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Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 3:18 pm

Been messing around with Strobe 2 today, creating pads. Here are some clips. Each of these is just one instance of Strobe 2:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ionPad.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ZPad01.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ZPad02.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... pPad01.wav

Love me some pads!

edit: Links fixed!

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 3:23 pm

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:20 pm

Hey Fxpansion! How's things going in the lab? Is a release spring still possible?

Yes, but likely late spring - mostly I got rather carried away with writing new DSP blocks for the output section. There are some really unique processors in there, things you won't have heard before.

chilly7 · Post by **chilly7** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:21 pm

Angus_FX wrote:
Hey Fxpansion! How's things going in the lab? Is a release spring still possible?
Yes, but likely late spring - mostly I got rather carried away with writing new DSP blocks for the output section. There are some really unique processors in there, things you won't have heard before.

So Strobe 2 will sound different from Strobe 1?

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:31 pm

Strobe 2 has a six-unit FX section on the output, with most of the Fusor effects, some Etch/Bloom/Maul-derived processors (not the whole thing, just some algorithms), the new reverb we developed for BFD3 and quite a few brand new things.

The core of the synth engine sounds very similar to Strobe 1 (why fix what isn't broke?), but has a handful of additional features that make it considerably more capable without adding undue complexity - tone controls, filter bleed, phase reset, detuning modes, sub LFO.

There are some subtle changes to things like gain structure and envelope timings that make it sound slightly different to Strobe 1, and it runs only at 2x and above - so will sound brighter and clearer than Strobe1 does at 1x. V2 doesn't support anything below Core2, and a Sandy Bridge or better CPU is recommended.. the AVX units on the newer cores light a rocket underneath it efficiency-wise.

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:08 pm

So will you be dropping a public beta soon?!!!

@Amberience your pads don't seem to be playing.

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:14 pm

We've never said anything about public beta. I suspect not, but don't rely 100% on that.

Naenyn · Post by **Naenyn** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:33 pm

Amberience wrote:Been messing around with Strobe 2 today, creating pads. Here are some clips. Each of these is just one instance of Strobe 2:

Third link is broken. Other three sound great!

Also, is it just my browser being silly or do those playback links not work properly? I can download them from dropbox, but can't seem to stream them from the post... weird.

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:19 pm

Angus_FX wrote:We've never said anything about public beta. I suspect not, but don't rely 100% on that.

Must have all occured in my imagination!

But i can hope for it to manifest cause of those cool fxpansion dudes.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:31 am

Links fixed

chilly7 · Post by **chilly7** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:28 pm

Amberience wrote:Been messing around with Strobe 2 today, creating pads. Here are some clips. Each of these is just one instance of Strobe 2:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ionPad.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ZPad01.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... ZPad02.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/630 ... pPad01.wav

Love me some pads!

edit: Links fixed!

Why ur music sound like CPU overload of some kind, or this was done intentionally?

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:28 pm

Angus_FX wrote:The core of the synth engine sounds very similar to Strobe 1 (why fix what isn't broke?), but has a handful of additional features that make it considerably more capable without adding undue complexity - tone controls, filter bleed, phase reset, detuning modes, sub LFO.

Can it do phase lock like the Moog Minitaur? If not, would that be a simple thing to add?

Angus_FX · Post by **Angus_FX** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:29 am

It can phase reset at note-on (so you get broadly consistent tone on each note) if that's what you mean?

It doesn't flush the filter out between notes, so at high resonance you'll still get a bit of variation between notes (depending on the relationship between the osc phase and the filter self-osc phase), but in terms of a consistent osc/envelope relationship for tight, solid bass sounds it's just so.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:49 am

chilly7 wrote: Why ur music sound like CPU overload of some kind, or this was done intentionally?

If you mean the clicking in the Ascension pad example, I'm pretty sure it's a bug in the ramp generator, this is in our tracking system. But I wanted to demo the lushness of the sounds you can get from just one instance.

If you mean the pulsing overdriven sound in DrewsPulsingFEZPad01, then that is a ChanComp being driven extremely hard for an effect. DrewsPulsingFEZPad02 is the same pad, but without that ChanComp.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:09 am

Angus_FX wrote:It can phase reset at note-on (so you get broadly consistent tone on each note) if that's what you mean?

I did a little more research into it and it seems that what Moog refers to as "phase lock" is really just offset oscillator levels:

http://forum.moogmusic.com/viewtopic.ph ... 9&start=45

All good things come to those who wait.. the Synth Squad 2 thread