Behringer Releases Free ‘Vintage’ Software Synth Plugin
Behringer has introduced Vintage, its first software synth plugin.
As its name suggests, this is modelled on the classic analogue synths of the ‘70s and ‘80; unlike many of Behringer’s hardware synths, though, it isn’t a direct emulation of any specific product. The ‘wooden’ end cheeks are there to emphasise the plugin’s all-round ‘vintageness’, and the interface is scalable.
In addition, you get a couple of oscillators with hard sync, two LFOs, a pair of filters and the same number of envelopes.
They say that “Vintage is packed with all the features you need to effortlessly get those lush, classic synth tones that made the 70s and 80s roar, or you can also create your own wild patches!”
Features:
- Sine, square, saw, and noise waveforms
- Lowpass, bandpass, highpass, and notch modes
- Dual LFO with controls for rate, attack delay and retrig
- Synthesizer engine based on meticulous modelling of the analog circuitry of legendary vintage synthesizers
- Carefully crafted UI for intuitive sound sculpting and vast sonic possibilities
- Two high-quality oscillators with hard sync function and selectable waveform: sine, square, saw, noise and sub-oscillator
- Pulse width modulation of square wave oscillator
- Two versatile filters featuring 12/24 dB switchable lowpass, bandpass, highpass, notch and formant modes, plus selectable drive curves for lush harmonic saturation
- Filter ADSR controls are easily accessible on the main UI and a flexible routing scheme allows for serial or parallel filtering
- Noise generator with Color knob controlling low pass cut-off
- Following the filters two amplitude modules allows for panning and levelling with controllable ADSR envelope
- Powerful dual LFO to modulate Oscillator, Filters and Amplifiers. The two LFOs have separate controls for rate, attack, delay, retrig and waveform, which encompass triangle, sine, random and square wave with pulse width control
Behringer Vintage is a free download, with the company encouraging users to support the Playing for Change Foundation. It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU formats. The Behringer Vintage link is currently down.
