Antares have finally released the Windows version of Kantos v1.0, available in VSTi, DXi and RTAS versions. A fully functional 10 day trial version is available for download.

"Kantos is controlled by audio, any pitched monophonic audio, like your voice or a musical instrument, live, in real time. Kantos analyses incoming audio and instantaneously extracts pitch, dynamics, harmonic content and formant characteristics. This information is then used to control the Kantos sound engine in ways never before possible with a conventional MIDI synth."

Kantos provides a combination of traditional synthesizer functions and new functions unique to audio control. They include:

• 2 Wavetable Oscillators.
• Pitch Constraint and Quantization Control.
• Noise Source.
• 3 Resonant Multimode Filters.
• 2 Chorus Generators.
• Timbral Articulator.
• 2 Envelope Generators.
• 2 LFOs.
• Modulation Matrix.
• Gate Generator.
• Noise Gate.
• Delay Line.
• Mixers.
• One hell of an interface.