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Firebird uses a unique synthesis architecture to deliver next-generation sounds.

Its innovative user interface provides you with the tools to create impressive sounds with a minimal amount of effort. Featuring an impressive selection of 437 build-in sounds, representing both highly sought-after VA sounds, as well as sounds more specific to Firebird and characterized by its Harmonic Content Morphing synthesis, breathing both life and dynamics into the sounds.

Harmonic Content Morphing synthesis is based on a large, expandable repertoire of standard waves, like saw, pulse, as well as more complex wave material, like multi-waves, trumpets, organs, pads, pianos and voice samples. These waves are modified in real-time, by for example transposing the wave by one or two octaves and adding it to the original wave, altering its harmonic structure, syncing, compressing or even expanding the frequency domain of the spectrum. Making the wave for example sound more fat using only one oscillator, transforming each wave into a hyper-wave or selecting some cycles of a sample and moving through them over time (comparable to wavetable synthesis). Any modification of a wave can be modulated producing lively shimmery sounds (remember: using only one oscillator!) With a total of more than 18,000 different spectra available for combination and modulation, Firebird+ gives an almost unlimited amount of timbres to experiment with.

Very easy to program and easy to use. A unique sounding synthesis: Harmonic content morphing (HCM). High sound quality: Warm, transparent. 437 hand picked presets included, over 1000 sounds available. 84 oscillator types containing 18,000 morphable waveforms. 38 different filter types. True stereo mode, 4x unison mode, and up to 8 oscillators per voice. Can sound like other synthesis methods - additive, subtractive, AM, FM, phase distortion, supersaw, vocoder, sync. Can sound like natural instruments like piano, brass, organs... 23 spectral manipulations or “modifiers” can be applied to the oscillators. 21 arpeggiator types. 13 effect types. Skinable user interface.

Jun 14, 2020

edited TC Electronic Native Bundle

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Native Bundle includes a series of high end processing tools for VST and Apple's Audio Units. If you work with native plug-ins, this bundle covers all your needs when it comes to equalization, dynamic processing (incl. de-essing), reverberation, limiting and maximizing, and now also filters and lo-fi effects.

All tools are heavily performance optimized for smooth operation in your multitrack environment, saving precious computer power for other tasks. The intuitive user interfaces make these plug-ins invaluable tools that you'll be able to use instantly!

With the new "artist kit" preset collection, Native Bundle now comes with more than 200 presets. The new internal preset manager ensures that presets are available in all your host applications and that preset exchange between Win and Mac systems is easy.

Jun 14, 2020

edited TC Electronic M40

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M40 Studio Reverb

Hall, Room and Plate M40 Studio Reverb features three main reverb algorithms. The Hall algorithm emulates a large hall with a broad and warm reverb.

Room emulates a small and well-furnished room with an intimate ambience and going back in time the Plate reverb algorithm emulates the large metallic plates which were used to create reverbs before digital signal processing was commonplace.

Part of the Monitor Signal Path It is available for tracking to increase the recording comfort without tying the effect to the final take, operated by the control panel and the reverb knob on the top panel of Desktop Konnekt.

VST and Audio Units Beside being part of the monitor mix, the M40 Studio Reverb is also available as a natively running VST/AU plug-in, allowing you to use it as part of your recording session in your PC or Mac.

Jun 14, 2020

edited IK Multimedia SampleTank 2XL

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IK Multimedia SampleTank XL is a poweful and well known sampler. You can load multiple instances, it opens ALL SampleTank format sounds, has import functionality, and the ability to create your own user presets.

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16 part multi-timbral with easy layerable/mixable parts. 3 synth engines: STRETCH (formant preserving pitch-shift/time-stretch). Polyphonic Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch (PS/TS). Resampling. Powerful multi-effects section: 5 insert effects per Part. 5 Send effects. Master effects. 33 built-in DSP effects derived from audio processors like T-RackS and AmpliTube. Part and Master Loop Sync. Imports WAV, AIFF, SDII, AKAI S-1000/3000, SAMPLECELL. Available both as a standalone application as well as a plug-in. VST, RTAS, and AU on Mac OS X/Windows.
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Jun 14, 2020

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de la Mancha GTA Compressor
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De La Mancha GTA is a vintage style character compressor, designed like its muscle car name-sake for brute power, pure speed and to make a loud noise.

