These Plugins Sound AMAZING… Except One

video upload by Keith Crosley

"Space Age Strings, Traveler 1.1, Arturia MiniFreak V, and Liminal Space 2 RC6: three plugins I'm excited about, and one that's... fine. Your old pal Keith demos vintage strings, custom wavetable import, Bloom and reverse reverb, and gloriously backward shoegaze. Grab your mod wheel for another episode of your favorite talky synthesizer content show!

First up: Authentic Soundware's Space Age Strings, with gorgeous legatos, vintage ribbon-mic character, and serious Mancini energy. We pair those nine violins with Liminal Space 2's new Space Age Scoring Stage preset and compare the library's built-in reverb with some algorithmic spaciousness.

Then we revisit Traveler! Version 1.1 fixes the big wavetable-workflow frustrations from my previous review: now I can point it at my existing KRC Mathwaves folders without duplicating gigabytes of content. Cue polygonal bells, Morlet wavelet vowels, and a much happier Keith. We also try MiniFreak V's new user-wavetable import. It's great to have it, but I've got opinions about the workflow, the effects, and whether the software version floats my boat.

Finally, we explore my Liminal Space 2 RC6 reverb for macOS and Windows: MIDIverb II-inspired Bloom sounds, reverse-style swells, ACTUAL reversed audio, and instant imaginary Cocteau Twins guitar with Native Instruments' Electric Sunburst Deluxe. We build Bloom effects on piano, shape them with curves and wavetables, and explore Reverse Capture's Diffuse and Clear modes. Then we get dark and wobbly with Clockwarp and the new Vulture 224 filter, inspired by Alex at Vulture Culture. Woot!

Disclosure: Authentic Soundware kindly supplied Space Age Strings; this is not paid placement. I purchased Traveler myself. Liminal Space 2 and KRC Mathwaves are my own products. Liminal Space 2 is demonstrated in RC6; the RC7 Follow feature is teased for a future video."

You can find wavetables and additional resources by Keith Crosley available at https://www.wavetables.lol.

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Synthetic Sound Labs Announces Wave Oracle™

Synthesizer module review of the the Wave Oracle video upload by Synthesizer Sound Design

"Synthetic Sound Labs Wave Oracle Model 1910

This video is a review of the 5U / MU multi-function module from Synthetic Sound labs - The Wave Oracle.

The Wave Oracle exists to inspire curiosity about signals—and creativity in what you do with them. Your synthesizer makes voltages, but you usually experience the result through your ears. Wave Oracle adds another way to explore: you can see what is happening while you listen.

Time Index

00:42 Title
00:45 What is the Wave Oracle01:22 What I like about the Wave Oracle
02:56 How I will use the Wave Oracle
03:38 Review of the functions or the Wave Oracle
05:05 Examples
05:08 Understanding Modules Better
05:45 Inverted Envelopes Made Easy
08:26 Examining Harmonics
09:48 Through-Zero FM
10:54 Lissajous figures
12:33 Final Thoughts

** THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY SYNTHETIC SOUND LABS ** they have funded the creation of this video."

Press release follows:

Synthetic Sound Labs announces Wave Oracle™, a multi-function signal visualization and learning instrument designed specifically for modular synthesizers. See and explore your sounds.

Wave Oracle™ combines oscilloscope, XY, spectrum analysis, tuning, metering, audio-responsive visualization and integrated learning functions in a single module. Four signal inputs allow several points in a synthesizer patch to remain connected simultaneously, with channel selection available within applicable modes.

Wave Oracle™ is designed to be easy to learn and use, without requiring a background in electronics or test equipment.

SCOPE
Wave Oracle™ can display signals from oscillators, envelopes, LFOs, modulation and complete voices.

The oscilloscope views these as voltage changing over time, revealing the actual shape and timing of a signal. Laboratory-style adjustable timebases, vertical scaling, positioning and triggering allow visualization and measurement of up to four independent synth signals at once.

XY
Plots two signals against one another to display phase and frequency relationships, modulation and Lissajous figures. XY uses Channels 1 and 2 as its X and Y signal sources.

FFT
Where SCOPE shows voltage over time, Wave Oracle™’s FFT modes reveal frequency content and how it changes over time. Multiple spectrum displays provide different views of fundamentals, harmonics, noise, filter response and the evolving spectral content of complex sounds and complete voices.

