Available now: Tone2 Icarus2.5 - Wavetable Workstation

[Markus Krause]

Recording automation with the effect sliders is not supported with Icarus 2.0.x. But you can record it if you click on the text next to the sliders and move your mouse up/down.
Or you can use your DAW's automation. The revevant parameters are called 'FX1 Par1' (=Effect 1 Parameter 1).

The upcoming Icarus 2.5 will support recording automation with the effect sliders. I already implemented your request.

[parallax22]

It works this way. Thank you.

[Examigan]

The upcoming Icarus 2.5 will support recording automation with the effect sliders.

Thanks Markus!

[Echoes in the Attic]

Recording automation with the effect sliders is not supported with Icarus 2.0.x. But you can record it if you click on the text next to the sliders and move your mouse up/down.
Or you can use your DAW's automation. The revevant parameters are called 'FX1 Par1' (=Effect 1 Parameter 1).

The upcoming Icarus 2.5 will support recording automation with the effect sliders. I already implemented your request.

Hey Markus, is there any way you could make the 3 oscillator menus automatable as well? (Stereo modes, wavetable and waveform operators). I believe you've done this for other synths. It's really fun to be able to turn a knob and quickly go through lots of different oscillators wavetable and functions, almost like a controlled randomizer.

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

in another topic i had to argue with some hardware fanatics, that blindly supporting big hardware companies and not developing even equal to soft developers products,selling on 10-20 bigger prices is actually standing against soft developers,offering really amazing stuff to very affordable prices.
Music is in progress despite all issues around the world and 90% is thanks to soft developers,cause most producers can't afford 20 hardware synths each 1000+ euro,neither most of them offer flex abilities of software, so software developers definitely deserve support pushing entire music world ahead
If Markus decide to make hardware synth some day and need designers help i'm in 100% with my nonlinear dynamic technology, which continue to grow as system and sonic results for now in virtual environment,but will be interesting to be implemented in hardware as well,cause it's really fun for players to have such functionality during live gig or just playing for fun at home and st thesound is more live and dynamic.
It's a lot work,analyzing,reshaping so on so it's kind of top of the iceberg.
Basic difference is like to watch picture and film,one is static other dynamic plus control,so if somebody wonder why still nothing is available it's because i continue to develop new applications and same time simplifying practical usage of this dynamic technology/system.
First modulations was very complex you have to use many cc foot,expression so on,now i focus on mod wheel and aftertouch only - for example first 20 % of mod wheel modulation will give you one dynamic and harmonic twist,then between 20 and 50 % will be avaiable something different and 50-100% switch to another harmonic twist and all that is connected to aftertouch which another reshaping function applied at any time to previous...that's actually very simplified explanation ,cause as programming is result of a lot of analizing and experiments till one final dope modulation(reshaping)is achieved ,which mean absolutelly knowing 100% of the synth capabilities and i'm still like 10% of what Icarus can do so to squeeze the max.
So for sure may cool things from Velltone for Icarus in near future,it's amazing synth,imho sonic monster, one of the best available,superior to many hardware synths in any direction and continue to grow
Cheers

[Markus Krause]

Recording automation with the effect sliders is not supported with Icarus 2.0.x. But you can record it if you click on the text next to the sliders and move your mouse up/down.
Or you can use your DAW's automation. The revevant parameters are called 'FX1 Par1' (=Effect 1 Parameter 1).

The upcoming Icarus 2.5 will support recording automation with the effect sliders. I already implemented your request.

Hey Markus, is there any way you could make the 3 oscillator menus automatable as well? (Stereo modes, wavetable and waveform operators). I believe you've done this for other synths. It's really fun to be able to turn a knob and quickly go through lots of different oscillators wavetable and functions, almost like a controlled randomizer.

This would not work properly from the technical side, as it can result in glitches and CPU spikes.

[parallax22]

Will there be a skin for 4k resolution? The demo version of Icarus2 looks good in 4K, but if the skin was 1/3 bigger it would be great.

[Markus Krause]

You can change the size with the 'SIZE' button on the upper left.
Support for huge screens will be improved in v2.5.

[Markus Krause]

Icarus 2.5 - public beta

Download link:
https://www.tone2.com/update/Tone2_Icarus2_Mac.pkg

The update is a major update that is available for free for all Icarus2 users.
Icarus 2.5 is downward-compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary.


New features:

• 150 additional patches created by professional designers.
• Reworked patch browser with 6 different sizes (small/normal/big + with/without keys).
• Native M1 Silicon support on the Mac.
• A spectrum analyser displays the frequency-response in the patch browser.
• Tooltips with descriptions and hints are shown when you hover over a control.
• Help->'Show version info' displays the mode in which the plugin is running (ARM/Intel).
• When samples are played back a red sample preview window is shown.
• A vertical line shows the current sample playback position.
• A double-click resets a knob to default.
• Free Soundset demos.
• Extended skin support for 3 sizes.
• The shape of AHDSR envelopes can now be edited by drawing in the display.
• Timing info is shown in the AHDSR windows.
• AHDSR envelopes are animated when Midi CCs are routed to them.
• Tradtitional sample import with Tools->Load/Save->'Load Sample'.
• Added feature desciptions to many menus of the wavetable editor.
• You can load traditional samples in .wav format with drag&drop to the oscillator's waveform display.
• Samples can be tuned automatically on import.
• The mousewheel can be used to switch through wavetables.
• Tooltips can be hidden or shown in the Config section.
• It is possible to record automation with the effect sliders.
• The mouse arrow changes over controls that can be edited by drawing in the display.

