Mix in another sample from buffer 2, play around with the panning, grain density and length, and you'll be heading back into the lounge for another b-load, dude. Use the slider controls to do this backwards and forwards, linearly or randomly. Start with a hint of something real/rational/discernable by loading an AIFF into buffer 1, and blast it to death by literally taking bits of the original file and mixing them back into themselves. But that is the point of granular synthesis and in these postmodern days, or pre-post-everything days, destruction and reconstruction is a good thing. The size of the grains can be controlled, as well as the direction in which they play.The Real Time Granular Synthesizer sonically destroys any audio file loaded in the buffer. A repeating grain of a voice, for example, creates a digital stutter effect. To be perfectly honest, I'm still getting a handle on granular synthesis, where basically the wave is snipped into a tiny sample, or grain, creating a tone. Created by Marcel Wiercx, it's quite an impressive achievement. He's in a Balkan folk band as well, but I guess that's a different article. Move the mouse up at the same time (along the y-axis), and you'll hear the oscillators mix in ways you can't imagine. As you move the mouse across the horizontal x-axis, you hear Oscillator A gradually increase in pitch and speed. Imagine loading into Oscillator A a square wave and into Oscillator B your most raddest, Van Halen-inspired guitar solo. Each oscillator can generate sounds from a sine, triangle, ramp, square, pulse, or noise wave or from a preloaded sample. The synth itself consists of two wave table oscillators.
#Software synth for mac software
Developed by programmer Ryan Francesconi, a Cal Arts graduate, Spongefork is the only instrument I know of that comes complete with an artist's statement: "Spongefork was created with an intent to create a self-contained software instrument capable of responding to gestural control while requiring a minimum of hardware components."You play Spongefork by making mouse moves that emulate the "gestures" you would use to play a Theremin. Spongefork is without question the strangest of the lot, and therefore possibly the coolest. Experiment with running it out of the Mac's sound manager into a preamp or even a guitar amplifier for sonic grins. The Vibra1000 has also got a great arpeggiator. Filters include cutoff, envelope, attack, and decay controls. Oscillators include controls for square, sine, triangle, attack, and release. To my ear, this simple, colorful synth sounds great and it's MIDI controllable. One of these (RTGS) is shareware, so if you like it and plan on using it, kickback the minimal amount of cash requested by the ingenious creator.įrom Danish company Koblo comes this stripped down, monophonic version of their Vibra9000. If you're into sound design, soundscapes, or if you get a kick out of adding some electronic color to your mixes, check these out. They are, however, 100% cheaper and in their own way, just as cool. These lesser-known gems aren't as wack and complex as my ultimate favorite, Absynth (Native Instruments), nor as versatile as Reason (Propellerhead), nor as precise as Steinberg's PPG Wave plug-in.
#Software synth for mac download
And if you're a soft synthesizer junkie like me, or if you dig the sounds of square waves, oscillators, modulators and filters, but your budget doesn't include an Arp 2600, there are some cool noise generators out there that can be had for the price of the time it takes for you to download them. I've been neglecting the faithful Fender for instruments which gather no dust: virtual synthesizers.
Recently, for better or worse, my guitar has been gathering dust. Four Freeware/ Shareware Software Synthesizers:
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