New James Bond synth from Waldorf
Waldorf Music continues their James Bond naming theme with the announcement of their new software vocoder Lector.
They describe Lector as follows:
“Robot voices, whispering strings, talking drum loops, rhythmic pads, the resonant ringing of bells, dripping water – the possibilities are all but infinite. With a quick tweak here and there, the Lector turns any incoming signal into novel sounds and effects. Tremendously versatile, the Lector puts in your hands a sonic toolset for a wide range of diverse applications. Just about anything goes, from distorting the human voice to adding subtle harmonies to lead vocals and getting creative with movie soundtracks.
The analysis filter bank splits the incoming audio signal into as many as 100 frequency bands, the intensity of which modulates the volume levels of an equal number of band-pass filters in the synthesis filter bank. The integrated 16-voice synthesizer or an external source provides the input signal for the synthesis filter bank. This lets you do fun things like apply a melody line or chord sequence to articulate vocals or speech.”
Lector Features:
- 3 to 100 band Vocoder
- Adjustable range of Analysis Filter Bank
- Adjustable offsets and LFO modulation of Synthesis Filter Bank
- 3-band Equalizer with variable mid band
- Individual Compressors for Speech and Carrier signal
- Voiced / Unvoiced Detector
- Overdrive (types Tube, Diode, Clip)
- Stereo Chorus / Flanger, 2 to 6 stages
- Stereo Delay, syncronizable
- Reverb
- Sidechain input (VST 3 and Audio Unit)
- Carrier plug-in (VST 2)
16-voice Synthesizer (per voice):
- Polyphonic, Monophonic or Free-Running
- 2 Oscillators, waveforms sine, triangle, sawtooth, pulse with pulse width modulation, sample&hold, noise, single and multi sample playback
- FM
- Ring Modulation
- Portamento / Glissando
- 1 Filter, types Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass, Notch (12dB and 24dB), Whitening
- 1 LFO, synchronizable, waveforms sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, sample&hold, noise
- 2 AR envelopes
Lector will run on Windows or Mac. There is no buy button or pricing yet, but you can read more details here http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/lector-overview.html.
ZynAddSubFX Demonstration – Wild Cat in Space
This was my entry to the 26th One Synth Challenge – ZynAddSubFX
One Synth Challenge Web Site:
http://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/osc-26-zynaddsubfx
ZynAddSubFX was originally developed on Linux by Paul Nasca
All the sounds come from the new VST version (ported to the VST platform by me – Vlad Ionescu a.k.a. VDX, using the original 2.4.1 linux codebase).
To make this video I used
ZynAddSubFX VST v2.4.1.475beta
available for download here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=268277
The patches used are available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zl26kcsico4zoxc/One_Synth_Challenge_VDX.zip
The melody can be downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/c09332dpy4695ei/VDX%20-%20Wild%20Cat%20in%20Spa…
Xenobioz- Kruud
Kruud VSTI is a synthesizer with a drawable low resolution Oscillator.
1 LFO/SUB OSC
2 LFOS
3 ADSRS
2 Delays of which one can be used to make crude physical modelling.
An Arpeggiator
A multimode filter
The main Osc has 5 basic waveforms , Pink and white Noise and a drawable user waveform.
The waveforms have different modes like Phase Mod, PWM (Square only) and a special morph mode (listed as PWM in the synth) for all but the square wave.
The user waveform can mix or morph between two waveforms.
Nils Schneider has released GPU Impulse Reverb VST
Nils Schneider has released GPU Impulse Reverb VST, an effect plugin that calculates convolution reverbs by using your graphics card as DSP for realtime reverb calculation with a CPU usage of near 0%.
Any consumer graphics card that supports OpenCL (NVIDIA / ATI or others) can be used without any need for other specific hardware. All common VST hosts are supported, such as Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Fruity Loops and others.
GPU Impulse Reverb VST features
- Low latency, only one ASIO block size.
- Supports Stereo & True Stereo processing (quad-channel impulse responses).
- Supports 16, 24 and 32 bit responses.
- Supports as many instances as your GPU can handle.
