Oxe FM Synth was published by DTM Magazine 2008 9. It was referenced on page 24 and the installer comes in the DVD vol 171, shipped with this edition.
Thanks Yohei Yamamoto.

Here is the transcription of a e-mail that I’ve just received…

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Daniel,

I’m a sound designer myself (I work for Yamaha, Korg, and Dave Smith Instruments). This is the first time I have sent a donation to a software developer.

I think OxeFM sounds fantastic - easily as good as NI’s FM8, maybe even better. Great programming of the presets too.

I have lots of VI’s but this is in my top 10 of all time. Great work!

Best regards,

Dave Polich
http://www.davepolich.com

I’m glad to announce that Oxe FM Synth was published on Computer Music magazine. This special issue is about “The best free plug-ins ever!” and comes with a CD containing the softwares covered. My product have won almost a entire page as you can see on image (click to enlarge).

Click here to buy the Computer Music Special 30.

I am happy to announce that Oxe FM Synth has appeared on the Top 200 VSTi plugins list, recommended by the Japanese magazine DTM Magazine, for the second consecutive year.

Today I woke up with this beautiful magazine on my bed. Thanks to Yohei Yamamoto for everything. The magazine has travelled from Japan to Brazil in only seven days, in perfect conditions.

Below is a photo of the page 35:

This is an interesting project I was helping some time ago.

I’m always interested in free, but yet good, solutions for digital audio, and I was frustrated by the lack of this kind of software, specially for Windows. But even when something really good shows up, some bigger company buys the development studio or hires the developer(s) to work on another project.

The other day I was surfing on SourceForge, looking for a free and useable host for Windows, and stumbled upon this project in early stage of development by students of EPITECH (European Institute of Information Technology) as a regular discipline of degree. I wanted a simple Digital Audio Workstation, of the Kind that “just works”, and I think I got it from Wired: active development (at that time), beautiful site, nice screenshots, etc. But there was a problem: it was for Linux only. Not relly bad, actually, but if it was for Windows, it would be better.

We already had some interesting and solid options of DAW for Linux, but none likely of be ported to Windows. So, I’ve begun analyzing the Wired source code, doing some tests and asking the developers about this possibility. After the analysis I came to a conclusion: I can do that. The application was based on multiplatform libraries, in special wxWidgets and portaudio, for that reason, it wouldn’t be much difficult to port it. While I’ve started the porting I was also talking to the Wired staff to show some initial results, until the day of which the guys gave me permission to commit into their repository. From that point, many hours have been spent…

For those who want to try it but don’t want to compile it by themselves (it isn’t simple for regular users), here is the installer of the latest snapshot.

Wired 0.6 win32 installer rev 1511

In the last 3 years, due to a life dedicated to work and family, I get to work in Oxe FM Synth in rare moments, without any releases. I would really like to had done more, but…
Oxe FM Synth is not completly frozen. To help to show it, I’ve decided to change the site. Now I’m using a blog system to manage the site content, as well to offer RSS and a easy way to write something when I have will. Before, while using a static site, it wasn’t possible before doing some web coding and uploading by FTP at home.
But… why now? Simple answer: vacation on Petrolina city (Pernambuco, Brazil). I’ve get to work hard on my personal projects in my last holidays on Petrolina, 3 years before ;-). My two last vacations before the current were inappropriate to work. Sucks…
Now that the site is done, I’ll try to work on the main product.

I’m glad to announce the nomination of Oxe FM Synth to be part of “The Best, 100% Free Windows Music Plug-ins” by Adrian Anders at http://createdigitalmusic.com.

The text says:

“The best Freeware FM synth around since the Hexter VSTi was taken down due to bullshit GPL politics. Dead simple to use (for a FM synth that is). Although it cannot read DX7 patches, with a little bit of effort one can recreate almost anything done with a yamaha fm synth in oxe.”

Take a look in the complete list clicking here.

Oxe FM Synth was chosen to be part of DVD content of the japanese “DTM Magazine” (issue Jan-2007).

Released Oxe FM Synth 1.1.2 (thanks to Summa by tests and new patches).

Changes:

- Fixed the problem caused when the filter resonance is zero;
- Added new bandlimited saw and square waveforms;
- Fixed the problem with release time of OPZ;
- Is allowed that the frequency of an operator starts in 0Hz;
- Changed the units of coarse tune knob in LCD;
- Added a new switch, per program, called “High Quality”;
- Added inverted values for Mod Wheel Destination;
- Fixed saved state of channels on GUI;

Released Oxe FM Synth 1.1.1.

Changes:

- Fixed the problem of total silence with some hosts;
- Improved the VST SDK 2.3 integration (program and bank management, .FXP/.FXB, midiProgramNames);
- Fixed the GUI LCD update when the program is changed via MIDI;
- Added a solution to edit program names in Tracktion (Trackion get all keystrokes from plugin and activate its defaults key-mappings);
- Added a algorithm to reallocate notes when the polyphony was exceeded.