The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research

Tried the free version, and it delivers!
Very musical, expressive and quite accurate "physical model" of a snare drum.

Simple, no-frills interface, yet versatile, great sounding "all-round" acoustic snare drum.
For adding a human touch, acoustic feel, expresiveness and life to your tracks.

Highly recommend! It does one thing, and does it perfectly.
If you want a snare drum but don't feel like your samples ould cut it, this is worth it.

a unique approach to snare synthesis. usually i'm a huge snare synth hater, because that's usually just a totally predictable combination of a bit of pink noise and a sine wave without glue. this synth does not have this issue. it produces a believable snare sound if you don't go to the extremes with the parameters. however i wouldn't say they really fulfilled the potential of the concept here. for example even if you turn down randomness completely it is still rather random, so it's definitely not meant to be super tight. and it also has no parameters that don't directly aim at emulating reallife, like a lowpass filter, which would be a nice addition. i do understand that this plugin is more of a proof-of-concept thing for the researchers who worked on it though. but since it's here for musicians to use i think it's ok to state what else could be done for future releases.