September 29th, 2008 by niwa | posted in download, niwa's audio corner |

A while ago Joachim (aka JoaCHIP) transformed the buzz-only bassline generator TB4004 into a VSTi: The TB4005.

The original generator gained acclaim in the buzz community for being simple and very flexible. It produces sounds ranging from simple and phat moogy basslines to dope synth-stabs. The TB4005 is almost an exact copy, encorporating the same 9 parameter setup.

The 1-oscillator synth comes equipped with 6 waveforms (2 saws, 2 sines, a square and a triangle), controllable decay, note-length, pulsewidth modulation and, being a really interesting feature on a little synth like this, a chord function. It has no GUI at all, so how it looks will depend on the host application you’re using:

The ‘lack’ of parameters make this plug-in easy to use, and the sound is great for such a lightweight synth. Because of the low CPU usage you can use lots of instances of the TB4005 so that it could be the only synth you need in your track. Check the audio clips below for some heavy useage (courtesy of robotplanet.dk):

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by Ricardo Ferrari

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by Shro0m

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by JoaCHIP

Get TB4005 here