Available now: Tone2 Icarus v3.2

[Korg Supporter]

How's progress going? I realized that maybe instead of adding too many filter types, it might be possible to add options to morph the slope or change the behavior of the nonlinearity

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

New filters:

• LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.

New effects:

• Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
• Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
• Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.

Enhanced sound quality:

• 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.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• - Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.

[Korg Supporter]

New filters:

• LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.

New effects:

• Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
• Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
• Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.

Enhanced sound quality:

• 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.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• - Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.

This is great news! I'm glad that there are more Ladder filter options. I think I said it before, but it would still be nice to have more mod matrix slots. There is no reason to stick with just 16, unless instead, you could have two sources per slot, like the Novation Peak has.

[Neon Breath]

How can I know which version of Icarus I have installed? The Setup menu doesn't show it and when I click on the Tone 2 side logo, I see alot of info except the version, unless I'm blind...

*Edit: found it under the Help tab.

[jrwaltb]

How do I get the update, I own it all I can find is the demo link on the site?

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

- Icarus 3.1 is available for download here: https://www.tone2.com/download.html . Scroll down to "Installers for the full versions - latest updates".
- Icarus 3.2 is currently under development and still has not been released

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

How's progress going?

 

Preview: Icarus 3.2


New filters:

• LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.

New effects:

• Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
• Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
• Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.

New feature - XY pad:

• The XY-pad controls are available when you click and move your mouse within the wavefrom display. They add a new dimention of dynamic expression as you can now manipulate 2 parameters at the same time. 
• Context-sensitive help appears as soon as you move your mouse. 
• In wavetable mode the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter. The Y-axis is assigned to the wavetable position.
• In granular mode the X-axis is assigned to start position. The Y-axis is assigned to the grain size.
• In sample mode the X-axis is assigned to start position.
• If you play back a single waveform the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter. 

Enhanced sound quality:

• 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.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality of the equalizer.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Elliptic' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Octave' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'HP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Notch' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Tight' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Medium' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Wide' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Tight' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Wide' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Bandlimit' with low cutoffs.

Further enhancements:

• Reworked the default skin. 
• Reworked the skins "Metal Fire", "Metal Aqua", "Metal Monochorome", "Metal Pink", "Metal Yellow", "Metal Red".
• More contrast for the tap selector buttons.
• Reworked EQ settigs and parameters of the init-patch. It sits better in the mix and has longer release times.
• Setup always selects full installation as a default.
• Updated the texts of some dialog boxes with warnings. 

Fixes:

• If the mousewheel was used to cycle through wavetables it falsely incremented 2 units instead of 1.

 

[zvenx]

The blue on blue was hard for me to read..

Preview: Icarus 3.2


New filters:

LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.

New effects:

Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.

New feature - XY pad:

The XY-pad controls are available when you click and move your mouse within the wavefrom display. They add a new dimention of dynamic expression as you can now manipulate 2 parameters at the same time.
Context-sensitive help appears as soon as you move your mouse.
In wavetable mode the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter. The Y-axis is assigned to the wavetable position.
In granular mode the X-axis is assigned to start position. The Y-axis is assigned to the grain size.
In sample mode the X-axis is assigned to start position.
If you play back a single waveform the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter.


Enhanced sound quality:

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.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
Slightly enhanced sound quality of the equalizer.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Elliptic' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Octave' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'HP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Notch' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Tight' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Medium' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Wide' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Tight' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Wide' with low cutoffs.
Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Bandlimit' with low cutoffs.

Further enhancements:

Reworked the default skin.
Reworked the skins "Metal Fire", "Metal Aqua", "Metal Monochorome", "Metal Pink", "Metal Yellow", "Metal Red".
More contrast for the tap selector buttons.
Reworked EQ settigs and parameters of the init-patch. It sits better in the mix and has longer release times.
Setup always selects full installation as a default.
Updated the texts of some dialog boxes with warnings.

Fixes:

If the mousewheel was used to cycle through wavetables it falsely incremented 2 units instead of 1.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

The blue on blue was hard for me to read..

Not sure what you are refering to. There are no blue texts. Only within the patch browser. Do you mean this?

[Korg Supporter]

The blue on blue was hard for me to read..

Not sure what you are refering to. There are no blue texts. Only within the patch browser. Do you mean this?

I don't see an image attached

[zvenx]

Hi no. Your post above mine appears in blue text..

Is it only on my browser?
Maybe I am one of the few using dark mode.
It's your post I mean not your plugins
rsp

[sunthief01]

Yes its dark blue on dark blue here as well. Really good nwws, just hard to read!

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Ah. I get it. I assumed you refered to the text colors Icarus.

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Preview: Icarus 3.2


New filters:

• LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.

New effects:

• Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
• Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
• Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.

New feature - XY pad:

• The XY-pad controls are available when you click and move your mouse within the wavefrom display. They add a new dimention of dynamic expression as you can now manipulate 2 parameters at the same time.
• Context-sensitive help appears as soon as you move your mouse.
• In wavetable mode the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter. The Y-axis is assigned to the wavetable position.
• In granular mode the X-axis is assigned to start position. The Y-axis is assigned to the grain size.
• In sample mode the X-axis is assigned to start position.
• If you play back a single waveform the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter.

Enhanced sound quality:

• 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.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality of the equalizer.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Elliptic' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'LP Octave' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'HP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 24dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'BP Digital 12dB' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Notch' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Tight' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Medium' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Peak Wide' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Tight' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Shelf Wide' with low cutoffs.
• Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filter 'EQ Bandlimit' with low cutoffs.

Further enhancements:

• Reworked the default skin.
• Reworked the skins "Metal Fire", "Metal Aqua", "Metal Monochorome", "Metal Pink", "Metal Yellow", "Metal Red".
• More contrast for the tap selector buttons.
• Reworked EQ settigs and parameters of the init-patch. It sits better in the mix and has longer release times.
• Setup always selects full installation as a default.
• Updated the texts of some dialog boxes with warnings.

Fixes:

• If the mousewheel was used to cycle through wavetables it falsely incremented 2 units instead of 1.

[Echoes in the Attic]

Please don't take offense, it's just a question, but is there any chance you could take another crack at the mousewheel/trackpad response in 3.2? Unfortunately it's not useable currently, at least not on mac (Haven't tested PC). It seems that controls don't respond while scrolling until you release and then it kicks in when you release but really fast and just goes too easily to max/min. If you are looking for really well calibrated examples - Synapse plugins are great (Dune, Legend etc.), Serum 2 is perfect. U-he ones are great except most are backwards direction. The free Surge has great calibration too, maybe that one could be copied as it's open source. Not sure how common it is, but I find it really great to use a magic trackpad for parameter adjustment when a plugin supports that. And I know there's been long standing requests to Arturia to implement mousewheel/trackpad scroll support, but they haven't implemented it yet.

Looking forward to seeing the XY pad for sure.