Gcave draft 2 🝪

video upload by Akunull

"Synthesized and coded in Pure Data, only real-time triggers. Delay, hihat openness controlled by xy"

Cherry Audio Introduces Pentaphonic Synthesizer based on the Gleeman Pentaphonic

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Playlist:

1. Cherry Audio | Introduction to Pentaphonic with Mike Martin
2. Cherry Audio | Translucent Presets for Pentaphonic Synthesizer
3. Cherry Audio | "Pentaphonic Cruise" by Steve Peglar

"Cherry Audio's Pentaphonic synthesizer revives the ultra-rare polyphonic hybrid synthesizer originally developed by Gleeman Instruments in 1981. With fewer than 70 units ever produced, this synthesizer is legendary for its rich tone, distinctive design, and pioneering sequencing capabilities. This emulation faithfully reproduces the lush sound of its digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and analog-filter architecture while capturing the visual essence of the synthesizer "made to be seen, not just heard."

https://cherryaudio.com/products/pent... Cherry Audio has taken its capabilities to new heights with expanded polyphony, expressive performance, polyphonic and parameter sequencing, and a library of studio-quality effects. Our visual makeover offers a choice of stunning designs inspired by the various looks it sported during its brief existence."

Cherry Audio Pentaphonic: A rare synthesizer masterpiece reborn

video upload by CatSynth TV

"CatSynth presents a deep dive into the new Pentaphonic from our friends at Cherry Audio. This is a recreation of the extremely rare Gleeman Pentaphonic synthesizer, complete with its unique look featuring crystaline transparent knobs and a translucent body. The Pentaphonic was an analog polyphonic synth with a few twists, including three digital oscillators with microcontroller-generated waveforms that were fed into an analog Steiner Parker filter. We explore the emulation of these unique features as well as Cherry Audio's enhancements for modulation, effects, and motion. We also check out a few of the factory and expansion-pack presets.

00:00 Introduction
00:25 History of the Gleeman Pentaphonic
01:10 UI Overview
02:06 Oscillators
07:52 Filter
13:15 Amplifier
15:19 Voice modes
16:57 Effects
19:54 Arpeggiator
22:30 Sequencer
26:38 Factory Presets
30:03 Translucent (James Dyson) expansion pack presets
33:17 Andrew Longhurst pack presets
35:50 Conclusion"
Patreon: / catsynth | https://shop.catsynth.com | https://ko-fi.com/catsynth




Press release follows:

"Made to Be Seen, Not Just Heard." Pentaphonic resurrects one of the rarest synthesizers ever made: the 1981 Gleeman Pentaphonic.

Cherry Audio is proud to announce the release of Pentaphonic, an innovative virtual instrument that resurrects one of the rarest synthesizers ever made: the Gleeman Pentaphonic. With fewer than 70 units of the original hardware ever produced, this software version is a compelling opportunity for vintage synth enthusiasts and music producers of all genres.

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Scanner:Library - Product Tour With Robin Rimbaud

video upload by Soniccouture

"Scanner shows the VST instrument he designed with Soniccouture, and talks about the very personal sound library that forms the basis for it."

Scanner: Library - Robins Sound Design Preset Tour

video upload by Soniccouture

"Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), plays some of the presets he designed for Scanner: Library and talks about his sound-design process."

https://www.soniccouture.com/en/produ...

A Personal History Of Sound
Scanner and Soniccouture have collaborated to develop a custom tool to utilise his huge personal tape archive, documenting an entire sonic life and career.

Stripped back to the basics, Scanner: Library is a bold experiment in the power of layering sound. With such a diverse and characterful archive to draw upon, it was imperative that the interface would tread lightly.

Three modules with basic envelopes + filters, a delay unit and some custom reverbs. This setup gives over 10 million possible combinations of sounds gathered over a 40 year career.

Fragments, Loops & Possibilities
Scanner: Library features 401 original recordings + a library of 200 presets to get you started. Robin designed over 100 presets himself.

Most of the audio was recovered from cassette tapes, and features the famous police scanner recordings, electronic improvisations, location audio, analogue experiments and all manner of sonic ephemera.

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HollowTone - Deep Ambient Worlds. Preview

video upload by Igor Vasiliev

"HollowTone is built on a simple but quietly ambitious idea: that a soundscape can be alive. Not just looping, not just evolving, but genuinely breathing as a world of its own. Instead of relying on samples or fixed recordings, it uses procedural audio, sound generated in real time through algorithms, to let each layer respond, shift, and intertwine like living matter.

