SO-666

The SO-666 is a feedback based drone synthesizer. It is based on the earlier SO-KL5 piano synth.
By adding variable feedback to the strings instead of a single noise pulse you can create howling and screaming drones.
To be honest I was not yet able to find any musical application for it. It often sounds very dissonant and unpleasant.
But maybe that just what you are looking for...

How to play

Since it can be complicated to get any sound from this thing whatsoever you can try this:

• Turn your modwheel all the way down
• Press any key, keep it pressed
• Slowly turn up your modwheel to increase feedback
• About 2/3 up you should start to hear something
• Put the modwheel in center position for maximum playability
• Play some different notes or chords (dissonant intervals work great since they create a lot of low beat frequencies)
• Twiddle the modwheel, cutoff and resonance for different effects
• ...
• Profit!

Demo

Single notes and chords played while changing the cutoff, resonance and feedback.
No external FX or EQ.

New demo

Warning: May contain traces of melody!

Download: 666newdemo.ogg

Old demo

Download: 666demo.ogg

Source

Needs JACK and ALSA to compile and run.

Updated to version 1.01 with minor bugfixes.
Download: so-666.tar.gz
License: GPL V3.0

Source on github: https://github.com/50m30n3/SO-666

Jeremy Salwen did an LV2 port of my synthesizers.
It can be found here: https://github.com/jeremysalwen/So-synth-LV2

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