Behringer has officially introduced Vintage, a free software synthesizer for Mac & Windows.
Vintage is a traditional subtractive synth, featuring two oscillators and dual multi-mode filters.
The software synth was created in collaboration with Stefano D’Angelo of Italian DSP company Orastron. Behringer is making Vintage available as donation ware, with donations going to support the Playing For Change Foundation.
Features:
- Synthesizer engine based on meticulous modeling of legendary analog vintage synthesizers
- Two high-quality oscillators with hard sync function and selectable waveforms including sine, square, saw, noise and sub-oscillator
- Two versatile filters featuring 12/24 dB switchable low, high and band pass, notch and formant modes, plus selectable drive curves for lush harmonic saturation
- Filter ADSR controls are easily accessible and a flexible routing scheme allows for serial or parallel filtering
- Noise generator with color knob controlling low pass cut-off
- Following the filters, two amplitude modules allows for panning and leveling with controllable ADSR envelope
- Dual LFO to modulate oscillators, filters and amplifiers with separate controls for rate, attack, delay, retrig and waveform
Vintage is available now as a free download.
Sounds great when you take the time to program it, without an initialize patch though it is a bit of pain. The presets are some of the worst I have ever heard, most of them have radical detune settings that make the instrument sound out of tune and most also have some strange routings to velocity that make the patches cumbersome to play. It is a legitimately nice sounding instrument though with a decent feature set and UI, an initialize patch would make a world of difference though instead of editing the horrendous presets.
What an innovative concept!
oh good there’s a heat sink on the back.
I downloaded this and tried it out. I had free soft-synths years ago that sounded better than this. And there are problems with latency, which I don’t have with any other soft-synths. I would be disappointed if I paid $ for this. I’m just sayin’. Maybe an updated version down the road will be better.
Looks remind me of a saurus looking synth but soundwise its like a old synth-edit modul
Simple question: if this was a modestly priced VA from a small software house rather than a freebie from B, would it wow you as something you could really use?
I always appreciate the use of Bezier curves for envelopes, because they’re so tweakable, they should be standard. Otherwise, Vintage feels so basic, its like the framework for a synth that will come into its own with version 3 or 4.
Useful for nothing
The appearance of a Behringer-branded VST tells me that the market for hardware must be pretty soft right now, and getting softer.
“our forthcoming digital suite of instruments”
“Digital suite?” Oh boy, stay tuned for a whole new tornado of mud-slinging. It’ll be like rubbernecking at car wrecks. I’ll feel sort of guilty, but I won’t be able to look away.
Or they’ll shock us all by releasing a viable $200 Bomnisphere. Rockin’!
I guess they ran out of other brand names and trade dress to knock off and at a particularly boring board meeting simply decided that “Vintage” was good enough.
It is a FREE synth, either download or don’t download……it’s free for god’s sake, quit complaining.
Air is also free, however fresh air on the countryside is preferred instead of the city
I thnk they‘re secretely working on cloning Arturia‘s V Collection …the Barturia B Collection
A bit buggy. brought down the house ableton of ableton 12 and again when I tried to restore the set.
A bit buggy. brought down the house of ableton 12 and again when I tried to restore the set.