- 2-Band EQ.
- Adjustable Attack/Release & Length Envelope.
- File Browser for easy access of IRs.
- …and much more.
GPU Impulse Reverb VST for Windows is available to purchase for 49 EUR.
More information: GPU Impulse Reverb VST
Free multi-effects processor plug-in
AriesCode has released version 0.7.6 of Ariesverb , a a multi-effects processor plug-in for Windows and Mac.
AriesCode has released version 0.7.6 of Ariesverb, a a multi-effects processor plug-in for Windows and Mac.
There is a new version of AriesVerb with many bug fixes, some UI improvements and a redesigned save feature.
Changes in Ariesverb v0.7.6
- New presets: Bad Encoding, Basic Overdrive High, Basic Overdrive Low, Basic Overdrive Med, Crow Concert, Fifths Delay, Laser Echo 2, Windy Reverb.
- New program library with support for user programs.
- New UI layout in the editor window (2nd sidebar).
- New save feature.
- New calculator logic, some new functions.
- Added mousewheel support.
- Fixed white screen bug in Live on Mac.
- Fixed save settings issue on Windows 7.
- Fixed resizing issue in Sony Vegas .
- Fixed numerical issue for presets with high-slope gating.
- Fixed a division by zero bug for very short delays.
- Fixed a buffer overrun bug .
- Fixed handling bug with spinner controls.
- Fixed shift-key for text input on Mac.
- Fixed international characters display on Mac.
Ariesverb for Windows and Mac (VST) is avaialble to purchase for 129 EUR / $169 USD.
More information: AriesCode
Curious about what the Poly-Ana guys are up to
Well here are some new stuff they are planning to release within short:
From the site description on the Poly-Ana:
- I think, the Poly-Ana Controller for Admiral Quality VST Instruments will be the last Contoller this year. And it will be the „Flagship“ of my Controllers.The Controller has two Front Panels to control all the parameters of the VST Instrument. The upper and the lower Front Panel. The upper Front Panel contains the 3 Oscillators Section, the 2 Filter Section, the 2 LFO and 2 AMP Section.
The lower Front Panel contains on the left side, the 3 Envelopes, in the middle a 8“ Touchscreen and on the right side the 2 Modulation Mixer and the 2 Sample and Holds.
Also the Controller will have a 4 Octave Keyboard with Pitch and ModWheel. The Touchscreen which shows the VST Instrument is primarily use for switching, load and save the presets.
The controller will has about 226 Parameters. So i need 4 Midi Interfaces to control this Plugin.
Information from Admiral Quality Website on the Poly-Ana soft-synth:
- Poly-Ana is finally here! Get ready for a new experience in virtual analog synthesis! Poly-Ana uses a different approach than most other VA soft-synths which we feel delivers a sound more authentic to the early analog synths that inspired her features. This “brute-force” method admittedly requires more processing power than other common techniques, but is a far truer model of the functioning of real analog instruments. If you obsess over the quality of your sound like we do then you won’t mind using a bit more CPU power to help get you closer to that real analog sound; a sound that so many other VA synths fall too-far short of. (Note that Poly-Ana also offers a Quality option to reduce CPU usage during performance-time at the expense of sound quality.) Poly-Ana’s voice architecture is an ambitious combination of all the best features of the famous analog classics, plus a few new features (totaling 208 controls, plus a full 5 octave velocity sensitive virtual keyboard!) which, while possible back in the day, would have been prohibitively expensive to implement in hardware. But as a software-only product, Poly-Ana doesn’t face these limitations, and we held nothing back in designing our “ultimate analog dream synth”. Combine this with a classic styled design that puts every parameter a single click away, with large, easy to grab knobs and switches that behave like the real-world items; and with no hidden drill-down menus so that each and every control is prominently displayed out where you can see it; Poly-Ana offers a true alternative in software synthesis.
