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Thank you for covering Odin2, and especially for pointing out that it's not just "free" (as in "freeware") but also open-source (as in "free software" or "libre software") :) I've been using it a bit and making some tutorials about it as well (100% open-source audio production is my thing), but I wanted to watch your take on this synth to see if I missed anything of note. I find the patches you've demonstrated really inspiring, and they make me want to dive into this instrument once more.

The synth itself is a bit outside my experience level to operate, but the idea of combining a textured droning sample with a synth that you displayed at the end was really intriguing and I'll definitely try that out soon!

So glad more VSTs are being made for Linux

I love that they made a synth inspired by Thor and released it as a VST3 that you can't use in Reason. Another example of why I'm not upgrading it until it supports VST3.

This is a truly amazing synth

Great review! I love Odin II, and featured it in some of my synth jams. It's a great synth, indeed. It takes some time to delve into but it can make great sounds, and fun to play. More jams and patches coming soon.

I agree bringing the filters into surge was a great thing, it’s one of the main reasons surge is installed

It’s amazing all the free stuff there is!

Not even my wife has called me beautiful 😭... I feel all warm inside.

Big thanks, i never gave this an opportunity until I saw/heard this vídeo. And this synths deserves more attention by everyone. It's HUGE.

its nice to see a popular creator actually cover a FOSS software of any kind, especially a plugin. hobbyist and music production community in general is SO brainwashed by for-profit companies into thinking non-free plugins are worse, or not worth using makes me so angry.

A damn good VST plugin, and it’s free!

Thanks so much for the review. I got a few things figured out. Also I like your blend of drone and organic concept. If you happen to make more videos just about texture making, I would love to find out. :)

Thanks so much Cameron! I always appreciate your excellent videos. Wishing you all the best!

The sounds on the analog oscillators really pop out from the rest. Good stuff, thanks for sharing about the Odin.

that's the beauty of bitwig: you just mod anything you want *easy* and *fast* :)

Nice almost looks semi modular. Sounds meaty and analog.

15:59 Exceptional 🎻💎🔥

Odin is one of the best sounding Synts out there. The first thing I did off course is supersaw. I don't like anythind but supersaw.

Thank you for referring this synth. A lot of effort was put into producing the User Manual. Very good layout, pictures (I Like pictures!) and Hyperlinks. This fact alone is well worth me working with this synth (a novice I am, but with a good manual even I can learn). Overall excellent, and a Donation well worthy of the work put into Odin 2 and the User Manual. P.S. Did I Mention I like Manuals?

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS AWESOME SYNTH - REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO TRYING IT OUT ! I'M JUST STARTING OUT IN AMBIENT MUSIC AND THIS SEEMS IDEAL.

I love Thor but with the new pricing model from Reason which is basically trying to force even long time customers into the subscription, I'm very happy that there is an open source alternative, although not exactly the same, the workflow is very similar and that's what I love so much about it.

Thanks for so much for making this video. I would've never known about Odin II. You did a great job of covering the features. I can't wait to try it out.

Another one to try, pfew. A few weeks ago I found Vital (I know I am late), then bought Rob Papen B.I.T., then found Surge and now Odin II. So many toys, so little time. Thanks man!

Dam lots of ideas for this. Definitely going to get familiar with this one. You had me at wardrums.

How about u-he Zebralette or Triple Cheese, the only synth that I know works based on comb filters. Both also come now with a new, modern GUI

Amazing that this is free, TBH. It sounds really good, flexible enough, and is quite simple to use.

i have this synths since 2 years. now it works very very well!

As of v2.3.0 they've incorporated the microtuning code from Surge as well, which is awesome.

I had this one for a while, but this video really showed what is possible! Great video as always.

13:41 Wait... even the drums... 💎🔊🔥

This Free synth is perfect.

Very good and understandable overview, great and interesting sounds, and the best synth & gear speaker voice out there. Thank you for sharing!

Wow you made some amazing sounds in odin!! I love him he is so rich and retro!!!

Oh that's greeeeat. Been using it for a few months and just wait you to promote this hell of a synthetizer 😍

For the Chiptune Oscillators I have just been drawing Sega Genesis cityscape backgrounds =)

Thanks for this! Downloaded the synth right away

I really like this synth as well, it's just that it takes up A LOT of CPU when using even 4 voices of unison, which is really problematic for me because I like big analog pads, and I just can't use Odin without it taking 25% of my CPU, I really hope they would fix it, I installed the latest version. btw, if anyone knows how to fix the issue, please let me know!

