Aetheriae, Morphor's hybrid texture synthesizer, boxed

Software Synthesizer

Aetheriae

Hybrid texture synthesizer

Granular synthesis, six-operator FM, phase distortion, physical-model resonators and BBD emulation in one instrument, with wavetables beside them: up to eight sources layered in every voice, each with its own two filters and envelope, then through a modelled bucket-brigade ensemble, chorus and echo, worn tape and a deep reverb.

Made for evolving pads, strings and choirs, plucks and bells, lo-fi drones and textures, with its roots in the string machines of the seventies and in the BBD circuits Morphor builds in hardware.

A VST3, AU and CLAP plugin and a standalone app for macOS and Windows, and the same instrument in your browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone. Free, with every feature, in every version.

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Version 1.0.0

Features

  • Up to 8 sources per voice: wave, sample, FM, phase distortion, resonator, air
  • 33 band-limited wavetables, a wavefolder and your own wavetable files
  • Granular: samples as grain clouds (size, density, spray), loops or one-shots; 69 factory samples and your own
  • Six-operator FM with ten algorithms and eight macros
  • Casio CZ style phase distortion, alias-free up the keyboard
  • Physical-model resonators: a 32-partial modal bank or a waveguide string, seven exciters, a BBD string
  • Two filters on every source and two on the sum, ten types including a vowel filter and a phase shifter
  • An envelope and two LFOs on every filter, an amp envelope on every source
  • Four LFOs, two envelopes, an eight-row matrix, per-voice modulation
  • Eight macros, each moving up to 16 controls, automatable in your DAW
  • BBD emulation: string machine ensemble, chorus and echo through modelled bucket-brigade chips
  • Phaser, slicer, BBD delay, and hall, shimmer or spring reverb with freeze
  • Lo-fi: wow, flutter, crush, cassette or VHS tape, vinyl and drift
  • Arpeggiator, chord mode and hold; notes out as MIDI
  • 282 factory presets in eighteen categories, your own in packs
  • Thirteen themes, flat and 3D, your own colours, side panels, zoom to 200 %
  • Waveform, spectrum, waterfall and 3D waveform scope
  • A tooltip on every control and a full manual, built in

Specifications

FormatsVST3, AU, CLAP, standalone app, web
macOSmacOS 11 or later, Apple silicon and Intel (VST3, AU, CLAP, app)
WindowsWindows 10 or 11 or later, x64 and Arm64 (VST3, CLAP, app)
WebChrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Brave; MIDI in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Brave (not Safari, nor any browser on iPhone and iPad)
Voices16, up to 8 sources each
Presets282 factory presets
PriceFree (donations welcome)
ManualOnline and PDF
The Aetheriae panel in its Dark 3D theme, the preset Classic Strings loaded

The panel in the Dark 3D theme. Twelve more themes are in its settings.

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Aetheriae 1.0.0

macOS

Mac

Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 11 or later. VST3, AU, CLAP and the standalone app in one signed and notarised installer; an uninstaller beside it.

Download for macOS

Windows

PC

x64 and Arm64, Windows 10 or 11 or later. VST3, CLAP and the standalone app in one installer, which picks what your machine runs.

Download for Windows

Not yet code-signed: Windows may ask you to confirm (More info, Run anyway).

Web

Browser

Nothing to install: the same engine, presets and effects in a web page, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.

Open the browser version

Plays in every current browser. MIDI keyboards in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Brave; not in Safari, or in any browser on iPhone and iPad.

Manual

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Complete manual and synthesis guide.

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