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