Free Thing! Acustica Audio Releases Free Version of its Gorgeous Synthesizer The Thing

20 Dec 2024 by Adam Douglas |

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Acustica Audio Thing-2 · Source: Acustica Audio

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What could be better than a stunningly gorgeous Jupiter-8 emulation? Why, that would be a FREE stunningly gorgeous Jupiter-8 emulation. Yes, Acustica Audio is giving us a free Thing.

Free Thing!

At the beginning of this month, Acustica Audio surprised everyone by releasing its first synthesizer plugin. Called The Thing, it’s an emulation of the Roland Jupiter-8. With its combination of analog circuit behavior modeling with the company’s usual convolution-based approach, the plugin sounds incredibly good.

Now Acustica Audio has gifted us with a free Thing. Called Thing-2 or TH2, it’s a two-voice version of the original synth – and yes, it sounds amazing.

Free Thing, Gorgeous Thing

Thing-2 TH2 is, essentially, a cut-down version of the original but it’s still quite capable. You get a single oscillator with four waveforms plus a sub, a multimode lowpass filter with a typical non-resonant Roland highpass filter, a single ADSR envelope with a variety of envelope curves that you can also point at the filter and even oscillator, a single LFO, a glissando control, and unison spread slider.

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As with the big Thing, you can also age TH2, from 0 to 100. If you’re worried about CPU, Acustica has provided three quality levels: Normal, Mega and Eco. Even at Mega though the CPU on my 2018 i7 Mac Mini held fast.

Get Your Free Thing

This is a wonderful gift from Acustica. Thing-2 sounds great and it’s always nice to have another monosynth (duosynth?) in the arsenal – especially when it’s free.

Thing-2 is a free download from Acustica Audio. There are both direct download and installer routes, which is great to see. Get your free Thing from the link below.