Free Lo-Fi VST Synth

US de la mancha sets dirty harry free 07/11/13

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You used to have to pay for dirty harry, a VST synth for Windows, but now de la mancha has released it for free. De la mancha had this to say...

"dirty harry used to be a payware VST synth, but since I stopped selling any plugins at all, I thought I'd release it for free. Enjoy it in all its dirty, gritty, lofi glory!

dirty harry is an unashamedly DIY lofi synth based on the samples of my two homemade, lofi noisemakers, the Atari Punk Console and the BugBrand WOM

dirty harry offers 20 unique waveforms in all their mono/monophonic glory. For extra grit the oscillators can be sync'd or ring modulated. Fidelity can be lowered further still with reduction in sample quality, distortion and a unique 'bad contact' emulation. 2 tempo sync LFOs allow modulation of filter, pitch and contact, with one LFO modulating the depth and frequency of the other. There are envelopes for volume, pitch and filter, with different contours and pitch options. Throw in an arpeggiator, pitch drift and portamento and you can see that whilst it may be lofi in sound, it doesn't lack for sound design feaures."

Features:

20 unique waveforms sampled from my homemade lofi synths, the Atari Punk Console and the BugBrand WOM
3 oscillators, syncable to osc1 and ring modulatable with each other
Each osc can be routed to the filter independently
2 tempo sync LFOs with many waveforms, can modulate filter cutoff, each osc pitch and the contact depth and wet level
LFO 2 can modulate the depth and speed of LFO 1
2 envelopes for volume, filter or pitch, with various contours and options to modulate up/down
Tempo sync arpeggiator
Dodgy contact emulation
Pitch instability
Low quality, dirty, lo-fi options
16 additional dirt types
3 additional lofi options
Arp octave range
104 presets covering Lead, Bass, Arp, Drone, Fx and Basic styles