Full Bucket Music Six-Traq is a new free Synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows that emulates the Sequential Circuits Six-Trak analog Synthesizer.
Yes, it’s 100% free without registration, time limit, etc.
Full Bucket Music Six-Traq
Six-Traq is a free Synthesizer plugin that accurately recrates the classic Sequential Circuits Six-Trak Synthesizer from 1984. It’s written in native C++ for high performance and low consumption. I can confirm that. The FBM plugins are all very resource-saving.
The plugin is a six-part multi-timbral Synthesizer with extended polyphony up to 96 polyphony and more multi-mode. So, you get a polyphonic synth for each of the six parts. As a reminder, the original only had six voices in total.
Each voice has a single oscillator per voice, three waveforms (sawtooth, triangle, variable width), and an additional white noise generator. Then, it has a classic self-resonating four-pole lowpass filter with cutoff and resonance controls.
Six-Traq also has various modulation options, including cross-modulation (osc-mod). Three ADSR envelopes (oscillator, filter, amplifier) are available with an invert functionality. The amp envelope also offers velocity control. There is also a two-wave LFO per voice with frequency and amount control.
More Features
Further, each part of the Full Bucket Music Six-Traq includes an onboard sequencer and arpeggiator with settings for the clock, track volume, sync, and speed. It also supports dynamic micro-tuning via MTS-ESP by ODDSound.
Don’t worry; you don’t need to program the synth like the original unit. Björn from Full Bucket Music has also made the user interface much more user-friendly by revealing all parameters. But if you want the authentic Six-Trak charm, he also included the one-knob control panel.
An excellent addition is the support of SysEx import and export from/to the hardware. This way, you can import hardware patches or use it as an editor for your sounds.
Full Bucket Music Six-Traq is now available for free download. It runs as a VST2, VST3, CLAP, AU, and AAX plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows. If you enjoy Björn’s excellent development, please consider donating something to its website.
More information here: Full Bucket Music