Automatic and manual display scaling accommodate signals ranging from individual oscillators to dynamic musical material.

TUNER
Measures frequency and musical pitch for oscillator tuning, matching pitches and checking oscillator tracking.

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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!

store.denversynth.com"



"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

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ODD-1 Guide: Making Your First Sounds

video upload by Oddment

"The second video in the ODD-1 start guide series. From an empty patch: how sound sound is created on the ODD-1, loading a sample, adjusting core parameters, and saving a patch.

The ODD-1 is a microsonic (granular) instrument — a synthesizer that chops sound into small pieces and lets you re-pitch and rearrange them, with a knob for every function required and patching by holding any knob down.

Chapters:
0:00 — Intro
0:20 — Creating sound on ODD-1
1:25 — Starting a patch and loading a sample
2:21 — Speed and tuning
3:14— Transforming sound with grains
4:00 — Saving a patch"

VAEMI Releases Its First Plug-in: R2R Ladder for VCV Rack

Press release follows:

"The hardware R2R Ladder Eurorack module is now available as a free virtual module, marking the first release in VAEMI’s expanding software line.

Istanbul, Türkiye – September 2026 – Istanbul-based electronic musical instrument manufacturer VAEMI – Volt Age Electronic Musical Instruments has released its first plug-in and first software product: R2R Ladder for VCV Rack. The new virtual module is a software adaptation of VAEMI’s physical R2R Ladder Eurorack module, preserving the original hardware’s bidirectional architecture and core musical concept. The plug-in is available free of charge through the official VCV Library.

Inspired by the fundamental architecture of an R-2R digital-to-analog converter, R2R Ladder uses eight weighted connections representing eight binary bits. Together, these provide 256 possible binary combinations, opening up a wide range of applications for audio, CV, gates, modulation and waveform processing.

The module can operate in two directions.

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Arturia Pure Sub Bass Machine - PatchFLIP

video upload by sonicstate

"We flip some patches with the ‪@ArturiaOfficial‬ Arturia Pure Sub, a monophonic bass synthesizer plug-in . It has a sub oscillator, a morphing additive harmonics generator with up to 32 partials, or a VA with morphing between waveforms , a texture engine, a filter, and up to twelve effects slots, plus a separate FX processor stage for detune, colour, presence and space.
Modulation comes from envelopes, function generators, randomisation and macros.

The sound sits firmly in modern bass territory, from Reese and wub to distorted 808s and hard front end, keeping weight in the low end while holding useful mid-range. Pure Sub is available now at 49 or 79 euros."

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:26 Patch flipping favourites
00:06:15 Building a preset: main engine
00:06:48 Harmonic additive section
00:08:22 Texture engine
00:09:30 Filter
00:10:07 Effects and processing
00:10:54 Modulation and pitch envelope
00:14:36 Amount processor
00:20:48 Price and availability

See the announcement post here.

Retromulator for iOS

"Retromulator is a multi-core retro hardware emulation app and AUv3 plug-in that brings legendary synthesizer, sampler, and keyboard cores back to life through authentic low-level emulation. Each core runs its actual firmware, physical model, or sample data — delivering the unmistakable character of the hardware that defined electronic music from the early 80s through the 2000s.

— EMULATED CORES —

VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHS

Motorola DSP 56300 recreation (interpreter mode), built on the open-source Gearmulator by the dsp56300 team:

• Access Virus A, B and C
• Access Virus TI / TI2 / Snow
• Clavia Nord Lead 2X
• Waldorf microQ
• Waldorf Microwave XT

FM SYNTHESIS

• Yamaha DX7 — original chip set emulation, based on VDX7 by Charles Chiaccona

• Yamaha OPL3 — Nuked OPL3 cycle-accurate FM by Nuke.YKT

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Phantom Exposure Interphase Cartograph Sound Demo - Casio VZ range emulation expanded

video upload by Runningonair

"In this video I test out the new Interphase Cartograph from Phantom Exposure.

https://phantomexposure.org/instrumen...

This synth is based on iPD synthesis as used by the Casio VZ range, but it has been significantly expanded."

