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Musician, developer, brooklynite, other stuff too. Involved in Surge synth, CLAP standard and so on. Just here for the synth/music content.
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Hey a bit more technical but we released v0.12.0 of the clap wrapper today which lets you write a clap and get a vst3 auv2 and standalone for free. Thanks to all the six sines users who didn’t know they were testers. Chuckle. Changelog here github.com/free-audio/c...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Pushed a bunch of performance improvements to six sines for core cases this weekend and early this week. Things like "if your attack parameter hasn't changed you don't need to recalculate dphase in the envelope" and "if you don't use the lfo dont run the lfo". But makes a big difference often!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Loads of great suggestions from the KVR One Synth challenge on Six Sines. But the feature I'm most excited about came from someone asking what type of FM it does (the answer is: it did PM). And then I added this to each node. If you want to understand PM vs AM vs Lin or Exp FM, it's really handy!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Wow loads of great feedback and bug reports from first five days of one synth challenge. Can’t wait to see the tracks!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

My band, leeward, released a new 2 song ep today, “all we know”. A contemplative pair of songs written last November and December. Hope you enjoy if you choose to listen! open.spotify.com/album/4s0NIh...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Oh exciting! Six sines is the February one synth challenge synth. You can actually win prizes by making a track with six sines! Rules and details here www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewto...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Six Sines 1.0.4. github.com/baconpaul/si... Fixes a problem where VST3 hosts with note id support could, in some cases, result in stuck notes on unison legato patches in the synth. Recommend all cubase and S1 users upgrade, and all bitwig users continue to prefer CLAP version.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

BaconPaul Six Sines, free open-source TX81Z-style MPE FM Synthesizer plugin for macOS, Linux and Windows synthanatomy.com/2025/01/baco... #baconpaulsixsines #synthesizer #synth #synthesizers #freeplugin #vstplugin #musicproduction #synthanatomy

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Six Sines 1.0.3 is out, with a bug fix that could in some circumstances cause the host to not refresh parameters on a patch load. Recommend all users upgrade to 1.0.3 or the latest nightly. github.com/baconpaul/si...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Exciting new port of the vcv rack sapphire modules to a daw environment, using many of the lessons learned in making six sines. Have fun with these crazy physical modeling effects community.vcvrack.com/t/sapphire-f...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Another fun different thing will be ready I think in next 24 hours…. Stay tuned

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Six Sines 1.0.2 is out. It is identical to 1.0.1 except the Linux build is built in an docker container so an annoying glibc issue (that makes Linux generally infuriating) goes away, and the macOS minimum goes up to 10.14 rather than 10.13 for a couple of reasons. github.com/baconpaul/si...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Six Sines 1.0.1 out. This fixes a bug where, in rare cases, envelopes could get some envelope times wrong. It also brings macOS minimum version to 10.13, back from 10.15. Nightly still has new stuff, but 1.0.1 is stable github.com/baconpaul/si...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Six Sines is the audio-rate-modulation synth I've been working on for the last 40 days. After some great feedback and content from early users, I'm very happy to release 1.0.0 tonight. Have fun making music with the synth! Bugs and Ideas to github/surge-discord please github.com/baconpaul/si...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Six Sines came together in Dec and early Jan. A '30 day sprint' was a core part of my goal. Using the super cute "gource" visualizer i can see the activity in a neat little video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffb-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Before I ship a synth, I usually try and pull it into logic and make a dumb test track with it. Tonight I did that with six sines. This track uses only six sines as a sound source. Some valhalla and logic mastering stuff downstream of the synth of course. soundcloud.com/baconpaul/si...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Six sines is super close to ready for 1.0 - just a delay while we give @kinseydulcet.bsky.social enough time to qa her (amazing) patches and me a to do a last review on some code and issues. Grab the nightly github.com/baconpaul/si... for the almost-1.0 version!

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Sound designer and composer kinsey dulcet designed many of the patches for six sines. Here’s a demo track she put together where all the non drum sounds are from the 0.9999 version of the synth - and all those presets are included in the download! soundcloud.com/kinseydulcet...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments