End of development: There will be no new Tone2 products

[BBFG#]

Icarus does have a demo.
Subjective of course in sound/genre perceptions as I've always found Electra to be the one "too EDM-supersawed" for my tastes. But the three demos I keep trying have been Gladiator, Rayblaster and Icarus. I owned the first two and consider buying them again. The one thing I've never cared for in their plugins is not them, but the locked in presets. i.e. not being able to load what I like and shatcan the rest.

The Tone2 team have always been very responsive, professional and polite to me in email correspondence. So hoping they find a way to keep moving forward. No one else is doing real PAP like they have. Maybe a mastering utility that could do those things to the entire mix would be great...

[chk071]

Icarus does have a demo.
Subjective of course in sound/genre perceptions as I've always found Electra to be the one "too EDM-supersawed" for my tastes.

Must be why I like it the most, soundwise.

If only it would be better to program... that layer architecture is, like, the absolute horror to program. Never used a synth which was that cumbersome and tedious to program. Icarus is a breeze to program, compared to it. But, I like Electra's sound better.

[mevla]

Tone2 synths can do ambient/atmospheric soundscapes and ethereal pads although one has to fine tune them. The marketing accent is on techno/hardcore dance music so it might not be readily apparent, nor after briefly trying some demos but if one starts with some of the provided patches, gets to understand how the synths are working (each one is innovative in its synthesis approach) then you can create your own very nice sound textures, arps, pads and ambiances.

Considering the number of views for the following hour and a half interview, it might very well be that some people here in this thread would be interested to learn more about Marcus as he goes from how it all began to current technical concerns and many other subjects. The interview was made 3 years ago.

[mevla]

The Tone2 team have always been very responsive, professional and polite to me in email correspondence. So hoping they find a way to keep moving forward. ...

Same here. Very nice people in day-to-day practical handling of customers, as far as I've experienced.

[chk071]

Tone2 synths can do ambient/atmospheric soundscapes and ethereal pads although one has to fine tune them.

Of course, like with any more or less complex synth, you can pretty much do anything with them. Or... with anything rather simple too.

[mevla]

Of course, like with any more or less complex synth, you can pretty much do anything with them. Or... with anything rather simple too.

For instance, following the detailed sound creation approach by Treeswift on Zebra2 then using the same techniques with Icarus, Electra, Gladiator, RayBlaster

[egbert101]

Tone2 synths can do ambient/atmospheric soundscapes and ethereal pads although one has to fine tune them. The marketing accent is on techno/hardcore dance music so it might not be readily apparent, nor after briefly trying some demos but if one starts with some of the provided patches, gets to understand how the synths are working (each one is innovative in its synthesis approach) then you can create your own very nice sound textures, arps, pads and ambiances.

Considering the number of views for the following hour and a half interview, it might very well be that some people here in this thread would be interested to learn more about Marcus as he goes from how it all began to current technical concerns and many other subjects. The interview was made 3 years ago.

Really interesting interview. Usually someone who is passionate about something will usually go back to what they love doing. Although burnout can really effect your health.

[zerocrossing]

Subjective of course in sound/genre perceptions as I've always found Electra to be the one "too EDM-supersawed" for my tastes.

It's just the presets. Anyone with basic knowledge of synthesizers could easily get something for any genre you can imagine from Electra, or any of Tone 2's instruments.

[BBFG#]

Subjective of course in sound/genre perceptions as I've always found Electra to be the one "too EDM-supersawed" for my tastes.

It's just the presets. Anyone with basic knowledge of synthesizers could easily get something for any genre you can imagine from Electra, or any of Tone 2's instruments.

Certainly true of almost every plugin. I just couldn't mesh with it's underlying character regardless of the patch. I also never got along with Nemesis. It's just a personal thing where they didn't grab me. Both are very capable.

[egbert101]

Although what I gather (including that interview posted) that Icarus has its own sound, or people are recognizing presets being used in various productions. Might be related to its resynthesis engine or vocoder, or just its vibe. It does also use samples. Anyway, that's the main reason I bought it, the resynthesis engine which is better than Synplant 2's geopatch, but also for its sound.

[mevla]

Although what I gather (including that interview posted) that Icarus has its own sound, or people are recognizing presets being used in various productions. Might be related to its resynthesis engine or vocoder, or just its vibe. It does also use samples. Anyway, that's the main reason I bought it, the resynthesis engine which is better than Synplant 2's geopatch, but also for its sound.

It's easier to get something useful with Icarus' resynthesis. Much easier.

The problem might be, when I compare with the interview/demo done with Magnus Lidström 2 months ago ("Synplant 2 - Industry Game Changer"), that the guys at Sonic Charge greatly underestimated the response of avid audience-grabbing synth vloggers who would throw themselves at SP2's Genopatch resulting in largely mostly geeky-nerdy unmusical useless blurbs, generating a negative impression by not taking the time at all to fully explore the feature calmly, for a feature that was termed as an 'Industry Game Changer'.

There's such a contrast in the use of Genopatch by Magnus two months ago and what the audience-growing trend followers have shown.

Anyways.

[himalaya]

Hi Markus,

I just found out about your decision to stop further development.

I've always considered you to be one of the top soft-synth developers. A mad genius. I remember when you released Firebird and how fresh it was. How innovative it was. You then followed up with the insanely deep Gladiator...Your take on synthesis always brought something truly exiting to the vast and ever expanding world of soft-synths.

I feel sorry that your passion for developing synths has been affected by the numerous reasons you've outlined. I wish you all the best, and may you recover, find balance and health so that maybe, just maybe, in the future, when you have another brilliant idea, it will materialise as another Tone2 instrument.

Thank you for the amazing instruments!

[chk071]

He's back. Kind of.

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[lobanov]

He's back. Kind of.

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It's not a new product. It is an upgrade. So, it's really "kind of".

[syntonica]

He's back. Kind of.

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It's not a new product. It is an upgrade. So, it's really "kind of".

I don't think Markus ever left, he just set up a much needed firewall between him and the "vox populi", i.e. the crapfest that is KVR.

Regarding, no new plugins, I'm not sure Tone2 requires any. It's stable is already full to bursting with every synthesis method you'd ever need. Even the latest, Warlock, is just basically Gladiator Lite.

Incremental updates are fine and who knows? maybe even a new feature or two will sneak in.