DarkSubstrator
Additive synth · VST3, Windows x64, Linux x64 and ARM64
An additive synth. Every note is sixty four harmonics at levels you draw.
Eight drawings, called snapshots, sit round a pad, one on each corner and one halfway along each side. Drag the point across the pad and the sound turns from one drawing into another while the notes are held. The point can be automated, swung by the LFO in time with the song, or put on the mod wheel. Organs, vowels and choirs, glassy bells, slow pads and sweeps no filter makes, with twenty three presets to start from.
What you get
After you pay, a mail brings your licence and a link to your downloads. Open the link, give it the licence file and the address the mail went to, and pick the download for your computer: Windows, Linux, or Linux on ARM for a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB. The link keeps working, so come back for the latest version whenever there is one.
The download
holds three things: the plugin, DarkRunner to play it without a DAW,
and something to install both. On Windows that is an installer that
sets it up for you alone and wants no administrator. On Linux it is
install.sh, the same idea and no root either. The .vst3
is in there loose as well, for dropping into a VST3 folder by hand.
Windows puts up a blue box reading Windows protected your PC the first time you run it. That is SmartScreen. Quietening it means buying a code signing certificate and renewing it every year, which I would rather not pass on. What the box tells you is that the publisher is unrecognised, which is all it means: nothing has been found wrong with the file. Click More info, then Run anyway.