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Curve 0.5b is a VST synthesizer with aliasing-free oscillators and a pristine, sharp sound.
 

Curve 0.5b

Cableguys Curve 0.5b is a free synthesizer for your VST sequencer that allows you to draw your own waveforms.

It has 3 oscillators (each of them can be set to either one of four user-waveforms or to sine, saw, pulse, triangle or noise) as well as two synced and two unsynced LFOs. You can set an LFO to 0.1 Hz or you can set it to several kHz. You can even set the LFO frequency to the frequency of the note you are currently playing.

Of course it has volume envelopes, filter envelopes, ... in fact its envelopes can be used to modulate plenty of parameters.

Also it owns 6/12/24dB-filters with cutoff and resonance.

Curve has drawable modulation matrixes. Use an LFO to modulate the pitch or use an AHDSR-Envelope to modulate the filter cutoff and you get a nice filter envelope, ..;

You can play up to 128 notes at one time.

All parameters can be automated (except for the user-waveforms and modulation matrixes) in your sequencer (Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase, ..).

Curve can be told to render bandlimited, aliasing-free sounds. But you can also turn on aliasing to produce vintage digital sounds.

It shows spectrographs of the waveforms you draw.

It lets you set snapshots of your waveforms for faster editing.

Please note that this is a very old version of Curve. We are currently working on a massive overhaul. Join the newsletter to the right to get notified as soon as Curve 1.0 is released.

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Sound Examples


Curve Demo Song — This is a song I did while testing the presets. The demo includes several instances of Cableguys Curve. The only additional effect is a limiter. Even drums and fx are from Curve.

Cableguys - Upchucking Robots — The main synth and the bass sound are from Curve. Note: The main synth uses features that are not implemented in the version you can find on our site, as these features are not fine-tuned yet.


Cableguys - Advanced — The deep bass in this song is from Curve.


Presets by Vlad — Some presets by a user. These are now included in our free VST package.


Known Issues

  • The Beta only works with 44.1 kHz.
  • We only tested it with Ableton Live 4.02 to Live 7 and Steinberg Cubase SX 2.01.
  • Fast envelope settings produce clicks. This one is intended, as it lets you produce some "trashy" sounds.
  • The plugin does not work on systems that lack one of these DLLs:
    mfc71.dll, msvcp71.dll, msvcr71.dll


Known Bugs

  • Clicks may occur when editing a wave while playing a sound.

Please mail to contact@cableguys.de if you find bugs, or if you have questions, comments or anything else that helps us to improve this synth. You can mail in English or German.



System Requirements

Windows:
1.5 GHz Pentium 4 or faster
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Sound card with ASIO driver support recommended
Graphic card with OpenGL support
VST-compatible host sequencer
Mac:
The next version will be available for Mac, too.

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