Observed arrival · 2026-08-27

Saw Terror, the Synthesizer That Wants the Saw to Misbehave

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A free Mac and Windows synthesizer built for unstable, granular, phase-distorted saw sounds.

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The instrument begins with a morphing saw oscillator whose voices retain separate modulation states, then sends the signal through reorderable effects including granular delay, phase distortion, motion effects, and an eight-line FDN reverb. Its interface exposes hardware MIDI profiles, right-click LFO assignment, and a routing matrix that can connect any section to any other. The homepage also offers sound trials and an artist preset bank, with downloads linked for macOS AU/VST3 and 64-bit Windows VST3.

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