"An essential purchase. Hugely powerful. Can excel in any genre."
"There is nearly nothing what it can't do"
"Fully deserving of being your one go-to synth. Unlimited possibilities. CPU friendly."
The power of 4 full featured synths in one interface
Quick and easy import of your own samples
Combine 14 different synthesis methods
37 unique filter types. Dual multimode filters.
32 studio quality effects including a Vocoder
Flexible modulation with real-time displays. BPM syncable.
4 arpeggiators with advanced features like swing, autochord, glide, ...
Autotune, Autoloop, 12 sample effects, Quick import, ...
"A swiss army knife of synthesis methods"Summary of key features
- Four synthesizers in one interface
- High-end sound quality
- Huge sonic range
- High flexibility
- 15 different, combinable synthesis methods
- Free support and updates
- Psychoacoustic processing and automatic microtuning
- Low CPU load, multi-core processor support
- GUI with 16 different sizes (with and without editor / effects).
- Ultrasharp graphics with enhanced HiDpi and Retina Display support.
- Native support for WQHD, 4K, 5K and 8K UHD displays.
- Easy to use
- 4x multitimbral, 4x stereo unison
- Over 3000 sounds in 1439 presets by professional sound designers
- 42 exclusive filter types
- 67 oscillator types
- 64 effect types; Master effect section with Equalizer
- More than 1000 waveforms
- 64x4 voices
- Midi learn
- Realtime displays
- Drag & drop modulation
- Expandability
- Can import samples in wav and sfz format
- Can export samples in wav format
- Standalone version for PC
- Flexible preset management
- Context sensitive help
Summary of features per synthesizer layer (x4)
- Several playmodes: Monophonic, legato, polyphonic, glide
- 3 multi-synthesis oscillators
- Dual multi-mode filters
- Dual multi-mode distortion/waveshaper with 18 types
- 3 LFOs (global or per voice), a Step LFO / Gate, BPM syncable
- 17 Sine-LFOs (free-running)
- Four Envelope generators
- 13 Decay-Envelopes
- Arpeggiator
- Insert effect, BPM syncable
- Flexible modulation
- Key splitting
64 studio quality effects:
- Reverbs: Hall, Cathedral, Room, Infinity, Reverb Big, Glass, Band, Real, Hall old, Cathedral old, Gated, Reverse, ...
- Delays: Delay, Delay Band, Ping Pong, Multitap, ...
- Hyper Unison, Phaser FB, Phaser Stereo, Vibrato, Vibrato Stereo, Tremelo, Tremelo Stereo, Chorus, Ensemble, Phaser, Flanger, Rotary, Trancegate, Compressor, Ampsim, Equalizer, Punch, Surround Encode, ...
- Vocoder
Summary of synthesis methods & OSC features
- Subtractive
- FM
- Sample playback and import of own samples with loop support
- Wavetables
- Resynthesis function and the ability to load own waveforms
- Ultrasaw (up to 18 detuned oscillators per voice)
- Fractal (a completely new synthesis method)
- Physical modeling
- Phase distortion
- Waveshaping
- Exclusive oscillator types
- PWM
- Soft sync, hard sync
- Noise
- Ringmod
- Vocoder
- Analog oscillator modeling
- Fat tuning
42 exclusive filter types
- 13 analog modeled filters with self oscillation: Low-pass/High-pass/Band-pass 12dB/18dB/24dB, Ladder, Butter, Filter-FM
- High precision digital filters: Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Notch, Tone
- Equalizers: LowShelf, HighShelf, Peak, Wide
- Special types: Phaser, Comb+, Comb-, Vocals, Vocals2, Vocal AM, LP Shaped, LP AM, LP Elliptic, BP Boobs, M-Shape, Aliaser, Ringmod
- Exclusive fractal filters
- Physcial-modeling String, Physical-modeling Flute
System requirements
PC: Windows 11 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Linux with WINE
Plugin formats: VST (64bit), VST3 (64 bit), Standalone (64 bit)
Mac: macOS 10.12 and later including macOS Sequoia
Intel CPU or M2 or M1 (native support for enhanced performace)
Plugin formats: VST, 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
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