What’s your New Year’s Resolution? I mean, use more music software, obviously. Why, someone has some other goals? Let’s get you started with Autodafe, who posted a handy guide to getting up and running with the JE-8086 reverse-engineered emulation of the Roland JP-8000 (and I’ve updated that guide, too).
Here you go, including the ability to skin the plug-in:
I suppose there is a world where Roland, Nord, and other players try to circumvent this reverse engineering. But there’s even more of an argument to toy around with this stuff in music software than in areas like games. Just like games, there’s some opportunity for performance enhancements or skinning, but in music, you have quite a wider range of possibilities for expanding on the original (or not, if you want to hew closer to the historical version). I think it’s also more common for music folks to collect several instruments than it is for gamers to amass multiple copies of the same installment. Actually, I say that, and I’ve bought emulated games more than once from Nintendo and whatnot.
I also updated the guide to the JP-8000/8080 and some of its recreations, including more from The Usual Suspects on how they accomplished this feat technically (via a talk they gave this week), and other tips from readers:
Curious what you do with this. I mean, trance has already happened, so — as with Lorenzo’s records, what more can you do?