A free wavetable software synthesizer you can download and play today. Use the Ableton plugin in Live, or run the standalone app. Import tables from Vital, Serum, and WAV folders. Open source, built in Rust.
Promise
Design patches in ReelSynth, then play them in Ableton. Every parameter stays editable after you load it into your project.
How it works
Grab the free app for your platform. No account needed.
Load wavetables, route modulation, and design patches in the standalone UI or the Ableton plugin.
Load ReelSynth as a plugin in Live. Your patches and wavetables carry over.
What you get
Multi-oscillator engine with 256-frame wavetable banks, ADSR envelopes, a state-variable filter, and a full modulation matrix.
Load ReelSynth directly in Ableton Live. Play, automate, and save patches inside your session.
Design sounds without opening a DAW. MIDI input, real-time audio, and patch management built in.
Bring your existing wavetables. Supports .vitaltable, Serum .fxp, and single-cycle WAV folders.
The DSP core is written in Rust for predictable performance. The full source is on GitHub under the MIT license.
Save as .reelwt banks, .reelpreset JSON patches, Ableton param JSON, SFZ, MIDI, and reelpack/ bundles.
Ableton
ReelSynth ships as a plugin you can load in Live like any other instrument. Design patches in the standalone app or directly inside your Ableton session.
Load ReelSynth on a MIDI track. Automate wavetable position, filter cutoff, and modulation depth from your Ableton clips.
Signal path
A clean signal path from wavetable to output. Every stage is addressable.
256 frames, 2048 samples each. Linear and spectral crossfade between positions.
Multi-oscillator wavetable synthesis with ADSR envelopes, a state-variable filter, and modulation routing.
Python bindings let you render notes from a script. Import a table, route modulation, and export stems without opening the UI.
Lead magnet
Five hundred original .reelwt banks across 12 genres. Leave your email to download the zip,
then open any bank with WT → Open .reelwt…
Download
Free wavetable synthesizer with Ableton plugin, standalone app, and offline CLI. No account required.
Formats
.reelwt banks, .vitaltable, Serum .fxp, single-cycle WAV.reelpreset JSON patches and reelpack/ bundlesFAQ
Yes. Free to download, free to use, MIT licensed. No account, no trial, no limits.
Yes. ReelSynth ships as a VST3/AU plugin you can load on any MIDI track in Ableton Live.
The VST3 plugin works in any DAW that supports VST3. AU is available for Logic and other AU hosts.
Yes. ReelSynth reads .vitaltable, Serum .fxp, and single-cycle WAV folders.
All three. Grab the latest build for your platform from the download section above.
Yes. ReelSynth is compatible with ReelStudio for offline rendering and patch export into studio pipelines.
Free wavetable synthesizer with an Ableton plugin. Open source, built in Rust.