Don't want to create your own patches – Check out L'il Poly-Ana
 L’il Poly-Ana 1.14 |
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L’il Poly-Ana offers all the same sound features as her big sister, all we’ve done is remove most of the voice editing controls to make her a preset player only. We have however left in all performance related controls, allowing you to customize your patches to your desired playing style. And we’ve also included the most popular controls for live sound tweaking, the filter cutoff and resonance controls. All fully automatable and MIDI CC controllable, just like with “big” Poly.
There’s also been an evaluation reset for both products, so even if you’ve tried them before, you can download and try them again. We offer a free, fully functional evaluation peroid for the first week, so go ahead and try them out, save and recall your work, sample the sounds, even make hit records with them — we don’t care! The 7 day free evaluation period is there for you to enjoy actually using our products in real-life production scenarios. We feel you should be able to “Try B4 Buy”, and we believe our products truly sell themselves. Our fully functional demos are there to prove it, so try ’em out!
L’il Poly-Ana contains all of the sound features and capabilities of Poly-Ana. What makes it L’il, however, is the restriction on your ability to design new patches. It almost works on the honor system, however, as Admiral Quality decided to leave in every performance control and the entire simulation control section which includes Quality (CPU), Saturator and the new Analog Drift Feature. What’s more, Admiral Quality left in the cutoff and resonance controls for both filters for live usage. L’il Poly-Ana is only available as a VST instrument. The full version includes an effect version of the plugin.
The intended L’il Poly-Ana customer is someone who does not want to create their own patches, possibly someone just beginning a venture into computer sound. However, even Poly-Ana users might find L’il Poly-Ana useful for recalling patches and saving screen space. That should be good news for Poly-Ana users because if you’re one of them, you get L’il Poly-Ana for free.
For all you NORD fans out there – NORD Electro 3…
…has been launched. I believe it is a synth popular among a lot of new wave bands, such as Melody Club. Hmmm not sure that’s a positive thing, but still hehe
Nord and UK distributor Sound Technology are very pleased to announce the next generation Electro – the Nord Electro 3.
With the introduction of the Nord Electro 3, the legacy of the original Electro and the knowhow that have shaped some of the other Nord models have been combined. The Electro 3 features a new organ section, a new piano section, new effects and also a new exciting feature that allows the Electro 3 to use any samples from the Nord Wave library.
The Electro 3 comes in two sizes, a 61 and a 73 key version with semi-weighted waterfall keys.
Nord Electro 3 will ship in the UK in December 2008 priced at £1399 and £1599 RRP inc VAT for the Electro 3 61 and Electro 3 73 respectively.
Nintendo KORG – now in Europe :-)
Finally
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KORG, maker of some of the world’s finest musical instruments, takes their legendary MS-10 synthesizer, adds tons of modern features, and combines it with the accessibility of the Nintendo DS Touch Screen. No effort was spared in creating the awesomely portable and powerful, yet incredibly easy to use, music creation software for your Nintendo DS.
KORG DS-10 Synthesizer offers two dual oscillator synth parts and four synth/drum parts to accommodate your hit. Sculpt your own sounds with expansive on-screen controls, or start from a preset template and get straight to writing. Create synth and drum lines using KORG DS-10 Synthesizer’s on-screen touch keyboard and drum pads, or engage the elegant 16-step sequencer. Employ KORG’s KAOSS technology to add astonishing custom modulations to your tracks in real-time. Tighten the mix with KORG DS-10 Synthesizer‘s full featured mixer, then polish that next big groove with multiple effects. Chain patterns to create complete songs and save it all right on the spot.
Played around with the Acrobatics VST
…and it sure is a fun synth to make leads on, try yourself 
Performance monophonic synthesizer with advanced step-modulation, suitable for lead lines, sequences and special FX synthesis. 144 original sounds included.
