Melatonin stuffed ten thousand oscillators into one synth and made it approachable, which sounds fake but isn't. Sine Machine is an additive synthesizer running up to 10,000 time-domain oscillators. After six-plus years of R&D, it's out of early access on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a free 14-day demo.
The pitch is friendly. Colorful real-time visualizers show the sound as it moves, while advanced designers get individual partial ratios, per-harmonic ADSRs, and per-harmonic pitch, glide, and tremolo. Founder Sudara Williams went back to first principles, wanting something tactile that feels like an instrument rather than a lab tool.
It shines on evolving pads, shimmering textures, and detailed leads. The engine skips resynthesis, FFT, and wavetables entirely, instead firing those oscillators in real time, shaped by 20,000 LFOs.
Creative bits include harmonic arpeggiation, additive reverb built from 1000 extra sines, brick-wall and gaussian filters, and 140-plus presets. Specs cover Standalone, VST3, CLAP, and AU, 20 voices at 511 oscillators each, MTS-ESP microtonal support, and screen reader accessibility.
It starts at $60. There's a walkthrough video series, and an interactive comic made with cartoonist Alec Longstreth has its first two parts up. Melatonin skips sales and third parties entirely.
The pitch is friendly. Colorful real-time visualizers show the sound as it moves, while advanced designers get individual partial ratios, per-harmonic ADSRs, and per-harmonic pitch, glide, and tremolo. Founder Sudara Williams went back to first principles, wanting something tactile that feels like an instrument rather than a lab tool.
It shines on evolving pads, shimmering textures, and detailed leads. The engine skips resynthesis, FFT, and wavetables entirely, instead firing those oscillators in real time, shaped by 20,000 LFOs.
Creative bits include harmonic arpeggiation, additive reverb built from 1000 extra sines, brick-wall and gaussian filters, and 140-plus presets. Specs cover Standalone, VST3, CLAP, and AU, 20 voices at 511 oscillators each, MTS-ESP microtonal support, and screen reader accessibility.
It starts at $60. There's a walkthrough video series, and an interactive comic made with cartoonist Alec Longstreth has its first two parts up. Melatonin skips sales and third parties entirely.
