They finish it off with a large range of presets including those classic ones from the original. A similar vintage option is available to the noise generator, giving plain old white noise. Co-developed by Ivo Ivanov and Thomas Hennebert, Polygon was conceived from the ground up with unconventional attributes and a fast, forward-thinking workflow. At the extremes of the six-octave shift range, some truly strange aliasing and artifacts can be had with this control. More information on the Audio Damage website. Logic Pro X is the most advanced version of Logic ever. The noise and oscillators are able to work in the original alphaSyntauri resolutions, and can also be run at modern sample rates.
Phosphor features two additive oscillators with the original 16 partial complement of the alphaSyntauri, or optionally with 32 or 64 partials , each with its own amplitude envelope. Each oscillator has its own envelope. The presets do a good job of showcasing the different sides of this synth — pulsing blips with a touch of white noise, soft unassuming basses, shimmering pads and strange oscillating tones that sound chiptune-like. The granular output feeds into a pair of resonant filters, each of which is multimode and can be two- or four-pole; the filters can be combined in parallel or series. One is the ability to adjust the curve of the attack, decay and release segments of the envelope. One of our all-stars gets the full upgrade treatment.
It really is simple when compared to so many other synths, and you may expect this one to offer less due to its lack of complexity — but the sounds Phosphor 2 makes are just so charming, musical and perfectly flawed in the best way possible you may find yourself entranced and inspired by how playable and curious this instrument is. The levels of the individual partials are set using the bank of vertical sliders in the Primary and Secondary Oscillator panels, with the leftmost slider setting the volume of the fundamental and the rest dialling in increasingly high-frequency harmonics, enabling effortlessly creative signal shaping - albeit without the handy real-time waveform that sat behind the sliders in v1, which has been ditched. It integrates the features of the original Model 101 Synthesizer and Model 102 Expander units, resulting in an incredibly fat and uniquely versatile two oscillator monosynth with modular routing. It has a sheen to it that makes even the most extreme settings still sound musical in a way. In fact, you can make them both modulate each other at the same time, known as cross-modulation.
In addition, the oscillator and noise sources can be passed directly into the filter, bypassing the granular process altogether. Phosphor is an unique instrument modeled on the alphaSyntauri, a vintage digital additive synth from the early 80s. The oscillator sports a continuously variable waveshape and pulse width, while the noise source has a colour control for changing sampling rate. But the presets are just a starting point, as the simple presentation of this plug-in makes creating custom synths easy for even newcomers. Finally, the output controls set overall volume and number of voices, with an optional unison mode.
The sounds on offer are pretty varied, but most have a recognisable granular texture that, like Marmite, you probably love or hate. The presets ably demonstrate how well delays work with the types of sounds Phosphor offers. Combining this powerful new synth with exciting features introduced in Logic Pro 10. While Wavetable dynamically filters its matrix rows to just show those in use, Quanta shows all rows, whether active or not, so you often have to do quite a bit of scrolling back and forth between values you want to edit. The remaining section is the stereo-filtered delay. The enormous library, keyword browser, advanced synthesis tools, and easy-to-use Performance Controls let you discover, create, and transform sounds like never before.
It features two oscillators with the original collection of 16 partials plus the option for 32 or 64. Load any of your existing samples and listen as Polygon takes things in exciting new directions. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Now, to be clear, if you're looking for a nice, clean diatonic pitch shifter for fine surgery and re-pitching the full program, you need to look elsewhere. Approximate reading time: 2 Minutes Audio Damage have released a new and updated version of their 2011 model of alphaSyntauri. Their devices range from quirky a neuron-inspired percussion synth, a rotary beat-slicer, a step-sequenced multi-effects unit to indispensable a variety of elegant and nicely designed reverbs, choruses, filters and flangers.
Oscillator 1 can modulate the frequency of oscillator 2, and vice-versa. The filters are a combination of high and lowpass, which can act as either, or be combined to create band-pass filtering. I own and use a lot of Audio Damage plug-ins, so Quanta had a familiar look and feel out of the box. There are knobs for the number of grains created per second, the grain length in milliseconds, pitch tuning, sample position, volume level and stereo width. You can do all this by feel and by just listening as you change the dials. To increase flexibility, this oscillator can operate in either sine and square wave mode with pulse width modulation, offers filter and effects routing options and is fully integrated into the modulation matrix.
All this results in a much more sophisticated and capable synth than the original, without compromising the ability to recreate the classic sounds of the early days of digital synthesis. Phosphor 2 Audio Damage found one somewhere that they could use to create the original Phosphor. . This will be recognisable from a number of other Audio Damage plug-ins, enabling tempo-synced or manually-set delays for left and right channels, each of which has its own filter section that's applied to the delayed signal. In a nutshell, we're talking two oscillators, each with 16 partials. Anyone looking for a truly original-sounding synth will struggle to find anything more character-packed than this. And I would have quite liked to see a little visual image of the sample waveform too.
There are a number of clever features that aren't standard soft synth fixtures. Audio Damage are a two-person company who have been building plug-ins since 2002. However, the plug-in falls foul of one of our pet peeves: the lack of a master effects off control. While going through the presets we found ourselves playing a succession of very familiar riffs from a variety of genres, with the signature motifs from I'm In Miami Bitch, Knight Rider and Scarface all inadvertently falling under our fingers. The were wave editors and wave drawing, like with the Fairlight, provided you had the Apple light pen. Its distinctive tone makes it a dream for cutting through busy mixes. Alchemy, the ultimate sample-manipulation synthesizer, comes to Logic Pro X.
Cranking this up and enabling the Vintage mode gives you waveforms you're unlikely to get any other way, lifting Phosphor above and beyond a vanilla additive sound. It gets noisy, it gets gritty, it gets dreamy and it gets bold, all the while managing to sound pristine and focused. Phosphor won't be everybody's cup of tea, then, but we absolutely love it. More information: When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Following a recent stylistic refresh, which discontinued some rather dated skeuomorphic designs in favour of new clean, geometric interfaces, Audio Damage have now delivered Quanta, their take on granular synthesis. Polygon is a new sampler plugin designed to facilitate the creation of stunning composite sound effects. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to.