You can set the Beater to respond to any MIDI note you wish and the loaded preset is displayed large to enable easier tweaking of the correct plugin when you have multiple instances. The ring modulated sound is then processed by the envelope and filter in the Ring mod strip and mixed to the output. The Ring modulation strip has two inputs one from the upper Base synth and the other from the oscillator in the Ring mod strip. I hope that the front panel is easy to understand but I should explain that on the Base synth strip the FM level knob feeds back to the phase (FM) input of itself, the Base synth, so the output amplitude variation affects the spectrum during the envelope period. In this way it’s easier to add say a reverb effect just to the snare or whatever you want, without complicated routing inside this plugin itself. Rather than make a full-on drum synth, with a rack of these, I decided it would be more flexible for the user to incorporate as many or as few into the DAW that would be needed for a song project. Many popular sounds are provided by the 50 presets I’ve prepared, but much more is possible if you want to experiment. The Quilcom BEATER is a percussion synthesiser capable of a huge range of virtual analogue sounds. Beware the CPU use is high, due to everything going on inside, so on less capable systems you may have to freeze the track or render it down if using multiple VSTs in your DAW. Since there are so many sound generating possibilities it’s easy to lose track of what is contributing to the sound so you’ll find that each generator in the rack has a mute switch to toggle its contribution on and off.įinally, the bottom row features a pre-routed effects chain, the signal flow going from left to right and each one can be enabled or disabled individually.Ĭlick on the image to download the plugin, try a few presets and see what you think. The idea is that you can get a basic sound with these synths and then use the partials to modify and extend the sound, should you wish to work that way. One is dedicated to the MIDI keyboard’s mod wheel for introducing vibrato, the FM LFO controls the overall pitch modulation independently and the AM LFO is sent to the partials and each partial can have the AM level set.Īt the bottom of the partial racks there are 2 basic synthesiser strips which can be used to provide simple filtered waveforms or noise and their outputs can be panned. On the right side of the GUI you can set MIDI-related stuff and there are 3 LFOs. There is a single FM bus fed by 2 FM modulator synths and the level of FM can be adjusted for each partial. Each partial can be panned left to right to give increased stereo richness. Each one has its own envelope with velocity response and amplitude tracking of the pitch and can be set to any pitch ratio. I was so proud when I got it finished that I even made a short video! It was a steep learning curve for me but having an end goal in sight helped me to find my way through the Flowstone basics, kindly helped along the way by some of the forum wizards. I've always had a keen interest in additive synthesis so I started off with a high ambition to make a monster synth with lots of additive capability, and more besides. This was my first project made with Flowstone.
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