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T-Force Alpha Plus by Mastrcode Music is a great sounding free subtractive/FM synthesizer. You can easily get out those uplifting trance sounds from it and a lot more.
Here are some technical details (quote from Mastrcode Music website):
Alpha Plus is the advanced version of the T-Force Alpha TS. It has all features of the Alpha TS with some more and some updated functions: new synthesis (Subtractive and additionally FM Synthesis), revised oscillators with some more functions and now with a separate noise oscillator, new Mod Envelopes and now with a new integrated Sidechain FX (e.g. for the typical side-chained pad sounds and/or pumping basses etc.).
Specifications:
- Synthesis: Subtractive/FM.
- 3 Multiwave Oscillators with voice control (adjustable from 1 to 8 voices per osc), adjustable stereo width and panning, with Sine, Saw, Ramp (reversed Saw), Triangle, Pulse (square with PWM) waveforms and retrigger option for each oscillator (with “retrigger off” the oscillator is in free running mode, the oscillator starts with random phase positions everytime played a note, with “retrigger on” the oscillator’s phase starts from position 0 everytime played a note.
- 1 Noise Oscillator with adjustable stereo width and volume.
- 1 Resonance Four Pole State Variable Filter, switchable between Low Pass, High Pass, Bandpass and switchable 12/24 dB slope, Resonance can be driven up to self oscillation.
- 1 ADSR Filter Envelope.
- 1 ADSR Amp Envelope.
- 2 ADSR Mod Envelopes.
- 2 host syncable LFOs.
- Adjustable Drive function for Saturation/Distortion.two band Low Freq/High Freq Equalizer.
- Bitcrusher.
- Portamento.
- 32 step Envelope Controlled Trance Gate.
- Velocity control (on/off).
- Dual Delay, switchable between Stereo mode and Ping-pong mode (right and left channels have their own tempo settings).
- Stereo Reverb.
- integrated Sidechain FX, optional with internal bpm synced triggering or external triggering via MIDI In (triggered by MIDI Note On, on MIDI channel 2).
- all functions fully automatable.
Check some sound examples and features from the video below:
I can only recommend this synth! 😎
41 Comments
i have some bugy in fl studio sadly 🙁
sound peeps sometimes etc.
Maybe you have a vst plugin on demo version. thats what they do.
Okay I’m SOOOOOO picking this up!
Also having problems with pops and cracks, but a really good synth! I wonder if an update or patch could simply fix this, because it has huge potential.
Also, I’m using fl9. Caine, are you using fl9 or 10?
I haven’t. I have 12gb of ram and an i7 processor. Should it be popping and cracking with those specs?, and is fl10 a better choice than fl9 for this synth?
You should have plenty of CPU power then (I have pretty much same specs actually – i7 950). It must be your soundcard settings then. Check these:
https://www.image-line.com/support/flstudio_online_manual/html/app_wiz2.htm
https://www.image-line.com/support/flstudio_online_manual/html/app_wiz3.htm
Also, keeping your FL Studio up-to-date is recommended. The latest official release of FL is 10.0.9c (I’m using that version as well).
me too, im using fl studio 10 and my pc is only half a year old :). omnisphere etc. no problemo!
To Caine and Kevin:
This plugin is a CPU hog (hopefully there will be more CPU friendly version in the next update).. Maybe you’re running out of CPU power? Have you checked the CPU load meter during the pops and cracks?
Do you know how to automate the oscillators, filters and its other knobs? It can’t seem to do so. Do you know a way?
Hey Paul,
Do this:
1. Tweak any knob in the T-Force interface (filter cutoff for example).
2. Open the Tools Menu and select ‘Last tweaked > Create automation clip’
bless your soul. I had been searching all over the net for a way around this same problem, Your solution works perfectly. sent you a massage on your youtube page. Ignore it.
Thanks Again!
Sounds brilliant! If its a CPU-eater, would a good idea be create the patterns and such you want in a seperate file, then export it as a wav?
Yeah, that’s the usual workaround for saving CPU.
But then, if you have some effects on the master channel should you disable them before exportin the wav?( like limiter, maximus, izotope)
Definitely – otherwise, you end up processing the wav twice with your master channel effects.
So I seemed to fix the problem on my end. I went into options, audio settings and selected asiodriver4all or something. The pops and cracks are no longer there.
Great! For more about setting asio4all, I recommend checking out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn-ALsG4h2I
thanks Petri, did you ever get my mail about ebm, dark ambient? never got a mail 🙁
Hey Caine,
I have probably lost it sorry (I do get lot of email). Can you send it again?
I cant seem to get it to download as vsti, it keeps having me download new programs to open it with, and i dont seem to get any closer to opening it with fl studio! sighs* =[
so ive been using this synth for a couple days and i have to say its my new go to synth! its working fine in fl 10. if its not try and click the gear next to the arrow on the top left of the plug in and click on processing and try bridged mode.if that doesn’t work try “use fixed buffer size”.also make sure your buffer length in the audio tab is all the way to the right. anyways this synth sounds nice and is capable of piercing lead,euphoric pads,deep basses(even some dubstep wobbles are possible) to snappy plucks and so much more. i really am enjoying it!.
I just listen the first preset and went to download inmediatly
Hey, I downloaded the plugins, but they aren’t changing the sounds of anything I put down. Would you happen to know a way to fix this?
For some reason it doesn’t load in FL Stusio 10.
Help?
*FL Studio.
Sorry for the typo.
Thanks man. You’ve been so much help on my music making skills. They’ve skyrocketed lol. You’ve made so much available, it’s simply amazing, and I really appreciate it. Also, I really like your music. It’s really well put together and sounds awesome. I really like Earth In Control. 😀
This plugin is great! Very similar to Sylenth1
Wow, Yep I agree definitely quite similar to Sylenth1, Can even get a close sound to the JP8000
I’m having trouble with rendering a file with FL Studio. This seems to only happen when T-Force Alpha is being used. Any ideas?
The link is dead. I think the site is dead too.
Thanks for notifying me, Paul. It seems the links have changed. I fixed that into the article and they should work now.
Does anyone know where I can get a user’s maual for this VST/Synth?
I’ve downloaded the zip file, but now I have no idea how to actually install it to use in cubase. This is my first external VST download so it’s a whole new routine for me, can someone help?!
The link is dead 🙁 can you put a new one please, thank you.
p.s Great blog i love it 🙂
I programmed a patch/preset, saved it and it kinda disapeared. Saved it via “Files – save inst”
I cant load it, either by Files – load inst or Presets. When I try to load it, the original patch (from which I tweaked this one) is used instead.
Is it because I tweaked a patch and not came from Init? Weird.
hi. how do i use t-force alpha plus? i am using reaper… thanks in advance
I have a problem when exporting a track. This plugin doesn’t load a sound completely until a couple of seconds into the track. This happens consistently across all songs I’ve created.
i cant get it where is a better link
Check now, link updated!
how to download alpha plus please send me the link