Welcome to Soundshape
Overview
Soundshape is a free audio synthesizer that lets you create sounds by designing their spectrum. It runs as a standalone plugin or a VST. Soundshape takes advantage of Fast Fourier Transforms to display the spectrum and the wave of the sound you design in real time.
Soundshape is a software instrument but can also be used for education or as a sound effect generator, or any other use you might have for sound synthesis.
Features
- Available as a VST plugin to a DAW or as a standalone application.
- JACK Audio Connection Kit output
- Spectrum-based synthesis
- Edit the frequenecy content of up to 50 sections of audio
- ADSR Envelope
- Control with a MIDI keyboard and sustain pedal
- On-Screen MIDI Keyboard
- Cross-platform (binaries released for Windows and Linux)
- Tested on Windows 10 and Antergos Linux
- Build it from source for Mac
- Save/load presets manually or from a DAW
- Import audio files as a basis for your sound
Download
- Binary Releases are available here. Download the correct version for your operating system.
- To see the source or build Soundshape yourself, clone the Soundshape repository at GitHub
Installation
See the installation guide here.
User Manual
Get an overview of how to use Soundshape and its features here.
Tutorial
Soundshape has video tutorials here.
License
Soundshape is released under the GNU General Public License Version 3. The source code and application come with a copy of this license.
Information
Copyright (C) 2019. Mardigon Toler, Daneil Reiter, Gregory Hughes.
Contact: mmtoler@mix.wvu.edu, ddreiter@miux.wvu.edu, gshughes@mix.wvu.edu
