SpaceLab Synth Review // IOS iPad
An overview, sound examples and review of SpaceLab v1.0.1 for iPad.
SpaceLab is a monophonic synthesizer. It has four ways to play: keyboard, graph, guitar, and wind controller. Underneath those interfaces is a fully programmable subtractive synth with oscillators, filters, envelopes, effects, FM, presets, an arpeggiator, full MIDI control, and much more!
Closer look at the Addictive Synth Version 2
Addictive Synth – Wavetable Synthesis meets Noise
The new spectral noise generator adds a new dimension to the already huge sound universe of Addictive Synth. This generator is the first of its kind and allows for extraordinarily detailed control over the dynamic spectrum of the noisy part of sounds. Despite its complexity it’s pretty easy to use and integrates naturally into the sound design philosophy of Addictive Synth.
With the integration of a hi end reverb we closed the last gap to get fully addicted.
One more thing…
…the revised GUI is now compatible to the retina display of the new iPad !
Qneo – Voice Synth 2.0 : Audio Demo
Voice Synth is an innovative synthesizer controlled by voice and keyboard. Available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch in the Apple AppStore at http://itunes.com/apps/voicesynth. All audio samples in this video have been made with Voice Synth 2.0 on iPad/iPhone, a standard Apple headset and live human speech/singing/beatboxing, without additional processing.
Tutorial
More Synplant for the Reason Rack !
“Greenhouse v2” Contents:
• 159 combinator patches full of the typical and widely acclaimed Synplant character.
• 850 Synplant samples, 830 MB uncompressed.
WorldScales – New synth focusing on tuning for the iPad
Kelfar Technologies has released a new software synthesizer for the iPad, WorldScales:
Have you ever wondered why we tune our instruments the way we do?
They are usually tuned to an “equal-tempered scale”, which divides the octave into equally spaced tones and semitones. This has become the most prevalent way of tuning the instruments in the west since the 18th Century. Today, musicians use this tuning system, and the scales based on it, without ever considering other ways.
For example, in the Middle Ages European musicians generally used Pythagorean tuning, and today many traditional instruments in the Middle East and Asia are tuned according to regional systems and standards.
Features:
- Ability to tune each key in the octave individually (+- 100 cents).
- 18 High quality sampled instruments: From grand piano, violin and organ to oriental oud and kanun, to voices of a choir singing Ison voices. Many samples are polyphonic and have multiple velocity layers.
- MIDI In. Connect your External MIDI keyboard and play microtonal music.
- Many presets, introducing lesser known western, byzantine and oriental scales.
- Ability to save your own scales and tunings.
- Entering directly frequency ratios, frequencies or cents.
- Shows on the piano keys where the scale starts and what keys are included in the scale.
- Changing the root key of a scale: all tuned keys are shifted correctly.
- Audio effects: reverb and compressor.
It’s available now in the App Store.
The Hatchet – a new software synth for Ableton Live
Sonic Faction has introduced The Hatchet – a new software synth for Ableton Live, based on the legendary Arp Axxesynthesizer.
The Hatchet comes with a Max for Live step sequencer patch for Launchpad.
Features:
- Multi-sampled ‘analog instrument’ for Ableton Live
- Oscillator blend, Analog detune, ‘Vintage filter’
- Original Portamento, S&H presets, Inifinte sound design possibilities
- Built in FX Racks: Distortion, Waveshaper, Freq Shifter, Pumper, Delay
- Includes custom made Max4Live Melodic Step Sequencer for Launchpad
The Hatchet is available now for $19.99 at the Sonic Faction site.
Seline Ultimate – iPad music app – Teaser
Here’s a teaser for a new iPad synth with quite an intriguing and colorful user interface.
Using the “overdub” function in the all-new Seline Ultimate, to create a track in less than a minute. MIDI is also recorded, so you can take what you’ve created straight into the studio!
Free VST synth for Windows – Synthesizer TubeOhm ALPHA-RAY
TubeOhm say that they are offering a big “thank you” to all TubeOhm users for their support for the 5 last years and hope that they have had a good time with their Instruments.
