Odin 2
by TheWaveWarden
by TheWaveWarden
4.8 / 5
(33 votes)
Odin 2 is a 12-voice polyphonic semi-modular synthesizer.
Earth shattering basses, exquisite leads or mad FX, Odin's got them all! Use the classic sound of analog waveforms - or draw your own.
Odin 2 is open-source! You can find the source code repository on the GitHub project page. Contributions are highly encouraged!
Earth shattering basses, exquisite leads or mad FX, Odin's got them all! Use the classic sound of analog waveforms - or draw your own.
High quality emulations of legendary analog filters like the Moog-ladder or the Korg-35 further shape your signal. Round your sound off with four onboard FX, or get crazy with modulation.
Requires CPU with AVX instruction set (about 2012 or later) and latest VC++ Redistributable for Windows systems.
Odin 2 is open-source! You can find the source code repository on the GitHub project page. Contributions are highly encouraged!
Downloads
Win 64 VST
(43.6 Mb)
Mac OSX VST
(75.9 Mb)
Linux
(180 Mb)
(5 / 5)
Surprisingly the Odin 2 is an open source synthesizer. That means anyone can download the source code. And it’s also a 12- voice polyphonic semi-modular synthesizer. And it’s dripping with old fashion fat analog tones. It has plenty of waveform options or it’s also possible to draw in your own. The routing and filter options are fantastic. The layout is easy to understand. It also has onboard effects like the usual suspects: delay, reverb, phazer, chorus, flanger. I noticed it is somewhat CPU intensive but not all of the presets are like that. And besides, there’s a work-around for everything; if you land on an intensive sound and your processor starts to choke simply print it to a track. The re- sizing option is either the 100% button at the top right or the 150%. It offers no other GUI (graphic user interface) scaling options. I wish it had a quick random patch button option for coming up with different sounds I may have never thought of, but there are many presets available as starting points so the random button is not a deal breaker. My present randomizer program wouldn’t play nice and caused it to freeze. With the Odin 2 synthesizer it is easily possible to get lost in hours of fun searching and testing out many of the sonic options. This synth easily competes with most free synths and many of the not-so-free. Did I hear something like a Zebra 2? Hmm, maybe it was a Trident, or a Qyooo, a Dune, or a Surge. If you like chunky tones this one’s for you. Odin 2 is an excellent analog-sounding synth and should be on your permanent synth list.
(5 / 5)
Best synth I've ever used. Helm, Synth1, Revolta, Viking, even Hybrid 3 are put to shame. Also, it's a crime that it's free.
(5 / 5)
Wonderful synth! It sounds amazing!
(5 / 5)
Awesome, like a lot, fire!
(5 / 5)
Fantastic synth. Very well done.
Hey sorry, but that synth is cpu hungry as hell... also a few bugs, with the arpeggio or with marking a preset. Makes it unusable. Midi learn also does not work here. Still in Beta phase. But an interesting waste of time.
Odin only becomes cpu hungry, if you play 3 osc-sounds fast with high sustain level (like piano damper) which leads to exponential growth of polyphony.
It is me again...the "unhappy" man... I have checked your advice and I must say, you were absolutely right! Thank you very much for your respond mate.
Please can anyone help me with the midi learn in Odin2? I do a right klick on a button on Odin2, the red frame appears and then i move the button on my hardware keyboard but nothing moves... what do i wrong... can not find anything in the manual. Thx!
(5 / 5)
Excellent synth, no doubt. Much better than some commercial synths. Thanks a lot!
(5 / 5)
Really great sounding synth. It will quickly find its place in the mix. I would like to see a more focused and detailed analogue hardware synth emulating and modelling synth from this very talented developer. That would be amazing. :)
Yes, I agree, a dedicated analogue hardware synth emulating/modelling synth from TheWaveWarden would be awesome.
I also agree, a thorough analogue modelling synth from this developer would be phenomenal. I hope it happens some day.
Another vote for an analogue modelling synth by TheWaveWarden. It would be really great, no doubt.
One vote more for a total analogue emulating and modelling synth by TheWaveWarden. That would be super cool. Fingers crossed.
(4 / 5)
Amazing. I guess this a bit of Serum alternative.
Nope Vital is the best free Serum Alternative.
Vital is the best though, it is truly amazing!
(4 / 5)
Great quality. Big tones. Fat. Lots of cool presets. Lots of programmability. It just doesn't grab me. Can't really say why. Some synths just have a weirdly beautiful tone. This isn't one of them. Works fine and sounds good though so I recommend it generally.
Had another look at this one. Sounds better than I remember and the preset menu is nicely laid out but the CPU usage is higher than any of my other synths so I'm inclined not to use it.
(5 / 5)
This is a brilliant sounding synth. It has a very impressive sound engine. Thank You very much TheWaveWarden. <3
(5 / 5)
Terrific instrument, thanx
(5 / 5)
I remember trying Odin 1 a while back and had problems sadly, but discovered this just today and was pleasantly situated within this version. Made a nice little demo video here : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Ujuu3xvqY . Thanks so much for upgrading this further. Lovely job
After installation Kaspersky reported malware and removed same - anyone else getting this problem?
