The Chip Collection has released SabaTwoTiga, a little vst synth especially made for creating lead sounds.

"SabaTwoTiga is a free VST instrument for powerful electronic leads. The 4 voice selector knob allows you to quickly find a tone. 2-way switches modify the sound in an all or nothing fashion, eliminating time spent mousing for a new sound. It is a beefy and musical synth."

Features:

• 4-Way Voice Selector (1, 2, 1+2, Ring Mod)
• Mono Mode (glide)
• Two Tuneable Sub Saws
• Filter Control
• Tempo Sync-LFO (Wobble Mode)

Download it for free here!

Strings are nice! Just ask musicians like Pet Shop Boys, or Jean Michel Jarre, and they will say "Strings are nice!". So this new VST is good news for all strings-lovers. The Cromina String Machine physically models classics like the Solina, to achieve that lush 60s and 70s string sound.

"No samples inside! After more than one year of development we are glad to present you this physical modeling recreation of the electronic strings sound of the 60s and 70s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names, which made it first possible for bands to bring a string orchestra on stage or into the studio. The lush sound of these electronic keyboards stamped many songs of this era. And then an electronic musician from France connected one of those keyboards to a phaser and created the most famous electronic string sound ever.

Two things are fundamental for this famous sound, which also made it impossible to construct a faithful copy with samples:

- the frequency divider circuit, that gave these keyboards polyphony  with the disadvantage of a very static sound

- the chorus unit to overcome this with a heavy modulation

The soundwise peculiarities of these can not be successful recreated by sampling. So we developed a plugin with the main emphasis on the reproduction of this typical influence on the sound. Though the drawback is a higher CPU load, it absolutely gives a much better reproduction of the original sound.

Although this plugin has it’s focus on the typical Solina sound (including a phaser and delay effect), it can produce a wide range of typical sounds by using the integrated equalizer, vibrato, envelope variations (including a piano envelope) and other tuning controls."

Some demo clips - Demo 1 - Demo 2

The Cromina String Machine will be released in the end of April, and will cost 39 euro.

Check it out here!

miniSoftMusik has released a freeware additive vst synth for Windows.

"Extractor is an additive synthesizer with 4 oscillators per 1-128 patrials.The waveforms can be extracted from every wavefile , if the wavefile is small(min 512 samples) the result is more like the original. It´s possible to save the result as a txt-file and to load it. This synth has 4 oscillators that can be uses simultaneous and Extractor features a morph function that remembers a wave table or phase distortion. Other functions are a multimode filter ,flexibly tone distortion , a step sequenzer for note , attack and decay envelope. As effect there is a hq chorus."

Check it out and download it here!

myVST Demo: Extractor from myVST on Vimeo.