Free TX16Wx Synthesizer Now Available For Mac & Windows

tx16w-synthesizerTX16w – a free multitimbral VSTi software sampler inspired by samplers of the 80s and 90s – is now available for Mac. It had previously only been available for Windows. 

The MacOSX plug-in is available as a 32/64 bit AUi universal binary and a 64-bit VSTi. The user interface requires a Cocoa capable host.

Features:

  • Re-sizable, flexible GUI 
    • Full Undo/Redo support
    • Built-in file browser with sound playback and wave and program preview
  • Unlimited multi-timbral operation
  • 128 voice polyphony
    • 12/24 dB resonant filters
      • Low, high, band- and allpass
      • Notch, peak, low– and highshelf
    • Two syncable LFO per voice
    • Two Modulation Envelopes per voice
    • Three Sequence LFO per voice
    • Modulation matrix with 16 modulation slots per voice
    • Multiple keyboard scales
    • Multiple trigger modes
    • Mono/Poly/Legato operation
    • 8 choke groups per program
    • Per-sample loop start/end/direction modulation
    • Polyphonic glide
    • Polyphony limit per channel
  • Built-in sample editor
    • Automatic Loop Slicing + slice mapping
    • Actually Samples! Record audio straight into the sampler.
    • Automatic pitch detection
    • Loop tools
    • Loop cross fading
    • Multiple loop definitions per wave
    • Trim, cut, duplicate
    • Pitch detection
    • Normalize
    • Reverse
    • Tempo detection
  • Graphical keyboard mapping editor
    • Automatic sample layout
    • Flexible drag & drop-based group edit
  • Quick select of sound data via MIDI
  • Drag & drop of samples/programs/performances/banks
  • Multiple outputs
    • 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs
    • Individual output mapping for key groups (drums)
  • 16 mappable controllers for automation
  • 48 mappable VST parameters for automation
  • Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading
  • Reads multiple sample and bank formats

    • WAV/AIFF/AIFC
    • SoundFont 2
    • SFZ Files
    • Ogg Vorbis
    • FLAC
    • Typhoon compressed AIF files
    • Original Yamaha OS Wave files
  • 100% documented XML-based sound file format.

    • Anyone can write conversion tools.
  • Saves data in DAW project directory
  • Low CPU usage
  • Fully native, optimized for SSE2.
  • MacOSX AU/VST64 & Windows VST support
  • 64-bit support

Note: A commercial ‘pro’ version is also available. See the TX16w site for details.

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