Technos Acxel VST3 from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"I always lusted after a Technos Acxel from 1984, but they didn't really exist. There were only about 4 ever made and those barely made it into public view. But there were pictures of them, and I had my imagination. So, 30 years later, I made it myself, and then I made it better.

Now available at: store.denversynth.com"

"AXCEL

Every partial, hand-drawn.
Modeled after the Technos Acxel — a Quebec-built additive synthesizer from 1986-1992, with somewhere between 30 and 40 units ever made. Two engine slots share one wave bank, one Grapher, and one mod bus: Slot A is the Acxel's additive and sinusoidal resynthesis engine, Slot B is a wavetable machine, and you can run either or both at once.

AXCEL plugin GUI

- Acxel-accurate additive engine: up to 32 partials per voice, each independently addressable on the Grapher for amplitude, phase, and detune


- Sinusoidal resynthesis — drop a sound on the Grapher and it gets broken into partials you can then reshape by hand

- Grapher works across five views: Amplitude, Integer, Beating, Phase, Wave, and Vol Env, all editable with the mouse

- Dual-engine architecture: Slot A (Acxel) and Slot B (wavetable) share one wave bank and one mod bus, blend or crossfade between them freely

- FM/phase mod stage, three-LFO modulation section, and an "Acxelize" freeze function that locks a spectrum in place

- EZ button for an instant usable patch; the Grapher is where the real depth lives once you start drawing