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Oatmeal

Synth (Analogue / Subtractive) Plugin by Fuzzpilz
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Oatmeal has an average user rating of 4.00 from 5 reviews

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Oatmeal

Reviewed By FarleyCZ [all]
August 22nd, 2009
Version reviewed: 38-1 on Windows

WOW! You know ... there just have to be somewhere a few freeware synths which sounds great. First of them was synth1. Next was Helix. But when Helix came commerical, this beast appeared!

Oh my god! There is every button I need. It does simply everything what you could expect from V/A synth. It's not something special. There were tons of free VSTi which wanted to do everything. But this one can do it with great sound! Fat, clear ... not as much as Sylenth 1 or V-Station, but really high class.

The CPU usage is very low. It depends on used modules. Of course with unisono and more than one key pressed it will rise up.

User interface is not much comfortable, but really quick! And I like it! Nothing aboud "discovering" a synth. Everything is on one page. That's good for playing for fun or just for some quick ideas.

Possiblites? WOW. There is even tuning a single notes! OMG! There is nothing that this synth can't do. Great PWM, great Unisono, Great Effects (specially filtered delay). And the best is integrated waveform-drawer!

Just love it! :-) GO and get it! It's free and great!
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laertes1a
laertes1a
18 May 2014 at 12:54am

So far I don't seem to be able to get Oatmeal to see these lovely patches. For example, I put the Snow&Rust folder in the same folder (vst plugins) as I have my oatweal.dll file, but Oatmeal shows the original 17 programs. The rest are shown as 'init17' and numbers up to 63. I'm sure it's a simple adjustment. I just don't know what it is. Can anyone help me out?

THIS POST HAS BEEN REMOVED

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
4 July 2014 at 10:18am

In your DAW, choose "Open bank". Then choose the bank that you want and load it in memory. Immediately you now can browse within the patches of the bank you'ce just loaded in memory.

I have made for you an example in an animated gif.

Have fun.

Elclouter
Elclouter
4 December 2014 at 12:00am

Hi there.

I downloaded oatmeal (all versions i found) and tried all, but each time I try to use the vst, it says 'vst bridge connection lost'. Then the VST is unusable. I tried after to tweak the default skin, no succes.

I'm using cubase 7.5 64-bits on windows7. Is any one has any ideas to solve the problem?

Regards.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
4 December 2014 at 12:09am

Oatmeal is 32-bit, not 64-bit. It is on your 32-bit version of Cubase that it must be used, not on 64-bit version of Cubase.

Elclouter
Elclouter
4 December 2014 at 12:27am

I kniw, but cubase has a bridge to make 32-bits VST working in 64-bits. It's the only VST not working, and i cant fix that issue! Cubase forum sent me in oatmeal forum. In like a ping pong ball right now.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
4 December 2014 at 12:51am

Ha Ok. I didn't know that there is an internal bridge in Cubase. My bad... But, perhaps that the bridge doesn't warranty a good work with very old plugins. The last time that Oatmeal has been updated was in 2008 if I recall correctly. So maybe this plugin is not very optimized for the memory managements of today, so it leads to incompatibility in the memory allocations. I think seriously that it's a problem of that kind. You should perhaps see if the internal bridge of Cubase allows some tweaking for some very old plugins having a weird memory management. I can't affirm, being not a Cubase user, so it's simply a suggestion to look into the help manual. Otherwise I suggest you to ask directly on the Steinberg forum, Oatmeal being a widely known plugin it is certain that on the Steinberg forum (I think that it is certainly more exactly here) someone will tell you with precision what happens and how to address that issue.

Elclouter
Elclouter
4 December 2014 at 12:57am

Thank you so much for you help. Yep looks to be in 2008 for the last update. Do you know if I can tweak the default skin? because I tried to change the default skin, oatmeal loaded, but it was all whit window. I could play and change patches, but didn't have acces to knobs and oatmeal interface, if i can say that. I will chanllenge on cubase forum as you suggested.

Thank you.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
4 December 2014 at 1:29am

Yes, and Oatmeal is by the way very known to have already many awesome skins. I think that they all are made with the two freewares SkinMan and KnobMan (both quite easy to use, and very funny to experiment, spending hours to discover these two free gems is not time lost, it is a real hobby to enjoy).

Elclouter
Elclouter
4 December 2014 at 1:39am

So I just have to swap skins in the default folder in the oatmeal folder?

Regards.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
4 December 2014 at 1:59am

It's exactly that. You can also take this file in my web space, it contains Oatmeal but also many banks, patches, and skins for Oatmeal. You have just to unzip it in your VST directory and discover all that. And I highly suggest you to read all the pages of this thread, probably that you'll find yet other nice informations on Oatmeal, its patches and skins. The thread began in 2006 so of course many things are old (but interesting to read)... but the last pages of that same thread are just of a few weeks ago, meaning that the thread can remain still alive.

You're welcome.

BlackWinny
BlackWinny
6 December 2014 at 1:12am

A video which will help you to understand how you change the skin on Oatmeal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJtdF6FwzM

MoogyPark
MoogyPark
26 February 2021 at 9:53pm

BlackWinny- thanks so much for uploading that combo of all things Oatmeal via your "this file" link above. Takes forever to get all that stuff put together and the default skin you picked is just great too... no desire to change it yet. Only thing I wish was that had been done was a pop-up preset browser, so you can see all the presets in the bank at once. Oh, well... beggars can't be choosers (hah). Still, I gotta admit this old synth still sounds good to my ears here in 2021. Thanks for making this available, since the dev has decided to let it be washed away by the tides of time. Thanks again for keeping it alive in a very friendly combo pack. Cheers.

mvrasseli
mvrasseli
28 December 2015 at 5:27pm

I made a track featuring this amazing Synthesizer:

https://soundcloud.com/analog-waves-traveller/wip-groove-wonderland-instrumental-free-download.

MoogyPark
MoogyPark
24 February 2021 at 1:36am

Looks like the link to this track is now without the "wip-":

https://soundcloud.com/analog-waves-traveller/groove-wonderland-instrumental-free-download

gabgue
gabgue
22 October 2016 at 5:53pm

Link is dead.

pauleamca
pauleamca
23 October 2016 at 6:08pm

http://www.groovelastig.de/files/fuzzpilz/buzz.htm.

blatanville
blatanville
24 October 2016 at 12:36am

thanks.

almazbur_snosbeton
almazbur_snosbeton
22 February 2023 at 1:00pm

Я отремонтировал один skin MrM-Blue на своё усмотрение. Может, вам понравится.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvk9pffa54uoyc5/Skins_MrM-Blue_Repair.zip

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