Main features:
– 6 oscillators arranged in 3 modules
– Multimode 12dB filter: low/hi/bandpass, peaking & notch
– 16 steps LFO with pattern memory, randomizing and templates
– Advanced portamento & pitchbend with per patch assignable ranges
– Built-in high quality FX: pan/tremolo, delay and reverb
– 12 skins assignable per patch
– Step LFO, pan/tremolo & delay are synced to host tempo
– All parameters can be automated in host
– 4x stereo oversampling
And there is loads more here >>
Modular synthesis by Ken MacBeth
PART 1
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PART 2
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“This is a UNIQUE modular synthesizer prototype in the world created by Ken Macbeth, his sound & features are impressive with 7 VCO + 6 suboscillators, 13 oscillators in total!!! In my experience I can say that this modular project is much more complex and powerful than the new M5n or M3X… this modular has a FAT sound, another planet!” – thanks to scienceforce who also has a few clips of the ultra rare Starkey Hearing Science modular.
Check out "my" new synth…
…maybe it needs some software updates before I can use it or run it as a MIDI with my Powerbook, hehe.
Well whatever the case it is an awesome piece of equipement dated somewhere around 1850 and was apparently used by the Swedish king (Karl XVth) and it can be found at Bäckaskog’s Castle in the southern parts of Sweden, where I spent an annual event with my feelow colleagues at TAT.
Cheers
70+ new features in Nexus2
- rom synthesizer
NEXUS2 comes with over 70 new features and improvements. Here are most important ones:
- Expansion Dance Vol.2 already included! – 128 new presets, 500 MB of new samples
- Three skins (Black ‘evil’, Black ‘good’ and Cobalt) included for free
- New FX: analog phaser from Arts Acoustic – up to 16 stages. Smooth as silk
- New FX: stereo enhancer – widen or narrow the stereo field
- Feature Matrix: layers can be switched on/off separately
- New section: oscillator mix level
- Oscillators can be switched on/off separately
- Volume- and pan-control for each oscillator
NEXUS is a next generation rom synthesizer of highest quality that will make your dreams come true. Forget about the usual bread & butter ROM synthesizers whose sounds are boring, stale and lacking punch.
NEXUS explores new territory and delivers complex, ultra-fat and up-to-date soundstorms that could not sound any better from the most expensive and best hardware – all at the tip of your fingers.
NEXUS provides you with everything you need to create the new hit. Do you need the most powerful dance leadsounds to become famous in your club or a Gregorian choir to create the atmosphere of the next trance hit? Whatever you need, NEXUS will supply you with what you have always been longing for.
Features like the freely programable arpeggiator, the versatile trancegate or the factory-library optimized for the most popular genres make this the best ROM synthesizer on the market.
Even though the sound is first rate, your CPU is spared. You can expand NEXUS with new sounds by installing genre-specific expansion packs or customize the look of the GUI with our themed skins.
Features :
Over 4 gigabyte of previously unreleased sample material
Over 650 presets including all popular genres
Expandable. Three expansions available. More already in production. New samples and new presets
Production quality built-in reverb (ArtsAcoustic)
Skinable. Five skins to choose from
Introducing the Audeon UFO – good or bad, you be the judge
Audeon UFO Signal Flow
Yet another synthesis technique?
Audeon objectives: build a synthesizer where controls would be:
- Perceptually meaningful, to make sound programming an intuitive and quick process (unlike FM for instance)
- Continuous, so any characteristic of the sound can be modulated and evolve over time (unlike virtual analog or sample based synths for instance, where the character of the sound mostly relies on selectors: waveform and filter type), for unparalleled power and expressiveness.
UFO is:
- Innovative: it is built upon original algorithms, rather than an existing synthesis technique;
- Versatile, flexible and expressive: most parameters are continuous and can be modulated by many sources at once. You can apply envelopes and LFOs to virtually anything, have the velocity and aftertouch drastically alter the timbre or to turn a sound into a completely different one with the modulation wheel (“morphing” feature).