Because every layer is synthesized at the moment you hear it, they can balance themselves, lean into each other, or gently collide in ways that feel organic and unpredictable. Mist, pulse, liquid motion, digital sparks, a whisper behind a veil - each one is its own environment, yet together they form a single, continuous dimension.

And that's the heart of HollowTone: a place where textures drift like fog, pulses echo through unseen structures, and strange atmospheres unfold with the quiet logic of dreamworlds and liminal spaces. You don't just listen to it. You step into it, and it keeps reshaping itself around you, endlessly."

MonkSynth on Schwung and Ableton Move

video upload by Charles Vestal

"A demo of the Schwung (https://www.schwung.dev) implementation of MonkSynth (https://github.com/JonET/monksynth), itself a recreation of AudioNerdz' Delay Lama (http://www.audionerdz.nl).

In this demo, pad pressure is mapped to "Vowel" for that sweet oo ee oo sound.

As per AudioNerdz' original request, if you like what you hear, visit www.savetibet.org."

Work in progress: ImpuseDie, Inspired by SOMA Pulsar 23: We’re almost there!! (DIFFERENT SKINS)

video upload by Diego Capoccitti

"Inspired by SOMA Pulsar 23
in this video you can see the app’s different skins..

We’re almost there!! #pulsar23 #soma"

Roboto Singing Synthesizer Demo (Japanese)

video upload by discoDSP

"Rotobo is a singing voice synthesizer. Write a melody in the piano roll, type a word on each note, and Roboto sings it. The voice is synthesized with no samples, from a glottal pulse source, five formant resonators and shaped noise for consonants. Roboto is free and runs as a plugin or standalone on macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad."

https://www.discodsp.com/roboto/

FEATURES

SONG EDITOR

Piano roll where every note carries a word. A note named + sings the next syllable of the previous word.

Text tab that holds the whole song as text (word:note:beats), so songs can be typed or pasted.

Automation curves along the song for volume, pitch bend, vibrato depth, breath, formant shift and chorus.

Built-in songs in every language to try.

Import MIDI, karaoke MIDI (.kar), UltraStar, LRC lyrics, SRT subtitles and song text, from the menu or by dropping the file on the window. MIDI notes without lyrics are sung on "ah".

Musicalize button: plain lyric lines get a pentatonic melody, one note per syllable.

VOICE

Synthesized voice with no samples: a glottal pulse source, five formant resonators and shaped noise for consonants.

Sings in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Finnish and Swedish, with spelling rules for each language. Japanese kanji are read on macOS and iOS.

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Isla Electronics ASYX - Multi Timbral demo

video upload by Isla Electronics

"I keep getting asked what the 'MIX' button is for.
Well, the original Andromeda was 16 voices, but it was also 16 part multi-timbral, so you could either have upto 16 totally different sounds playing at once, or you could also use it to layer different patches to create very thick textures.
In this quick synth wank, I give a little tour of the UI while about 7 different programs are playing across different midi tracks from ableton. No additional fx or processing other than what's coming out of asyx. This is just 1 single instance of the plugin loaded.
Excuse my rough timing, I recorded this in on a KordBot.. lol"

Meet Dominion 1. The Modern Mini D. Now Polyphonic in Soundpaint

video upload by Soundpaint

"Dominion 1. The modern equivalent of the Mini D, now in Soundpaint.

Get it here: https://soundpaint.com/products/domin...

Video chapters:
-------------------
00:00 Intro. Meet Dominion 1.
01:39 Dominion jams.
11:42 Arps
12:38 Keys
13:45 Brass
14:28 Plucks
14:58 Bass
16:14 Leads
17:08 Pads
18:13 Strings

Manfred Fricke built it by hand in Berlin in 2014, while the rest of the synth industry went digital. Raw, discrete analog. Pure voltage. Few were built, and most never left the studios they landed in.

We sampled all of it. 16,884 ultra-deep (UDS™) multi-samples, four custom CAF models, and over 110 programs by Chimy and Tro//z Folmann.

Monophonic in Berlin. Polyphonic in Soundpaint. At heart a bass synth, it turns out to have a sweet side once it can play chords: cinematic arps, expressive keys, soaring leads and pads.

