Five Audio Synthesizer Programs for Windows

An audio synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that can work as several traditional musical instruments. It will perfectly imitate instruments such as guitar, piano, violin, drum, sitar, etc. It also allows you to control BPM, pitch, voice, oscillator, envelope, frequency, and other aspects of sound waves. For this reason we are going to present you five audio synthesizer programs for Windows.

All the platforms we will list offer you a wide range of sound adjustment options and support one base instrument per configuration.

Helm

We will start with Helm, an audio synthesizer program that includes a dozen features. The first thing we want to tell you is that its interface is very complex (all sound adjustment options located in a grid). In it you will find controls for feedback, distortion, delay, etc. In addition to wave functions for oscillators, filters, amplitude, envelopes, among other things. All the functions of the environment are assigned to the keyboard keys, so you don't need to use its digital keyboard.

Some of Helm's functions:

Oscillators with wave selector, cross modulation, tuning, transposition and unison.
SUB with waveform selector, Shuffle & Octave Down.
Mixer.
Feedback with Transpose, Tune & Amount.
Filters with filter response, filter type, filter mix, filter unit, depth and key tracking.
Stutter with Stutter Frequency, Resample Frequency & Softness.
Formant.
Distortion: Drive & Mix.
Delay with delay frequency, feedback and mix.
Reverb with feedback, damping and mix.
Modulation.
Envelope with modulation button, graphic envelope and ADSR sliders.
LFO with waveform selector, modulation button and frequency.
Sequencer with step sequence, modulation button, number of steps, frequency and glide.

With all these options you can create an audio sequence and adjust the aspects of the sound wave to create music and new sounds. You can export and import the configuration at any time.

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Dexed

Dexed is another very good audio synthesizer program for Windows. The platform assigns all functions to keyboard keys. To select a base instrument you will need to click on the utility's logo. What stands out about the platform is the possibility of being able to create a sequence of sounds to compose a melody (which you can later adjust). The environment has: 144 automatable DAX DX7 parameters, it is fully compatible with DX7 input and output Sysex messages, among other parameters.

TAL-NoiseMaker

TAL-NoiseMaker is an audio synthesizer much easier to use than the previous options. In its interface you will find two synthesizer sections to control: LFO, filters, oscillators and more, along with the editor and envelope control.

Some of TAL-NoiseMaker's options:

Three oscillators with semitones, fine tuning, phase control (saw, pulse, noise, rectangle, triangle, sine).
Two LFOs, host synchronization, activated by note modes.
Phase control and reverb.
Oversized self-resonant 4x filters.
Adjust tuning and transpose.
Routable ADSR and filter ADSR (negative and positive).
Add up to six voices.
Bitcrusher effect, along with 256 great presets and much more.

Synister

We continue with Synister, an audio synthesizer that is very simple to use. The environment has four sections; Oscillator – Envelopes – LFOs – Filters and Step Sequencer (to customize the configuration). The platform assigns all its functions to your computer keyboard. You can use its MIDI sequence creator to obtain melodies and then adjust the sound aspects of each sequence. When you finish the work you will save the configuration on your computer.

PLEX 2

We will end with PLEX 2, an environment that is in its second version and has a very simple interface to use. With the tool you can configure the oscillator, noise, LFO, compressor, filters, polyphony, modulation and volume. When you finish the work you can export the configuration in JSON format. The platform also has a MIDI sequence creator to create new melodies.