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Free new FM Synth, OctaSine, For Linux, Mac and Windows

11 Jun, 2021 Software Synthesizers & Samplers

Joakim Frostegård has introduced OctaSine, a free and open source FM VST2 synthesizer plugin that the developer say “draws inspiration from the Elektron Monomachine, as well as from NI’s FM8”.

Features:

Works on macOS, Windows and Linux
Four operators with independent parameters such as volume, panning, modulation index, feedback, three different frequency modifiers (ratio, free and fine) and ADSR volume envelope parameters. The operators can be independently switched to white noise mode
Flexible routing allowing setting the output operator (with some limitations) as well as the percentage of signal that is simply added to the final output, enabling additive synthesis. By default, operator 4 is routed to operator 3, operator 3 to operator 2 and operator 2 to operator 1.
Modulation panning (!), not present in FM8
Master volume and master frequency parameters
Four LFOs capable of targeting most operator parameters as well as most parameters of lower index LFOs.
128 voices
Fully automatable
Preset handling
SIMD-accelerated audio synthesis with runtime feature detection for less CPU usage