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Tweakbench‘s contribution to the KVR Developer Challenge is Ritual, a Bass Synthesizer VSTi.
Though Ritual is the first new VST from Tweakbench in over a year, you will probably recognize the GUI if you’ve ever used any of the other Tweakbench plug-ins.
Features
- Two morphable oscs
- Custom designed cascade filter system with a feedback chain
- LFO and Envelope modulators
- Mod matrix
The two morphable oscillators are a key feature here. A shape knob can be set to morph the waveforms. Oscillator 1 morphs from a pulse to a crushed triangle and oscillator 2 can morph from a supersaw to a crushed sine. The supersaw waveform used in Ritual is a completely original design as well.
Top quality as expected from Tweakbench!
Ritual is not on Tweakbench‘s website yet so get it at the KVR Developer Challenge page.
I usually don’t spend more than a few hours on these contest entries, which means I rarely get the result I’m looking for.
The Boards of Hollandia track turned out way too clean sounding for that particular style… A scratchy record and more background sounds would’ve been a good idea indeed.
Thanks for listening!
Ronnie
I rather liked your Boards of Canada clone — it is actually a lot more musically textured than most of their stuff.
If you really wanted to completely ape that style, you could just record the run out groove of a scratchy record and mix it in with the drums and roll off the high end. And it isn’t until the end that you jump on their main trick — a slow LFO on pads so they drift about 10 cents every couple of seconds, like you’re playing a record with an off center spindle hole.
Oh, and record a schoolyard with children playing, and run it through agressive telephone EQ and loop it underneath with a slow LFO on the volume level.