LinPlug Releases Albino 2 VST/AU Synthesizer
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March 9, 2004
Announced earlier in the year, LinPlug has now released the Albino 2 Synthesizer.
In 2002 Rob Papen approached Peter
Linsener of LinPlug with his idea of a
sound-designers dream synth. A few
months later ALBINO was born, and now a major update is ready as well.
The Albino 2 features:
- 32-step arpeggiator
- "velocity values","tie" and "off" function for each step,
- Several modes including a chord mode, modulation mode, up, down, up/down, up/down+, down/up, down/up+, as played and random mode.
- Keyboard retrigger on/off for the pattern
- Swing function,
- Velocity of pattern or keyboard velocity mix knob.
- Save, load, copy, past, init functions for the complete arpeggiator settings.
- New preset browser.
- More than 1100 presets
- Chord memory mode, with the setting saved within a preset.
- Oscillator SYNC option in Analog Oscillator 2 and 4
- New digital spectrum waveforms
- Spread function for ultra fat detune sounds
- New Flanger FX
- Oscillators activity led
- Stereo panning knob in Phaser FX
- Additional new Chorus
- New GUI
- Keyboard velocity curve respond
- Microtuning for different scales, Indian, Arabic etc,
Other Key Features:
- VST2.0 / AU plug-in virtual synthesizer for PC and Mac OS-X
- Modular and extendable design with 3 Oscillator types Modules, 2 Filter types Modules, 2 Envelope types Modules and 6 Effect types Modules
- 32 note polyphonic (CPU dependent)
- Unlimited sound programs, sound browser, style maps, midi program change
- Up to 4 Oscillator per voice, various high quality Oscillator types with countless waveforms
- Oscillator Amplitude and Frequency Modulation, Oscillator "Pulse Width Modulation"
- 2 Stereo Filters per voice, each with 2 types (Silk type and Cream type) of multimode filters, altogether 12 filter modes
- 8 envelopes with 2 types each . ADSFR type and 5-stage envelope type with loop function. Each oscillator has its own volume envelope.
- 4 individual LFO's with various waveforms, broad range of tempo sync, Symmetry and Phase adjustable, additional LFO-DAD-Envelopes, mono mode
- Modulation Matrix which includes 8 routings with 27 sources and 33 destinations.
- 2 effects blocks containing 8 stereo effect including 2 different Chorus', 2 different Delays, Filter/Distortion, Phaser, Reverb and Flanger
- Mono/Polyphonic Portamento/Glide featuring Fingered mode, switchable constant Time/constant Rate and Auto-Bend Modes
- Adjustable voice limit (mono, 1...8, all), single trigger modus
- Adjustable Precision to bring in the warmth of the good old analogue synthesizers
- Fully recognised velocity, mono and poly aftertouch, pitch bend, mod-wheel and various other controllers
- External Controllers Settings can be stored.
- Sample accurate timing, full automation and settings are saved with the song
System Requirements:
- VST2.0 or AU capable host software
- Macintosh, Mac OSX 10.2 or higher, 500 MHz or higher CPU
- PC, Windows 95 or higher, 500 MHz or higher CPU
Price is 199 Euro/$199US. Upgrade is 39 Euro (49
US$ outside the EU). The upgrade is free for people who purchased
November 1, 2003 or later.
For more information, visit their web site at www.linplug.de. |
