Category Archives: Additive

CMI V

CMI V

“PEERLESS SAMPLING CHARACTER

The CMI V is a spot-on reincarnation of the first commercially available digital sampling system in music history—the sonic powerhouse behind numerous early MTV-era megahits. We even went the extra mile and added new creative features that weren’t possible back in the day.

In 1980, the Fairlight CMI turned heads with the introduction of digital sampling. Now our software homage lets you turn some heads yourself.

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Cube

Cube

“The structure of sound

CUBE 2 is a musical instrument and the ultimate tool for sound designers who wish to have instant and intuitive access to all principal components every imaginable sound is build from. Every sound can be decomposed in a sine spectrum representing the harmonic and inharmonic partials and a residual noise spectrum for the noise components. The spatial character of a sound can be represented by a pan spectrum. The temporal evolution of these three spectra is a very convenient way to describe every sound. CUBE 2 is built around this model and allows you to manipulate the structure of a sound with all its components in a comfortable and musical way.

Resynthesis

Take a sample as input and CUBE 2 analyzes it into two components: up to 512 sine tracks for the partial components and the residual spectrum for the noise components. The outstanding quality of the analyzer for a broad range of sounds avoids the typical artifacts known from time stretching/pitch shifting and granular algorithms.

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Falcon

Falcon

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“Falcon is an advanced and truly unlimited hybrid instrument, bringing together an extensive collection of cutting-edge oscillators, effects, modulators and event processors and delivering them in a workflow-adaptive and highly-scriptable environment. Falcon allows you to create and manipulate sound with unparalleled precision and finesse, from basic sample slicing and synth design to extravagantly modulated multitimbral hybrids. Falcon runs stand-alone or in your DAW as a plugin, is natively surround capable up to 10.2 channels, can take just about any sound you can throw at it for fuel (and some pictures, too) and is fully compatible with all UVI Powered instruments.

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FORM

FORM

“A NEW FORM

Extend sound creation beyond traditional synthesis, and transform samples into anything you can imagine. Intriguing and playful, FORM offers a refreshing approach to sound creation that delivers beautifully organic and powerful results.

START WITH A SAMPLE

Start creating something new – just drag and drop a sample into the FORM interface. Using a sample as the primary oscillator for the synth engine, FORM lets you craft complex new sounds rapidly. Scrub the sample to discover new worlds within its waveform, then select the section you want to manipulate. Continue reading FORM

Loom

Loom

loom

“Explore Additive Synthesis

Loom is an award-winning modular additive synthesizer with a shape-shifting Morph Pad that makes it easy to create rich, swirling, and captivating sounds. Loom takes a unique modular approach to additive synthesis, a synthesis technique that involves combining simple waveforms together to create complex sounds, by allowing anyone to select from and combine 30 editable modules. Create anything from wobbles, ethereal pads, ambient soundscapes, and much more. The programmable Morph Pad brings your Loom patches to life by morphing between user-defined variations of your patch, adding motion and momentum that continues to evolve.

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Poseidon

Poseidon

“The Ocean of Sound

For all creatures in the ocean of sound – Sonic textures from other worlds, Analog signature sounds,  Cut-through-the-mix leads and silkily smooth pads: POSEIDON sets a new standard for sounds and ease of use. All of this was made possible through a combination of the familiar, conceptual simplicity of the analog synthesis and our new, F-Domain synthesis technology.

Concept

At first sight POSEIDON looks like a simple structured analog “Oscillator-Filter” synthesizer  with all controls visible at once. This gives POSEIDON the ease of use with nearly no learning curve. The real power is working under the hood: The oscillator is nothing less than the award winning spectral modelling sound generator of CUBE. The variable slope Filter is a completely new design based on our unique F-domain synthesis. But let´s go step by step…

Spectral model oscillator

Select a basic sound model from over hundred delivered with POSEIDON. The basic sound model determines the sound characteristic you want to start: taking a artificial model like “Sawtooth” gives you analog style sounds. Use complex models from analyzed samples for earth shaking ambients and evolving pads.
Analyze your own favourite samples to create new models. For really fat sounds use the unisono mode giving you up to eight oscillators with variable detune.
The bitmap import function let you even take images and convert them to soundscapes!

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Reaktor

Reaktor

reaktor

“MODULAR DSP LAB

Build custom synths, samplers, effects, and sound design tools
Experiment with rack-style modular patching using Blocks
Discover 70+ included instruments plus thousands of sounds in the User Library

TRUE SONIC PLAYGROUND

REAKTOR 6 is the ultimate creative toolkit for deep sound exploration, featuring cutting-edge DSP and high-fidelity sound.

UNRIVALLED SOUND QUALITY

REAKTOR’s trademark sound quality is unmistakable. From anti-aliased oscillators and ZDF (zero delay feedback) filters to granular synthesis engines, a team of leading developers build every component in REAKTOR from the core level up using the most elegant algorithms. Their relentless pursuit of DSP excellence keeps this sonic toolkit at the head of its class. And everything inside is organized for immediate use in REAKTOR’s macro libraries for fast, creative building sessions. Continue reading Reaktor

Synclavier V

Synclavier V

“DIGITAL DREAM MACHINE

The Synclavier V faithfully recreates the elite digital synthesizer/workstation that started it all, powering some of the biggest hits and film soundtracks of the early ‘80s with its unique rich, edgy sounds.

If you were to ask anyone back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s to name the Holy Grail of synthesizers, the most revered of them all was New England Digital’s Synclavier. Its unique combination of additive synthesis and frequency modulation delivered a creative edge to the privileged few keyboardists, producers, film composers and sound designers who could afford systems that ranged from $13k to $400k.

Some of those rock-solid systems are still in use today. Arturia has recreated this highly revered hit maker in partnership with original programmer Cameron Jones, delivering the immense rich textures and creative palette of this vintage instrument, while dramatically improving it to let you blaze new musical trails today with sounds never heard before.

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AIR

Boom, Creative FX Collection Plus, DB-33, Hybrid, Loom, Mini Grand, the RISER, Strike, Structure, Transfuser, Vacuum Pro, Velvet, XPand!

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Arturia

Analog Lab, ARP2600 V, B-3 V, Buchla Easel V, Clavinet V,
CMI V, CS-80 V, CZ V, DX7 V, Farfisa V, Jup-8 V,
Matrix-12 V, Mellotron, Mini V, Modular V,
Piano V, Pigments, Prophet V, Rev PLATE-140,
SEM V, Solina V, Stage-73 V, Synclavier V, Synthi V,
VOX Continental V, Wurli V

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Native Instruments

ABSYNTH, Action Strings, Action Strikes, Balinese Gamelan, Cuba, DAMAGE, Evolve Mutations, FM8, FORM, The Gentleman,
The Giant, India, KINETIC METAL, KONTAKT, KONTOUR, MASSIVE, MASSIVE X, The Maverick, Middle East, MONARK, POLYPLEX, PRISM, RAUM, RAZOR, REAKTOR, Retro Machines MKII, RISE & HIT, ROUNDS, Session Strings Pro 2, SKANNER XT, SPARK, Symphony Essentials, Symphony Series, THRILL, TRK-01,
Una Corda, Vintage Organs, West Africa

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