It's probably a false positive. Antivirus are touchy sometimes....
I'm not convinced this was a false positive - while Kaspersky was cleaning up it found 2 copies of odin2.tmp in sperate folders in Appdata/Temp, both flagged as containing a Trojan PDM:Trojan:Win32.Generic. Thes attempted to run processes that Kaspersky stopped and quarantined. After I'd run the installer the first time, Odin2.vst wasn't in the folder it was supposed to be in. I checked the Odin2.exe installer against multiple online virus checkers and they also found a trojan. It would be sensible for the file author to check this download.
Hi Alan. Yes, this is a false positive. I've had another user report this before. The installer is built with InnoSetup, which Kaspersky doesn't seem to like. Multiple instances of such cases can be found online, with the exact type of malware you describe (PDM: Trojan.win32.Genericobject type). I'd have to send the installer to Kaspersky to get it whitelisted. With the kind of rolling-release schedule I am doing right now this is hardly feasible. Inno Setup creates the .tmp files in the process of the installation and starts a process on them. It removes them afterwards. This is perfectly normal. If you didn't find the VST3 in your directory and still had .tmps, my best bet is that something went wrong in the installation process and InnoSetup didn't clean up afterwards. Maybe Kaspersky aborted the process inbetween. Just to be sure, I rebuilt the installer on a freshly set-up machine. The version output by this and the installer on my website are bit-identical. Interestingly, when checking the installer with VirusTotal, Kaspersky seems to be ok with it. But another engine marks it as a "Potentially Unwanted Program", which isn't a virus but a category for those shady installers which install unwanted toolbars and such. In summary, I am very confident that the installer does not contain a virus. I appreciate your investigations and according reports though. Security is important!
Thanks - I suspect that Kaspersky halted the install, leaving the tmp file behind with no vst3 file installed. I'll download from your site again, and see how it goes - I can always tell Kaspersky to ignore file.
(5 / 5)
Works fine in Reaper 6.11 (Win7 x64). There is no documentation, tutorials, or example patches yet, but it's easy (and FUN) enough to tinker on until you get an acceptable result.
Doesn't show in vsthost, LMMS
No, it's vst3 only and I don't believe LMMS supports vst3.
Big rip, hopefully VST3s will be supported soon.
(4 / 5)
No longer requires AVX and now comes with an arpeggiator and two sequencers. It just gets better.
(5 / 5)
This is really cool and very easy to use. Looks good! Sounds good! Thanks :)
(5 / 5)
Five-star instrument!
(5 / 5)
Simply amazing and mind-blowing!
(5 / 5)
Loving this synth. Im a sucker for formant sounds and the formant filters are amazing imo. Any chance you`ll release them as a standalone audio effect? :p
No, but the synth is open source now. With some programming skills you could manage that yourself ;-)
(5 / 5)
This synth is a beautiful creation and it is absurdly easy to make great sounds with it. The variety of oscillator types and wavetables gives enormous potential especially together with the mod matrix. TheWaveWarden has given fantastic support throughout and I can fully recommend this download. Works beautifully in Reaper.
Odin is great. To see an advanced version with clean interface just makes me happy. Today I start the production of my second album and was just browsing if there's somthing new. Such a surprise was unexpected. By the way: If you contact the developer, his support is great. Stay healthy people!
(5 / 5)
The interface kinda gave me the "typical generic freeware synth" vibe. But after seeing some reviews I decided to give it a try. I am thoroughly impressed. Love the layout, everything is on one page, tons of different routing, filter and osc options. Every time I have made a patch it has sounded awesome and I got to the sound fairly quickly. Really really enjoying this one, highly recommended. Interface not resizable right now but I hear the dev is gonna update soon and enable resizing.
(5 / 5)
This is a good synth. It's meant to emulate Reason's Thor. I have Reason rack, and Thor. It's 1 or 2 percents heavier on the cpu, but has more analog emulation filters, and additive synthesis. Very good synth for free
(5 / 5)
What I can say is that I found this synth simply fantastic, easy to use, and you can put the options in the sequence you want, with a few seconds playing I was already making a sound .. I will use a lot, both because it is very good, but also because it has a Linux version! Thank you :)
really wanted to check this out, but some strange reason it's bloody VST3! 3?!?!! Why man, why? can't use that in ableton. does anyone know of a workaround? I dl'd Odin 1 anyways. There are no presets dammit. The other closest vst I can think of is something like Addtractive. Lots of potential with this one.
Steinberg prohibits distribution of VST2 synths if you didn't register with them before fall of 2018.
Too sad you missed that date... (⌣̩̩́_⌣̩̩̀)
I'm using it in Ableton 10. Upgrading to v10 is worth the money, anyway.
doesn't show in Reaper, crashes in FL20. Win 10, X64