INFIDEL low fidelity DIY modular synth from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"INFIDEL shown here put through its paces.
This is an intentionally non-musical demo to show the power and sound of INFIDEL. It gets loud. If you don't like it, good.
The point is, you've never heard a VST sound like this, ever.
What we make hasn't existed before.
So, stop chasing other people's sound, and make something that's your very own for a change.
With roughly 1/3rd of the available modules shown here, you can tweak until morning.
Just make sure you get some sleep sometimes!

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"INFIDEL is a full modular synth built around one idea: every module runs its own cheap sign-magnitude DAC, at its own sample rate and bit depth, so the whole rack can sound exactly as broken as you want it to — on purpose. You don't have to earn that sound with a soldering iron or a twenty-minute boot sequence. Hit INIT FULL and you've got a working 47-module, 81-cable patch across four buses — lead, drone, texture, drums — before you've turned a single knob. Hit EZ on any module and it rolls a new setting that's checked to never go silent. Cables snap to the nearest free jack, drop onto an existing cable to insert a module inline, or swap one module for another while keeping every cable that matches by name. It's fast to get a sound out of, and it stays deep — a 53-module library and KEY-locked lo-fi clocking mean there's always one more place to take it.

- 53 user modules across Sources, Filters, Effects, Drums, Utilities and Logic — including an 8-model VCF BANK (CS-80, IR3109, SSM2044, CEM3320, SSM2040, STEINER, EMS DIODE, WASP) and effects ported from SpringBoy, BucketBoy, Thermion and Ironwall

- Every module runs its own cheap lo-fi DAC — RATE 1–32 kHz, BITS 2–16 — and KEY locks a module's clock to the last note played, so the grit tracks pitch instead of just buzzing underneath it


- INIT FULL builds a working 47-module / 81-cable patch across four buses (LEAD, DRONE, TEXTURE, DRUMS) in one click — start from a finished rack, then pull it apart at your own pace

- EZ on every module rolls a fresh, checked-to-never-be-silent setting and blends against where the knobs already were; the header EZ rolls the whole rack at once

- Drag a cable onto a module to insert it inline, or swap one module for another and keep every cable that matches by name — patching by feel, not by memory

- A 16-step sequencer with a snapshot lane — red records your knob moves, green plays them back, and AUTOMATION morphs between stored scenes

- 64-deep undo/redo, zoom, standalone recording and audio input, MIDI Learn on every control, GHOST CABLES, and an 11-patch PATCHES menu to start from someone else's rack instead of your own