TIDE

A modular synth that lives inside your DAW.

TIDE is a patching environment that runs as a plugin. You build the instrument in the same window you play it in — there is no separate application, nothing to export, and no build step between an idea and a sound. Your DAW supplies the audio and the MIDI; you supply the patch.

It ships with a fixed set of built-in modules — oscillators, filters, envelopes, and the plumbing between them. Everything arrives with the plugin; there is nothing to install alongside it and nothing to download into it.

Status: in development. There is nothing to download yet. The first release will do one thing — load in a DAW, let you wire an oscillator and an envelope to an output, play it from your keyboard, and still be there when you reopen the project.

Price

TIDE is free. There is no paid version, no trial period, and no licence key.

It runs on donations. If it turns out to be useful, there is a link below; the plugin itself will not bring it up.

Support TIDE — coming soon.

Planned formats

Source

TIDE is open source, under the ISC licence. The code, plan and working notes are at github.com/JeffMcClintock/TideSynth.