Iconic guitar synth pedal from the late 70s. Rebuilt for your DAW.
Plug in any guitar or bass and transform your sound into a fat synth bass or lead monosynth swell. No MIDI, no lag. Just your playing, re:synthesized.
Hear it first
Your guitar is the oscillator
Nearly 50 years ago, novel analog processing techniques were able to let you divide and multiply your signal to create tones which sounded like synths. Mix that in with an envelope follower and a filter derived from a synth, and guitars were able to create sounds never heard before.
Over the years that pedal has been a staple of guitarists, blending this unique sound in to create unique octave fuzz sounds and full-on synth leads. It also shines as a bass that can keep up with your playing. No tracking means no lag: it's the real-time signal transformed. So your pick, your dynamics and your pitch stay in the sound. Every note you pick triggers a sweep. Play a chord, and the notes intermodulate exactly as they would on the pedal.
Beyond the pedal
re:SYNTH contains four filters inspired by some of the most treasured vintage synthesizers.
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TI-3700
A modern recreation of the reissue's filter. Steepest slope, the most obviously synth sweep.
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RCA-94
The vintage pedal's own filter. The peak sits right above the cutoff you set.
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KEIO-20
Cuts through your mix more. It won't self-oscillate, but gets close. Your core tone comes through more.
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RAM-904
The monster. A transistor ladder, the most expensive CPU-wise, but worth it.
We also added a second envelope, so you can put a slow swell under a fast sweep. There is a fuzz circuit as well, designed to maintain low end and provide gated fuzz sounds, further enhancing its sonic capabilities.
Familiar feel to the original
You get the pedal's own ranges and tapers. Resonance peaks and decays in every filter, and none of them self-oscillates, at any setting, to keep things feeling like the original.
Sonic experimentation
Don't limit it to just guitar. The voices can lend unique and fun sounds to vocals, drums. Fun to experiment with when you are looking for something different.