rfawcett160/ob-xd-grec

Virtual Analog Oberheim based synthesizer.

OB-Xd-GREC

About

OB-Xd-GREC is a fork of DiscoDSP's OB-Xd 2.10 Release. The ultimate goal of this repository/project is to preserve the 2.10 source code as it was prior to DiscoDSP's decision to close the source code for OB-Xd. Any binaries/plugins created by myself WILL NOT have any restrictions placed on the end user. Unlike other so called "FREE" synth plugins, this synth can be used freely for both non-commercial and commercial purposes.

What is/was OB-Xd?

OB-Xd is based on the Oberheim OB-X. It attempts to recreate its sound and behavior, but as the original was very limited in some important ways a number of things were added or altered to the original design. OB-Xd was designed to sound as good and as rich as the original. It implements micro random detuning which is a big part of that sound.

While not copying originals, some of the features were taken to a better point. Continuous blendable multimode filter (HP-Notch(BP)-HP in 12 dB mode and 4-1 pole in 24 dB mode). Also, like many synths of the OB-X's generation, the OB-Xd has no internal effects so its sounds and textures can be greatly enhanced by the use of additional processing like chorus, reverb, delay, etc.

Thanks to 2Dat for the original OB-Xd and Soshi Studio for giving the rights to continue this wonderful product. Thanks to reales for his development of OB-Xd up until version 2.10.

Binaries

Binaries will be released once I get this project up and running. My primary focus will be to ensure that the Linux Plugins will be made avaialble and easily portable from one Debian based system to another. After this is done, I will then begin work on making Windows Plugins.

Building

Source code can be compiled with JUCE 7.0.3.

Copyright

This repository and the source code is under GPL3 license.

For now, Files from Source > Images folder in this commit have Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) license. Any skins/themes that I make will be found in the 'Themes' folder and will be licensed using the CC BY-ND 4.0 license unless otherwise noted in this Copyright section.

QuickAndDirtyGREC Theme was made using some of gitterdude's contributions to OB-Xx by pauloesteban. Specifically, gitterdude's 'coords.xml' was used for placement of the various knobs and buttons on the main interface. All graphics were designed by myself from within the [GNU Image Manipulation Program] (https://www.gimp.org/). As a result, QuickAndDirtyGREC will be released under the same Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license since gitterdude's theme was used as a template for the QuickAndDirtyGREC Theme. Many thanks to gitterdude for the creation of the OB-Xx theme.