SAXABOOM - VST (Kawasaki Sax-a-boom emulator)

Presentation

SAXABOOM is my first vst plugin.

The idea comes from a video from "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" named "Jack Black Performs His Legendary Sax-A-Boom with The Roots" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLmCJKT5ssw).

This software emulates the famous toy from Kawasaki, Sax-a-boom.

The original samples contained in the Samples folder come from this youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MCN_7jpYig

Download

• Official release page

Manual

• Play the sounds from midi input in a range of C-3 to G-3.
• Click on one of the 7 buttons on the right to play a sound.
  • Note : The first button on top corresponds to C-3 midi note and the last one (bottom-right) corresponds to G-3 on midi keyboard.
• The main loop button play the main melody part of the Sax-a-boom.
  • Note : This button is separated from the others because the sound is not a saxaphone sound !
• The volume of the sound played from the graphical interface can be set by the rotary slider from 0 to 127.
  • Note : The range used for the volume corresponds to the velocity of a midi note.
• One click on the author name redirect you to the author's github page.

Install for windows (setup)

• Launch SAXABOOM-x86-1.0.0-vst3.exe

note : The setup installer will create a folder called Saxaboom in your documents path. Please do not delete this folder if you launch the vst plugin !

Build from sources (Windows only)

prerequisite :

• Juce framework ( https://shop.juce.com/get-juce )
  • version 5.4.3 or higher
• inno setup ( http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php )
  • latest version

1. Clone this repository
2. Open the project in Projucer
3. Build with Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.9.11 is the version I used to build the project)
   • if you want to use another build system, don't forget to modify the setup_script.iss with inno setup software (change the build path for Sources)
4. Compile the setup_script in the inno setup editor

Mac OS support

**Comming soon ... **

Linux support

Not implemented yet

Note for vst2 support

Because steinberg technologies recommends to build vst3 instead of vst2, the vst2 version of this software is not provided in the setup installer. However if you persist to use vst2 on your DAW, build this vst from source in the Projucer and add vst2 support.