deSIDuous v1.03

deSIDuous is a VST3 instrument built on cycle-exact MOS 6581 / 8580 SID chip emulation (reSIDfp) and JUCE 8.

What's new in 1.03

• 256 factory presets (was 64): 64 new originals across bass, leads, pads, arpeggios, keys, drums, FX and waveforms, plus SID interpretations of all 128 General MIDI instruments. The original 64 keep their program numbers.
• Preset menu with submenus per category; the General MIDI families sit under their own submenu.
• No more clicks at note start. Velocity is now a smoothed digital gain instead of rewriting the chip's volume register, sleeping chips settle before they are heard, and chips are cleared on preset change.
• All presets level-matched again (253 of 256 within 1.5 dB).

Listen first

• deSIDuous-v1.03-preset-audition.mp3: every preset for 3 seconds (14 minutes), with a track list giving the time and number of each sound.
• deSIDuous-demo.mp4: 75-second demo of the plugin in action.

Download

Each zip contains only the deSIDuous.vst3 plugin. You don't need the "Source code" files below to use it.

Platform	File	Copy deSIDuous.vst3 to
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	deSIDuous-v1.03-windows-x64-vst3.zip	C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
macOS 10.13+ (Apple Silicon and Intel)	deSIDuous-v1.03-macos-universal-vst3.zip	/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
Linux (64-bit)	deSIDuous-v1.03-linux-x64-vst3.zip	~/.vst3

Then rescan plugins in your DAW. It appears as an instrument named deSIDuous from Bananalytics. The user manual is attached as deSIDuous-v1.03-Manual.pdf.

macOS: the plugin isn't notarised by Apple, so macOS may block it. After copying, run once in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/deSIDuous.vst3

Notes

• CPU: each sounding chip costs about 8-10% of one core at 48 kHz. Idle chips cost nothing.
• Licence: AGPLv3 (reSIDfp is GPL v2+, JUCE 8 is used under its AGPLv3 licence).