Sleeping synth
Here’s an example of just how diverse the sound of a modular synth can be. In this example, a rare E-MU 2500 modular system is programmed by Velcro Lewis to emulate and work on some variations of the sound of a sleeping human – at least, thats what it starts out being…
- More Information
- Velcrolewis.com
New modular synth
Simulated analog modular synthesizer featuring:
– sampler, 16 bit Mono/Stereo sample player
– multimode Filters
– Amplifier with Panning, Volume and Velocity control
– Delay, Reverb, Phaser, Chorus, and Distortion Effects
– Up to 16-voice true polyphony
– 2 banks of 128 pre-made patches
Professional Virtual Analogue Synthesizer for the iPad
Developer Tempo Rubato has introduced what they call a “Professional Virtual Analogue Synthesizer” for the iPad, NlogSynth Pro (App Store link)
Key Features:
- It sounds pretty awesome (see video embed)
- It supports external MIDI input via Line 6 Midi Mobilizer interface.
- Full MIDI implementation for note on/off including velocity control, pitch bend, sustain pedal, modulation wheel and assignable midi controller.
Check out the features below and the demo video for more information. NLogSynth Pro is $14.99.
If you’ve used NlogSynth Pro, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it!
Features:
- 192 presets, including fresh new soundset by the trance producer 7 Skies
- ENDLESS options for SOUND EDITING
- Over one 150 parameters and options
- More than your beloved hardware synths might offer
- Store up to 96 own edits in 3 user banks
- Exchange sounds with your friends by email
- STUDIO QUALITY sounds
- Professional 44.1 kHz Stereo CD quality
- Internal 32bit floating point engine
- Highly efficient sound algorithms
- Enabling maximum CPU performance of your iPad
- STAGE safe KEYBOARD implementation
- Fully customizable keyboard to your personal style
- Keeps all settings automatically in your preferences
- SLIDING keyboard and LOCK options
- Double manual option: two independent keyboards on screen
- POLY, MONO & LEGATO modes
- Optional velocity control
- Four different key sizes
- Full range of 6 1/2 octaves
- Fully customizable EXPRESSION CONTROL
- Realistic PITCH BEND and MOD WHEEL implementation
- X/Y two dimensional controller
- Four fully customizable PERFORMANCE knobs
- Keyboard with VERTICAL modulation control
- FAT & RICH:
- New filter implementation for SMOOTH and JUICY control with 7 FILTER types
- Incredible UNISONO mode for up to 4 parallel sounds with detune, delay and panning control
- RECORDING:
- Tape recorder with metronome
- Waveform display
- Loop playback
- File manager
- Export to Sonoma & BeatMaker paste boards
- WiFi & Email export
- SOUND editing features
- 4 Oscillators with 20 waveforms:
- classic analogue SIN, SAWTOOTH, TRIANGLE and SQUARE
- and 16 additional carefully designed wavetables
- True PWM pulse-width modulation
- Modulated by LFO or envelope
- Frequency modulation
- Sinusoidal and complex waveforms
- Modulation by LFO and envelope
- Ring modulation
- The old school electronic effect
- Noise generator
- Individual modulation by LFO and envelope
- 2 Filter with incredible 7 filter types
- Low Passes, High Passes & Band Passes
- Finest sweeps and smoothest cutoff tuning
- Carefully resonating
- 12 & 24dB option for steepness
- 4 Envelope generators
- Classic Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release
- Velocity controlled attack time
- Slope control
- 4 Modulation LFOs
- 4 waveforms
- Sample & hold
- Fade in delay
- Modulation Matrix
- 4 Modulation slots each modulating 3 destinations
- Multi-effect section
- Stereo delay with cross-feed and damping filter
- chorus
- flanger
- phaser
- distortion
- reverb
- parametric EQ
Little MIDI Machine for the iPad
Little MIDI Machine (App Store link) is free app that turns an iPad into an MIDI step sequencer app.
The app requires the hardware Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer interface in order to connect to hardware MIDI synths.
