Tone2 will release Icarus - 3D WaveTable Synthesizer

[Winstontaneous]

I just wish they would fix their mac installers, as that's a big turn off at present but that's my only complaint.

Yes, Tone2 plugins have the most "unhygenic" installation of any I've used on a Mac (besides Vengeance), adding all those files & folders in plugins, weird.

I loved the sound of Electra2 and Rayblaster enough to buy them - in spite of the weird marketing copy, not because of it. Also the audio demos don't do them justice. They both allow a really wide variety of sounds from a fairly simple control set, and are great for sample manipulation. Interested in Icarus when it becomes available, though Serum has set the bar pretty high for wavetable synths.

[EnGee]

What some guys mean by "Plastic sound"? I always imagine Nylon Guitar (or Nylon strings in the classic guitar) when I read "Plastic". Is that what most mean? or is it like hitting a plastic container for example?

The 3D thing, I first remember the 3D modulation pad in Harmor (X,Y,Z). I don't know how this works for the wavetables though. In Codex it is 2D that you can move in the same wavetable (say X dimension) or/and stack of wavetables (say Y dimension).

It is interesting that Tone2 is thinking to implement something different. If I didn't have already 4 wavetable synths, I would be interested, but I'm overwhelmed with synths!

[VariKusBrainZ]

Synthmaster also has '3D wavetable' algos

[Ingonator]

nvm

[Ingonator]

I rotated the picture (3d render) taht was posted at FAcebook by 90 degrees so maybe you could get a better impression of the GUI (the real one is of course mostly "flat"):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/532 ... e%2001.png



From this you could already see some specs of the synth like e.g. 3 Oscs (all 3 with similar features), 2 multimode filters, 4 envelopes, 3 LFOs + 1 Step LFO, 1 Arp/sequencer, 3 FX slots + dedicated EQ and Limiter FXs and 6 x 3 = 18 mod matrix slots (additionally 2 sections got dedicated LFO1/LFO2/LFO3 amount knobs for certain features).

Of course you could also see a bit more but you could check that yourself.

[kokotte]

ohh, a Granulator ?
interesting, let's wait to try it !
the important info is : the release date
waiting for a tone2 response.
thanks Ingo & Mac of BIOnighT for all your infos
i prepare my wallet ( a lot of new synths will be release this year !)

[recursive one]

White noise a mod source? Cool. Curious what this "dual layer" in the arp stands for (Mr. Weidner, I'm not aksing to share any confidential info - just curious ).

Oscillator stereo unison (hypersaws), wavetables, granulator ... - reminds me the feature set of some other synth

[Ingonator]

edited. nvm

[recursive one]

Oscillator stereo unison (hypersaws), wavetables, granulator ... - reminds me the feature set of some other synth

FWIW Markus from Tone2 bought my Virus TI (Mk I) desktop (that i had since 2006) last year if that's what you mean...

Yes, this exactly what i mean

[kokotte]

[kv331]

Synthmaster also has '3D wavetable' algos

That is correct: You can shape the waveform in 3 dimensions: Wave Index, Tone and Algorithm Parameter.

But you haven't seen our acoustic multisamples converted into wavetables yet

[jc_vt]

...and when might we see that feature?

Synthmaster also has '3D wavetable' algos

That is correct: You can shape the waveform in 3 dimensions: Wave Index, Tone and Algorithm Parameter.

But you haven't seen our acoustic multisamples converted into wavetables yet

[Ingonator]

nvm

[kv331]

...and when might we see that feature?

v3.0, to be released during NAMM 2017

[db3]

FWIW Markus from Tone2 bought my Virus TI (Mk I) desktop (that i had since 2006) last year if that's what you mean...

That seems like the mother of all hints