Icarus 1.6 Beta released

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Icarus 1.6 Beta released 2018-04-14T05:18:44+00:00 Posted this in the 1.5 thread but thought as the Tone2 deals is on today that anyone that's interested can try the new beta too - public beta to is now available: The update to v1.6 is a big update, which is available for free. It includes new resynthesis modes, additonal effects, a better user interface, enhanced sound and a large number of new features. Icarus 1.6 is downward compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound quality. The Mac version will be available in some weeks. ----------------- Installation (PC): 1) Download and install Icarus v1.5: https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_Icarus.zip 2) Download the patch to 1.6 beta https://www.tone2.com/update/Tone2_Icarus_v1.6_beta_PC.zip 2) Replace Icarus.dll (32 bit) or IcarusX64.dll (64 bit) in the Vstplugins directory ------------- New features: - IMPORT SAMPLE->'Resynthesis smart pitch snap' drastically enhances the sound quality of the resynthesis function. You can select a wav file and it automatically creates a synthesizer patch which syncs to BPM. - IMPORT SAMPLE->'Resynthesis of melody' is a groundbreaking feature. It can import complete phrases or melodies in wav format. It automaticaly programs a patch that sounds very similar to the original. It reprograms the melody in the arpeggiator. Futhermore it creates a wavetable with the harmonic content of the patch. The patches can further be tweaked, time streched or modified. - IMPORT SAMPLE->'Resynthesis with dynamic pitch' can import a wave. It automatically creates a patch which sounds similar to the original one. This mode does aly analyse the pitch information of the patch and programs the STEP lfo with a pitch envelope. - IMPORT SAMPLE->'Beat slice drumlop' cuts a sample into 16 or 32 waveforms and creates a patch with plays a BPM synced loop - New effect: 'Reverb Gated' which syncs to the BPM rate. It works best for drum sounds or arpeggiators - New effect: 'Reverb Gated Echo' is Gated Reverb with a delay which syncs to BPM - new effect: 'Reverb Reverse' which syncs to the BPM rate - new effect: 'Reverb Decay' which syncs to the BPM rate - The patch browser shows a scrollbar if more than 26 categories exist - 'Shift notes up' shifts the notes in the arpeggiator one halftone up - 'Shift notes down' shifts the notes in the arpeggiator one halftone down - 'rotate 1 slot left' rotates the notes in the arpeggiator - 'rotate 1 slot right' rotates the notes in the arpeggiator - The morph kob now shows the number of quantized steps - The wavetable editor shows a large slider with a grid if modifiers with 'value' are edited - Osc->Tool 'Resynthesis smart snap' - Wavetable editor->Spectrum->'Sort by brightness' sorts waveforms by their harmonic content. It can be used to create wobbles - Wavetable editor->Resynthesis->'Resynthesis smart snap' - Wavetable editor->Mix->'Fade in' - Wavetable editor->Mix->'Fade out' - Wabetable editor->Phase->'Rotate' shifts the phase of all selected waveforms - XX additional patches (still not included) Enhancements: - Slightly enhanced sound quality of 'Import Sample'->'Create patch: Resynthesis...' - More smart path selection on PC for loading/saving - Enhanced performance of some knobs, especially the LFO sends - The knobs MORPH, FADE, WAVE, PHASE do not longer switch the LFO - A hand symbol is shown for text-style parameters which can be altered with the mouse - Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Medium', 'Reverb Real', 'Reverb Trance' especially for for small sizes - Enhanced sound of 'Formant Cross' morphmode - Enhanced sound of 'Vocoder' morphmode - Slightly enhanced sound of 'Reverb Big' and 'Reverb Infinity' with reduced low frequency rumble - Wavetable editor is more easy and comfortable to use - Undo function now also works with arpeggiator, fx tool, matrix tool, eq tool and filter tool menu - Reduced a click when routing a saw lfo to WAVE - Better default effect settings for Ensemble, Reverb Dark, Delay Fat, Delay Pingpong, Delay Diffuse, Delay Band Bug fixes: - Modulation depth of knobs could have been incorrect if matrix target was switched - Removed wrong up/down arrows in the STEP LFO shonky https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=88477

shonky shonky https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=88477: KVRian; Topic Starter; 1077 posts since 21 Nov, 2005

Post by shonky » Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:40 pm

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Tried the melodic resynthesis modes (can't remember the exact titles but one creates an arpeggiator patch to fit melody, the other uses the step sequencer). Mixed results, quite a few of the melodies I fed in were diatonic and came out sounding like Schoenberg, the best result I got was resynthesising a sax line (only one bum note which was easily corrected in the step sequencer), the worst were on vocals which is unfortunately what I was hoping to use them on.

Echo what Stefken says about source material.

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