Developer Aaron Anderson has introduced Terrain, a free and open source software synth that’s available for Linux, Mac & Windows.
Here’s what Anderson has to say about it:
“Terrain is a Wave Terrain Synthesis plugin and the natural evolution of my prototype from 2016. This new product was created using JUCE, and features several drastic improvements over the prototype.
Both Terrains and Trajectories can be modified and automated at the audio rate. Trajectories feature a two-dimensional recursive feedback loop to create musically useful time-modulated shapes.
This version is also an Instrument Plugin, making control of plugin parameters and its usefulness as instrument greatly improved.
Terrain is a free and open source project.”
Here’s video demo of Terrain in action:
Availability:
Terrain is available now as a free download for Linux, Mac & Windows.
It’s a bit unpolished in this stage, but very cool concept. The interestingly shaped paths and especially the feedback make it a lot more interesting than other terrain-scanning oscillators I’ve played with in the past. I’m liking it as a drone machine with modulation from the host.
I really loved it, very cool to see how to sound and visual come together in this thing
Looks great. Not thrilled about having to build it from scratch, I wonder why there aren’t any downloadable releases. Setting up Visual studio o Xcode is a non-trivial undertaking for most people, likely to involve a detour to dependency hell.
There are: https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain/releases/tag/1.1.0