[Free VST Synths, Windows Only] Hohlraum, and Now: Krapalon

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:25 am

Here is a synth I made using Synthedit.

http://www.utenzil.com/vst/Hohlraum.dll

here is accompanying documentation for it:

http://www.utenzil.com/vst/hohlraum_dox.rtf
http://www.utenzil.com/vst/vst_licenses.txt

Two oscillators with the typical assortment of standard waveforms, but which can be modified using various combinations of pulse modulation sources that can have many many waveforms via means of a splinewave editor. It is pretty good on the CPU, worked to optimize with containers etc. O-scope type displays show what's going on with the waveforms.

The idea is to come up with sounds and then save your patches as racks- it has no patch memory.

It is maybe kind of a 'poor man's Operator', actually, maybe even more like a poor man's dog's fleas' Operator.

[edit] darn. had a nice sounding thing called The Krapalon 6000. But it gets weird in the upper registers with a high filter resonance setting, so will need to fix that.

[edit edit] Seems to be fixed now... introducing the Krapalon 6000. Krapalon, because the upper registers mostly sound like krap. But, the lower are very thick.

http://www.utenzil.com/vst/krapalon.dll
http://www.utenzil.com/vst/krapalon_dox.rtf
http://www.utenzil.com/vst/vst_licenses.txt

These along with the previously posted U-Synth x4
http://www.utenzil.com/vst/u-synth-minus-x4.dll
which is kind of a metallic, resonant ambientish thingie, form the
Utenzil Mediocre Trifecta of Soft Synthesizers (UMTSS) which,
when put together in a rack, should not be taken lightly.

well, ok. Maybe a little lightly.

clipless · Post by **clipless** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:10 am

Nice little toy yo made

It produces good sounding noises and glitcles, perfect for some minimal tech.

I'd recommend to give some emphasys on producing weird nobody needs more traditional synths, there are just a ton of them out there, and bizarre synth are way more valuable

. Pulse Mod is the key. good idea.

Maybe making also a GUI of it's own would make you plug a little more attractive.

I made this little loop in Live: if anyone uses it just let me know

http://www.box.net/shared/ph6bpu543y

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:47 am

ah yes, a sample, there should be a sample, lest there be cries of WAVs or STFU

:

http://www.utenzil.com/mp3/hohlraum0x.mp3

[edit] bad link, fixed

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:24 am

kewl man, working here.

any chance for a randomize feature?

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:27 am

Tone Deft wrote:kewl man, working here.

any chance for a randomize feature?

cool... that's a good idea, I can look into that.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:19 pm

randomize will need some 3rd party whizzy things, but seems possible...

btw a screen shot...

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:06 am

Nice demo!

Synthedit is underrated... it's not really good at thundering deep basslines, but if you want to make your own bleeps and bloops it's cool. Also way easier than reactor especially if you know how amodular synth works.

The standard SynthEdit knobs & sliders are SO ugly... they're starting to look kinda cool in a retro kinda way

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:36 am

djsynchro wrote:Nice demo!

thanks...

The standard SynthEdit knobs & sliders are SO ugly... they're starting to look kinda cool in a retro kinda way

hah that's funny, i was thinking that... "y'know, I will let it say the full word 'attack' in that dumb font because it's before-anyone-knew-what-envelopes-were retro"

plus, using the defaults just screams out "i'm f'ing lazy!"

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:11 am

bumped only because I added something new.