★★★★★
Tunefish is an excellent, compact virtual analog synthesizer. The synth code has a compressed design, so it’s not heavy on the CPU, but it still produces an audio quality that competes with commercial synthesizers.
The key features are (from the Tunefish website):
- It’s implemented as a VST instrument
- It uses a spline based oscillator that can by configured very dynamically.
- Additionally to normal sine, sawtooth, triangle and pulse waveforms, it can do anything that is possible with 6 points and step/linear/spline interpolation.
- The Noise generator can produce any frequency of noise with any bandwidth
- Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass and Notch filters are available
- 2 ADSRs and 2 LFOs that can be linked to pretty much any important knob using a modulation matrix
- Supported effects are Flanger, Chorus, Distortion, Delay, Reverb, EQ and Formant
- The effects stack allows for any permutation of up to 10 effects
This is a huge, eclectic mix of features for a free product.