Specs and demo video below.
Description:
Little MIDI Machine gives you the step sequencing power of a hardware analog sequencer on your iPad.
Program two independent sequencers that send note and velocity MIDI data out on two MIDI channels to control your hardware synthesizers. Little MIDI Machine includes many favorite hardware sequencer features ,such as mute and un-mute notes, skip steps, reverse the sequencer, adjustable clock speed, etc.
If you do not have a Line 6 Mobilizer, Little MM can generate very basic melodic sounds in place of sending MIDI. This will let you play around with the app and try it out, but it is not a feature that will be developed further and is not the primary purpose of the app. LittleMM is intended to be a MIDI step sequencer for driving external hardware.
The Grand
The Grand is a very stylish and beautifully polished synthesizer video coming your way
Via Joel Altfield
Motion Samples has released Kinetik Analog Synth Loops
Motion Samples has released Kinetik Analog Synth Loops, a sample pack featuring processed sounds from modular synth systems.
Motion Samples presents the neoteric sounds of Minimal-Tech synths with over 100 loops of processed analog synth sequences recorded from classic modular systems.
Inside you’ll find bouncy synth leads, side-chained sub bass, textured short synths, drumsynth rhythms and plenty more. Superb quality loops priced at a great value.
Kinetik Analog Synth Loops features
- Over 100 Loops in Wav format.
- Tempo: 124-128 Bpm
- License Royalty-Free.
Kinetik Analog Synth Loops is available to purchase for $15 USD.
More information: Motion Samples
Semi-modular software synthesizer for Mac OS X
Madrona Labs introduced Aalto – a semi-modular software synthesizer for Mac OS X with a patchable UI, distinctive sounds, and “a charming personality”.
Aalto’s sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now. The heart of Aalto is a Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds. These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.
Aalto is designed as much for sequencing patterns as for playing individual notes. Each voice has a separate, built-in sequencer with a patchable, independently controllable rate and offset that make it easy to achieve evolving, chaotic textures.
Each voice also includes a lowpass gate module with a vactrol emulation in the control path. The vactrol equation slows down the response to incoming control signals through a complex nonlinear filter. You can turn the vactrol response down to instantaneous, or up to a pronounced ring.
Following the lowpass gate is a patchable waveguide / delay module with a waveshaper and a peaking EQ built into the feedback loop. Because it has such short and controllable delay times, unlike a typical analog delay, it can be used as an additional oscillator or waveguide.
Aalto’s filter is a state-variable topology with mixable simultaneous outputs, tuned to have a similar range to an Oberheim SEM filter. (Though I couldn’t resist turning up the resonance just a little more.)
Subjectively speaking, Aalto can make a wide range of sounds, from lush to edgy, including some very complicated ones, without sounding too thick in a mix. Aalto’s sounds are not hyped or confined, they are wide-range, open and natural. We hope our approach will appeal to experienced sound designers who have their own favorite EQs and limiters. And for those just getting into synthesis, Aalto is an accurate and honest tool for learning. We have tried to make Aalto a deep instrument that will reward lasting engagement.
iPhone goes Theremine with the GyroSynth
GyroSynth is a music synthesizer for the iPhone 4, which takes full adventage of the gyroscope. You can play and modulate the sound by moving your hand through the air – just like the legendary Theremin instrument.
GyroSynth makes use of the gyroscope to measure true roll, pitch, and yaw and translates them to sound parameters like pitch, volume, modulation or filter cutoff. Thanks to phenomenal accuracy (2000 degrees), you can play melodies perfectly in tune.
FEATURES
– 3 types of oscillator: vocal (formant synthesizer), sine wave and square (PWM modulation)
– Several control modes
– Delay effect
– Included musical scales allow you to effortlessly play in several styles
Really really green new morph synth
massTURBOtar is a new hybrid synthesizer that offers unique morphing capabilities.
Features:
- Two morphable oscillators.
- Lowpass/Bandpass/Hipass (band type and width controlled via 12dB/octave lowpass and hipass filter).
