Martin Lüders' PG-8X 2.0

Jump back to 1984 with this rendition of Roland's JX-8P designed with the modern musician in mind.

What it is:
An authentic, user-friendly, recreation of one of the beloved synths of Roland's past. 

How we use it: 
Paired with the JX-Chorus engine, the PG-8X is great for foundational, wavy pads on nearly any track. 

Why it's cool:
PG-8X is stunningly analog in both its looks and sounds - an instant favorite. 

The PG-8X is a virtual analog synthesizer, with the standard 2-DCO - 24dB/oct Filter design.

Features:

• up to 12 voice polyphony
  
• Two DCO's with Saw, Square, Pulse, Noise
• Hard Sync and Ring Modulation
• Two exponential envelop generators
• 24 dB resonant LP filter
• HP filter (3 stages)
• Stereo Chorus
• Import and Export of JX-8P Sysex data

Technical Information:

• programmed in C++ using WDL-OL
• optimized SSE2 code
• 6 Key assignment modes:
• Poly (re-assignment of voices)
• Poly2 (round robin)
• Unison (two voices in unison)
• Unison2 (second voice shifted by 1 octave)
• Mono
• Mono2 (all voices in unison)

• MIDI Learn: MIDI Controllers can be assigned by right-clicking on the slider
  
  
• Automatic adjustment of oversampling

Installation Instructions
On a Mac:

1. Double click the file to unzip it.
2. Go to Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins and drop the PG-8X.vst file into your VST folder.

On Windows:

1. Double click the file to unzip it.
2. For 32bit: Drag the 32bi`t` PG-8X.dll file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\Vstplugins\
3. For 64bit: Drag the 64bit PG-8X.dll file into C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Vstplugins\