4klang - Alcatraz Software Synthesizer

Brief

4klang is a modular software synthesizer package intended to easily produce music for 4k intros. It consists of a VSTi plugin + example songs/instruments as well as an example C++ project showing how to include it in your code. 4klang was developed by Dominik ´Gopher´ Ries and Paul ´pOWL´ Kraus of Alcatraz.

General information and usage

You may freely use 4klang in your productions, but before starting to use 4klang please refer to the readme.txt in the package for some general usage advices. For some in depth information on how 4klang works and its history up to the first public release please refer to Zine#14.

History

  • 24-Mar-2011: Version 2.8 (minor bugfixes)
    • a few synth features were not correctly detected/exported depending on certain instrument configurations. thank you Subi/Desire for reporting and providing test data
  • 15-May-2010: Version 2.7 (quality example updates)
    • Nothing new on the plugin itself, but some 4klang users were kind enough to share their great songs:
    • dollop soundtrack. thank you melwyn for providing that
    • ergon soundtrack. thank you ulrick/FRequency
    • baghdad soundtrack. thanks again melwyn
  • 06-Oct-2009: Version 2.7
    • new option to export the object in OSX macho format (hopefully :) and to specify note quantization for export)
    • oscillator now has additional gate waveform
    • arithmetic supports loading the normalized (0..1) midi note value on the stack
    • added a few more instrument presets
    • introducing a new file format version. older file versions will be autoconverted
    • some minor size optimizations
  • 06-Aug-2009: Version 2.6
    • new option to export the object in linux elf format (hello linuxdemos.org)
    • compatibility option to force the player to output 16bit integer instead of 32bit float samples
    • moved 4klang function declarations into 4klang.h plus some defines for the above new features
    • adjusted examples, added linux example code (big thanks to las/mercury)
  • 28-Jul-2009: Version 2.5
    • recording now additionally spits out 4klang.h with some useful defines for the song
    • added modulation targets for envelope (attack,decay,release)
    • added optional note buffer to access the note values of each instrument (similar to envelope buffer)
    • adjusted example project, changed threaded version for smaller size (thank you xTr1m/blu-flame)
    • added wav writer project
  • 23-Jun-2009: Version 2.4
    • chorus / flanger added
    • several bug fixes
  • 29-Mar-2009: Version 2.3

Download

Latest Version (V2.8, VSTi + examples). Download   Find previous versions here.

Support / Feedback

You can help improving 4klang by either:

  • giving us general feedback about 4klang, improvement ideas and so on. Please post to pouet.net
  • providing songs, patches and instruments which we can include into the package as examples.
  • reporting bugs and problems.
  • buying us some beers at the next party :)
 

Gopher & pOWL / Alcatraz 2009 - atz4klang@untergrund.net