Based in Boston, Matt Tytel is a software synthesiser developer who mainly focusses on open-source projects. He also creates computer-aided art and music where software generated musical segments are spliced together to create full poems and songs. In Tytel’s other artistic endeavours he uses patterns generated from simulations of naturally occurring structures in physics and the natural world — such as cloth, water, centipedes, and flowers — to create the basic forms that serve as a foundation to his work.
Tytel’s Helm is a free and open-source polyphonic synthesizer with lots of modulation, and has a focus on its ease of use, tweakability, and its live visual feedback. The synth features dual oscillators and a formant filter, which serves as a useful tool for sound design, or creating organic sounding basslines. Helm is released as VST, AU, LV2, and standalone.
Features:
- 32 voice polyphony
- Interactive visual interface
- Powerful modulation system with live visual feedback
- Dual oscillators with cross modulation and up to 15 unison oscillators each
- Sub oscillator with shuffle waveshaping
- Oscillator feedback and saturation for waveshaping
- 12 different waveforms
- Blending between 12 or 24dB low/band/high pass filter
- Low/Band/High Shelf filters
- 2 monophonic and 1 polyphonic LFO
- Step sequencer
- Lots of modulation sources including polyphonic aftertouch
- Simple arpeggiator
- Effects – Formant filter, stutter, delay, distortion, reverb
- 200 presets
- 32- and 64-bit
OS Requirements:
- Windows 7 or later
- MacOS 10.7 or later
- Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 or later
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