helm vs Cardinal

helm

Helm - a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation (by mtytel)

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tytel.org

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Cardinal

Virtual modular synthesizer plugin (by DISTRHO)

vcvrack Plugin Audio eurorack lv2-plugin vst-plugin

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cardinal.kx.studio

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helm		Cardinal
	Project
64	Mentions	73
2,311	Stars	1,988
-	Growth	1.9%
0.0	Activity	9.1
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

helm

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

Helm by Matt Tytel
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 27 Nov 2023

5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2023
FLaNK Stack Weekly for 27 November 2023
28 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023
I wanna get into producing
1 project | /r/edmproduction | 17 Apr 2023

undertstand how to install VST (Virtual Studio Technology) download some free plugins. FREE ONES, NO matter if they sound superduper or not. just to play around and try to undertstand them. watch some tutorials how to set them up in your DAW. i recommend the Plugin Helm! yes not the best but for free and alot of options to learn from it. and thats what makes it great! https://tytel.org/helm/ . i recommend this heavily because you have some sounds to start witha and you can create alone with this one alot. i mean really alot. there are endless tutorials how to make some specific sounds with this. than you need to a drumkit. you can use helms drumsounds and so on. but i recommend to search for a better way to do drums. helm can give you good piano, bass, and so on. but take your time to find a drum plugin. after you played around with helm already.
What software/synthesizers can I use that are free?
1 project | /r/musicproduction | 15 Jan 2023

Matt Tytel's Helm is a great option to learn, CPU friendly and it sounds really good.
Cheapest way to make music
4 projects | /r/synthesizers | 10 Jan 2023
Need Complete VST Instrument
1 project | /r/Reaper | 7 Jan 2023

For a synth, you can't go wrong with Helm https://tytel.org/helm/
Bojack's Roland Jupiter 4
2 projects | /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers | 28 Dec 2022

Does anyone here have a suggestion for a really cool software synth (preferably free) that can do these kinds of things? I've been messing with Helm, Cardinal and the built-in synths in Bitwig Studio and have yet to get a satisfying result... Don't you hate it when that happens?
Best free plugins?
1 project | /r/edmproduction | 12 Oct 2022
Is M Audio Keystation 49e too old for Windows 10 /Reaper use?
1 project | /r/Reaper | 8 Oct 2022

What about installing Helm and trying to play it as a standalone instrument.

Cardinal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cardinal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-06.

Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023

> It’s haven’t bought any Modular’s yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into other on the new year.
http://cardinal.kx.studio
https://vcvrack.com/
The former is libre and gratis, runs as a standalone or plugin and in the browser!! and is based on the latter.
Ther former has a libre and gratis standalone version, the plugin version is non-gratis.
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6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
VCV rack reliability for live use
1 project | /r/modular | 16 Aug 2023

I would look at Cardinal in preference to VCV Rack.
A couple of questions - VCV Rack 2 & Cardinal
2 projects | /r/vcvrack | 1 Jul 2023

Looked here? You can also download the tar, its like the zip. Follow the instructions how to open it and then install.
Generative Emotion-Responsive Music Patch with VCV Rack
1 project | /r/vcvrack | 7 Jun 2023

I am trying to use rather https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal than VCV and I wonder if I could do a similar thing.
Should I pull the trigger?
2 projects | /r/synthesizercirclejerk | 4 Jun 2023
Long time Cubase user who is leaving a more traditional electronic workflow to modular hardware... Bitwig seems to be the DAW more for this style possibly? Any opinions first hand?
2 projects | /r/Bitwig | 4 Jun 2023

There’s also Cardinal, a free plug-in version of VCV which is very good: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
How do I use my computer keyboard (qwerty) to input/play notes on Cardinal (VCV Rack fork)?
1 project | /r/vcvrack | 25 May 2023

https://cardinal.kx.studio/ https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/
Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2023
Fart into Clouds
1 project | /r/synthesizercirclejerk | 28 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helm and Cardinal you can also consider the following projects:

vital - Spectral warping wavetable synth

Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio

Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.

VeeSeeVSTRack - Open-source virtual modular synthesizer

zynaddsubfx - ZynAddSubFX open source synthesizer

faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis

lmms - Cross-platform music production software

sfizz - SFZ parser and synth c++ library, providing a JACK standalone client

surge - Synthesizer plug-in (previously released as Vember Audio Surge)

wam-openstudio - Multitrack Web Audio Modules DAW Open source, using C++ (Emscriten-WebAssembly) for the audio processing and the plugins automations, in the audio-thread.

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n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.