Available now is Alpha-Ray, a VA synth that includes special TubeOhm features. The full version is free but saving the settings is disabled. Unlocking the effects unit costs 4.95 €.
Features
- 2 main and 1 sub-oscillator / 10 Voices polyphony.
- 2 main and 1 mod LFO (Pitch wheel), tempo host sync and phase sync.
- 3 filters, a 6 dB HP , a 24 dB ladder and a main 12 dB state veriable filter. The 6dB filter coupled to the main filter gives a BP filter.
- OSC FM with OSC 1+2 and OSC SYNC with OSC 1+2.
- Polyphonic overdrive for OSC 1,2 and sub osc.
- Auto Portamento mode. Activates the portamento when 2 keys are played in mono mode.
- Aftertouch for enhanced modulation for the filter and the pitch modulation.
- User manual in 4 languages (German, English, French and Italian).
Additionally, unlocking Alpha-Ray enables saving the effects settings per patch:
- 2-stage overdrive.
- 3-stage chorus.
- Delay ‘x’ and ‘ normal mode, tempo sync to host.
- Special reverb, delay cluster, normal reverb, oil tank effect.
Pricing and Availability:
Free, but unlocking the effects unit costs 4.95 €
More information:
Cyclop plug-in “wobble” synth
Acclaimed plug-in developer Sugar Bytes has revealed details of its latest project, a monophonic synth known as Cyclop.
Said to be “wobblier than a jelly on a space hopper”, this sports an integrated sampler that also works as a wavetable synth and pitch transformer.
Other features include 10 filters, a wobble generator, a feedback processor, three overdrive units and an effects sequencer.
In terms of sounds, we’re promised everything “from screaming analog syncs through brutal FM sounds to scintillating spectral shimmers”.
It’s a monophonic monster, armed to the teeth with jaw dropping effects and wobblier than a jelly on a space hopper. CYCLOP is the scratch-looping, sample-mashing, sub-generating, harmonic-splicing mothership of the twisted bass alliance and it’s landing on your desktop soon. With masses of new sounds for you audio-junkies, from screaming analog syncs through brutal FM sounds to scintillating spectral shimmers. The integrated sampler also works as wavetable synth and pitch transformer for creating unbelievable and disturbing monster voices. CYCLOP is more than massively loaded with features: 10 incredible filters, unique wobble generator, feedback processor, 3 overdrives and an effects sequencer. CYCLOP is expected to be released in spring 2012.
Check out the new Synth Magic Polychrome
http://youtu.be/JA5vw1aqa50
Quick demo of Synth Magics Polychrome instrument.
A synth based on the Farfisa Polychrome for Kontakt 4.2.4 and above including kontakt 5.
Available at www.synthmagic.co.uk
More interesting though is perhaps to read the comments to this video, and I must say I am tempted to agree:
Doesn’t sound like a Polychrome to me. What was used for reference? Seriously. Maybe one of the demo tracks features something a bit like the choir section. Osc sync – what? How about recreating the paraphonic envelope? Isolate each section for a demo. If it’s good, the sound itself will sell it alone – not polished tracks with other instruments. Where’s the chorus ensemble effect – the phaser – tremolo? All hallmarks. Couldn’t hear any attempt at that.
This video shows the Farfisa Polychrome played with a Roland DEP-5 FX processor for delay effects.
The Farfisa Polychrome from 1979 is one of the rarest Farfisa keyboards. It is a flexible string synthesizer / string ensemble with a very characterful, musical sound.
It has a PERCUSSIVE section, a STRING section, a ENSEMBLE section and a VOCAL CHORUS section. The most sections have VCF cutoff / resonance controls. It has a great phaser (with SPEED, EMPHASIS and TREMOLO controls), a noise generator, single outputs, an external input jack (for external signals, which can be treated with the Polychrome’s chorus and phaser) and a lot more… It even has aftertouch! And it’s fully polyphonic, too…
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