Music/Support: New Album, BandCamp, Spotify, Merch, PayPal

Interphase Cartograph

"Interactive phase distortion, the Casio VZ engine rebuilt and then extended — two modules per line, one bending or ring-modulating the other, with AM and through-zero FM added.

Interactive phase distortion — iPD — is the technique behind Casio’s VZ-series synthesizers of the late 1980s. Rather than mixing raw oscillator waveforms, it pairs two sound-generating modules into a line and lets one shape the other: bending its phase, or multiplying into it as a ring modulator. The character sits between subtractive and FM — glassy, bell-like, vocal or metallic, and equally capable of plain tones when the interaction stays subtle.

Classic reproduces the original four-line, eight-module architecture with eight iPD waveforms and eight-stage envelopes. Extended adds two more lines, twelve modules, a sixteen-waveform bank, and two interactions the hardware never had: amplitude modulation and through-zero FM. The two are switchable from the header at any time.

Around the engine sit a sixteen-route modulation matrix, a bipolar pitch envelope, patch vibrato and tremolo, an arpeggiator, microtonal tuning with historical temperaments, six performance macros, unison, two LFOs and a randomiser that can roll a whole patch or mutate the one you have. The display is drawn in an OLED style with cyan and amber themes."

SID SYNTH - Turn Your Commodore 64 Into a Live Synthesizer #C64 ⎍∧∿⩘

video upload by LukHash

"Here is a little demo of SID SYNTH, a software live synthesizer for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 64 Ultimate. V1.0 lands on 6 Nov 2026 as a bonus download with my new album 'Neon Airlines', and it is up for pre-order right now:
💾 https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/ne...
Pre-order today and the download link drops straight into your inbox the moment it goes live on release day, so there is no waiting and nothing to chase later. You get the full album with it, and pre-orders genuinely help a release like this land.

⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘⎍∧∿⩘

SID SYNTH is a real-time C64 software synthesizer built for playing live. It sits between two amazing programs, the instant playability of Cynthcart and the deep sound design of SID Wizard. That's the middle ground I've been missing. The ultimate tool for live performance on your favourite computer :)

For those who are interested what's under the hood:

Eight waveforms (4 main+combined ones) across three voices (six with a second SID), an adjustable ADSR with hard-restart retrigger, a multimode filter, and fully customisable PWM with its own rate, depth and sweep shapes. Add vibrato, portamento and tremolo, plus switchable ring mod and hard sync. Seven voice modes take you from full polyphony through fifths and octave stacks to arpeggios you can lock to tempo. Then you play it: live pitch bend, vibrato swells and filter swipes you can freeze and latch mid-note, for real expression and sound design beyond presets.

Build your own banks of instruments across 54 slots, save and load them to disk, and jump between sounds on the fly, so a whole set is under your fingers on stage, with a "Live Lock" to keep a stray key from changing anything mid-song.

Full MIDI in adds assignable CC to use with your DAW or any MIDI hardware, program change to switch patches hands-free, and clock sync to keep the arpeggiator in time with your drum machine or sequencer, plus a tap-tempo that sets the arpeggiator's speed straight from the rhythm you tap, so you can lock the arp to your track by ear in seconds.

Twelve reactive visualizers turn a held note into a show, and dual-SID stereo, blackout-clean recording for the real SID chip and automatic PAL/NTSC tuning finish the picture. 👾"

LukHash - Neon Airlines (Album Preview)

video upload by LukHash

"'Neon Airlines' is your boarding pass to a sonic journey where chiptune, synthwave, and other modern electronic styles fuse into a retro-futuristic adventure. Experience the iconic sounds of the Commodore 64, Amiga, SNES, Mega Drive, and Game Boy, brought into the modern era while staying true to their roots. ✈️🌆👾

💾 Bandcamp exclusive: the download includes a bonus MOD track (Patch It!) made on an original Amiga, plus SID SYNTH (v1.0), a live synthesizer by LukHash that turns a real Commodore 64 / C64 Ultimate into a playable instrument. Explore the sounds of Neon Airlines, then make your own.

👉 https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/ne..."

Ring Modulation Sound Examples | Quadrant Modulator on a Smooth Synth Pad

video upload by Unusable Engineering

"Almost 20 minutes of Quadrant Modulator sound examples using the same smooth additive synth pad throughout, going through all the factory presets and a selection of my own patches.