Dominion 1 runs in Soundpaint V. Free to download. Mac and Windows. Standalone or VST3, AU and AAX."

Isla Electronics "Asyx" - Alesis Andromeda VST plugin | No talking teaser

video upload by xu.sounddesign - dirk rohde

"Brad Holland, the founder and chief developer from Isla Electronics (islaelectronics.com) and his team are developing a VST plugin based on the famous Alesis Andromeda A6. The beta phase is currently underway. I’ve already had a chance to try out the beta version and have designed a sound pack for the 'Asyx' based on my 'Moviescore' sound pack for the original Andromeda.

Here’s my first teaser where you can get a sneak peek at the “Asyx” Andromeda A6 plugin. It sounds massive, fat, and creamy, and does a great job of recreating the gritty, analog character of the original Andromeda."

Machinedrum Plug-in Interpretation: MDSYN Presets – Not the ROM, the Other One

video upload by StigmaAudio

Also see:
Elektron Machinedrum & Monomachine Emulations Come to Software for the ROM versions/clones in software
Monomodule -1.0.1-Beta (Elektron Monomachine emulator) - for a non ROM clone software emulation

As for this video:

"It's not the ROM. It's the other one.

MDSYN is Stigma Audio's 16-track synthetic percussion sequencer: every sound is synthesized in real time. It is a reinterpretation, not an emulation — no firmware, no ROM, its own engine.

This video is a single live take: a run through twenty presets, pattern switching on the fly, a look at the FX, SYNTH and ROUT pages, track mutes, step pages, save and reload, and the delay and reverb sends. When the knobs move on their own, they are being played from an LPD8 controller over MIDI CC.

This plugin comes from my personal collection. Maybe I'll release it one day, but probably not in this design. It is a personal project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hardware manufacturer; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Presets and patterns
3:25 The FX page
5:33 Save, synth page and reload
6:32 Track mutes
9:32 Step pages
10:57 Knob edits
12:33 Routing, delay and reverb sends
13:08 More presets
14:46 Outro"

Waldorf Wave Emulation – NO TALKING Sound Demo

video upload by Autodafe

See the announcement post here.

"A quick NO TALKING sound demo of Wave Emulation by mo0kid, a new software emulation of the legendary Waldorf Wave.

This project recreates the Wave using the original Waldorf firmware, with the current release available for macOS as standalone, AU, VST3 and AAX.

In this video I’m simply browsing through a selection of sounds and presets — no talking, just the Waldorf Wave in action.

Wave Emulation:
https://github.com/mo0kid/wave/releas...

The emulator requires the original Waldorf Wave OS 1.700 firmware, which is not included with the software. The firmware can be obtained separately from Waldorf.

🎧 Headphones recommended."

Waldorf Wave - FREE WIN/MAC vst emulation !

video upload by Sergio Frias

"this great vst emulation is now also avaiable for windows."

UMWELT - Generative Ecosystem Synthesizer (VST / AU)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"UMWELT is a synthesizer made for listening. Press the capsule to generate an autonomous ecosystem with its own weather, tuning, four creature groups, and occasionally a language. Drag across the landscape to rotate the view. Active sounds light up and create ripples, revealing which group is active. The capsules along the top recall recent worlds.

Take your time with each world. Populations grow and decline, day turns to night, storms pass through, and the creatures copy each other's songs with small mistakes, so the same world sounds different ten minutes later.

Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

How it works

A 64-bit seed sets every parameter of a world. The sound is made in four layers.

Substrate is one of four sustained generators:

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Norand Mono v3 from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"Here's a quick demo of the new VST from DenverSynthLabs. Showing its wide capabilities as a dual oscillator bass synth, but also much much more. Using MOD notes-- single sounds-- you can even program drum tracks monophonically."

via DenverSynthLabs

"The Norand Mono mk1 and mk2 were left unfinished — firmware issues that never got solved, a company that went insolvent before it could fix them. MONOv³ finishes the job: updated firmware for your real hardware, plus a full digital twin with infinite patch storage, easier workflow, and near bit-perfect sound. Own a mk2? Load the firmware, run the hardware as a controller sending MIDI CC to the plugin, and pair it with the software for a NORAND DUAL."

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Day Project: Meet Nibbi - CHOMPI Goes Virtual

video upload by TemeculaDSP

"Don’t mean to throw you for a loop, but… meet NIBBI.

