impOSCar2

GForce Software has revamped its website and released the Windows VST and stand-alone versions of impOSCar2 to compliment the already released Mac version. They have also released the ChamberTron Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro.

impOSCar2, the successor to the impOSCar software synthesizer, costs £139.99 and is available directly from the GForce shop. An upgrade from impOSCar to impOSCar2 is £60.

Key Features:

• Successor to the impOSCar.
• Two Oscillators & 13 Waveforms.
• New Mono Unison and Poly Unison Modes.
• New Aux Mod Section with comprehensive routing.
• Programmable Additive Wave Matrix Grid.
• Nine Filter Types with Drive, Cutoff, Q and Separation.
• New Chord Memory and single note retrigger.
• 6 Portamento modes with new Unison glide voice spread.
• New Unison Voice Pan.
• New Note Pan Modes.
• Programmable Velocity Responses and New Aftertouch.
• Improved Arpeggiator.
• New Instrument and Effects Versions.
• Small, Regular or Large Interface Sizes.
• New Ring Modulator.
• New Chorus Modes.
• 1000+ Patch library featuring sounds created by original OSCar users including Billy Currie (Ultravox) Darren Price & Rick Smith (Underworld) & Paul Wiffen (the original OSCar sound designer and programmer for Stevie Wonder & Jean Michel Jarre).

The ChamberTron Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro, £69.99, is a lovingly prepared collection of highly prized tape-based sounds that emanate from GForce's personal and extensive collection of Chamberlin instruments. If you're not sure what a Chamberlin Instrument is, check out the video below and doff your cap to the genius, Harry Chamberlin, who started the entire tape replay instrument genre.

Key Features:

• The sounds of the legendary ChamberTron.
• Only available via download.
• Over 40 new tape banks.
• 35 Notes per tape bank.
• Optional ChamberTron Interface design.
• 100s of Patches, many from luminaries including Dean & Jarrod (I Monster), David Hentschel (Genesis & Elton John) & Jem Godfrey (Frost).

ChamberTron Expansion Pack video on YouTube