Archived listing from . It describes the plugin as it was then; links and availability may have changed.

deputy Mark II

FREE SOFTWARE SYNTHS · tagged Mellotron, String Machine

deputy Mark II screenshot from the 2012 listing
Screenshot from the original 2012 post.

The deputy Mark II is a VST™2.4 software instrument for Microsoft Windows® in the tradition of classic string machines and early “polyphonic” synthesizers, written in native C++ code for high performance. The main features are:

• Polyphonic string/synthesizer (Poly) section and monophonic synthesizer (Mono) section

• Built-in Ensemble and Phaser effects

• Flexible keyboard assignment for Poly and Mono section

• Polysection: Up to 61 voices polyphony

• Two band-limited frequency divider-driven oscillator banks

• Sawtooth and PWM waveforms

• 2-pole multi-mode filter and ADS envelope per voice

• Global ADSR envelope for paraphonic modulation

• Resonator bank (3 zero-delay feedback filters)

• Monosection: Single VCO plus suboscillator and noise

• 4-pole zero-delay feedback lowpass filter

• ADSR envelope and LFO

• Output of Poly section can be send to filter input

• Fully compatible with SM Pro Audio’s V-Machine™

On the track “deputy“, the deputy Mark II is the only audio source (plus some delay, reverb and slight compression).