Enhanced sound:

• Higher sound-quality in 44 kHz, 48 kHz and 88 kHz sample-rate.
• More precise timing.
• New microtuning algorithm that detects and enhances a wide range of chords.
• Enhanced sound of Reverb. It has a more smooth rolloff and less detuning.
• Enhanced sound and default settings of the Vocoder.
• Enhanced sound of Ensemble effect. It has a more subtle modulation and is in-tune.
• Enhanced sound of Hypersaw 10x Stereo.
• Enhanced sound of Delay, Delay Wide, Delay Diffuse, Delay Band and Delay Dual.
• Enhanced sound of Multitap and PingPong. They have a more subtle modulation.
• Enhanced sound of Reverb Dark. It is calculated with higher precision.
• Fine-tuned the default values for some effects.

Enhancements:

• More smart detection of the VST2 path.
• The native M1 support results in 20% lower CPU use compared to Rosetta2 Mode.
• More responsive GUI on M1 Macs.
• The ideal GUI size is detected automatically.
• Better workflow and more intuitive use of the interface.
• Enhanced many graphics.
• Higher performance.
• The slider in the wavetable editor is more easy to handle.
• The interface has more contrast.
• Random Button with extended feature set (3 oscillators, creates new wavetables, etc).
• Many small enhancements for the wavetable editor.
• Much faster loading and saving.
• Further optimisation to prevent denormalisation.
• Importing .wav files with drag&drop to the oscillator displays gives much better results.
• Fine-tuned the coordinates of some GUI elements.
• The resynthesis with single oscillators gives much better results.
• More efficient compression for image resources.
• The resynthesis menus have been cleaned up and are more straightforward to use.
• The OSC Tool menu has been cleaned up. Redundant items have been removed.
• Graphics performance in wavetable editor is faster.
• The envelopes in the drum sequencer have a blue color.
• The Vocoder has higher default volume and is more easy to play.
• Added descriptions to the Resynthesis menu.
• Added descriptions to the Vocoder menu.
• Many small enhancements.
• The scrollbar in the patch-browser has more contrast.

Fixes:

• Tooltips did not work with Dark Mode with Big Sur.
• Workaround for the 'unusual' designed audio architecture of FL Studio. It is not longer necessary to enable 'Use fixed size buffers' to avoid crackles.
• Workaround for a bug of Big Sur where new AudioUnits are only detected after a reboot.
• Several small compatibility fixes for MacOS 11 and MacOS 12.
• The coordiantes of the context-menu for knobs were not always correct.
• Fixed a rarely appearing crash in the wavetable editor.
• A drag&drop line is not longer shown when the wavetable editor is open.
• The coordinates of the scrollbar-handle in the patch-browser could have an wrong offset.
• A double-click to a knob of an envelope now correctly redraws the display.
• Tooltips were not properly readable in some DAWs under BugSur with Dark Mode.

Changes:

• AudioUnit is now an AUv2 plugin.
• AudioUnit and VSTi are now a Universal Binary for 64bit Intel and M1.
• Apple's development tools are unable to build 32bit Intel binaries when you support M1. Sadly we had to drop support for it.
• Apple's Notarisation and the M1 support requires a MacOS version higher or equal than 10.11. If you still use an older version you must stick with Icarus 2.0.
• The name of 'Reverb Trance' is now 'Revereb Swirl'.

Notes:
This beta still has not included the new sounds, but is fully functional.
 

[Echoes in the Attic]

Only mac beta?

[Echoes in the Attic]

Recording automation with the effect sliders is not supported with Icarus 2.0.x. But you can record it if you click on the text next to the sliders and move your mouse up/down.
Or you can use your DAW's automation. The revevant parameters are called 'FX1 Par1' (=Effect 1 Parameter 1).

The upcoming Icarus 2.5 will support recording automation with the effect sliders. I already implemented your request.

Hey Markus, is there any way you could make the 3 oscillator menus automatable as well? (Stereo modes, wavetable and waveform operators). I believe you've done this for other synths. It's really fun to be able to turn a knob and quickly go through lots of different oscillators wavetable and functions, almost like a controlled randomizer.

This would not work properly from the technical side, as it can result in glitches and CPU spikes.

Ok. It would be cool if there were next/previous arrows for the stereo and wavetable functions (or whatever it's called) menus, like there is for the wavetable menu.

[pdxindy]

Icarus 2.5 - public beta
 

Installer requires Rosetta... so I extracted and installed manually and Icarus is working fine on my M1-Pro MBP.

[Markus Krause]

Installer requires Rosetta... so I extracted and installed manually and Icarus is working fine on my M1-Pro MBP.

Can you please tell me more details? Were you unable to run it? What OS version?

VST and AU are an universal binary that support M1 native as well as Intel.

The installer was built on MacOS 10.14 to make sure you can still run it on old Macs, as Apple has seriously messed up code-signing certificates for these machines (planed obsolescense?)

[Markus Krause]

Ok. It would be cool if there were next/previous arrows for the stereo and wavetable functions (or whatever it's called) menus, like there is for the wavetable menu.

You can use the mousewheel for this

[Echoes in the Attic]

Ok. It would be cool if there were next/previous arrows for the stereo and wavetable functions (or whatever it's called) menus, like there is for the wavetable menu.

You can use the mousewheel for this

I've tried with my trackpad but it's not possible to go just one over, and within a few seconds it gets to None and then doesn't work anymore.