de la Mancha plastique freeware VSTi Plug-In (Casio HT-700)

This is a short demo video of the freeware VST synthesizer "plastique" from de la Mancha.

Plastique is an emulation of the Casio HT-700 portable keyboard (without its accompaniment section). It immitates the so-called SD sound source (SD = "spectrum dynamic") from Casio by using the same 31 waveforms but comes with some additional parameters. The SD sound source was used in the following keyboards:

Casio HT-700/-3000/-6000, HZ-600, MT-600

Hohner KS-49/-61/-610TR

Except for the HT-6000/KS-610TR all these keyboards are "famous" for their monophonic filter section (just like in the Korg Poly 800), but in plastique the filter seems to be polyphonic (maybe due to a "limitation" in the synthesizer construction program SynthEdit?***). At least there is no further documentation about it in the manual and there is no "single/multiple trigger"-parameter in plastique.

***Update 13.05.2010: I just got informed that there is no such limitation in SynthEdit (see viewer comment from MinEgenKanal).

The demo track was completely realized with FL Studio 8. The drum sounds are internal samples from FL Studio.

The following preset patches from plastique were used:

1.) "BAS big fat bass dlM" (deep background bass)
2.) "BAS Rat Race Seq -O" (arpeggio)
3.) "BAS 20 yrs old bass SNK" (echo melody)

I added some internal effects from FL Studio (compressor, delay, chorus, flanger, reverb).

Please add "&fmt=35" to the URL (without the quotation marks) for better audio quality.

The sound of the video is slightly distorted (even in HQ mode) which seems to be a result of the conversion by YouTube from .wmv into .mp4. The original video does not sound distorted at all. Sorry, folks.

If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please let me know.

Feel free to leave comments.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• casio
• keyboard
• ht-700
• ht-3000
• ht-6000
• hz-600
• mt-600
• hohner
• ks-49
• ks-61
• ks-610/TR
• sd
• hybrid
• analog
• digital
• electronic
• music
• instrument

[DonnieDirtbox]

Anyone managed to get this to work with windows 7 64 bit?

[sauermusicDE]

@DonnieDirtbox I'm working with Win7 32 bit, but I'm surprised to hear that a plug-in won't work with the 64 bit version. Most plug-ins are nothing but a simple .dll file, sometimes in addition with some patch bank files, that you simply have to copy into the VST folder of your sequencer software (FL Studio, Cubase or whatever). Do you get some kind of error message from Windows or something? Please describe your problem in detail.

[musician1971a]

Oh, you didn't make it... Nevertheless, thanks for demonstrating it!

[sauermusicDE]

@musician1971a You're welcome. Guess what...I actually made an attemt to create a plug-in of my own a few years ago with SynthEdit! But when I tried to program some nice and useful patches for it I realized that it was simply not good enough (soundwise).

[MinEgenKanal]

I have made polyphonic synths with a monophonic filter (Just like Korg Poly 800)

in SynthEdit. So it would not be hard. I am even doing a mega project now in SynthEdit, emulating an accompaniment unit. This is also possible, but it is nothing you make during a coffee break though. The monophonic filter, however is very simple, as SynthEdit can use MIDI "signals" internally.

[sauermusicDE]

@MinEgenKanal Thanks for the information.

[musician1971a]

@sauermusicDE I tried it now, it's great! First thing I tried was to get the sound of the original, which is perfectly possible. But there's a lot more. Even the low resolution filter sounds very much like the original :-)

Too bad that your vst wasn't good enough, but fortunately there is this little program now ;-) Never tried to build my own vst by the way, maybe I should start doing that. I'm more a musician though, not a technician

[musician1971a]

Haven't tried it yet, but the fact alone that you made a software Ht700 makes you a hero for me! Been ages since I heard that sound, can't wait to play them again :-)