It is stripped down for ease of use and has a unique vintage colouring on top.

GTA is a peak compressor featuring super-fast attack and release times and has a wide range of threshold, ratio and output boost as well as a wet/dry mix for NY compression. The metering covers input, output and gain reduction, showing both real-time and peak levels. Vintage style Peak compressor with parallel compression and comprehensive metering. Subtle colouring from a home-made blend of harmonics, saturation and dynamic noise. Ultra-fast attack and release times. Wet/Dry mix control allows phase-free blending of dry uncompressed signal for NY style parallel compression. Distortion reduction for very short release times. Metering covers stereo input, output and gain reduction. All meters show actual and peak levels. Adjustable peak meter hold time.
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Jun 14, 2020

edited The Deputy Mark II

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Full Bucket Deputy
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The deputy Mark II is a plug-in in the tradition of classic string machines and early polyphonic synthesizers, written in native C++ code for high performance. Polyphonic string/synthesizer (Poly) section and monophonic synthesizer (Mono) section. Built-in Ensemble and Phaser effects. Flexible keyboard assignment for Poly and Mono section. Poly section: Up to 61 voices polyphony. Two band-limited frequency divider-driven oscillator banks. Sawtooth and PWM waveforms. 2-pole multi-mode filter and ADS envelope per voice. Global ADSR envelope for paraphonic modulation. Resonator bank (3 zero-delay feedback filters). Mono section: Single VCO plus suboscillator and noise. 4-pole zero-delay feedback lowpass filter. ADSR envelope and LFO. Output of Poly section can be send to filter input.
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Jun 14, 2020

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Jun 14, 2020

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Altair 4 - The SciFi Sounds Lab is best suited for creating soundtracks for movies or games in the genres of SciFi, Suspense, Horror, Fantasy and similar, that need special, spacey, wobbly FX sounds.

It can do more than these, e.g. bell-like stuff, and it even fits well in fairly conventional songs. Altair 4 is also an homage to the movie 'Forbidden Planet' from 1956, it being the first movie with a complete electronic soundtrack using sounds that could have been done with this plug-in. 2 oscillators with two sound-sources with one (B) driving the other (A) to resonate. Each oscillator with three mod inputs and extensive control options. 3 LFO: L1 (7 waves) with key restart on first key pressed, L2 (8 waves) and phase modulation. L3 (7 waves) with optional modulation by sub LFO. 2 hidden LFO: L12 = mix of L1 and L2, L13 = mix of L1 and L3. 1 Sample & Hold (6 modes). 1 VCA with AR EG (with pan for un-delayed sound at Rev section). 1 Main Volume with level control: fixed, Velocity, and even Aftertouch, or Wheel. 1 Delay (BPM-synced) and dedicated pan. 1 Bass Boost. 1 Reverb with predelay. 1 Hold button to hold last played key. 1 Joypad with 3 balls to control 6 destinations. 8 Voices. 256 Patches (2 Banks).
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Jun 14, 2020

edited Yamaha TG55 Tone Generator

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In the range of Yamaha’s late ‘80s - early ‘90s digital synths the TG (Tone Generator) line was the group of mainly rack-mountable instruments. Some of them were the module version of the SY-workstations (without keyboard and onboard sequencer).

The TG55 is basically a 16-bit sample playback based synth module – perhaps the first one from Yamaha employing this kind of sound generation, other than the old classic FM at DXs and TX modules - which appeared also in the same era like, e.g. the Roland U-220. This synthesis method used in the TG55 is called AWM2. The name stands for Advanced Wave Memory 2nd generation – it’s essentially Yamaha’s name for the PCM playback. The first original version of AWM had a 12-bit resolution, only the second version became 16-bit.

In its 2MB sample ROM, amongst 74 waveforms there are 50 acoustic instruments, 16 drum sounds, 8 digital waveforms – all of them are sampled in 16-bit depth and at 32 or 48 kHz sample rate.