I'm drowning in plugins, free and paid. Recently I've tried most of them for one seemingly simple task: to get that 303 sound. It didn't have to be a perfect recreation, just that resonant rawness (on a synth that wasn't specifically build to emulate one). I failed with all of them, although some came close, with some tinkering. Usually they were either very thin sounding or they'd go berserk with whistling resonance. Even those with a dedicated "acid" mode failed (looking at you synthmaster). I used to think filters were mostly the same for synths, but I've found out that's not true. Same goes for distortion. I've only found one that got that 303+distortion sound right (for the most part): DTQ plusdistortion, which is free too. Anyway, as you said how great Odin's filters were, I put it to the test. I've only been playing around with it for a few minutes and it can actually do it! Even with saturation turned down there's that magical "glass cricket" sound using the diode filter with high resonance. Even rawer than the original if you ask me. Didn't have to jump through a single hoop either. Awesome synth, thanks fot the tip!

I thunk a thought just after my power-nap here: We are all just walking chiptunes. Like, as a species. All just walking chiptunes on this here planet. May we do better on the next. The sun will nova and we will pass on, or whichever comes first and then time for us will once again become meaningless as this universe ages and dies and we wake up yet again in yet another universe on yet another planet being yet more chiptunes. It will be our lot in life, in this one and the next. Thanks for the free demo, Cam, you... you chiptuneroonie, if I may be so bold. I had the Odin plug long before this video, but it was on another computer, if not on another planet in another universe.

Thanks for another great demo, Cameron.

Nice to see Odin2 featured on the channel, it certainly has some unique elements to it. Personally I'd probably also use external effects, unless you only need something very subtle. Plenty of opensource tools for you to review in the future. Have you looked at the ChowDSP modeling plugins? Also a great versatile plugin host is Carla. And for an upcoming new opensource DAW have a look at Zrythm!

Odin2 is awesome thanks for introducing.

the morgan freeman of music production videos

Hey, there, yourself, Mr. Sexy Moustache Man! :-D Great video! It helped me get started with this synth and I love it. I'll be checking it Surge-XT next.

Thanks for the great video👍🏼

17:01 oh who's talking right there...

I've become fussy around VST synths, if I can't modulate one oscillator with the output of another it feels a bit bland. This one satisfies my OCD.

even if Odin II was not a free vst it would be a must have synth

Also... Awsome plugin... 10-10

Sound of this Synth is nothing compared to this man's voice !!

I was about to bemoan it's CPU hunger. I had Odin II v2.2 installed since last year and that was both CPU hungry And occasionally unstable, on my system. BUT v2.3.1 is about as much of a CPU hog as Vital, Pigments and PhasePlant and appears to be more stable than it was so ... Maybe I'll get to use it a bit more now. 👍 Thanks for the reminder.

Your videos truly inspire me and have helped me learn so much. A random question for any people in the comments... what is the purpose of parallel routing? I assumed that all modular synths use a single chain (input to output)... silly me I guess. ^_^

Finally got Odin 2 just now...like as in 30 minutes ago haha I have a JX8P and Prologue for poly work but you can't go wrong with some vst synths

It is indeed a nice synth concept (and free) but for what it delivers (does), it is very CPU intensive.

Odin is a great synth, no doubt about it. The only thing is that you might need a powerful cpu. It runs pretty well on my Windows Laptop but the Linux one couldn't handle it so I would stick to using Surge instead.

Awesome! I need another life to learn all this shet

14:11 I honestly acted stupid in public after this 🤡💎🔥

Do you have to use the mod matrix for everything? For instance, there's a filter envelope that looks straight forward, but I don't see any click through or drag drop option. I assumed that the initial state of the synth would allow the use of the envelope on the default filter without using the matrix, but it doesnt appear that way to my amateur eyes. It seems like you can use any modulation source for any parameter....so why label the mod envelope and filter envelope separately? Could all just be mod envelopes. It's actually really awesome the flexibility available. This is the synth where I can finally design my sounds from scratch, and they sound like I imagined in my head.

Thanks, this sounds so good!!

