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Summary:
Icarus is an epic synthesizer and a must-have for producers and sound designers. This award-winning workstation is one of the most versatile and powerful synthesizers ever created. Icarus offers a huge sonic range and is capable of producing all the classic synthesizer sounds as well as a wide range of fresh sounds not possible with other products. The audio engine offers many exciting features like 54 (!) different synthesis methods, a drum sequencer, a vocoder, 67 (!) filter types, a glitch sequencer, a wavetable editor, an extremely powerful oscillator section, MSEGs, ...
A reliable re-synthesis can recreate any sound with a single mouse click!
Yet the synth remains very easy to use. A comfortable interface gives you instant visual feedback, immediate acoustic results and context-sensitive help.
The synthesizer delivers true high-end sound quality with low CPU usage.
It ships with over thousand inspiring, production-ready sounds from professional designers.
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Sounds
Icarus ships with a huge and inspiring collection of 1761 (!) hand-picked sounds. The production-ready patches were created by professional designers. Each sound has been meticulously crafted with love and attention to detail. The patches are easy to mix because they're already EQed and pre-mastered. They run in perfect sync with the tempo of your DAW. All the sounds are properly programmed - they are not sampled. This gives you the full dynamic range, much more musical expression and the highest possible sound quality. It also saves disk space.
The patch browser gives you instant access to a large and inspiring library. The patches are organized into categories to help you find the right sound quickly and easily. You can tag your favorites with a ranking system. An on-screen keyboard lets you audition the sounds.
Get inspired by the huge number of fresh, original sounds and create tracks with unique and individual characteristics!
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... parkle.mp3 Cinematic DnB Trap
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... pheric.mp3 Atmospheric Cinematic
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... Hiphop.mp3 Dubstep Trap Hiphop
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... _Chops.mp3 Vocals Chops Vocoder
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... n_Atmo.mp3 Atmo
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... tronic.mp3 Electronic
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... Hiphop.mp3 Downtempo Hiphop Soundtrack
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... p_Trap.mp3 Complextro Dubstep DnB Trap
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... _House.mp3 EDM Trance House Pop Dance
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... Future.mp3 Future Kawaii EDM
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... ceTrip.mp3 Electronic Ambient Hiphop
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... ce_EDM.mp3 Trance EDM House Dub
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... finity.mp3 Ambient Space Psybient
https://www.tone2.com/mp3download/Tone2 ... pNBass.mp3 Trap Bass DnB
User-friendly interface
Icarus offers a huge sonic range, is extremely versatile, yet remains easy to use. Animated displays give you visual feedback. You can instantly see and hear the results of your actions.
Context-sensitive tooltips explain the function of the control you're tweaking. The user-friendly and accessible interface makes tweaking easy for anyone, regardless of skill level or experience.
The GUI can be displayed in 16 different sizes and five scales. It's also possible to hide parts of the interface, such as the keyboard, when you don't need them. Icarus offers native support for WQHD, 4K, 5K and 8K UHD displays. The GUI comes with HiDpi and native Retina Display support for ultra-sharp graphics.
The customizable interface lets you choose your favorite color from 26 schemes.
Arpeggiator
The included arpeggiator instantly creates inspiring and beautiful melodies. Working with the powerful arpeggiator is easy: Just type the notes you want into the Note Sequencer. The Arpeggiator supports many advanced features such as Glides, Swing & Shuffle, Split, Smart Note Sorting, Matrix Integration, and gives you precise control over play direction and velocity. Comfortable playing aids, such as Auto Chord, speed up the production process and are there to help you whenever you need them. You don't want to program your own patterns? Just load one of the many ready-made pattern templates.
Drums
Icarus2 has been extended with a drum sequencer. It is an easy to use but powerful X0X style sequencer module. It comes with a wide variety of drum sounds, noises and waveforms. A large collection of 100 drum patterns created by professional designers is included.
The drum sequencer supports many advanced features like swing, shuffle, loop length, effect send, key split, roll, stereo samples, looped samples and looped waveforms. You can also import your own samples and save your own templates. WAV files containing drum loops can be stretched to automatically match the BPM-rate of your DAW. Add punch to your tracks with the help of ultra-fast envelopes. With Icarus you can create impressive 'gated drums' easily.
