ReSynth4 - The Native Renoise Synth

This is an combination of the older ReSynth2 synth with the FMSynth project, plus a lot of new features to take advantage of the 2.8 API!

Screenshot:



Demo video:

Video courtesy of elmex below.

Feature list:

Four oscillator slots

Independant oscillator controls for:

Transpose

Fine tuning

Volume

Panning

Selectable oscillator types:

Virtual analog

Waveform selector - sin / tri / saw / pulse wave

Pulse width control

Pulse width modulation with speed and depth controls

FM Synthesis

Three operators in series

Frequency multiplier per operator

3 point envelope per operator

User waveform

Load in your own samples and use the simple common operator controls (transpose, fine tune etc.)

Selectable loop toggle

SuperSaw (oscillator 1 only)

Saw wave count (from 1 to 7)

Supersaw detuning

Supersaw wave width

Much improved oscillator quality (44khz, 32bit from 33khz, 8bit)

AHDBDSR volume envelope

Volume LFO (tremelo) rate and depth controls

AHDBDSR filter cutoff envelope

Filter type selector

Filter resonance control

Filter cutoff lfo rate and depth controls

Filter resonance lfo rate and depth controls

Velocity to filter cutoff depth control

Programmable arpeggiator:

Variable sequence length (up to 16 steps)

Variable sequence speed (ticks per step)

Independant pitch per step

Steps can be retriggers (green) or legato (yellow).

Selected step is blue (dark or light respectively).

Independant assigns to volume/pitch envelopes and filter envelope

Steps will always affect the pitch

For those of you who don’t know what and AHDBDSR envelope looks like, here is a picture:



It has attack, hold, decay, break level, decay, sustain level and release values. Note that break leve is measured from the top of the envelope, while sustain level is measured from the bottom.

Important Notes

As this is a beta, I’m being cautious and therefore, for now, the only menu items are in Renoise -> Tools -> ReSynth.

Note that adding a new ReSynth instrument will overwrite the selected instrument

The arpeggiator does not affect FM operators

FM operators only update when ‘render’ pressed

There are no midi maps available in this version

This will overwrite ReSynth2 if it’s installed

Just to clarify (as I’ve been asked before), this is a Renoise Tool, and so will work on Mac, Windows and Linux versions of Renoise (2.8). The tool is platform agnostic, so instruments will also survive moving across from one OS to another. Finally, if a user opens a song which uses ReSynth to make the instrument, due to the way the instrument is ‘pre-rendered’, it will still play if the tool is not installed on that machine (although editing is obviously not possible).

Todo

Midi maps - pending

Download from the ReSynth tools page.