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- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 27 November 2023
- Helm by Matt Tytel
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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Good stuff!
I started getting in to this at the start of the year. Already had an old, dusty MicroKORG and MIDI interface to use it as a controller, but recently splashed out on a bigger controller as the Korg's tiny keys were hurting me - plus, I wanted something bigger to get better at piano!
A couple of free soft synths I'd recommend are Surge XT, and Vital.
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what are some free, easy-to-use microtonal VSTs?
Surge (recently rebranded as Surge XT) is probably one of the most microtonal-friendly free synths out there.
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What synthesizer to buy
Surge XT. Sort of like Microfreak and Hydrasynth.
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Beginner - where to learn?
If you want more power, get https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ . It covers a -lot- of ground and while I can't sing enough of its praises, it might still be pretty daunting.
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I am wanting to learn to code a virtual instrument synthesizer, where should I start?
See if you can get Surge to compile on your machine; then try to add an oscillator and a filter.
- Good free plugins that you have found
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Anyone know what this particular Synth sound is called? Or how I can recreate it? Very reminiscent of 90s hip hop
As for free options - Surge also has a 2-operator FM mode as a single oscillator.
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Jazz/funk softsynth for beginner
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ has a ladder filter, and by following the structure of a Minimoog, you can approximate the sounds fairly closely, but that means going off the beaten path of factory presets and building your own.
Patches
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GitHub for music production?
I use it for patches - https://github.com/instatetragrammaton/Patches . It would honestly work rather well if DAWs serialized their formats to text files with references to .wavs in the same folder.
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Anyone know what this particular Synth sound is called? Or how I can recreate it? Very reminiscent of 90s hip hop
In both cases, the modulation level is controlled by a simple envelope with ADSR set to zero, max, zero, zero - also known as a pluck. Add a bit of release time (and increase the sustain to a non-zero amount), and adjust the decay to taste.
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Trying to re-create the lead pluck in this song
Read https://github.com/instatetragrammaton/Patches on how to use it.
The pluck itself is a single oscillator square wave which has (obvious, in retrospect) a pluck envelope for the volume. There's likely a very subtle chorus effect for stereo widening, and definitely some reverb on this sound.
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Beginner looking for something to materialise with
The other part is of course heavy sidechain compression and in some cases a subtle tape/VHS effect to give things a bit of warp. Trust me when I say that free software synths can absolutely do this, and if you want the hardware versions of these you're probably looking at four figures. If you'd get a Minilogue or something, you wouldn't have drums, and you'd have to record several parts on top of each other several times in order to get all your instruments. This is fine but it is tedious.
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What’s the name of the bass and melody instruments in “Be Alone” by Blxst?
There are two bass sounds; there's an overdriven version and a regular one. In both cases you can make this with a single saw wave oscillator through a lowpass filter. Use a pluck envelope for the filter and amplifier. Turn down the filter cutoff, and set the envelope > filter routing halfway.
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Help me find a replacement synth... or the original thing. I'm ready to pay.
I've built several patches for it already: if you navigate to the project root you'll see how it works and you can check out some other patches for plugins you may have.
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Copyright gives me massive headaches and it almost makes me wanna quit.
In that case, check out https://github.com/instatetragrammaton/Patches and get yourself all the patches you want :)
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Trying to recreate a MicroKorg patch with plugins
Alternatively again: this sound is a single square wave oscillator tuned 1 or 2 octaves lower with the filter resonance turned up and keytracking set to 100%. The filter envelope ADSR values are 0 33% 0 0, the amp envelope is a gate shape. Filter amount has to be adjusted to taste.
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Free vst for a beginner?
Synths will have presets. Presets for synths like these basically contain just the positions of each knob and slider; they don't contain the sound itself because that sound is completely dependent on the settings of those sliders. An exception is when synths use samples; Vital's noise oscillator is a big sample of noise which is looped (you won't hear this because it's big enough).
What are some alternatives?
vital - Spectral warping wavetable synth
helm - Helm - a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation
iPlug2 - C++ Audio Plug-in Framework for desktop, mobile and web
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio
OB-Xd - Virtual Analog Oberheim based synthesizer.
Upsurge - Multi-dimensional Swift math
zynthian-sys - System configuration scripts & files for Zynthian.
DISTRHO-Ports - Linux audio plugins and LV2 ports
TinySoundFont - SoundFont2 synthesizer library in a single C/C++ file
Cardinal - Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
SigmaSwiftStatistics - A collection of functions for statistical calculation written in Swift.
lmms - Cross-platform music production software