There is no talking or explanation in this one. The purpose is simply to hear how wide the range of the plugin can be on one familiar source, from fairly subtle amplitude and tonal movement to obvious ring modulation, rhythmic processing, pitch-following effects, sequenced modulation and much more aggressive transformations.

The source is Partials & Discrepancies (the unusable engineering additive synth) using the preset APD-Wavelength Luminous from the free All Partially Dirty patch bank available on the Partials & Discrepancies product page.

The processing chain is the same throughout:
Partials & Discrepancies
→ Quadrant Modulator
→ Geometry Delay
→ Geometry Reverb

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Crossfaded: Complex Modulation

video upload by Mehr Music Machines

"Let’s crossfade between two cycling function generators (RAMPS) and use that x-fade signal output to modulate the filter cutoff on Deuxd. And then let’s take one of Crossfaded’s internal (but accessible) LFOs and pan that signal between the two function generators’ shape modulation CV inputs. Let’s do that together."

Crossfaded is 14HP VCA-core utility for Eurorack Modular Synthesizers

Features: Dual 2-channel crossfader/panner VCA
CV control over pan/fade
Built in LFO with two shapes: Swirl (triangle) & Bounce (square)
Dedicated LFO output

Each of the two crossfader sections has 2-input and 2-output. When using both signal inputs the output signal will present the opposing input signal. For example: Signal input 1A fades between outputs B to A. While simultaneously the opposite is true; Signal input 1B fades between outputs A to B.

When only one input is used the outputs can be patched to a mixer's left + right channels for a classic "Auto-Pan" effect. Adjust the LFO's rate and depth to taste.

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Tunary Instruments Releases Cinematic Soundscape Collection

video upload by Tunary Instruments

Best on headphones. "Every sound in this video was made with four Tunary instruments: VRESK, DRUSK, NIVREN and SILT."

via Tunary Instruments

THREE INSTRUMENTS FOR SCORING SPACE, TEXTURE & MOOD

Deep drones, sculpted grains and self-playing glacial beds. Three sound-design instruments made for film, games and ambient music — the sound under a scene, not the tune on top. Buy one, or take all three.

Additional details on each:

VRESK — Drone, Texture & SFX Engine

VRESK holds one sound and lets you move through it.

A drone, texture and sound-design engine: nine different machines under one set of hands, with two reverb spaces built in. Turn the big ROOT knob and the whole voice moves. Everything else colours it.

Nine engines on a 3 by 3 grid. Two oscillators for rings, folds and hard metal. Four wavetable voices for stacks, swarms and crushed digital. Eight partials for beating clusters, quantised chords and noise-struck metal. The knobs stay the same across all nine, and each engine reads them differently, so one panel is really nine instruments.

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3am - synth+feet+cat #modularsynth

video upload by justin3am

"More funny noises from unique synthesizers. This patch is based around two shift registers ( @omiindustriies Cacade Register and @synthfoxchannel6287 Shift-Core Register) and a looping envelope (Kon) which clocks them both. The Shift-Core Reigister pings a filter and controls its pitch (pseudo-rungler) the Cascade Register influences a pair of chaotic lfos (Ya Jerk).The lfos control a digital oscillator and a VCA (Sledghammer) which controls a bunch of feedback. Everything gets routed through a granular delay.

With this variation, you can hear how it starts from a simple sound and evolves, iterates. This one features a cameo from Orion."

The M8 Tracker Continues To Blow His Mind // OS 6.6 Release

video upload by EZBOT

"Today I wanted to take a bit of time to explain my deep love for the Dirtywave M8 Tracker while going over the patch notes for the new OS that was released last week. The new OS brings a slew of upgrades to the device in both sound and presentation. Let's check it out and make some tunes."

EZBOT resources: https://www.patreon.com/ezbot, https://ko-fi.com/ezbot/, https://www.modbang.com

M8 Changelog on github

Makes for an intersting look back on the development history of the M8:

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parallels // LinnStrument + Melbourne Instrument Nina

video upload by the audio dump

"Some quick technical notes since I wasn't feeling the live annotation on this one. If you notice “SWITCH 1” lighting up intermittently on the left side of the instrument, that’s showing when I’m using the sustain pedal. The switch is assignable, so that isn’t necessarily what it means in every LinnStrument setup, but for me it’ll generally be sustain unless otherwise noted.

