Icarus 3 - technical data
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Summary
- Icarus 3 is a powerful synthesizer-workstation
- It is also the most advanced wavetable-synthesizer on the market, but not limited to wavetable-synthesis
- The audio-engine can do 65 different synthesis modes and is able to produce all important synthesizer sounds
- The 3D-wavetable-synthesis allows a new dimension of dynamic expression
- True high-end sound-quality with low CPU-requirement
- Easy-to-use interface with animated displays and context-sensitive help
- Huge sonic range
- Over 1891 presets with over 2000 sounds by professional designers
- GUI with 26 sizes and 37 different skins
- Drag & drop modulation
- Drum-sequencer with 100 drum-patterns
- Powerful arpeggiator with autochord-support, shuffle and swing
- 3 x 57 effects, vocoder
- Glitch-sequencer
- Hypersaw, Supersaw, unison, stacks, chords
- Polyphonic, monophonic, several legato modes
- The most powerful filter-section available on the market: Dual multi-mode filters with 65 filter-types and 15 distortion-types
- Customizable user-interface
- Expandability, modular
Features
- Sound engine with true stereo-architecture, stereo oscillators and filters
- 3D-wavetable-synthesis: Waves can be morphed in 3 dimensions
- Multicore-processor support
- MSEGs with BPM sync (multistage envelope generators)
- Very flexible mod-matrix with precise modulation up to the audio-range
- Efficient patch-browser
- The most powerful wavetable-editor available on the market
- Spectrum-editor for editing single harmonics
- The re-synthesis allows you to rebuild any sound with a mouse-click
- A random-buttom allows you to create new sounds with a mouse-click
- Sample-import and automatic tuning
- 65 different synthesis-modes that can be combined
- Dual multi-mode filters with 2 x 62 filter types
- 2 x 16 distortion types
- 3 x 57 effects, vocoder, trancegate
- 10x Hypersaw, 12x Megasaw, 14x Supersaw, unison, stacks
- Polyphonic, monophonic, legato
- Up to 256 waveforms per wavetable
- Unlimited number of wavetables and waveforms
- Random-generator for wavetables
- Midi-learn
- MPE-support (Midi polyphonic expression)
- Context sensitive help
- Drag & drop modulation
- Punchy envelopes and very fast LFOs
- Expandability
- Customizable user interface
- Can import and export samples, waveforms or wavetables in wav format
- Standalone version for PC
- Flexible preset-management
- Microtuning for enhanced chords
- Equalizer with dynamic bass-boost and psychoacoustic processing.
- Free support and updates
Modulators (all can be used simunaniously)
- 2 MSEGs (loop support, BPM-sync)
- 4 AHDSR envelopes
- 14 Decay envelopes
- 2 Hold envelopes
- 16 LFOs with sine waveform
- 3 LFOs with 45 morphable waveforms and BPM-sync
- Step-LFO / gate with custom-waveform
- Arpeggiator
- Various Midi CCs
- 4 Noise sources
- Key-split
Synthesis methods (can be combined)
- 3D wavetables / classic wavetables
- Hypersaw / stereo Hypersaw / Supersaw / stereo Supersaw / Megasaw / stereo Megasaw / unison
- Additive synthesis
- Subtractive / analog
- FM with up to 6 operators
- Granular synthesis
- Speech-synthesis
- Formant-synthesis
- Resynthesis of samples
- Vocoder
- Wave-shaping
- PWM
- Sync
- Ringmod, AM
- Noise
- Physical-modeling
- Phase-distortion
- Time-stretching
- Pitch-shifting
- Samples
- Harmonic-morphing
- FFT-filtering
- Lofi
- Import of waveforms and wavetables
- Stacks / chords / autochord
- Many other innovative modes, exclusive to Icarus
Effect types (can be combined for new effects)
- Reverb Medium, Reverb Big, Reverb Plate, Reverb Glass, Reverb Dark, Reverb Infinite, Reverb Feedback, Reverb Spring, Reverb Trance, Reverb Cheap, Reflections
- Delay, Pingpong, Multitap, Delay Fat, Delay Dual, Delay Diffuse, Delay Band, Tape Delay, Echo
- Chorus, White Chorus, Unison, Ensemble
- Phaser, Phaser Stereo, Krautrock Phaser, Krautrock Stereo
- Flanger, Flanger Stereo
- Vibrato, Vibrato stereo
- Autopan, Surround Pan, Rotary, Tremolo
- EQ High Cut, EQ Low Cut, EQ Param
- Saturate, Soft Clip, Hard Clip, Rectify, Bitcrush, Warp, Waveshape, Amp Sim, Multiband Distortion, Degrader, Multiband Degrader, Noise, Digital XOR, Digital AND, Digital OR
- Compressor, Limiter
- Surround Encode, Haas Effect
- Trancegate
- Glitch-sequencer with Repeat, Gate, Pan, Tremolo, Lowpass, Highpass, Bitcrush, Degrade, Detune, Pitchslide
- Feedback
- Microtuning
- Psychoacoustic processing
- Bass-boost, Transient shaper
Filter types (can be combined)
- Low-pass: Digital 12dB, Digital 24dB, Butter 24dB, Curtis 12dB, Curtis Analog, Tone2 24dB, Tone2 Analog, Tone2 Scream, 303 18dB, 303 Analog, Chain 6-48dB, Elliptic, Octave, Shaped, AM, HighQ, Ladder 24dB, MS20 12dB
- High-pass: Digital 12dB, Analog 12dB, Analog 24dB, Chain 6-48dB
- Band-pass: Digital 12dB, Digital 24dB, Analog 12dB, Analog 24dB, Boobs
- Equalizer: Notch, Peak Tight, Peak Medium, Peak Wide, Shelf Tight, Shelf Wide, Bandlimit
- Vocalic: A, U, I, IEA, AOU, IYU, IEAOU
- Comb-filters: Phaser 2x, Phaser 2x FB, Phaser 3x, Phaser 3x FB, Comb+, Comb-
- Fractal-filters: LP 1, LP 2, LP 3, LP 4, FO 1, FO 2
- Ring-modulation: Ringmod, LP, LP2, FM Lowpass, AM
- Pysical-modeling resonators: Guitar, Flute, Odd, Even
- LoFi: Resampling, Sample & Hold
System requirements
PC: Windows 11 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Linux with WINE
Plugin formats: 64-bit VSTi, VST3, Standalone
Mac: macOS 10.12 and later including macOS Sequoia
Intel CPU or M2 or M1 (native support for enhanced performace)
Plugin formats: VSTi, Audio Unit (AUi), VST3, Standalone, Universal Binary
User-friendly copy-protection: No dongle, no cloud, no data-collection, no need to be online, does not install an additional 'license-manager' or driver