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X\ Virtual String Machine (Legacy)

£99.99 Ex. VAT

VSM - The world's greatest vintage string ensembles wrapped into an intuitive user interface

The Virtual String Machine v3 (VSM) is an intuitive yet highly powerful string machine synthesiser and contains a wealth of sounds from a small mountain of classic and rare string machines.

VSM comes with 1000+ patches yet enables you to craft your own unique strings from the 208 individual sets of meticulously sampled machines helping confirm VSM as the go-to instrument for this wonderful family of instruments.

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Patch Selection & GUI

Quickly access 1000+ curated patches.

Two GUI styles: Tolex or Wood.

Two GUI sizes.

Craft hybrid patches

Craft your own unique dual-layer strings from the 208 individual sets of meticulously sampled machine. Those include a selection of strings from the ARP® Omni, ARP Quartet, Crumar® Trilogy, Elka® Rhapsody, Eminent® 310, Korg® Lambda, Logan® String Melody, Moog® Opus 3, Solina®, Roland® RS-202 and RS-505 to name a few.

Pitch LFO Section

Give some movement to your sound by adding pitch modulation.

Filter and Envelope Section

Shape the perfect sound with the multi-mode filter and the Filter & Amp envelops.

Velocity Response

Get the right feeling by adjusting the patch to your playing with:
– Velocity to Volume
– Velocity to Filter
– Poly Aftertouch to Filter Cutoff

Effects Selection

Complement your patch with the Phaser and Ensemble effects.

Master

Make your sound extra-wide by activating Width.

Keyboard Section

Place the 49-note layers where you want them to be – Each note individually sampled.

Layer Selection Colours

Layer A = red / Layer B = green / Both layers = blue

46 String Machines in 1 intuitive instrument

The VSM is an intuitive but highly powerful Virtual String Machine which affords the user many of the sounds from this genre of instrument, and contains a wealth of sounds from a small mountain of classic and rare string machines. These range from the first commercial string ensembles (Eminent® 310 & Freeman® String Symphonizer) through to the highly lauded Solina®, Elka® Rhapsody, Logan® String Melody, Korg® PE2000 and many more.

Artist's Opinion

This is Retro Repro at its best—informed, sensitive, detailed, technologically extended— and best of all a new, very useful electronic instrument in its own right.

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John Foxx

Electronic music pioneer

Create your own hybrid sounds

With the sheer amount of instruments captured within the VSM, its simplicity itself to recreate those golden string machine tones from yesteryear. However, with the VSM’s comprehensive, yet intuitive feature-set, plus a two-layer option it’s now possible to create your own hybrid instruments taking these sublime vintage tones into hitherto uncharted territory.

VSM – The Go-To String Machine Instrument.

Audio Demos

Speaker

Solina with Plucked CS - Split

GForce Software

From the patch of the same name. A split patch with the new Solina Stereo (All Voila-Violin_Brass-Horn Mod Stereo) in the lower split and CS-60 Stereo Reverb Pluck Lo in the upper split.

Beats A Mechanical Heart

BH

This short track from Beejay features 16 VSMs with his own patches developed in the voicing stage for VSM, and Stylus RMX for the drums, and is a great example of taking those old tones to somewhere new.

Eminent - Upper & Lower

GForce Software

Patch Demo

SS30 - Violins Ultravox

GForce Software

Patch Demo

The Original Instrument

The Original String Machines

The VSM mimics early string synthesizers, popularised by Ken Freeman, a British keyboard player who discovered the ‘chorusing’ effect of layering a note with a detuned version of itself.

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Compatibility

VSM is a virtual instrument in the following formats:

  • Standalone Application
  • AudioUnit
  • AAX
  • VST

The Minimum System Requirements are as follows:

  • Intel Mac
  • Apple Silicon Mac (via Rosetta2)
  • macOS 10.12 or above

There is no demo version.

VSM is a 32/64-bit virtual instrument in the following formats:

  • Standalone
  • VST

The Minimum System Requirements are as follows:

  • Intel Pentium IV 1GHz with 1GB RAM
  • Windows XP SP2

Key Features

  • The sounds from 46 classic and rare string machines
  • 1000+ Patch library and over 9.5Gb of data
  • 208 individual sample sets
  • Stereo playback
  • 49 note range, each note individually sampled & looped
  • Dual Layer & Split Keyboard capability
  • Vintage style Ensemble & Phaser effects
  • Lowpass, Bandpass & Highpass Resonant Filter Section
  • Two Envelope Generators
  • Pitch & Filter LFO
  • Dynamic control including filter aftertouch

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£99.99 Ex. VAT

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X\ Virtual String Machine (Legacy)

£99.99 Ex. VAT