Benjamin Rosseaux has released a beta version of BR808, a new free synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows.

Features:

• 8 oscillators, ADSRs, free-drawn envelopes, LFOs, voice+channel filters & distortion per instrument.
• Waveforms: Sine, Triangle, Parabola, Pulse, Sawtooth Up, Sawtooth Down, SawTri, White Noise, Pink Noise, Gray Noise, Brown Noise, Blue Noise, Clip Noise, Gaussian Noise, Band-limited Triangle, Band-limited Parabola, Band-limited Pulse, Band-limited Sawtooth Up, Band-limited Sawtooth Down, Plucked String, SuperOsc, Sample.
• Modes: Phase Modulation, Ring Modulation, Amplitude Modulation, Additive, Subtractive, Frequency Modulation, Phase Mul Modulation, Frequency Mul Modulation.
• Hard-sync, transpose, fine-tune, color, feedback and a lot of other very flexible settings.
• Effects include Stereo delay, Stereo chorus/flanger, Reverb, Compressor.
• Extensive modulation matrix.
• Sample exact modulations (the main reason why BR808 may use slightly more CPU time than other comparable synths).
• Sample support.
• Speech synthesizer.
• PADsynth algorithm.
• Custom LFO waveforms per sample.
• 10-band equalizer.
• Multiple instances.
• Optional internal 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x oversampling (1x=off).
• Almost everything is automatable with MIDI CC through the modulation matrix.
• Multi-threaded on multi-core systems, uses SSE (when available).
• Self-playing-EXE exporter.