Melatonin Sine Machine
Melatonin · Pay-what-you-want, suggested $75
Melatonin Sine Machine is a friendly additive synthesizer with 10,000+ oscillators, a zero-knob visual interface, additive reverb and filters, MPE, and MTS-ESP.
A genuinely approachable additive synth that hides thousands of oscillators behind a clear, visual, knob-free interface. Deep organic tones without the usual additive headache.
Ideale per: Ambient, cinematic, and experimental producers who want organic, evolving tones and have found additive synthesis too fiddly before.
Pros
- Makes additive synthesis approachable with a visual, zero-knob interface
- Huge sound engine: 20 voices of 511 oscillators, plus additive reverb and filters
- MPE, MTS-ESP microtuning, and hackable plaintext presets built in
- Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a fair pay-what-you-want price
Cons
- No AAX, so Pro Tools users need a wrapper
- Additive character suits organic and evolving tones more than aggressive bass
- The unconventional workflow takes time to learn
Panoramica
Melatonin Sine Machine is a friendly additive synthesizer built to make one of synthesis's most intimidating techniques enjoyable. Additive synthesis creates sound by summing many sine waves, one per harmonic, which is how acoustic instruments actually behave. It excels at organic, evolving tones, but it has always been fiddly to control. Sine Machine solves that with a visual, zero-knob interface layered over a serious engine: 20 voices of 511 time-domain oscillators, more than 10,000 in total, plus over 20,000 LFOs.
Rather than editing harmonics one by one, you shape them in bulk. Per-harmonic ADSR, volume, and pitch LFO are all editable across the partial series in a single gesture, and animated visualizers show exactly what each partial is doing. Two effects are rendered the additive way: a reverb built from 1,000 sine waves, and additive brickwall and Gaussian band-pass filters that carve the harmonic content directly. Per-harmonic Gaussian pitch noise and absolute pitch glide add the organic instability that makes acoustic sound feel alive, while mappable partials open inharmonic, bell-like, and metallic timbres.
Expression and tuning are strong out of the box, with MPE support and MTS-ESP microtuning, features usually reserved for high-end instruments. More than 140 factory presets ship as hackable plaintext JSON, so you can read and learn from any sound. The trade-offs are honest: there is no AAX build, the additive character leans organic rather than aggressive, and the unconventional workflow takes time to click. Producers who prefer a conventional subtractive path should look at Vital or the free Surge XT.
Sine Machine is pay-what-you-want, with a suggested price around $75, sold only through the official Melatonin site. Read the full Sine Machine review, or browse other synths at Plugin Boutique.
Specifiche
- Type
- Additive (time-domain) software synthesizer
- Engine
- 20 voices x 511 oscillators (10,000+ total), 20,000+ LFOs
- Editing
- Bulk per-harmonic ADSR, volume, and pitch LFO; zero-knob interface
- Effects
- Additive reverb (1,000 sine waves), additive brickwall and Gaussian band-pass filters
- Expression
- MPE, per-harmonic Gaussian pitch noise, absolute pitch glide
- Tuning
- MTS-ESP microtuning, mappable partials to arbitrary frequencies
- Presets
- 140+ factory presets, hackable plaintext JSON
- Plugin formats
- macOS VST3/AU/CLAP/standalone, Windows VST3/CLAP/standalone, Linux VST3/CLAP/standalone (no AAX)
- Licensing
- Pay-what-you-want, up to 3 installs per licence, online activation, 14-day demo
Ultima verifica 2026-07-13
FAQ
What is additive synthesis in Sine Machine?
Additive synthesis builds a sound by summing many sine waves, one per harmonic. Sine Machine stacks over 10,000 oscillators and lets you edit them visually with bulk per-harmonic controls.
What formats does Sine Machine support?
Sine Machine runs as a standalone app and as VST3, AU (macOS only), and CLAP plugins on macOS, Windows, and Linux. There is no AAX version, so Pro Tools users need a wrapper.
How much does Sine Machine cost?
It is pay-what-you-want with a suggested price of $75. Melatonin does not run sales and sells only through its own site. A 14-day, fully featured demo is available.
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