Hahaha just as I was thinking it reminds me of Thor you said it seems inspired by it. I find that amazing because it is one of the best synths in Reason to this day. The fact it is free is amazing

ODIN & ODIN 2 synth = a THOR (from Reason) in VST form.

so good! thanks Cam super inspiring mate

There is another one called vk-1 free synth I am not convinced that much using such free beer when having vital and surge. Genesis by Umet Ozcan is interesting for maybe sound design not for performance. Quite opposite of that would be using only commercial synths like serum, pigments, falcon, spire, phase plant, omnisphere and avenger. What is so special about Thor was I guess the formant filter but the main sound in reason came from subosc, layers and effects not Thor by itself. Like the fractalizer on zebra by uhe and absynth by ni makes the sound character very unique but without any further processing it will be almost dry. ZynAddSubFX by Paul Nasca can do extremely wide pads and it is free. The filters are basic but the capability to stack layers in additive fashion could give good results, specially when looking for deep and wide sounds. There had been some fixes to it from the UI in some paid version, but I suggest sticking to synths which are in current development.

Getting some Reason Thor vibes, oh, Cameron just said that. How do you record your voice and do you have any room treatment? Extremely clean, no echo/reverb, and I do not see a mic nearby, it must be quite far away.

very,very,very interesting VST synth

for some reason my download doesn't have the factory presets I downloaded it from the site for windows.....thoughts?

Great review!

please dont stop saying howdy doody i love it so much

I have no idea why reaper fail to scan Odin. Does someone has the same problem? I'm on Win64bit

Il est superbe. Je travaille beaucoup avec charlatan car il prend une session 1,5% de processeur !!

Looking at phasing of bass / kick drama ATM. Would something like this be able to emulate or draw in a match for either of the two channels? I.e.bass confirms to kick. Or what is a better idea for this problem of layered kicks and bass?

Your speaking voice is awesome and content anyway. ✌🏻✌🏻

This plugin is simple enough even for me to use, yet it has a lot of options and sounds warm and interesting. Oddly, I can get only 6 voices of polyphony out of it in Unison 1 Mode, not the 24 voices claimed. What might I be doing wrong?

Thor as VST yey!

For some reason REASON IS BEST

thor, odin, what's next? asgard? loki?

I see you like to combine synths, in Studio One it´s very easy to create multi synth instruments, you would love it.

Hello! Where have you been my whole life? EDIT: I just realized I had this in my VST folder...oh, too many plugins...😅😂

It is the whale sound from Star Trek 4

How does Odin compare with XFer Serum? Can you please recommend a free synth software/vst for windows for an absolute beginner?

Yay, another free linux synth.

I use freeware synths for all my songs and they sound quote random people "really professional" it's all in the user these days. If you know what you're looking for and have the time and patience eventually you will get a great sound. I can't remember last i paid for a synth. It was probably my Access Virus-Ti that is honestly just collecting dust, yeah it's sad.

Are these Presets available on your website? I don't see anything for Odin specifically

I love it!

Great video mr. Deep Voice

yeah its wicked........

hi guy ,yes i agree souds really pretty cool thanks alot for the link

What happened to "Howdy doodie buckaroonies?" :( Great vid as always Cam.

I had this when I used FL12, but now I've upgraded to FL20, it no longer works. This is frustrating because I had to stop using the old FL because it crashes so often... now I cannot edit or change older projects in the new FL because I used to use the crap out of this synth (for every sound imaginable, it's really THAT GOOD) and it's not being recognised in the new FL at all despite all my attempts to fix the issue. I can't be the only one!!! Someone HELP! Please?

Heeey.... Does anyone know if you can run this plugin with a guitar?

hi my daw only supportd vs2 not vst3 what to do ?

Sorry I don't know this already but when you call the sound an "organic texture" towards the end, what does that mean? Where would I look to find other examples possibly not in a $449 library?

Oh 09:52 is very Gary Numan circa 1985. I assumed that was PPG. I did a huuuuge Odin II vid when this version first came out. There was a lot I liked and then some really odd things like parameter ranges. Seeing VST3 is about to become a thing in Reason12, maybe I will look again. :-)

Do you also have the problem that you can not specify your own installation path in Windows during the installation and Windows Defender reports?

Damn, dude...have you ever considered ASMR? That's a nice synth, I just wish the Windows installer would let me put it on a disk other than C:.

Great sounding, but I wish I could figure out why it behaves so strangely in FL Studio. Sometimes the sound disappears and sometimes the entire GUI disappears and I can't seem to get it back. It acts like a trial version.

I’m so bummed that it crashes on my Cubase and my project would not load while it was installed. So I had to uninstall 😞 waiting for a higher version than 2.3.1 when it resolves

I can't open this. It says there is a problem with the installation. :(