Lovely Listening Aster

About
Pronounced "S, L, and S" (or "slands" for short), this synth combines the splines, lines, and steps of docB's SPL module with the organic complexity of COMET'S TAIL real animal, breaking their modulation limits. Waveshapes are not restricted to 16 points, but each voice/operator will interpolate them differently. Any operator can modulate the phase and/or frequency of any voice, and the resulting voices can be independently panned before they are sent to a soft reverb.

About

Pronounced "S, L, and S" (or "slands" for short), this synth combines the splines, lines, and steps of docB's SPL module with the organic complexity of COMET'S TAIL real animal, breaking their modulation limits. Waveshapes are not restricted to 16 points, but each voice/operator will interpolate them differently. Any operator can modulate the phase and/or frequency of any voice, and the resulting voices can be independently panned before they are sent to a soft reverb.

Signal flow
Operators → Matrices → Voices → Panning → Reverb → Output

Voice/Operators
The primary difference between these rows is their oscillator's shape interpolation. Splines' oscillators smoothen out the input waveshape, while those of Lines and Steps keep it linear. Steps adds quantization before filtering. Sync: resets oscillator phase to note trigger. The big screen: the shape editor. Double-click to add or remove points. Reset: resets the editor. Oct: sets octave from -5 to +5. Semi: sets semitone up to +11. Fine: fine-tuning between -99 cents and +99 cents. Double-click to reset. Filter & Volume Mode: filter type. Filt: filter input pitch. Track: the amount of key-tracking to said filter's pitch. Rez: filter resonance. Envelopes: ADSR and velocity sensitivity for the amplitude and filter. "Level" is envelope strength for the filter pitch. Pan: voice panning. Double-click to reset. Out: voice output volume.

Voice/Operators

The primary difference between these rows is their oscillator's shape interpolation. Splines' oscillators smoothen out the input waveshape, while those of Lines and Steps keep it linear. Steps adds quantization before filtering.
Sync: resets oscillator phase to note trigger.
The big screen: the shape editor. Double-click to add or remove points.
Reset: resets the editor.
Oct: sets octave from -5 to +5.
Semi: sets semitone up to +11.
Fine: fine-tuning between -99 cents and +99 cents. Double-click to reset.

Filter & Volume

Mode: filter type.
Filt: filter input pitch.
Track: the amount of key-tracking to said filter's pitch.
Rez: filter resonance.
Envelopes: ADSR and velocity sensitivity for the amplitude and filter. "Level" is envelope strength for the filter pitch.
Pan: voice panning. Double-click to reset.
Out: voice output volume.

Modulation Matrices
False and true frequency modulation. The higher the number, the stronger the operator's ("Origin") effect on the voice ("Destination"). Feedback-esque effects can be achieved via self-modulation (the red boxes). Double-click a box to reset it to zero.

Reverb
A simple overclockable reverb. The knobs are in order of the parameters in the subtitle. Mix: dry/wet blending. Size: room size. Width: stereo width. Damp: sound dampening. Gain: volume of the wet mix. Ovrsmp.: x1, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, and 32x oversampling. May cause buffering or crashes depending on your hardware.

Other Stuff
Preset: load and save functions for presets. Portamento: portamento time between notes. Becomes legato in mono mode. P/M: makes the synth polyphonic or monophonic. Master: output for the entire synth.

DOWNLOAD: VST3 AU

Filter & Volume