The folks at Chase Bliss and CHOMPI Club released CHOMPI’s firmware under the MIT license [see the announcement post], so I’ve adapted it to run in your DAW as a VST, Audio Unit, and AAX plugin for Pro Tools.

Record and sample sounds, play them across the keyboard, layer tape-style loops, and get weird with lo-fi saturation, wow and flutter, delay, reverb, and filters.

Big thanks to Chase Bliss and CHOMPI Club for opening this up!

Check it out: https://www.temeculadsp.com/nibbi"

Update:

Nibbi - How to start!
video upload by TemeculaDSP

Schmidt Vi Beta - Schmidt Synthesizer als Plug-in

video upload by Heiner Kruse - The Green Man(TGM) - sound.report

Follow-up to this post.

The Usual Suspects Blue Giant – Novation Supernova II Emulation

video upload by Autodafe

"A quick NO TALKING sound demo of Blue Giant by The Usual Suspects, the new simulator of the legendary Novation Supernova II.

Blue Giant recreates the original hardware using DSP56300-series DSP emulation and the original Novation ROM. Like the Supernova II, it offers an 8-part multitimbral architecture, up to 24 voices, three oscillators per voice, multimode filters, extensive modulation, arpeggiators and the original multi-effects system.

In this video I’m simply browsing through a selection of sounds and presets — no talking, just Blue Giant in action.

More info about Blue Giant / The Usual Suspects: https://theusualsuspects.io/

The Supernova II was one of the iconic virtual-analog synths of the early 2000s, and Blue Giant finally brings its distinctive sound into the DAW."

BLOT - Experimental Modal Synthesizer

video upload by Laboratory 0

"BLOT is an experimental modal synthesizer played by shaping matter instead of turning knobs: the geometry of a lump on screen is the patch.

Every piece of the lump is a modal resonator, eight damped oscillators tuned by its size. Smaller pieces ring higher, and sizes settle on just-intonation ratios of the MIDI root. How far apart the modes spread, how bright they are and how long they ring follow the piece's shape and heat. They are excited by a slow breathing noise, by strikes, by friction as you sweep over the matter, and, when it runs hot, by droplets: short tones above the ringing that rise as they burst.

Pull out a tendril and it becomes a plucked waveguide string, pitched by its length. Press in a dent and it becomes a formant filter, a mouth whose position sets the vowel. Cut a piece and its modes split into two pitches. Pieces that come close ring-modulate each other, and pieces that meet fuse back into one.

Rubbing heats the matter: the modes stretch and each piece's drive saturates. Pushed harder, a 4× oversampled multiband saturator with a feedback comb tuned to the root takes over from clipping. Memory, an eight-line feedback delay network, holds what the matter has played. MIDI notes move the root and strike every piece. Two engines play the same matter: default stays clean until the matter is rubbed or overloaded, while intense heats and drives it with every cut and strike, and makes hot pieces crackle. “Pause" freezes the matter in place while it keeps sounding.

VST+AU, macOS only
Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

Map Audio: PAM

video upload by DATABROTH

"Read my full review here: https://www.databroth.com/blog/pam-re...

check out my wavetables and presets at https://gumroad.com/databroth
join my Patreon / databroth"

00:00 Initial Exploration
00:44 Further Exploration
01:16 Crystal Processor
02:07 Croissant
03:36 I'd M
04:42 Fugue State

Reflection 2.4: modular DAW records Metasurface gestures, adds chaos modulation

Reflection DAW Showcase - Videos created by our users

Tips and Tricks

video uploads by ReflectionDAW

"Reflection 2.4 is out. Reflection is an independent modular DAW and plugin host hand-coded in C++, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

THE METASURFACE, NOW WITH TAKES
Snapshot every parameter in the whole rig, place the snapshots on a 2D surface, and drag between them. The entire setup, plugins included, morphs in one gesture. New in 2.4, that gesture can be recorded as a take and played back in 16 slots: loop, reverse, palindrome, speed and follow actions, synced to the transport.

DIY LAB, NOW WITH CHAOS
Build your own modules from 60+ blocks and bake them into a single node. 2.4 adds a Strange Attractor with 11 shapes drawn live, a Chaos Oscillator, and Boids flocking as modulation you can wire to anything.

€100 perpetual, all 2.x updates included, no subscription, no telemetry. The free 45-day demo has every instrument and effect."

You can find additional details at https://reflection-daw.com

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