Read more about the Poly-Ana controller on the official Synth-Project page at http://www.synth-project.de/…
vst-effect-mm-fx11-filtshiftrev demo
this is a demo of the free vst effect mm fx 11 filtshitrev by MASCHINENMUSIK.
the signal ( a vocal sample ) is divided in 3 band and every band is processed seperately. the fx goes from subtle athmosphere to weird rooms and pitch shifted
echoes.
this vst effect is free and can be downloaded from the MASCHINENMUSIK website.
eaReckon has released version 1.2.4 of BloXpander
eaReckon has released version 1.2.4 of BloXpander, a VST host for Windows.
Changes in BloXpander v1.2.4
- Improvements:
- Overall improvement of Audio and MIDI engines.
- BloXpander now detects missing audio interfaces and/or problems with your ASIO drivers on startup.
- Parameters names (LCD emulator) are now updated in the case of “macro” parameters.
- “Virtual pots” of the “main” MIDI controller are now updated on relevant changes from a plugin interface (MC mode only).
- Last called Subscene is now underlined.
- Volume fades out and in on ASIO restart to avoid audio clicks during some critical operations (only some specific audio interfaces were affected by this problem).
- BloXpander remembers Main and “LCD” windows positions.
- Adjusted threads priorities (resolves a rare issue -> audio clicks and pops on GUI operations)
- New “minimize” button.
- Fixed bugs:
- The search box (plugins case) is more stable on fast typing.
- Plugins providing an empty GUI (null height and/or width) are now correctly handled.
- Fixes a bug related to mouse control (which could have been lost in some rare cases).
- Fixes a rare MIDI “stuck notes” issue.
- Workarounds implemented to resolve incompatibilities with (two) 3rd party plugins.
BloXpander for Windows is available to purchase for 69 EUR.
More information: eaReckon
M185 – Clone of the Classic Roland Step Sequencer
A brief demonstration of the M185 Step Sequencer by Defective Records Software. Inspired by the hardware M185 Sequencer developed by RYK. M185 is a MIDI-enabled software recreation of the hardware M185 step sequencer, designed by RYK – developed with their input! The program includes all major functions from the hardware M185. Has a multi-stage step sequencer with stage-selectable gate modes: Mute, Single, Multi and Hold. For fans of the original Roland
The M185 is playing a VST softsynth; drum loop coming from other software. More information at http://defectiverecords.com/m185 .
M185 features
* Virtually all major functions from the hardware M185.
* Multi-stage step sequencer with stage-selectable gate modes.
* Gate modes include Mute, Single, Multi and Hold.
* Trill mode available when in Multi mode within a stage.
* Polyphonic potential when using long Note Length values.
* Each stage can be from 1 to 8 clock pulses in length.
* Internal or MIDI clock control.
* Built-in clock divide capability.
* MIDI output to any hardware or software synth.
* VST instrument hosting.
* 16 preset slots for instant recall of parameters.
* Presets can be saved to and loaded from disk.
VST Spectrum worx – Little endian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTfyubr0QMg
VST Spectrum worx – Little endian
SpectrumWorx is a modular effect processor that works exclusively in the frequency domain. Two things make SpectrumWorx vastly different from other effects processors: its ability to manipulate the frequency domain and its modularity.
Working in the frequency domain lets us reach the very heart of the sound. Every single frequency is available for examination and modification. When we say “modular”, we mean modules – individual small, simple (and not so simple!) self-contained boxes (effects), which we can combine, arrange and re-arrange in so many ways – and of course, every arrangement gives us a new and totally different sound. With over fifty modules, there is a nearly infinite number of combinations available. Once the modules are set up – the game isn’t over. Every module has a number of its own controls which can easily be twisted and turned until the last drop of sonic power is squeezed from the input sample. When at last sonic perfection has been achieved, users can save their masterwork as a SpectrumWorx preset file for future use and even share it with friends.
Features:
* Over fifty modules (pitch shifter, classic vocoder, wah-wah, robotizer, wobbler, autotune, reverser, etc.).
* Sophisticated engine optimized for low CPU usage.
* Flexible Preset browser.
* Over 100 presets.
* Highly configurable LFOs.
* External audio support.
* Presets in XML format.
* Detailed User’s Guide.
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