Sine Machine

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Sine Machine features colorful and informative real-time harmonic visualizers that make additive synthesis easier to understand and explore.

Additive synths are rare gems in the plugin world and Sine Machine takes an unusually direct approach. Rather than building around resynthesis, FFT analysis or wavetables, Sine Machine runs on an engine refined over years and multiple architectures to make up to 10,000 time-domain oscillators playable in real-time, shaped behind the scenes by 20,000 LFOs.

Every single control in Sine Machine manipulates the magnitude or frequency of the outputted sine waves. There's no additional dsp outside of a limiter touching the very end of the signal path. The result is an additive engine designed for features that feel native to the medium, like harmonic arpeggiation, per-harmonic glide and noise, and an Additive Reverb crafted entirely from sine waves.

Creative features include:

• Harmonic arpeggiation, for animated, cascading patterns.
• Per-harmonic glide, envelopes, volumes and pitch.
• Additive Reverb, built from from 1000 additional sine waves.
• Additive "filters" including brick wall and gaussian bandpass shapes.
• Per-harmonic gaussian pitch noise for organic and lofi textures.
• 130+ factory presets from Sudara, Databroth, mleuc, Trajectoire and others.

Technical Specs:

• Standalone, VST3, CLAP and AU plugin formats.
• macOS, Windows, and Linux support.
• Hackable plaintext JSON presets for deep engine experimentation.
• 20 voices of polyphony, each with 511 time-domain oscillators.
• MTS-ESP microtonal support.
• Keyboard and screen reader accessibility.
• Online and offline licensing via Moonbase, with 3 activations per license.