We left Dominique Wurtz and his Charlatan VA synth in v1.4.1....he’s back this month under the name of
BlauKraut Engineering and a beta v2!

Charlatan is a polyphonic, subtractive virtual analog (VA) synthesizer plugin with focus on sound quality and
easy usability. It comes with a flexible, yet not overwhelming feature set which encourages artists to start
tweaking instead of just relying on presets. Inspite of it's simplicity, Charlatan's architecture is flexible
enough to create both classic sounds and rather experimental noises. While making no compromise about sound
quality, the sound engine has been highly optimized for efficient CPU usage making Charlatan well suited as a
"bread and butter" synth even in projects with a large number of plugin instances.


Key Features:

- 2 oscillators with shape modulation
- Oscillator hard synchronization and ring modulation
- Unison mode with upto 7 voices and stereo spread
- Stereo noise generator
- 2 ADSR envelope generators
- LFO with host tempo synchronization
- 3 filter types modeled after classic analog hardware: 4-pole (24 db/oct) and 2-pole (12 db/oct) lowpass, bandpass
- 3 voice modes: Monophonic, Monophonic Legato and 8-voice Polyphonic
- Ultra-low CPU usage

Version History:

2.0 Beta 3 (2015-05-03):
- BUGFIX crashes on AMD systems

2.0 Beta 2 (2015-05-02):
BUGFIX not loading in some hosts
BUGFIX note hanging after switching voice modes

2.0 Beta 1 (2015-05-02):
- completely rewritten DSP engine resulting in roughly 50% (!) CPU savings in polyphonic mode
- unison mode with upto 7 voices and stereo spread. Even with 7-voice unison, CPU usage is very bearable
- major GUI overhaul
- additional LFO waveforms
- stereo noise
- some more presets
- mostly compatible with presets for Charlatan 1.x (*)
(*) Due to some tweaks to the sound engine, there may be subtle audible differences when loading some of the old patches. In most cases,
it should be possible to compensate for those with some fine adjustments. Still, I recommend to keep an old 1.x version of Charlatan
around if you need to fully preserve old projects. Sorry for the inconvenience...

http://soundcloud.com/solidtrax/solidtrax-charlatan-21

Charlatan is totally FREE!




More INFO: BlauKraut Engineering - Charlatan

 

That's a great one!