Particle Fountain: A monophonic synth which attaches a sound (either a sawtooth or a square wave) to a bunch of particles, which move in a 2d space like a fountain. The particles' position in the space then determines certain aspects of the sound (frequency, amplitude, panning). There can be up to 200 particles in use at any one time.
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iloSynth 1:
Subtractive VSTI Soft Synth with comprehensive modulation routings.
- 4 Polyphonic with Mono and Legato modes.
- 2 Oscilators + Noise. OSC1 has exclusive pitch envelope.
- Serial Filter1 and Filter2: Filter1 has 2pole LP, BP, HP, Notch modes; Filter2 is fixed at 4pole Moog mode.
- Independent Envelopes for Pitch, Filter and Amp. Filter Envelope Depth can be controlled by Midi Velocity.
- LFOs are Syncable to internal tempo given in Tempo Slider. (LFOs are in 'retrigger' mode when synced.)
- LFO2 Rate can be modulated by Pitch Envelope.
- Ring modulation and FM.
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Iloyd.com Softsynth Ilosynth VST VSTI Virtual Analog Subtractive Synth, Free by Tolga Gurpinar
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..
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Nucleus XT:
Extended version of the Nucleus. 2 soundfonts players, ring mod with mixed level. You can mix the non-filtered soundfonts with the filtered ones and apply cross-fade. Ideal for big pads and ambiences.
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String Theory v1.5:
Physical Modeling Plucked Hybrid.
Physical Modeling Polysynth.
Voted 8th best free synth of 2004 in the KVR New Years Members Survey!
Specs:
Physical Modeling Plucked Strings
Delay based Oscillators
Detune
Pitch LFO
Amp Envelope with 2 attacks
Tremolo
BP+BR Filter
LP Filter with envolope and LFO
HP Filter with envelope and LFO
Dual Metal Module
Dual Delay with MIDI sync and Pan
Dual Phrase Arpeggiator
MIDI CC support
173 patches by:
Ugo
Tim Conrardy
Matthew DeMeritt (Geeseaplenty)
Mark Stolk (Mystahr)
Description:
String Theory is a flexible, delay based, physical modeling synth which is capable of a very wide range of plucked strings, atmospheric pads and ambiences, and unique hybrid synth sounds.
Experimentation is encouraged as it will likely lead you to sounds you may not have expected this synth to make.
String Theory also offers dual phrase arpeggiators. Each arp has its own speed, gate, and octave controls; which allows for far more complex patterns than the average arp and can also help better simulate guitar finger picking.
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Choirs can give any kind of music a lift, but sampled choirs are not versatile and many vocal synthesize concentrate so hard on trying to sing a lyric that they forget to carry a tune.
Ever wondered how Tomita created such convincing choir sounds...
Voc one is different, using a simple analogue synthesizer to simulate the glottal pulse or pulses and then using a powerful, morphable formant filter bank to give a realistic, warm and flexible vocal quality:
full control over each stage of the vocal synthesis
morphable formant filter with 11 recognised phonetic vowel spectra
morphing between vowels sounds subtle and natural
control over the register of the formant filter and the emphasis to give a much greater range of possible vocal types
8 presets plus room for 8 more
built in high quality reverb (UDReverb based on freeverb - thanks to Elogoxa and David Haupt for this)
lots of potential for experimentation.