The Drum Sequencer is not just limited to playing drum sounds. It is also a small multi-timbral synthesizer that can play looped samples or waveforms with or without pitch tracking. It comes with an intelligent auto accompaniment that automatically resolves the chord you are playing and plays a bass line that 'fits'.
Synthesis: Exceptionally powerful audio-engine
Icarus is the most powerful synthesizer on the market. The award-winning audio engine offers a huge sonic range, true high-end sound quality, and the ability to create sounds that are impossible with other synths. The exceptionally versatile audio engine is capable of creating all important synthesizer sounds in high-end quality. Icarus is capable of 54 (!) different synthesis methods, which can be combined:
- 3D wavetables & classic wavetables (known from the Waldorf Microwave)
- Analog & subtractive synthesis
- FM with up to 6 operators
- Hypersaw / Supersaw (known from the Access Virus and JP8000)
- Classic sample playback
- Additive synthesis (known from the Kawai K1)
- Phase-Distortion (known from the Casio CZ)
- Formant-Synthesis (known from the Yamaha FS1R)
- PWM (unlike conventional synths Icarus can do PWM with any Waveform, not just Squarewaves)
- Resynthesis of samples and waveforms
- Vocoder
- Waveshaping (known from the Korg 01/W)
- Ring-Modulation & Amplitude-Modulation
- Oscillator sync
- Resonance (exclusive to Tone2 synths)
- Noise & Lofi
- Physical-modeling
- Many other innovative synthesis-modes, exclusive to Icarus
The sound quality of the Icarus easily surpasses that of conventional synthesizers. However, no high-end computer is required to operate it. The algorithms of this synthesizer were developed and optimized by an experienced DSP expert. As a result, Icarus offers the best possible sound quality with a low CPU load.
Filters
Icarus comes with the most powerful filter section on the market. Our flagship synthesizer offers 67 fascinating filter types. It's a best-of selection of over 300 filter algorithms developed by Dipl. Inf. Univ. M. Krause during the last 15 years. Many filter types are exclusive and not available from other companies, resulting in a wide range of unique sounds that cannot be produced by other synthesizers. All filters are musically useful and have very different sonic characteristics.
Two modular filter blocks are available. Each features true stereo architecture, flexible routing, and multi-mode filters. Two stereo distortion sections, each with 14 different modes, allow you to further shape the sound.
An animated display shows the frequency response and gives you instant visual feedback. This makes it very easy to tweak sounds.
Oscillators
The oscillators have many different operating modes:
Classic wavetables, sample playback, FM, additive, PWM with any waveform, hypersaw, looped waveforms, phase distortion, formant, waveshaping, ring modulation, amplitude modulation, oscillator sync, resonance, noise, lofi, 3D Wavetables, and many other modes exclusive to Icarus. All synthesis modes can be combined.
True stereo architecture
Icarus features three blocks of oscillators in true stereo architecture. This is one of the secrets why Icarus sounds wider and fatter than competing synthesizers.
Import custom samples, waveforms or wavetables
You can import and export your own samples, waveforms and wavetables with ease. The custom content is automatically embedded into your songs and patches. You will no longer have to deal with songs or patches that are broken because a file is missing from your hard drive.
Hypersaws
Each oscillator block can contain up to 10 detuned oscillators. We've taken the popular Hypersaw concept and added stereo processing, precise phase control and the ability to make individual oscillators play chords. 37 different modes are available which can be combined with any type of synthesis method.
3D Wavetables
The award-winning 3D Wavetable Synthesis creates sounds that are impossible with other synthesizers and opens up a new level of dynamic expression. Classic wavetable synthesis only allows you to cross-fade waveforms. We have extended it with an extra 'morph dimension'. You can use 54 morph modes to further shape and modulate the sound. The morph modes are not limited to traditional waveshaping methods. We have also included a wide range of innovative and exclusive synthesis methods that are not available from other companies. This results in a wide range of unique sounds that cannot be produced by other synthesizers. Take your musical dynamics and expressiveness to the next level with the power of 3D wavetable synthesis!