For those unaware of the Linnstrument, it was created by Roger Linn and has 8 independent rows of notes. By default these are tuned in fourths but mine is tuned (low to high) EAEADGCF. The red lights are a custom setup and do not indicate any specific notes or scales like the stock setup; I made them to resemble the fretboard markers on a guitar. The white lights show what is being played as well as all other locations on the grid where those same pitches occur. You can customize these lights however you want to. I really can't say enough good things about the Linnstrument, so if you have any questions let me know.

The Nina is being restricted to 8 voices despite it being a 12 voice synth. This is to allow a longer release while letting the voice allocation keep things from getting too muddy. The patch is intentionally simple and you can read the details from the front panel. One thing I really like about the Nina is that the oscillator waveforms are not just on/off, so this patch is based around a morph between a triangle and a saw. All effects are internal and from the Nina.

The Nina is being controlled in MPE mode - there is not a lot of in your face MPE gestures here like extreme independent slides, but per note vibrato and occasional slides for phrasing have become practically essential to me now. I really hope more synths add MPE support over time because at least personally it is very much a "once you try it you don't want to go back" sort of thing for performance. Another important feature of MPE is being able to play unison intervals, since the exact same pitch can occur on multiple channels at once (which you can hear here a number of times).

This music came together very quickly, though I had some other ideas that didn't fit here, so most likely this will be the first in a series of 'parallels'."

Free Yamaha DX100 Editor Librarian | Web MIDI Patch Manager

video upload by Ian Dixon

"In this video I demonstrate my free web-based Yamaha DX100 editor librarian, which should also work with the Yamaha DX27. It runs locally in your browser using Web MIDI, so your patch data stays on your own machine.

The editor can read the internal voices from the DX100, show the selected patch in real time, edit algorithms, feedback, LFO settings, pitch bend, operator levels, envelopes and frequency settings, and then send edited patches back to the synth. I also show the librarian side, including saving and loading SysEx libraries so you can build up a bigger DX100 patch collection.

https://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/TDL...

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro and DX100 / DX27 compatibility
00:31 Web MIDI setup and reading voices
01:01 Real-time editor overview
01:34 Operators, carriers, modulators and envelopes
02:02 Velocity sensitivity and live parameter changes
02:32 Randomize and taming new patches
03:32 Editing and renaming a patch
04:01 Downloading and storing the patch
04:25 Saving the DX100 library
04:48 Loading SysEx and building larger libraries
05:15 Sending patches back to the DX100
05:45 More synth editors and wrap-up"

EMW DX5000 | DUAL FM SOUND MODULE | Visão geral

video upload by EMW Synthesizers

Click CC followed by the gear icon and your language at the bottom of the player for subtitles once the video starts.

"Uma breve visão geral do nosso novo DX5000."

"A brief overview of our new DX5000."

I checked their site for details, didn't find the DX500, but I did find the DX7000:



Rediscover the legendary sound of classic FM synthesis with the power and convenience of modern technology.

The DX7000 was designed to deliver the powerful and expressive sound of the original Yamaha DX7, with the unmistakable character that defined an entire generation of music. From crystal-clear electric pianos and metallic bells to punchy basses, expressive brass, lush pads and iconic digital textures, the DX7000 brings the classic FM sound back to your studio or stage.
With 1,110 internal sounds carefully organized into categories, the DX7000 is ready to play right out of the box. It also includes memory for 256 user sounds, which can be received via MIDI SysEx from compatible DX7 libraries, editors and software tools.

DX7000 — the classic FM sound, ready for today.

Main Features

• Powerful sound inspired by the original Yamaha DX7
• 1,110 internal sounds organized into categories
• 256 user sound memories via MIDI SysEx
• 16-voice polyphony
• Responds to Pitch Bend, Modulation Wheel and Sustain Pedal
• MIDI Program Change for remote patch selection
• Compatible with DX7 SysEx sound libraries
• Compact and easy to use
• Ideal for studio and live performance

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Isobar Industries Serratus is Completely Unhinged Madness

video upload by Metamyther and Isobar Industries

"Isobar's new module Serratus features 9 comb filters and 9 mutations, which combined with deep sound sculpting parameters, provide completely unparalleled sonic exploration. Make drones, noisy blasts, and even demented choirs with this beast of a module. Required viewing for fans of the Vhikk X, Befaco Oneiroi, or noise, industrial, and dark techno of all kinds."



