Charlatan v1.4.1 - free VA synth (Win VSTi 32-/64-bit)

[Mutant]

It emulates the characteristics of a DCO with all voices running from a master clock. Most notably when two or more octaves sound, they'll be phase locked with eachother, eliminating beating.

So it's a sync button for the osc?

Nope.
Download this:
http://www.rs-met.com/software/freebies ... alyzer.zip

And play 2 notes 1 octave apart.
When that button is active, the wave will always look the same no matter when you will press these 2 keys, when inactive the phases will be able to move independently.
This is useful when making a sound that should emulate old string machines like Solina string ensemble for example.

[manducator]

Nope.
Download this:
http://www.rs-met.com/software/freebies ... alyzer.zip

And play 2 notes 1 octave apart.
When that button is active, the wave will always look the same no matter when you will press these 2 keys, when inactive the phases will be able to move independently.
This is useful when making a sound that should emulate old string machines like Solina string ensemble for example.

Ok, thanks Mutant. Sync isn't right. Is it what's called 'retrig' with sylenth1? That's what I meant.

EDIT: I think it's called 'sync' on Synapse Audio's Dune.

[Sendy]

It's not even retrig, which starts every note at 0 degrees phase, and therefore the timing of two notes in relation to eachother defines their phase relationship.

It uses a master clock that's free running, and even has pitch drift, but it's ONE clock for ALL notes, so the pitches will drift together as one, and those with a mathematically related period (which in the western scale is only the octave - all the others are off and create beating) will "stack" on eachother regardless of when they're triggered, creating a waveform similar to a osc + subosc combination devoid of beating.

That's to the best of my knowledge, I'm far from an expert on divide-down synthesis, but that's the gist of it.

[manducator]

Thanks Sendy and Mutant,

I hear the difference but I just wanted to know how it worked. Seems like ti's a unique option.

[karrikuh]

I thought I'd clarify a bit the workings of that magical DCO switch. What has been stated above is mostly correct, but only half the truth. In fact, DCO has several effects:

• * DCO off in poly mode: free running oscillators. Further more, voices are randomly detuned slightly against each other so that when playing octaves, there is a slight beating.
  * DCO on in poly mode: phase locking of voices to a virtual master oscillator. Voices have perfect tuning relative to each other.
  * DCO on in mono/legato mode: if a note is triggered after the synth was silent, phases of osc1 and 2 are reset at note start (so this is similar to retrigger option in other synths)
  * DCO on (all modes): perfect relative tuning of osc1 and 2. Thus, if the oscs are tuned exactly 0,1 or 2 octaves relative to each other, no beating will occur. Very important to achieve certain effects (e.g. a phase-locked sub osc, or creating new waveforms via e.g. ring mod)
  * DCO off (all modes): slight pitch drift between osc1 and 2

Finally, note that a global pitch drift happens regardless of the DCO settings.

[manducator]

Thanks karrikuh, it's perfectly clear now.

[gentleclockdivider]

just found out about this one , really liking it ;
Too bad the filter lfo and adsr ..can't be used in tandem ..I have to use renoise generic lfo if I want to use charlatan's filter envelope .
Also , a high pass filter would be nice .
All in al ...verrry good sounding vst ..
good work
thanks

[Crackbaby]

Didn't know renoise had that feature, but it's good when hosts have that!

[K82]

I tried to use charlatan 1.2b on a windows xp pentium 4 pc but neither reaper 4 nor renoise 2.8 see the plugin .Why is this?

[fluffy_little_something]

Great plugin. Many a commercial synth would be happy to have such good filters It is more or less like an SEM with release on the envelopes.

Regarding the DCO switch, it helps that one can avoid any unwanted detuning by double-clicking the knobs. Without that it might be more difficult as there is no value display.

There is not even a donate button on your mini site, you should put one there

Blaukraut, hehe, funny name, at least to Germans ^^

[Crackbaby]

have you considered selling the filters as a separate vst plugin?

[jobromedia]

Really nice synth! I definitely enjoy tweaking it. There is however a problem with the polyphony in FL Studio. Play 1/8th notes with 2 keys. You'll notice how one of the keys is lost from time to time.

[fluffy_little_something]

I just did what you described. No loss here, but I am using Mixcraft.
Do you have polyphony enabled?
Maybe it has to do with the limited number of voices with sounds that have a long release time...

[Crackbaby]

do you have swing activated? if not, try to shorten the notes just a little so there's a little gap between them. Does that solve it?

[jobromedia]

Do you have polyphony enabled?

Yes.

Maybe it has to do with the limited number of voices with sounds that have a long release time...

No.

do you have swing activated? if not, try to shorten the notes just a little so there's a little gap between them. Does that solve it?

No swing activated, adding a short gap solves the problem, however 99.9% of all VST's I use don't rely on such techniques. They play the double notes when I want them to be played, and how I want them to be played.

I've provided an example for you.