- Simple and intuitive: its parameters are either easy-to-understand perceptual attributes (mellow, chaotic, harmonic, noise…) or familiar controls (attack time, LFO delay…)
- Fast and easy to program: you don’t need many synthesis modules (thanks to their versatility) to build complex sounds, and the ergonomics of the user interface has been carefully designed.
About TransModal Synthesis (TM):
Thanks to Audeon’s strong background in signal processing and algorithm design, we came up with a set of innovative and flexible synthesis algorithms gathered under the name “TransModal Synthesis”. The name comes from the fact that instead of operating in several distinct modes, these synthesis modules can perform smooth transitions between their oscillation modes (periodic, chaotic, random, etc) or their filtering mode (low-pass, high-pass, etc). This capability makes them much more flexible and expressive than synthesis modules with waveform or filter type selectors for instance.
TransModal Synthesis algorithms include:
- K-Osc (TM): named after a contraction of “Chaos” and “Oscillator”, K-Osc is a powerful and versatile Chaotic Oscillator Model where the user controls the sound characteristics by balancing perceptual attributes like Mellowness, Brightness, Periodicity, Noisiness, Chaos or Transient duration. These high level controls drive the low level model parameters in order to favor one oscillation mode or another.
- Morphilter (TM): it can be a low-pass, a high-pass or a peaking filter, but also anything in between: you can make it evolve smoothly over time from one shape to another for more complex sound transformations than the usual cutoff frequency sweep.
- A few other synthesis modules are also available: vector synthesis oscillator (waveform interpolation), ring modulator, formant filters, effects…
Sound programming:
A good synthesis engine is nothing without a good user interface to go with. We designed UFO’s interface with two goals in mind:
- Make programming fast, by minimizing the number of required mouse clicks
- Make programming easy, by offering meaningful controls and a global and intuitive way of displaying them
Thanks to this interface, combined with the underlying synthesis algorithms, programming a sound is quick and intuitive.
Demo Version Download
(Save and Automation are disabled, A hissing noise can sometimes be heard, 6 Mb) :
Audeon UFO VST Synth DemoAudio demos:
Morphing (Mp3 File)
This example demonstrates the Morphing feature, between a wind instrument and a percussive sound. You will hear the source sound first: a pan flute / bottle type of sound, then the target sound: a kind of steel drum, and finally UFO slowly morphing from the source to the target.
Texture (Mp3 File)
To make this demo, we dialed the “Infinite space” preset, then pressed two keys at the beginning of the recording and released them at the end (no sequencer, no arpeggiator). A quick and easy way to compose ambient tracks!
Hardcore (Mp3 File)
starting with a virtual didgeridoo, this track evolves into a somewhat dark techno style. After the ethereal pads found in the first demo, some of the sounds in this track explore the opposite side of the sonic palette, showing the dirty and grainy sounds that can be achieved by pushing the oscillator to the edge.
Audeon UFO Screenshot
Just for fun – JoySynth VST Synth
Very fun free synth even if you are just in the mode to screw around. You can change the sounds by moving the different atari-esque objects.
– can be played with a joystick (direct support), graphic tablet or simply with the mouse
– 2 oscillators, multimode filter, 2 LFOs, dual channel delai, reverberation
– all the values of the parameters are interpolated on the 2D view relative to the distance between the object that represents them and the pointer
– free arrangement of the eight speakers
– the sound position and the parameters pointer can be linked
– integrated movements recorder that can be instantly replayed with speed and direction variation
DrDrone VST – electro beauty
Make sure to check this little sucker out, I have tried it with Live and it works really well
The DR1 DR.DRONE is a VST synth plugin created by Martin Wheeler (aka. Vector Lovers). The DR1 makes it easy to produce fat electro bass, rich analogue style drones, and circuit-warped FX from the convenience of your laptop. Developed and tested alongside vintage hardware (Moog, Octave Cat, Polivoks) the DR1 has a classic analogue-inspired sound all of its own. Arriving March the 1st 2008! Check for more at www.drdrone.com! First Samples now up!
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