A matrix of resonant delay bodies and mutations. Serratus weaves nine comb algorithms against nine distortion, saturation, and mutation processes, with each intersection morphable in real time. Chaos and generative modulation treat the whole system as a living organism, while independent routing places filter, distortion, and reverb before, inside, or after the feedback loop, sculpting everything from string plucks and resonant percussion to frozen spectral drones and chaotic self-generating textures.

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Unboxing and First Impressions — ASM's Leviasynth.

video upload by Noisegate

"The ASM Leviasynth has landed at Noisegate. We first saw it at the ASM booth at NAMM and we've finally got one in the studio — so here's the unboxing, the first patches, and a proper dig through the algorithmic engine, the analog filter, the effects chain and that four-octave ribbon.

▬▬▬ SPECS ▬▬▬
16-voice hybrid (digital oscillators + analog filter)
8 oscillators per voice, 7 synthesis types, 140+ algorithms
4-pole analog low-pass filter with pre-drive + multimode digital filter
61-note Polytouch polyphonic aftertouch keybed, MPE
4-octave pitch ribbon (doubles as a sequencer step controller)
3-track sequencer + arpeggiator
8 macro controls, deep mod matrix
Pre-FX, delay, reverb and post-FX
CV/Gate I/O — assignable mod in/out, pitch, gate, clock
MIDI in/out/thru, USB, expression + sustain, front-facing headphone out
Aluminium chassis

▬▬▬ CHAPTERS ▬▬▬
0:00 Unboxing
0:31 What is the Leviasynth?
1:05 First preset, first play
1:30 Panel tour and layout
2:52 The analog filter and pre-drive
3:43 8 oscillators, 16 voices
5:24 Random patch generation
6:22 Building from an init patch
6:58 Mod matrix: LFO to oscillator feedback
8:17 How the algorithms actually work
9:35 Performance controls and patch browsing
10:41 The four-octave pitch ribbon
12:21 Arpeggiator
12:54 Signal path and effects
14:06 Delay and sync
17:53 The 3-track sequencer
19:22 Ribbon sequencer step mode
19:53 Build quality and I/O
20:30 Final thoughts"

Coming Soon : NerDie - inspired by SOMA RoAT (sound only, no words)

video upload by Diego Capoccitti

Follow-up to OktaDie and .

"No tutorial. No voiceover. No slides.

Just NerDie, a synth inspired by SOMA RoAT (Rumble of Ancient Times), played live, and the sound that comes out of it.

NerDie is an 8-bit noise synthesizer and sequencer — AAX, VST3, AU, AUv3 (iOS) and Standalone. The engine runs on integer uint8_t arithmetic at a fixed chip rate: overflow, wrap and quantization aren't simulated after the fact — they are the signal.

What you're hearing:

· 4 8-bit oscillators, 16 waveforms each, 19–1350 Hz
· 4 LFOs modulating pitch or level
· 3 mix topologies × 3 nodes × 8 algorithms = 1,536 ways to sum them
(addition, overflow, subtraction, ring mod, XOR, FM, waveshaping)
· Resonant 8-bit lowpass filter
· One-bar sequencer with overdub, master/slave clock
· CHAOS for instant chaos, drift for the slow kind, RND for a full patch
rendered and measured before it arrives — so it always plays
· 32 registers across 8 pages
· MPE: four oscillators, four voices — press, slide, strike and bend routed
through a matrix that decides what they move
· Pixel interface, two views: the panel, with hardware-style pot pickup,
and the matrix, with all 32 registers in sight for DAW work

Recorded in one take, no post-processing on the audio.

Headphones recommended.

Coming soon!

Formats: AAX · VST3 · AU · AUv3 · Standalone (macOS, Windows, iPad, iPhone)

NerDie is an independent project by Diego Capoccitti / 34Audiovisuals,
not affiliated with any hardware manufacturer, inspired by SOMA RoAT (Rumble of Ancient Times)

© 2026 Diego Capoccitti / 34Audiovisuals"