MellowSound is a VSTi plug-in inspired by the vintage sounds of the Mellotron. MellowSound requires a VST 2.0 compatible host application running on a PC.
Three classic Mellotron voices are provided - Strings, Choir and Brass. These basic voices can be modified using the real-time controls giving a wealth of vintage warmth to your musical creations. Best of all MellowSound is free!
Synger:
a monophonic voice synthesizer comprising a basic 2 oscillator 'analog' model and three band filters. the lower keyboard controls pitch and the upper portion sets the phoneme. the right half of the gui lines up with logic's matrix editor for convenient selection of phoneme key. sounds like a 1980's home computer speech synthesizer thru a vocoder..
has two performance mode; hold mode has a discrete midi key for note off so that pitch and phoneme can be modulated w/o interruptions due to the monophionic synthedit engine rigged for the key split.. a second 'live' mode releases the note on note offs (as does switching phonemes)
intelligibility requires precise, time consuming sequencing. unless mirroring a familiar phrase, rate of speech should be slower than conversational speech to be understood; luckily many songs are sung at slower rates. i find it 'generally' works, ie. i'm not so happy with the long 'o' sound.. depending on input pitch, it can sound correct or very, very wrong. but when it's good, it's quite striking.
hope to get around to correcting the pitch bend inoperation soon.. edit: i might have done that..
free vst plugin, pc.
Aggressor is a monophonic synthesizer, which can be used as a VST instrument. The synth was specifically designed to produce aggressive bass- and lead-sounds where special attention was paid on the ability to authentically emulate the typical sound of the famous TB-303. The architecture is based on the classic VCO-VCF-VCA structure where each of the building blocks goes far beyond the typical implementation of bassline synths.
Borderliner is an attempt to break away from
the normal synths available, providing you with
a partly colour based interface. Mixing the black
and white oscillator sections generates sounds
that can be heavily processed by the color effect
boxes.
Add envelope and gain control as well as an LFO
and you have a simple but different sounding
and looking synthesizer that can make some
really weird sounds!
The interface of this plugin was made by
Richard Winter (alias Blue), founder of the now
no longer available Bluelife Audiozone.
free vst plugin. pc