Wavetable editor
Icarus is equipped with the most powerful wavetable editor available on the market. It includes over 100 professional tools for creating and tweaking wavetables or waveforms. You get basic functions such as cutting, mixing, and filtering, as well as advanced tools such as noise reduction, enhancement, re-synthesis, vocoder, spectral modification, and phase manipulation. A random generator allows you to create new and musically useful wavetables with a single mouse click. The spectrum editor turns Icarus into an additive synthesizer. You can also draw your own waveforms with the mouse. The open WAV file format makes it easy for sound designers to create their own soundsets, waveforms and wavetables. It is even possible to import and export wavetables or waveforms from and to other synthesizers. In Icarus, all wavetables are automatically saved within your patches and songs, so you don't have to worry about managing additional files on your hard drive.
Resynthesis
Icarus comes with the most powerful and advanced re-synthesis engine on the market. Unlike competing products, it always delivers good results. With Icarus, anyone can create amazing sounds quickly and easily. Traditional resynthesis methods require in-depth knowledge of sample editing to achieve good results. It requires time-consuming pre-processing with a sample editor and precisely tuned samples. We have eliminated all of these hassles and developed completely new algorithms. Icarus' innovative wavetable resynthesis can rebuild sounds with a single mouse click! It works with almost any type of audio material and produces high-quality results. Just click the 'Re-synthesize' button, select a wav file, and Icarus will automatically create a patch that sounds like the original. Optionally, you can further shape your sound with morphing, BPM synchronization, time-stretching, filters, effects, or any other module. Traditional sample import, auto-tuning, beat-slicing, pitch-shifting, noise reduction and granular playback is also supported. All waveforms, wavetables and samples are automatically saved within your patches or songs. So you don't have to worry about missing files on your hard drive or broken song projects.
Vocoder
Icarus comes with the most powerful and advanced re-synthesis engine on the market. Unlike competing products, it always delivers good results. With Icarus, anyone can create amazing sounds quickly and easily. Traditional resynthesis methods require in-depth knowledge of sample editing to achieve good results. It requires time-consuming pre-processing with a sample editor and precisely tuned samples. We have eliminated all of these hassles and developed completely new algorithms. Icarus' innovative wavetable resynthesis can rebuild sounds with a single mouse click! It works with almost any type of audio material and produces high-quality results. Just click the 'Re-synthesize' button, select a wav file, and Icarus will automatically create a patch that sounds like the original. Optionally, you can further shape your sound with morphing, BPM synchronization, time-stretching, filters, effects, or any other module. Traditional sample import, auto-tuning, beat-slicing, pitch-shifting, noise reduction and granular playback is also supported. All waveforms, wavetables and samples are automatically saved within your patches or songs. So you don't have to worry about missing files on your hard drive or broken song projects.
Effects
Icarus comes with a sophisticated and flexible effects section. 56 different effects, feedback and a limiter can be combined in multiple modular slots. This allows you to create new and exciting results, which can also be saved and loaded separately.
The innovative Ducking module can make the mix sound more transparent and lush. It dynamically adjusts the volume of the effect mix and prevents delays from clashing with the original signal.
An equalizer with a dynamic bass control and psychoacoustic processing gives your mix an extra boost. A real-time frequency response display makes it easy to tweak the EQ.
Modulation
Add exciting movement to your tracks! Want to use the LFO to wobble your sound? Just drag-and-drop it onto a knob. That's it! It is possible to modulate almost any parameter at audio speed. Via the matrix, different modulation sources can be precisely linked to any sound parameter: LFOs, multistage envelopes, punchy envelopes, step sequencers, MIDI signals, ...
Multistage-envelope-generators
Two MSEGs are available as additional modulation-sources. The MSEGs can be operated as LFO or envelope and allow you to create any shape you can imagine. The MSEGs offer highest precision, support frequencies up into the audio-range and have been designed with the aspect of musical usefulness. Literally anything is possible: The MSEGs can be synced to BPM, sync with the arpeggiator or run freely. Triads or dotted rhythms are also supported. You can define loop-points and start points. You can delay or fade the MSEGs. You can move, add or delete points with your mouse. You can bend lines upwards or downwards to change their shape or even create precise rectangular curves. The MSEGs can be edited completely freely or you can snap points to a grid of a select-able size. It is also possible to draw triangles, bars or ramps.
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