Full Bucket Music: Fury-800

German programmer and software engineer Björn Arlt began building VST plugins under the name Full Bucket Effects in 2010. Being a musician, and a synth enthusiast from a young age, he was drawn to analysing and building software synths. He now offers both synth emulations and effects as freeware through his website.

The Fury-800 is a software simulation of the KORG Poly-800 polyphonic synthesizer from 1983. It has three play modes: Poly, Chord, and Sequencer. To select Poly or Chord mode you have to press the respective button. To enter Sequencer mode (and therefore to start the sequencer), press the Start/Stop button. The Hold button makes notes sound indefinitely.

Version 2.0 of the Fury-800 introduces a new selector for the two modes of operation. In POLY-800 Mode all parameter ranges, envelopes etc. are set to match the original Poly-800. This is important if you want to recreate classic patches or read SysEx data of the EX800 or the Poly-800 Mark II. In Bucket Mode the Fury-800 behaves just the same as in version 1.0 – it is the backwards compatible mode. The LED display will glow green  when in Bucket Mode, while in Poly-800 Mode it will be red.

Features:

• Two band-limited DCOs with individual envelope generators
• Two waveforms with additive harmonics (16′, 8′, 4′, 2′)
• Single (paraphonic) lowpass VCF and Noise
• On-board sequencer and Chord Memory
• Pseudo-stereo Chorus effect
• Resizable user interface (not N version)
• Supports MTS-ESP by ODDSound dynamic micro-tuning
• MIDI Learn – all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC
• Plugin supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit)

Tweaks:

• Up to 64 voices polyphony with Velocity
• ‘God Mode’ for real polyphony
• Continuous parameter values and direct access