Tone2 will release Icarus - 3D WaveTable Synthesizer

[Sound Author]

Here's an ambient pad sound that I spent the afternoon tweaking the living daylights out of

https://soundcloud.com/bryan-lake/tone2 ... ral-depths

Very good! i assume no external FX too?

Thanks Tasty! No external fx. It's all Icarus

[chk071]

Here's an ambient pad sound that I spent the afternoon tweaking the living daylights out of

https://soundcloud.com/bryan-lake/tone2 ... ral-depths

Nice one. Icarus' reverb is also just sounding great.

[anomandaris1]

What's the difference between Icarus and Electra2?

[chk071]

Icarus is a wavetable synth, Electra2 isn't. Also, the whole architecture of Electra2 is quite different to Icarus. Electra2 has a layered architecture, in Icarus, there are no layers. Electra2 also has mono oscillators, while Icarus has stereo oscillators, Icarus has 3 fx slots, Electra2 only 1, and a global fx slot, Icarus has more mod matrix slots, morph function for the oscillators, more, and different filters, snappy function on the oscillators, and so on. They're quite different synths. Icarus has a much more "classic" layout IMO. What i mean with that is that Electra2 does some things differently to other synths, and many things are, frankly, a bit cumbersome. E.g. having mono oscillators, you have to work with layers, or route to different filters, to position the oscillators in the stereo field, hence, it's comfortable to either map multiple controls to one, or to use the "multilayer edit" function, which all makes it a bit complicated IMO. At the very least, you have to like that kind of working. I find Icarus MUCH more straight forward. The sound is different compared to Electra2, that much i can say. Actually quite different.

[tatsy]

Here's an ambient pad sound that I spent the afternoon tweaking the living daylights out of

https://soundcloud.com/bryan-lake/tone2 ... ral-depths

Very good! i assume no external FX too?

Thanks Tasty! No external fx. It's all Icarus

i should change my nickname to "tasty tatsyn"!

[urlwolf]

I really like the sound of Icarus, but it's just too tabby. That's not how my brain works.

[fmr]

Here's an ambient pad sound that I spent the afternoon tweaking the living daylights out of ...

But it doesn't sound analog, and therefore has no musical value.

Seriously, patches like that can sell a synth. One patch = ambient track. Great work Now I'm looking at Icarus more carefully...

Ditto. I didn't went through all the sounds that come with the public beta yet, but this is the most interesting one I listened too, so far. Maybe because I 'm not so keen of those kind of EDM sounds that Tone2 synths come loaded with. I'm biased, I reckon

[Frantz]

Icarus is a wavetable synth, Electra2 isn't.

No, Electra2 has wavetables plus other synthesis methods.

[chk071]

Yeah, but it doesn't really feature real wavetable morphing. It's rather wavescanning IMO.

[Frantz]

Yeah, but it doesn't really feature real wavetable morphing. It's rather wavescanning IMO.

Yes but this wavetable morphing is new fangled stuff. Electra2 does the classic wavetable scanning that PPG and Waldorf synths do.

[trusampler]

It's a weird thing, but to me all of Tone2's synths now sound the same, everyone of them have this sort of bright kind of digital sounding sound quality to them, that doesn't do it for me. Even their take on an analog synth, can't remember it's name, had the same kind of thing going on. Isn't the whole point when buying a new synth, is that they add some sort of different tone,or flavor to the table?
Oh I should note I already own ElectraX and have been looking for other sounds out of tone2, but it's literally like that have tone1 in a headlock,and can't break away from it.

Maybe it's just me.. carry on..

I'll have what he's smoking.

Yeh definitely you can put it in a blunt and smoke it, it's called reality, you should try it

[recursive one]

I agree that Icarus sounds very "Tone2-ish" but it is their best sounding synth to date - it doesn't have that "fake" feeling their other synths tend to evoke.

[chk071]

Yeah, but it doesn't really feature real wavetable morphing. It's rather wavescanning IMO.

Yes but this wavetable morphing is new fangled stuff. Electra2 does the classic wavetable scanning that PPG and Waldorf synths do.

Ok then. Nevertheless Electra2 has a different approach compared to Icarus.

Btw, i never heard someone refer to Tyrell N6, or Zebra CM as "wavetable" synths. By your definition, they should be exactly that.

[exmatproton]

Yeah, but it doesn't really feature real wavetable morphing. It's rather wavescanning IMO.

Yes but this wavetable morphing is new fangled stuff. Electra2 does the classic wavetable scanning that PPG and Waldorf synths do.

Ok then. Nevertheless Electra2 has a different approach compared to Icarus.

Btw, i never heard someone refer to Tyrell N6, or Zebra CM as "wavetable" synths. By your definition, they should be exactly that.

That is not by his defenition. It is the way wavetables always worked. This morphing is rather new to synths, a.f.a.i.k. Not invented by tone2/Icarus, but most wavetable synths scan waves thru digital interpolation.

[chk071]

Is Tyrell N6 a wavetable synth then?