I made a really good sounding JUNO-6 emulation for free, shared it in the KVR forum - this is what happened

[Morphoice]

@ustk same here.

[Morphoice]

@Sifres I didn't diss Tal — I have great respect for them. All I asked was whether it sounds better, given that the Tal version is many years old and doesn't model certain things that mine does. The chorus topology is wrong, they did not model the BBD, etc.etc. It's a great synth but it's not a Juno. Same with Arturia, who are a multi-million dollar company and couldn't even get the Memorymoog filter right.
But I don't think making it sound good is what people care about. People would rather have fancy buttons and wooden panels to play around with. That makes them feel more like they own the hardware they could never afford. And that's fine. The established developers know this and deliver.

So I won't be putting effort into a good sound anymore, and I won't engage with those people who are not my customers. I'd rather spend time at the pool with my girlfriend. The plugins I made are the plugins I wanted to make, because I use them myself in my music and they sound the way I like. I enjoyed the journey of making them over the years. I don't own a CS-80 anymore, and will probably have to sell my Juno and Simmons too. So my plugins have me covered, and with them finished I'll probably move onto something else.

[dannytaurus]

@Morphoice When you're making plugins that you want to use yourself, you can never lose. No matter what the critics say.

[Morphoice]

@dannytaurus absolutely. It was important to me to get that chorus right, the competition just doesn't. Along the process I also modeled most of the 808 voices in faust from their schematics, indeed by single resistors, capacitors etc. That handclap is fire!!! And there is one other thing I want to figure out before I move on, that's the non linear algorithm of the AMS RMS16. And so far it sounds like I'm almost there. But both will probably never get out. Or maybe at some point I just dump all the DSP for free on some website before I die. Who knows ;)))

[Morphoice]

@Sifres on the arpeggiator that's not even implemented yet. there's some info on my website what has been modeled yet and what not. although the arp should be fairly simple, I want to get the sound right first, then add a few things like the initial bend the cs-80 has and some mods. then I'll do the arp. I've literally never used it on my real JUNO. I have the Tubbutec mod installed on mine, the buttons have different functions then anyways lol