Oscillato (Early Access)
Oscillato is an expert’s only, warm, vintage-inspired modular polysynth built for insanely huge pad stacks, layered voices, and modular-style patch-cable routing. You can give every note or voice its own oscillator(s), filter(s), envelope(s). My secret weapon that I’m finally opening up to the world. And the only Synthesizer with MCP support. It’s for sound designers, and top-tier synthesis experts. You have to know your way around a modular.
Example Demo: The init patch, recorded straight out of Oscillato from it’s 1-click direct output — no DAW, no effects, or internal or external post-processing :
Regular price: $150
Beta price: $49
Oscillato is novel, the only synthesizer which exposes 100+ API / MCP tools for controlling internal synth parameters through MCP or API, letting you script patches, generate presets, and control the instrument in ways no other synth currently supports. I’m not aware of any other synthesizer other than Oscillato which has native AI / MCP support.
I made oscillato for me, by me. I wanted a replacement for all my hardware I could use on the road. Something like an Obherim VST, or an Alesis Andromeda A6 VST, or a Voyetra 8 VST. I wanted my favorite analog polysynths features & sound in one place: like, the depth of an Andromeda A6 in Mix Mode, or the ability to give each voice it’s own Filters/Envelopes/Oscillators like an Oberheim Eight Voice — except with the clarity of seeing the routing with visual patch cables — ala an ARP 2600. Except, with the modern niceties, like being able to hold the Ctrl-Z key for Undo/Redo. Ahhh.
It is in beta now. I want you to play with it. I think you will like it.
Build a Modular Polysynth from Parts
Most synths give you a fixed voice. Oscillato gives you parts and layers to build with.
A layer is basically a synth. Inside each layer, you can build with oscillators, filters, envelopes, LFOs, sample & hold, modulators, and patch cables.
Per layer, you can build with up to:
- 6 oscillators
- 4 filters
- 16 envelopes
- 6 LFO / sample & hold modulators
- freely routable modulation
Need another envelope? Click +.
Need another oscillator? Click +.
Need another filter? Click +.
Need a modulator to wiggle one weird little corner of the patch? Add it and wire it up.
That is the core idea of Oscillato: do not force every sound through one fixed synth architecture. Build the architecture the patch actually wants. Quickly, easily, and visually 🙂
Envelopes. Plural.
This is one of the things I kept wanting in other synths. Not just “the amp envelope” or “the filter envelope.”
Envelopes. Plural.
And not your average 4-stage ADSR envelopes. No no no no. There are no plebeians here. I wanted greater. So, we have 7-stage envelopes! I’m not sure any other soft synths have this either — I got the idea from my Alesis Andromeda A6. There’s two decay stages, and two release stages. Meaning, you can make a swell, then it decays, and swells again. Amazing for pads.
If you want one envelope for the filter, another for oscillator pitch, another for pulse width, another for FM amount, another for panning, and another just to slowly open one tiny motion path in the patch, you can do that.
You can give each oscillator its own envelope if you want. You can make evolving pads where every part of the sound wakes up at a different time.
You can make patches that breathe, drift, bloom, and mutate instead of just opening one filter and calling it movement.
16 Synths Inside One Synth
Oscillato gives you up to 16 layers. Each layer can be its own full synth structure.
One layer can be a bass. One can be a drifting pad. One can be a noisy attack transient. One can be a sub layer. One can be a slow shimmer that only appears on high notes. One can be unstable and detuned. One can be clean and centered.
Then the voice router decides where your notes go.
A note can hit one layer, all layers, round-robin layers, random layers, key zones, velocity zones, chord-position layers, and more. There are 15 routing modes total, based on the same note-routing engine that became my Pie Plate router for Ableton elsewhere on this website.
This is where Oscillato stops feeling like “one synth patch” and starts feeling like a stack of instruments living inside one plugin. My pad machine. I LIKE THE PADS!!!!!!
Oberheim Eight Voice meets Andromeda A6 Mix Mode energy. Except you do not need to suffer to program it.
Thousands of Oscillators, Because Apparently I Have a Problem
Here is the ridiculous part: each layer can, in theory, run 6 Super Saw oscillators. Each Super Saw contains 7 detuned saws. So one note can trigger 42 saw oscillators from a single layer.
Now spread that across 16 layers.
That is 672 saw oscillators from one note. I LIKE THE SUPER SAWS!!! (P.S. My Super Saw implementation is my personal favorite: the widest, phattest, and inspired by years of owning the original JP-8000 Super Saw)
Play a three-note chord and, in theory, you could be running 2,016 saw oscillators at once.
Is that excessive?
Yes.
Oscillato includes sine, saw, Super Saw, triangle, PWM, square, and wavetable oscillators, with drawable, loadable, and saveable wavetables. It also supports microtonal scales.
MCP / AI Control for Synth Programming
This is the part I am most excited about. I am kind of scared to talk about it.
Oscillato exposes a programmable control surface for the instrument.
As far as I know, no other synth ships this, which I believe makes it the first MCP/AI-controllable synth. You can script it live, generate preset libraries, and get help building or editing patches just by talking to an LLM like Claude.
Say “make me a slow, evolving, dark, warm, vintage pad,” and it can help build something straight out of Blade Runner territory.
I’m not into fully AI-generated music, where the instrument, the performance, and the lyrics are all synthetic. There’s no humanity in that. But opening up the internals of the synth can help me, or you, express what you actually want to hear in a natural, intuitive way. Since the layout is built the way people learned synthesis back in the day, with everything wired in front of you: if you couldn’t see it, it probably didn’t work. Seeing how a sound is patched, with a little help, is a way to learn. The API is just another way to reach into the instrument, with more than 100 tools exposed. Use at your own risk!
Beta Note
I made Oscillato for me, by me. It is my baby. I will do my best with supporting it! This is a beta release at a beta price. Because this is beta, some things may still change as Oscillato evolves: preset compatibility, future formats, functionality, price, availability, and support. I think it’s powerful, and strange enough that it must now be in other’s hands.
For example: there is no full manual yet because I know what everything does. Oops. But tooltips are everywhere, so it is at least trying to be self-documenting :))
And yes, there may be bugs. This thing can push hard, especially with driven filters, huge layer stacks, and absurd oscillator counts. That is part of the danger and part of the fun. It might sound as good as a synth ever gets.
Explore the Massive Sonic Potential of Oscillato Beta
Regular price: $150
Beta price: $49
