I’m back with another synthesizer VST plugin for Windows and Mac and of course another free download for you. I made this one with toys I got from the charity shops and put my own twists and turns to the sounds which of course I enjoyed doing the most. I had some toys lying around already so I decided to get some more and get creative with it and twiddle with the sounds for different FXs and sounds. Of course, the toys will be going back to the charity shop now I have finished with them and I thought it was a perfect way to shop and have fun as I love charity shopping it’s always fun to look for something you don’t even know you are looking for or want but I always come out with some good stuff even though it just tack. If I was older and collected records I probably be at the local charity shops a lot more looking for those gems but I’m more tape deck myself. I used a lot of FXs like reverb, delay, flanger, compression and other FXs to mould the sounds and to get them to sound different from what came out of the box I am satisfied with the sounds that I made but some could be a lot better I must admit. I would describe this plugin for electronic-based genres like House, Vaporwave, Jungle/Drum and bass, Techno, Synthwave and gaming music but I think you could use it for anything and hopefully is diverse in sound and options. But I think it could make some alright old-school House and Jungle/Drum and Bass vibes with this plugin. I’ve tested it out and there is something retro about it probably because they are all old toys. The toys were all from different charity shops and I looked for toys that make noise and most importantly electric based as you get some good samples from the toys that are electric based, unlike the analogue ones. I like to think that I’m killing two birds with one stone so to speak as it’s helping the needy and vulnerable whilst doing what I love which is making music and making music from everyday objects, I mean it could be anything as long as it makes a noise I can manipulate the sound to make it sound different and not like what you heard when you first played it. My favourite way to experiment is with everyday objects that somehow I get a good tone out of after a bit of caressing the sounds with various FXS and plugins that is. I have a Tascam which is a voice recorder that comes in handy every now and then but it’s what I used to record the sounds with and then load onto my computer. It’s a bit annoying as it’s a mini SD card and I had to buy a special device to transfer audio with but the fine wine of having such gadgets makes life a lot easier even though you have to find the stick and put it in but not to bad I suppose. I did run into some trouble with some of the sounds but I managed to save the best sounds and do what I could with them. I describe the synth plugin as being rough sounding for those edgier tracks. It took two days to make plus the GUI art which I also made with the plugin called Romplur which makes it easier to make VSTs.

I made another plugin for Windows and Mac and this one is called Synthetics half the word synthesizer and half the word genetics and is another synthy VST for you if it’s any good to you. I made the VST sounds with Massive and the plugin itself with Romplur and took two days to make the whole thing from scratch. I must admit I could have done better with some of the sounds but I couldn’t be bothered to find a good tutorial to make some outstanding sounds and I haven’t made sounds with Massive for a while now so it was kind of hard to get the sounds right especially the basses which I spent more time with that then the synth sounds. I made 40 synth sounds from scratch and 20 basses from scratch which took all morning and all day to do but it was kind of easy as it was swapping the settings around and changing Oscillator wavetables, some of the sounds are a bit rough but it is an experimental synth plugin and also I left some options like delay, reverb and filter cut-off to modify the sound as you wish. It’s ideal for all synth genres but especially for electronic experimental which wasn’t how I planned the plugin but it turned out that way I kind of started off making an experimental plugin and then forgetting and then wanting some more normal synth sounds.   I would describe the sounds as sounds from the old 70s synthesizers like the Modular with square and sine basses but the synth sounds remind me of the old skool original synthesizers that were before my time but still fashionable and well sort after in my era which was the 80s and 90s I was born in the 80s though.  I made the GUI as seen in the picture above and I love to photoshop. I use Gimp for now to do all the photo editing but I really need Adobe as I heard it has more options though a bit long and stretched to put it together but it’s always worth doing it. I also called it Synthetics as I have synth music in my blood and am quite obsessed with them if that’s the right word. It started down at the Fire Station a hang-out in Bristol for up-and-coming artists and I used to play around on the synths making my own beats once I had the drums which I used to do that way in advance to save me time and effort when I really wanted to make music and plus I only had a couple of hours a day but it was time well spent and all the fun I had whilst there. Synth music is my passion and don’t think I would have enjoyed playing around with them if I didn’t play the keyboard at an early age but I always wanted to make my own music and sounds and now I have the chance to do it I can’t stop and I am always looking for new ways to make music and love to make Electronic Dance Music too which is my other love. I’ll probably use this plugin again for some more experimental stuff but I already used it for a synth scape which is an hour-long synth journey using only this plugin and drums. I made the first one after I messed up a mix I was making and it came out weird but interesting so I  decided to make something of it which is now going to be a running theme on my YouTube channel and in the video section on this website but YouTube is the main channel and have already posted lots of videos to hopefully keep you entertained, I posted the synth scape video in this post below the demo video since I only used this one.