PhizmOsc, a free dual-Transwave Oscillator VST inspired by the Ensoniq Fizmo (including its Transwaves)

[aquanode]

Hi everyone!

First of all sorry to let a few people down that here is yet another AI slop plugin, but I want to be open about it straight from the start. To make up for that, I'm an advocate of free and open source, no-login, standalone and offline plugins which all of my own and AI-assisted projects are.

This time I tried to recreate the sound and feel of the Ensoniq Fizmo sound, the mellow bleep bloop digital, slowly evolving sounds it can create are superb. There are MUCH better recreations of the Fizmo, like Echograin's Tranzwave which I bought and can highly recommend, but the others are not free, and/or need NI Kontakt. My product is not a real competition for Tranzwave as it does not contain any patch remakes (it is a dual oscillator synth only, not 4 osc like Tranzwave or the Fizmo).

"My" plugin, PhizmOsc, includes the original Transwaves from the Fizmo (the user needs to load them from disc, as they are loose .wav files - you can import any wavetable as long as its in .wav format, and you can specify how many samples it is long per frame/cycle) and is deliberately "old-school" in its sound engine.

Give my crappy performance a listen:


Download the plugin for Windows, the JUCE source code, and the Transwave .wav samples:
https://aquanode.gumroad.com/l/PhizmOscVST
(Type in some random email at checkout if you prefer).

Thanks for checking it out!

[wagtunes]

Okay, this thing is freaking cool. Thanks.

[audiojunkie]

Nice!! It's not really my style, but I appreciate the way you are going about it--being honest and up-front with people and providing it as open source. Thank you!

[aquanode]

Thanks for the kind replies! It is definitely a crude implementation and the raw / harsh sound is not for everyone. Even I only like it sometimes, and sometimes not. PhizmOsc nails the raw, moody character I was looking for this time but it is arguably quite hard to make pads sound more musical in it, as they can be in Echograin's Tranzwave which at times even has a soothing sound to it in my opinion.

The cool thing about the transwaves is however that they sound and seemingly evolve completely different depending on the octave you play the note or chord in, much more so than in many other wavetable synths. A C3 can be really muddy, but a C6 can be a glassy bell tone.

[audiojunkie]

That does indeed sound interesting!