Melatonin has introduced Sine Machine, an additive software synthesizer for Linux, Mac & Windows that’s designed to make additive synthesis visual and user-friendly.
Sine Machine uses 20 voices of 511 time-domain oscillators per voice, with sound design centered on direct manipulation of harmonic amplitudes, envelopes, pitch, and modulation. All filtering, reverb, and other timbral processing are implemented within the additive engine itself by manipulating harmonic content.
Features:
- The synthesizer uses 20 voices of 511 time-domain oscillators per voice
- More than 10,000 oscillators and over 20,000 LFOs are active within the synthesis engine
- The instrument generates sound entirely from sine waves
- The synthesis engine does not use FFT or inverse FFT resynthesis
- Per-harmonic volume editing is provided
- Per-harmonic envelope editing is supported
- Per-harmonic pitch modulation is available
- Bulk editing tools allow simultaneous editing of multiple harmonics
- Additive filters include brickwall and Gaussian band-pass modes
- Additive reverb is generated from approximately 1,000 sine waves
- Per-harmonic Gaussian pitch noise is available
- Envelope Slop introduces variation between voices
- Microtuning is supported
- MPE performance control is supported
- More than 140 factory presets are included
- Visualizers display harmonic and spectral behavior during editing
- macOS, Windows, and Linux compatibility
Video Demos:
Pricing & Availability:
Sine Machine is available now for $75 USD.
Is the per-harmonic pitch control only LFO and not either a fixed spread/offset or envelope?
I like this synth. if you hit activate while using the demo its 60 as of july 2
There are plenty of good ideas in this synth. With the raw number of sines it can produce, I only regret that it doesn’t provide resynthesis. But a good resynthesis would require MSEG envelopes for both amplitude and frequency instead of ADSR – some would also argue that it requires phase control on top. It then becomes a much more complex beast. Maybe it would kill the fun, I do not know. The advantage of resynthesis is that it keeps the time domain intact no matter what note is played (which is not the case with sampling).
La modulazione per ogni armonica Implementata in hardware suonerebbe diverso e meglio… Ricordo Kawai K5000 che implementava il loop per singola armonica. Molti credono che un software da 50\70 euro\dollari suoni come un hardware da migliaia di dollari\euro. Purtroppo ciò che spendi ciò avrai.
Ho un Kawai K5000! È molto profondo e suona benissimo. Lo adoro. Ma anche modificare i parametri è difficile e richiede molto tempo, soprattutto perché non sono un esperto di sintesi additiva. Un’interfaccia software come questa probabilmente mi aiuterebbe a imparare e comprendere meglio la sintesi additiva. Perdonatemi, ho usato google translate per aiutarmi a scrivere questo messaggio
yup – when programming my K5000S the week is gone
Additive synthesis shouldn’t be friendly! 😀 Work for your sounds! Kidding aside, I’d still love to see a revamped Synergy, what a truly classy instrument and now with software support beyond the OG Kaypro. Do things like this still belong to Crumar? What a prime candidate for a virtual revival. I still have a Kawai K5000S, not only a primo keyboard to play but there’s still no software imitation that compares. Looking forward to checking this out!
Additive synthesis and physical modeling are my two absolute favorite forms.
Robust modulation capabilities (including release velocity, and polyphonic aftertouch), and micro-tuning are also important and show real commitment by the developers.
This does have some very cool features– and seems pretty friendly to use. It has most of what an additive fan would enjoy.
Looks like you can control the first 32 harmonics with volume envelopes, and you can do some some LFO things to pitch.
I wish there was more attention paid to being able to manipulate the pitches in a controlled way. I guess there are other additives that do that a little more.
Why no resynthesis? It’s a great feature.
I am reminded of claims that make the violin easy to learn. Nothing great is easy.
You can get a 10% discount on Sine Machine with coupon code REKKERD at the checkout.