Exc!te Cymbal
A free VST3 (and AU) plugin for a rich and intuitive cymbal synthesis triggered by MIDI notes...
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This free cymbal plugin features ultra-realistic sound through physical modeling. Use MIDI notes to trigger the in-built exciter and change tip hardness and bell intensity parameters. For added realism the MIDI triggered values can be adjusted with a probability curve. The exciter feeds into a waveguide resonator algorithm which lets you change tuning, decay and damping.
System Requirements
64-bit VST3 and AU plug-in. Requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.
Hardware
Minimum System :
- Memory: 4 GB RAM, we recommend at least 8 GB.
- Free disk space for installation: ~25MB
Operating Systems
- Mac OS 10.12 and greater (M1 / Apple Silicon processors are compatible)
- Windows 10 (other versions untested)
- Linux (64 bit Intel/AMD processors, tested in Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10, there is no reason why it wouldn’t run on any other distro/version)
Plugin Hosts / Digital Audio Workstations
Any Virtual Studio Technology v3 or AudioUnit compatible plugin host should work. We have tested:
- Ableton Live 10.1 and greater
- Bitwig 3.3 and greater (earlier versions untested)
- Reaper 6.28 and greater (earlier versions untested)
- Ardour 6.5 and greater
- Cantabile
- Cubase (user reported it working)
- PlogueBidule (user reported it working)
- FL Studio (user reported it working)
- Cakewalk by BandLab (PRO version: see below how to configure Cakewalk)
- MOTU Digital Performer
- Apple GarageBand and Logic
- Other DAWs or plugin hosts which support VST3 plugins should work but are not tested. Reports are welcome.