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Simple Media Spook Keys - Free

Simple Media Spook Keys is a vst instrument designed to re-create the sound of a theremin and offering control either using a MIDI keyboard or using the mouse to drag the glowing spot across the ‘chart’ for more authentic theremin style play.

Free Download (Zip Archive, 1.4 Mb):

Spook Keys - Free

Spook Keys - No Spring - FreeAudio demos (Mp3 Files):

Arcade Racing

Metalligon

My Daddy Was A Theramin

Spook Keys Features:

sine, sawtooth, triangle and pulse waves
variable key in and out response
variable LFO for vibrato and tremolo
pan, chorus (detuning), stereo spread and glide controls
filtered, ping-pong, stereo delay.

Instructions:

To install simply unzip and copy the dll to your VSTI plugins folder.

Controls for this synth are as follows:

The Chart - you can play spook keys either using your keyboard or by dragging the glowing dot across the chart
Volume - controls the overall volume level
Spread - controls the amount of the stereo field covered by the tone
Pan - controls the placing of the tone in the stereo field
Glide - portamento control sliding between notes when one key is pressed while the previous key is still held - higher values equal slower portamento
Key In - this controls how quickly the note rises in both volume and frequency from zero to the note played
Key Out - this controls how quickly the note falls in both volume and frequency to zero from the note played
Delay - the delay incorporates a filter that consists of 1 high pass and 1 low pass filter chained in series, the high pass filter’s Cutoff being set lower than the low pass filter’s - Resonance is also controllabale, Width is the difference between the high pass and low pass cutoff - Time is self explanatory, Feedback is the amount of signal that is fed back in to the delay - the delay bounces the left and right channels back and forth (ping-pong)
Modulation - you can set the LFO Rate (frequency) and Depth
Wave and Pulse Width - you can select from sine, saw, triangle and pulse waves - pulse wave also supports pulse width modulation for more tonal variation
Thickness - this is a chorusing effect created by detuning 2 oscillators.

Tips:

tweak key in and key out values for more realistic theremin style play
spook keys can create so much more than just theremin tones
making drastic changes to the LFO and Delay settings you can create some quite surprising effects
with more subtle control settings you can produce great progressive leads.

More info: http://www.simple-media.co.uk