A groove synth: four oscillators led by a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL), a probability sequencer that plays them like a player, and a 64-bit effects rack. Play it, drive your other instruments over MIDI, or insert it on a track as an effect.
Open beta — available now v1.0 release 15 October 2026
Free while in beta · €149 at launch
“Fuzzy, noisy, dirty in a good way, and not quite perfect, just as you’d expect from a classic synth.”
“Locked, it’s precise, weighty bass. Pushed, it glides, overshoots and slips into controlled chaos no ordinary oscillator can make.”
“The result is a part that stays in key but never repeats exactly, which is a productive way to write evolving arps.”
“Instead of smoothing out the loop’s behaviour, the two-person team makes overshoot, locking and jitter the instrument’s central sound element.”
“When the tracking stays precise, Phaseburn One’s sound comes out clean while keeping a shifting texture.”
“The loop itself has become the instrument.”
“Sound design ranges widely, from heavy basses to smoothly evolving sounds to complex modulation.”
“PLLs are not new, they have appeared before as modules and effects, but as far as we can tell nobody has built a whole instrument around one.”
“One oscillator listens to another and keeps trying to match it, and the interesting part starts where it fails.”
“…giving a one-of-a-kind timbre.”
One track, 1:24 — layered instances as the instruments and as the effects, drums included. No other synth, no outside processing.
Every clip is Phaseburn One alone — no external processing.
A Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) — a radio control circuit turned into an oscillator — opened by four macro dials, beside VECTOR, MORPH and a sub. From locked, weighty bass to gliding, controlled chaos, with the PLL LAB lock map to see the loop live, and width built at the source: left and right generated independently.
Dice between note lengths, not just on and off: a sixteenth, a quarter or a rest compete for the same beat. A Strength map tells every note where it is welcome, beat links hang fills off a beat, and every rolled note leaves as MIDI to drive any instrument you own.
Two filters, six patchable effects and a master EQ, each on the voice’s 64-bit path. Every module is a node — cable series, parallel, even feedback taps — and AUDIO IN makes it an insert or a send: process your tracks, or let the PLL chase them.
64-bit synthesis core, oversampling, zero-delay filters, true-peak limiting. Native Rust — published research plus algorithms of our own.
Phaseburn One is the first. More instruments and tools are in the lab — build notes, sound-design experiments and beta news land on the blog.
The generative tools run on plain music theory — written rules you can read, rolled by chance. The foundations come from open research; the character comes from algorithms of our own — the probability sequencer, GENERATE, the patchbay engine. Phaseburn One emulates nothing. It sounds like itself.
We credit the researchers whose published work the engine stands on:
Free to use until October 15, 2026 — after that it keeps working as a demo until you register a perpetual, DRM-free license, which you can do any time. The full license goes free to ten beta users we pick, and shipping at least one of your presets in the factory bank earns you at least a solid discount — all at our discretion.
Free €149 one-time — on sale 15 October 2026
No card required · perks and preset picks are at our discretion — the beta comes with no guarantees
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