messiah

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The main focus in the design of Messiah was low CPU. The audio part of the synth engine has only modules by Chris Kerry hand coded in Microsoft assembly language for low CPU (the effect section has modules by other developers).

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The design is inspired by Prophet5, but instead of saw, tri and pulse oscillators it has 3 innovative oscillators: Morph oscillator with 4 waveforms, unison oscillator with 7 voices (and you can put this oscillator into 5 voice unison for 35 voices), and flexi oscillator that consist of 2 seperate waves that can perform PWM, ring mod. and phase distortion with very low CPU.

Flexi oscillator modes:

mode	function	PWM
Dual A+B	Addition	Phase modulation
Dual A-B	Subtraction	Phase modulation
Ring depth	Ring modulation	Ring modulation depth
Ring-width+A	Ring modulation	Phase width/gab between waves
Phaze dist wave	Phase distortion	Phase distortion depth
Phase dist envA	Envelope distorts the phase of wave A	Depth of phase modulation
Phase dist envB	Envelope directly controls the phase of wave A	Phase mod of wave A
Envelope	Only envelope is output	X
Ext.indexing	PWM controls the phase of wave A	PWM controls the phase of wave A

You can set the pitch of wave B with the "WaveB/env.offset" knob.

The synth has a advanced gate with controls for cutoff and harmonics (overtones) for all 16 steps. Messiah is a VST-instrument. You install it by copying the messiah.dll file to your VST-plugin folder. Audio-clips.

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Credits: Programming: Gunnar Ekornås. Custom modules by Chris Kerry, David Haupt , Attila Fustos , Peter Schoffhauser , EVM, Kelly Lynch , Rick Jelliffe , Andy Medforth and Simonluca Laitempergher .  Programming advice: Chris Kerry and Peter Werner. Made with Synth-Edit.