Available now: Tone2 Icarus v3.2

[Neon Breath]

@Tone2 Synthesizers (& all too here if you know), LFO question for you guys.

For a true smooth random LFO, Is the Random→S&&H Noise Ramped the best type to achieve that smooth randomness?

Thx!

I'd say yes.

There are also several further ways to smooth things.

1) Step LFO:
- Use the "shape" knob for variable smoothing

2) You can smooth anything you like also in the Matrix:
- Matrix Slot 1: Select "LFO 1+-" (or anything you want to smooth) as source
- Matrix Slot 1: Select "X:=Value" as traget
- Matrix Slot 1: Sent send level to 50% (this will be the amount of modulation)
- Matrix Slot 2: Select "Function(X)->Filter(X)" as source
- Matrix Slot 2: Select whatever you like as target (Pitch/filter cutoff, etc)
- Matrix Slot 2: Set send level to something like 20%. The send level defines the smoothness

Fantastic tips here I wasn't aware of!! Thank you Markus

[Shabdahbriah]

Fabulous tips/tricks.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

I bought Icarus 3 and Electra 3 and I highly recommend them.
These VSTs are far too underrated and truly deserve a major place in any VST arsenal.
And quite frankly, they easily hold their own against the market leaders.
Icarus 3 is incredibly effective.
A source of endless creativity.
Electra 3 offers endless inspiration.
It also offers immense potential.
Once again, I highly recommend purchasing Tone 2 products.
A huge thank you to Troels for his invaluable help and immense kindness.
A huge thank you to Markus for providing us with VSTs of this quality, a source of creativity and inspiration.

Wow! Thanks a lot for the kind words and thank you for supporting our small company!

[Trancer]

You're very welcome, it's well deserved.

Your VSTs are truly excellent.

Thanks again for your products.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

We started to work on Icarus 3.2. You can send us feature request and bug reports *before* it is released.

Already implemented:

- Significantly enhanced sound quality in 44 kHz. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 24 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality in 88 kHz samplerate. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 40 dB.

[Korg Supporter]

We started to work on Icarus 3.2. You can send us feature request and bug reports *before* it is released.

Already implemented:

- Significantly enhanced sound quality in 44 kHz. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 24 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality in 88 kHz samplerate. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 40 dB.

Sent an email!

Edit: Clarifying that I would like to see more filter types, an actual 2d matrix mode for wavetables, more modulation slots, a PPG-like lofi mode not requiring the resampling filter or oscillator mode, and proper filter FM via osc 3 for pitch ratios

[El°HYM]

We started to work on Icarus 3.2. You can send us feature request and bug reports *before* it is released.

Already implemented:

- Significantly enhanced sound quality in 44 kHz. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 24 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality in 88 kHz samplerate. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 40 dB.

...MTS-ESP support.
https://oddsound.com/devs.php

[Benjamin923]

Glad to hear about a new Icarus release coming, thanks for the support!

[sunthief01]

Very exciting about Icarus 3.2!! Digging up some very niche requests

Markus, I want to agree with the praise in this threads I picked up Icarus last year and I use it every day.

I love the additive play modes and all of the morph algorithms so would welcome any more of those. Inharmonic play modes with odd intervals - maybe even something Karplus inspired?

and/or more oscillator interactive modes (right now I think we have FM, Shape and AM between oscs) - phase distortion, or something like IXA synthesis could be interesting (here is a link about IXA https://nathan.ho.name/posts/ixa-synthesis/ ).

Or any other oscillator interactive modes you can think of! Not sure if any of these are interesting or easy to implement!

The Hollow modes are really interesting and a joy to use as well.

Thank you for asking for feedback and being interested in what folks want, even if we have no idea what implementation would look like!

Having watched and listened to the Acreil video [url]
/url] which demonstrates IXA synthesis in PD, it seems close to PM but with an interesting tone - warmer, and a bit buzzier. Would be cool to have it in Icarus!

[Korg Supporter]

Also, everyone has been asking for subdirectories for custom wavetables

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Edit: Clarifying that I would like to see more filter types, an actual 2d matrix mode for wavetables, more modulation slots, a PPG-like lofi mode not requiring the resampling filter or oscillator mode, and proper filter FM via osc 3 for pitch ratios

Thank you for your feedback. I have received your email and added all your request to the feature-request database.
What I already can promise is more filter types. We'll discuss also your other reuqests.

[Korg Supporter]

Edit: Clarifying that I would like to see more filter types, an actual 2d matrix mode for wavetables, more modulation slots, a PPG-like lofi mode not requiring the resampling filter or oscillator mode, and proper filter FM via osc 3 for pitch ratios

Thank you for your feedback. I have received your email and added all your request to the feature-request database.
What I already can promise is more filter types. We'll discuss also your other reuqests.

Please take your time. Sorry if it came off as spam.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

We started to work on Icarus 3.2. You can send us feature request and bug reports *before* it is released.

Already implemented:

- Significantly enhanced sound quality in 44 kHz. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 24 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality in 88 kHz samplerate. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 40 dB.

...MTS-ESP support.
https://oddsound.com/devs.php

Icarus already supports a vast number of microtuning modes. You can select them below the 'help' button on the top left.

MTS-ESP is interesting. I get the idea behind it and checked out the sourcecodes. There are additional dependencies on LIBMTS.dll, Ole32.dll and Shell32.dll. There is also inter-process communication necessary. If something goes wrong it can result in weird bugs and hard to reproduce crashes.
I'll keep an eye on MTS-ESP.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Please take your time. Sorry if it came off as spam.

All is fine here from my side
It just shows that you like Icarus a lot, which is what I appreciate!

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Very exciting about Icarus 3.2!! Digging up some very niche requests

Markus, I want to agree with the praise in this threads I picked up Icarus last year and I use it every day.

I love the additive play modes and all of the morph algorithms so would welcome any more of those. Inharmonic play modes with odd intervals - maybe even something Karplus inspired?

and/or more oscillator interactive modes (right now I think we have FM, Shape and AM between oscs) - phase distortion, or something like IXA synthesis could be interesting (here is a link about IXA https://nathan.ho.name/posts/ixa-synthesis/ ).

Or any other oscillator interactive modes you can think of! Not sure if any of these are interesting or easy to implement!

The Hollow modes are really interesting and a joy to use as well.

Thank you for asking for feedback and being interested in what folks want, even if we have no idea what implementation would look like!

Having watched and listened to the Actual video [url]
/url] which demonstrates IXA synthesis in PD, it seems close to PM but with an interesting tone - warmer, and a bit buzzier. Would be cool to have it in Icarus!

I like phase distortion and own a Casio CZ for myself.
Thanks for the interesting video. I watched it carefully.
Technically IXA synthesis seems to be a subset of Phase Modulation (= "FM synthesis"). Back in the days Casio tried to get around the FM patents.
IXA uses deformed sawtooth(?) or 2nd harmonic sine wave as a waveform for the a carrier and a sine wave with the base frequency as a modulator.
I was able to recreate the IXA sounds with the "FM Sine 1/1" Synthesis mode. To enable it click on "None / Partial" and select FM->"FM Sine 1/1".
You'll need to experient a bit with the first partials and phases of the carrier waveform.