I picked up Pendulate years ago, played with it for a night, then forgot about it and never picked it up again.
Then I got an email about an update and decided to reinstall this and give it a fair listen.
Pendulate sounds good, and it sounds better than it did years ago. If I recall correctly, years ago it was noisy, glitchy, and dangerous lol, but today it seems more stable, more musical, and honestly pretty good for a specific range of sonic characteristics.
Pendulate does gruesome mono bass synth/drone sounds quite well, runs with minimal CPU usage, and its VST3 plays well with cubase 12, 13, and bitwig 5.1.9/5.2 beta. The sonic palette that you can pull out of Pendulate isnt the widest or most interesting, but the FREE pricetag, excellent low end sounds it produces, improvements over time, & addition of MPE allows me to give this 4 out of 5 stars. This is a fun synth and the vendor doesnt force iLok or any such nonsense.
This is a really innovative synth that can help expand your creativity. As a physicist, I was initially attracted to the dual pendulum oscillation aspect, but as a musician, I just love how some of the rhythmic stuff is really fresh and exciting.
This is no mainstream synth. Very nice GUI and a phantastic sound, I like especially the possibilties in creating complex bass sounds.
Get it and join this month's OSC.
A big thank to the developers.
ein synth, der sich deutlich von der masse abhebt, fetter sound, cooles interface, läuft stabil (hier in cubase 10, 64-bit)...und das für lau...hier gibt es wirklich nichts zu meckern - unbedingt antesten - dieser schätzchen bereichert jede DAW !.
Latest 4 reviews from a total of 4

This is a BEAST!!!!!!!! Well Done Eventide and thank you for the Free Synth.
Very unusual and totally awesome! Thank you for giving this to us.
Joining the chorus of praises! Multiple instances creates monstrously wonderful low end goodness. Tis a bit CPU hungry is my only negative.
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