Members Detonator Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 I've been pulling my hair out looking for a simple VSTI that can give me basic clean waveform sounds. No filters, no frills, I just need something that will let me control the pitch of a sine wave with midi notes. Does such a thing exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sad Darwin Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Step 1 - Set oscillator to sine wave Step 2 - Open filter Step 3 - enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Detonator Posted January 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 The problem for me has been disabling filters. I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, but I can never seem to turn everything off to the point where I'm just getting a clean uncolored signal. It's literally driving me nuts that something so simple should be this hard to find. I probably could have written the program in the time I've spent searching for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nos Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Alphakanal's Automat will do it but it's Mac only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Synth1. Cutoff to max, set to 12 dB lowpass, done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundwave106 Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Future Audio Workshop's Circle I know allows you to completely disable the filters... there's probably others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 As people have mentioned, just set the filter cutoff to max with no resonance. Alternately, turn the oscilators off, crank the filter resonance until it oscillates, tune it with the cutoff and play - pure sinewave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kpatz Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Alternately, turn the oscilators off, crank the filter resonance until it oscillates, tune it with the cutoff and play - pure sinewave! Works great in the analog world, but I have yet to see a digital filter (VA, VSTi or otherwise) that will self oscillate with no signal going in. FM8. Not just 1, but up to 6 sine waves to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ClavAnother Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Works great in the analog world, but I have yet to see a digital filter (VA, VSTi or otherwise) that will self oscillate with no signal going in. That certainly used to be the case but there are quite a few now. Even my 11 year old Waldorf Q's LPF will self-oscillate. (Wierdly enough, the Micro-Q's needs a little signal to get it going.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members clusterchord Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 I've been pulling my hair out looking for a simple VSTI that can give me basic clean waveform sounds. No filters, no frills, I just need something that will let me control the pitch of a sine wave with midi notes. Does such a thing exist? VSTi is nice and practical for sine tone generator, but you could also go hardware: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spleencage Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 buy a theramin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 I have yet to see a digital filter (VA, VSTi or otherwise) that will self oscillate with no signal going in. Yamaha AN1X...there's probably others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikelpanky Posted January 31, 2010 Members Share Posted January 31, 2010 Works great in the analog world, but I have yet to see a digital filter (VA, VSTi or otherwise) that will self oscillate with no signal going in. FM8. Not just 1, but up to 6 sine waves to work with. TAL's Juno-60 clone (U-NO-60) can accomplish this quite wonderfully. Very fun to play around with. Good for chiptune leads if you get it just right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LWG Posted February 2, 2010 Members Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hello, Try using SynC Modular. There was a recent thread here announcing Native'smaking the registration codes available for free. There are a fairly large number of ensembles available.In particular, there are a couple of additive synthesis ensembles that should serve your purpose, as they give you controlover the time and amplitude of a number of sine waves.The audio from the program can be output @ clock rates of 44, 48, 88, and 96khz.While I don't use vst's or softsynths as a primary sound source, I've used Sync for a number of years to design harmonic spectra for loading into hardware samplers, and its quiite useful. Regards, -l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Umbra Posted February 2, 2010 Members Share Posted February 2, 2010 Most DAWs should have a sine test tone already built in. It's also fairly trivial to write a VSTi from scratch that does this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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