Available now: Tone2 Icarus2.5 - Wavetable Workstation

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

i am even bigger fan of Tone2 now,reading previous revelations.
Music can change your tune,i did face it many times,people living with music r more positive and harmonic as emotions and personality,compared to those who live without it.
Recently did watch a video that in ancient Magnaura most studied discipline was music,incorporated in everything like expressing yourself,speaking with other people so on like method of shaping your presence and convenience better way so to influence on listeners.
Cheers

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Just to share that i work hard everyday to complete my 'Dreams' soundset,main what slow the process a lot is reshaping function,you can transform a basic preset in any direction exploring new harmonic content,but the important part is to be musical transformation,not just random sounds and Icarus is a monster in that department
Every day i process like 30-40 presets so to take best parts and include them i 3-4 presets,especially filters are so expressive sometimes i spend all day trying combinations, next two weeks will have for sure 100 preset pack ready.
Could make it 150 presets will see
Upload for free download few house basses modifications at my site,which could be useful to somebody,soon there will be free presets from 'Dreams' too
Cheers

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Is there anymore ambient presets for sale?

This synth slays everything else I've tried. Even better than Dune 3 imo.

I really wish Markus to add mod wheel control to mixing knob of glitch section with next updates - i enjoy turning that knob so much...may become a DJ if continue doing it:):):)

[nusound mind]

Potential bug: Icarus knobs no longer scroll. Windows 10, Studio One 4.6. Other recently updated Tone 2 synths their knobs scroll no problem still. Visually I mean they don't, the values themselves move. Click and drag still scrolls visually.

[Markus Krause]

I checked it out.
Mousewheel on the Mac works in all hosts with VST2, VST3 and AU.
Mousewheel with VST3 is currently not supported in all hosts on PC (Reaper and Bitwig works, some others not).
Mousewheel with VST2 is supported with all hosts on PC.

I will check out if I find a way to make also the remaining hosts support the mousewheel with VST3 on PC.

[EnGee]

Potential bug: Icarus knobs no longer scroll. Windows 10, Studio One 4.6. Other recently updated Tone 2 synths their knobs scroll no problem still. Visually I mean they don't, the values themselves move. Click and drag still scrolls visually.

The VST3 version of Icarus in Windows 11, S1 v5.5. Yes, it does that, i.e, the mouse scroll doesn't change the value. However, VST2 version works fine in S1. I tested in Bitwig both versions,VST2 and VST3, work fine.

[Markus Krause]

I checked it out.
Mousewheel on the Mac works in all hosts with VST2, VST3 and AU.
Mousewheel with VST3 is currently not supported in all hosts on PC (Reaper and Bitwig works, some others not).
Mousewheel with VST2 is supported with all hosts on PC.

I will check out if I find a way to make also the remaining hosts support the mousewheel with VST3 on PC.

[Markus Krause]

I have taken care of your request. Please check out if it works.

Icarus 2.5.3.3

New features (PC):
- Mousewheel support for the VST3 version on many DAWs.

Download link:
https://www.tone2.com/update/Tone2_Icarus2_PC_64bit.zip

[EnGee]

Oh that was quick! Thank you Markus

[nusound mind]

Thanks Markus, I'll give this a try. Appreciate it.

[Echoes in the Attic]

Just wanted to report that V2.5 seems to have have problems with mpe now. Used to work, but pitch bend and cc74 to macro doesn't seem to be working. Is the regular pitch bend range meant to be used when force mpe is on? Or should it just do 48 up and down by default and override that? I tried all mpe modes and with or without pitch bend on and it's messed up now. Putting pitch bend to +-48 does a crazy pitch bend initially and then glides. C74 doesn't seem to work, didn't test pressure.

[christian f.]

Great update !
Is it possible to have a hotkey for the random button, so I can click on the keyboard instead having to click the mouse ?

[Markus Krause]

@Echoes in the Attic: Steinberg's VST3 format does not offer full Midi support. The MPE support in Icarus requires a raw Midi stream which VST3 can not properly offer. If you use MPE make sure that you use the VST2 version of Icarus. Otherwise some Midi information might get filtered or be altered before the stream reaches the sound engine.
The default MPE range is +-48 semitones.

@Christian F: We had such a feature in a past version of Gladiator. But people were irriated then the 'R' key presses were 'stolen' by the plugin and not longer forwarded to the DAW.

[nusound mind]

Yeah this did the trick, thanks again Marcus, good to go now. Scrolling knobs functionality confirmed.

[Echoes in the Attic]

@Echoes in the Attic: Steinberg's VST3 format does not offer full Midi support. The MPE support in Icarus requires a raw Midi stream which VST3 can not properly offer. If you use MPE make sure that you use the VST2 version of Icarus. Otherwise some Midi information might get filtered or be altered before the stream reaches the sound engine.
The default MPE range is +-48 semitones.

@Christian F: We had such a feature in a past version of Gladiator. But people were irriated then the 'R' key presses were 'stolen' by the plugin and not longer forwarded to the DAW.

Ok so VST3 has lost MPE. But FYI all my other MPE synths work just as well with the VST3 version as the VST2 version. I have over 30 of them. It would be great if Icarus could adapt to work as well.