EX / Hz.Plugins / Hz.Syntho

Hz.Syntho is a curiously configurable polyphonic synthesizer. It is built atop the same foundational modules that you find in our standalone single-voice plugins above. Hz.Syntho allows you to combine their effects in fairly arbitrary ways and also adds support for polyphony and polyphonic note expressions.

Here we present only a small subset of its sound-making possibilites. Exploring other sonic possibilities are left as an exercise to the reader. As you find new configurations, you can copy&paste the parameter settings and graph description directly into your launch scripts making it trivial to create your own preset libraries.

Examples

syntho.js

Shows how to

• connect an LFO to the filter resonance parameter.
• initialize the lfo with a knotlist.
• express LFO value remapping along an edge.

synthoWT.js

Shows how to

• load custom wavetables into 2 oscillators.
• additively combine two oscillator outputs by combining to the same downstream port.
• use lfos to drive the WavetableVariant oscillator parameter.
• become a full-fledged member of the New Age.

synthoPM.js

Shows how to:

• connect the output on one oscillator to another oascillator's phase modulation port (to 1).
• use an lfo to modulate the PMScale parameter thereby modulating the amount of phase modulation.

synthoChoice.js

Shows how to:

• compile the Syntho worklist so it works with no GUI.
• initialize an lfo to RandomChoice and provide choice values.
• initialize another lfo with a shape copy-pasted from Envelope Editor.
• use Piano to provide a simple non-MIDI interface so you can trigger notes while playing with Syntho's sounds.
• configure Syntho's gui to reduce the clutter.