The TG55’s sample oscillators are called "elements" - each patch consists of 1, 2, or 4 of them. The maximum polyphony is 16 voices. The factory sounds are those quite typical early nineties, but don’t judge it by only the presets. It has strengths like nice ambient pads, or new-age synths – they can sound crisp and clear. Considering its age, it hasn’t got the most realistic acoustic patches, but in case of deeper programming, this module is really capable of much more. It also has waveform and data expansion card slots for expandability.

What’s more, TG55 has 2 digital resonant filters (HP/LP, and LP - both with 12dB/oct), LFO with 3 possibilities (to amplitude, to pitch or to filter cutoff) , 3 Envelope Generators - 5 stages envelope, and 34 programmable digital effects (reverb 8-types, delay, stereo panning delay, gate and distortion) for shaping the sounds further.
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Jun 14, 2020

edited Gakken SX-150 Mark II Analog Synthesizer

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The gakken sx-150 is a little analog synthesizer kit which comes packaged in a japanese diy science magazine. its very easy to put together - no soldering is required. its a compact synthesizer with basic but welcome functions. it has one oscillator with an lfo for modulation, filter with switchable resonance and an ad envelope. it is controlled via a stylus type "pen". it also has an external input for processing, a line output and a built-in speaker. it is very portable since its small and runs off 4 x aa batteries.
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Jun 14, 2020

edited Waves SSL-G Channel Strip

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Jun 14, 2020

edited Yamaha AN200

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The AN200 is a compact table-top physical modeling analog synthesizer and sequencer. The AN200 has sounds like the AN1x keyboard. The sounds are pretty phat, from punchy analog bass to squelchy distorted 303-lines. It models two analog VCO oscillators with sawtooth, variable pulse, mix, multi-saw, OSC Sync, FM, resonant multimode filters and 5 voices of polyphony. To accompany this beastly little synth engine is a 32-voice AWM2 section with about 120 drum and rhythm sounds for creating complete dance grooves, patterns and songs!

The AN200 features a 16 step pattern sequencer with one track for FM sounds and three tracks for AWM2 rhythm sounds. It's simple to use and is suited for hands-on and easy pattern making. Create your patterns in step-mode, in real-time, or record it using an external MIDI keyboard. The sequencer is Analog-Style, each step of a pattern can be tweaked by the turn of a knob, affecting the pitch, gate time or velocity of any synth or drum note. Parts can be dropped out and brought back in on the fly, along with any tweaks and pattern changes for interactive live performances! The "Swing" function can funk up the groove of your patterns for better or worse. There's also Tap Tempo for DJs to match up to their beats! Editing sounds is also fairly easy and hands-on. There are 15 quick access knobs for various common tweakable parameters like the LFO, amp envelopes, filters, effects section and osc. sections. That's way more knobs than the competition (Korg ElecTribe/M and Roland MC-series)! Further in-depth editing can be achieved with the bundled software editor for Mac/PC.
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Jun 14, 2020

edited Dmitry Sches Diversion

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Diversion is a versatile, high quality software synthesizer, designed for use in any genre of professional electronic music production. Diversion takes the full advantage of modern processors to bring you the perfect sound quality that fits standards of hardware synthesizers.
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Jun 14, 2020

edited Mackie Onyx Satellite

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The Onyx Satellite is a 24-bit, 96kHz Firewire audio interface providing two analogue inputs and up to six analogue outputs. It doesn't do MIDI at all, has no digital I/O and doesn't offer any on-board DSP processing, but what it does provide is a pair of good-quality mic preamps and some useful monitor controller functions, as well as the innovative two-part docking design that gives it its name. The larger of the two parts is the 'Base Station' which provides analogue inputs and outputs, source selection and monitor level controls, plus a slot in its slanted top designed to hold the smaller 'Pod' unit. The idea behind this arrangement is that the Base Station can be left wired into your studio setup, with mics, instruments and monitors all left permanently hooked up and ready for use, then when you want to work on the move you simply slide out the Pod and pop it into your bag with the laptop.

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Jun 13, 2020

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