- A/R amplifier envelope.
- Modulation : sine/pulse lfo and A/DR envelope both with morphable destination.
- Voice control: polyphonic/ legato.
- Effects: chorus, sample rate reduction, soft saturation, delay.
- Parameters are controlled by MORFIKI preset system, velocity to bank modulation with adjustable smoothing included.
- Dropdown menus with fixed values for oscillator scale transposition and tempo.
- Host synchronization for lfo speed.
Availability
massTURBOtar is available now as a free download.
Link:
Ammonite from Astralis
As posted about earlier it is now officially launched
Homegrown Sounds launches Ammonite, a synth for Windows.
“Ammonite VSTi is a feature packed dual synthesizer, extremely powerful, yet intuitive to use. It comes from a long line of Astralis Synths and benefits from the proven formula that ensures a user friendly experience. Whether you want a synth capable of undulating atmospheres, or Kraftwerk/Orbital style sequencing or cutting leads, Ammonite is capable of this and much more. A strong point of Ammonite is that it can be used to good effect on a superficial level by people less experienced with synths, and the deeper elements can become apparent through usage.”
Features:
- 2 independent synth engines each with:
- a Dual Oscillator capable of additive, subtractive and FM synthesis. The oscillator/Synth engine was coded as a single piece of SSE optimized code and is also expandable in the future.
- The usual Sine, Saw, Square waveforms as well as a waves such as Piano, Guitar etc…
- A huge and diverse selection of 3,500 digital style waveforms.
- 24 Note Polyphony.
- 10 different filter types including the usual suspects, cascadable up to 8 times
- White Noise
- Drive
- Drift
- Glide
- A Microtuner that uses Scala files, and 300 patches are included organised into categories.
- 2 Dedicated Volume Envelopes with up to 32 steps, a multitude of transition shapes, and the ability to repeat to any stage.
- 2 dedicated Filter Envelopes
- 2 LFOs with many waveforms and features.
- 2 Modulation Sequencers, one is polyphonic and the second is monophonic.
- 2 Gates Sequencers, the first is a trance gate for re-triggering the Envelopes and the second for re-triggering the FX Modulators and driving the Gapper.
- A Gapper is available for the final output with Attack, Width, Release and Mix settings.
- A sophisticated Arpeggiator/Note Sequencer.
- Programmable Vibrato
- A Modulation Matrix with 8 input sources and a large selection of destinations.
- Quantizers on each of the Modulation Matrix Destinations for glissando style effects.
- A preview keyboard with sticky keys to make working on patches easy, plus it displays incoming midi notes.
- A sophisticated Randomization system with a global randomize button and a Randomize options page for selecting which parts of the synths it will affect. Global Default button resets 90% of the synth to it’s default state with one click.
- There are randomizer and default buttons throughout the synth for just randomizing particular settings.
- A built in WAV Recorder capable of auto-naming and recording a specified number of bars.
- Manual Tempo for old school style Arpeggiator usage etc…
- A powerful purpose built FX engine TerraNova which includes:
- SoundScaper for comb/Reverb and Vast church bell style Delay Effects.
- Stereo Delay with additional Reverse and glitch modes.
- 3 x Modulator. The Modulator is a general purpose effect capable of many different effects such as Flanger, Phasers, FM, Chorus, Filters, Ring Mod, Synth Tones, Mod Delay and Pitch shifting.
- Drag and Drop Routing.
- Hi and Low Exciters for bringing presence and clarity to the top and bottom end.
- Compressor
- 8 band Graphic EQ
- Hi and Low Cut
- Drive with 4 different styles.
- Analog Mode with 4 different levels, to warm up the sound and make it sound more natural.
- An always visible Master ON/OFF for all major components.
- A pitch Shifter which uses delay based pitch shifting either pre or post FX.
- An Envelope dedicated for use through the Modulation Matrix.
- Many parameters have CC numbers assigned, and VST is supported for most components.
- Extensive PDF Manual
Price: $30.00 (regular $55 USD)
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