{"id":152596,"date":"2026-03-14T22:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152596"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:06:50","slug":"free-retromulator-update-add-wurlitzer-200a-yamaha-opl3-emulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/14\/free-retromulator-update-add-wurlitzer-200a-yamaha-opl3-emulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Retromulator Update Add Wurlitzer 200A, Yamaha OPL3 Emulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-152597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer-728x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer-728x409.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer-534x300.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retromulator<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 a free hardware synthesizer emulation plugin &#8211; has been updated to version 1.2.<\/p>\n<p>Retromulator 1.2 features two new hardware cores: the Wurlitzer 200A physical model piano and Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesis, along with expanded Akai S1000 browsing and import capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New Hardware Cores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wurlitzer 200A:<\/strong> Physical model piano via OpenWurli, ported from ~3,000 lines of Rust to C++ and integrated directly into the JUCE plugin framework. Models the tine, pickup, and tone bars of the classic electric piano with per-voice physics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yamaha OPL3:<\/strong> FM synthesis via Nuked OPL3 v1.8 cycle-accurate emulation by Nuke.YKT, with SBI instrument loading, folder-based bank browsing, and zip import support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenWurli settings panel with live parameter editing via combo and navigation pill.<\/li>\n<li>Akai S1000 browse folder mode with auto-slice drum mapping and state persistence.<\/li>\n<li>Akai S1000 ISO\/BIN\/CUE disk image loading.<\/li>\n<li>CC20 global tuning support with auto-slice and tuning state recall.<\/li>\n<li>Import\/Export\/Delete and drag &amp; drop support for all cores.<\/li>\n<li>Engine author credits in synth selector.<\/li>\n<li>Bug fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retromulator<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discodsp.com\/retromulator\/\">available<\/a> as a free download for Windows, macOS (including Apple Silicon), and Linux in AAX, AU, VST3, and standalone formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retromulator 1.2 features two new hardware cores: the Wurlitzer 200A physical model piano and Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesis, along with expanded Akai S1000 browsing and import capabilities.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/14\/free-retromulator-update-add-wurlitzer-200a-yamaha-opl3-emulations\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Retromulator Update Add Wurlitzer 200A, Yamaha OPL3 Emulations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,8,42],"tags":[36176,30631],"class_list":["post-152596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-music-software","category-software-synthesizers-samplers","category-virtual-instruments","tag-discodsp-retromulator","tag-free-music-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/retromulator_wurlitzer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152598,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152596\/revisions\/152598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}