{"id":2906,"date":"2026-08-15T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=2906"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:29:21","slug":"the-mysterious-k-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/the-mysterious-k-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious K Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while ago I posted a review of a Yamaha CS30 VST made by K Brown. It was short lived as the software source disappeared soon after – replaced by a cooking blog. It wasn’t just the CS30 – this was an Aladdin’s cave of emulated synthesisers – several hundred<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did one person create so many weird and wonderful mutations of hardware machines – and why? There’s not been much discussion of the project. The author at one point provided a statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were created initially for my own use and amusement and I make no claim that they actually sound like the hardware synths they are emulations of \/ based on \/ inspired-by, for none of them use analog-modeling oscillators or filters.
Again, my aim with these was to create a free way to experience the interesting signal and control structures of these synths, not to fool anyone into thinking they are sound-alikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point here is not to replicate hardware but to experience their way of working – the flow of signal – the choices of pathways and detours. Especially – what happens if you cross bred two or more keyboards into a new breed. Like any real experiment there are many successes and failures. I’m keen on this approach – like visiting an unfamiliar city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is an Ensoniq SQ-80 – except with knobs. Which you might see as quite the idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let me immediately disappoint some readers – all of these are Windows only. They’re made with Windows software and that is that. The oscillators are not of the original machines. Some instuments are 32-bit, some are 64-bit. Most are sketches, oddities, half-baked. But if you wanted to play with a Yamaha CS30 keyboard you have the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the sort of thing that just makes my head spin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll soon be reviewing a few<\/strong> of the best examples – out of hundreds…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best place to get the whole damn lot at once is via a FaceBook page.
https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/freevstplugins\/posts\/kevin-brown-kb-plugins-recently-retired-completely-from-the-scene-and-deleted-hi\/2793332907488442\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago I posted a review of a Yamaha CS30 VST made by K Brown. It was short lived as the software source disappeared soon after – replaced by a cooking blog. It wasn’t just the CS30 – this was an Aladdin’s cave of emulated synthesisers – several hundred of them. So how did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-2906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-virtual-analogue"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2906\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}