Tone2 Electra3 - Synthesizer Workstation

[Markus Krause]

Available now: Electra 3.1 beta
[outdated]

[Chipi]

[dnalord77]

In Icarus, one is able to copy a personal wavetable (WT) folder into the "Icarus_wavetables" folder and folder+contents will appear in the "Select Wavetable" dropdown menu. Then, when looking for a specific WT, I just click on the dropdown, hover over my folder and select the WT I want. If I am not happy with the specific WT I selected, I then i just use my mousewheel to scroll through the WT files in that specific folder. Quick and easy.

In Electra 3, it seems that this is not possible; whilst there is a large number of native WTs available, I have some that I made from my HW synths and want to use them. It is possible to import them but it is not as immediate, e.g. I have to go to "Custom Wave" and then "load wavetable", locate the folder where my WT is and then finally load. If I'm not satisfied with that WT and want another one from that folder, I have to repeat the process. If I use my scroll wheel, I will start navigating the default wavetables.

Went through the manual but could not find anything on the topic. Is this by design or am I missing something?

As well, it would be nice to be able to keep the contents of the Custom Wave menu tidy by being able to create folders and move the wavetables inside. Possible?

[Markus Krause]

Importing custom waveforms:

Select the synthesis mode 'custom waveform'. There are two possibilities to load own waveforms:

1) Select 'load wave' an pick a wav with a single cycle waveform. It is also possible to select a larger file with more cycles. In this case Electra with automatically detect the pitch and extract waveform from the middle.
2) Custom waveforms can also be added by copying a wav file with single-cycle loop to ElectraX_wavetables. Then restart Electra. After this you can browse them quickly with the mouswheel.

After loading a custom waveform a wavetable is automatically created from the cingle-cycle loop. You can morph it with the PW knob. When you set PW to 0 you get the original waveform.

Factory wavetables:

These are included to the synth and can not be changed. You can access them by selecting Wavetable as synthesis mode. You can morph it with the PW knob.

[dnalord77]

Hello Markus, I ended up adding a prefix to the ElectraX_Wavetables WTs, (for factory WTs I added; Electra-xxxx; and for mine: AnaOsc-xxxx, DigOsc-xxxx, etc) and that is good enough.

I did notice that working with the mousewheel to browse WTs it is not as fluid in Icarus, but then again, that is not really what I use Electra for.

Thanks again, looking forward to the Electra 3.1 update

[Chipi]

[Chipi]

[christian f.]

Love this synth ! Two requests :
- randomizer like the other tone2 synths
- ability to link the filters of the different synths

[Markus Krause]

Electra 3.2 beta is available for Mac:
https://www.tone2.com/download.html


Coming soon: Electra 3.2 (free update)

The update to v3.2 is available for free for all Electra3 customers. Electra 3.2 is downward compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benfit from the enhanced sound-quality.

New features:

'Fat tune clean' and 'Fat tune soft' make chords sound a lot better.
A checkmark shows the currently selected editor size.


Enhancements:

The microtuning-range is now limited and can not longer run 'out-of-tune'.
The synth 'sits better in the mix' with other instruments.
Enhanced stability and robustness.
Enhanced GUI performance with drag&drop.
The blue shadow that appeared with drag&drop did confuse some users. It was removed.
Range-clipping makes the envelopes more stable when extreme modualtion settings are used.
Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Heavy' microtuning-mode. Detuning does not longer get too extreme.
Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Light' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
Enhanced sound of the 'Fat tune soft' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
Broken patches with invalid dropdown-menu values get fixed automatically.
Enhanced parameter-smoothing.
The mousewheel is more responsive with knobs on the Mac.
Buggy DAWs can not longer crash Electra by sending garbage midi-note values.
Several small enhancements.


Fixes:

The Hypersaw modes with '9x' oscillators could occasionally create a phasing sound on Mac.
The microtuning mode 'Fat 1' was not downward compatible and could sound too much detuned.
The cursor did only change to modulation-depth-editing when zoom was set to 100%.
The gui-size-changer on the bottom-right did not longer work after after the patch-browser had been opened.
Fixed some really rarely happening crashes.
The sound-design of the patch 'Electra3 Hypersaw' had a misstake.
Fixed a rare crash with IQM that appeared on certain DAWSs on Intel Macs after loading while playing chords.

[bmanic]

Thanks for the continuous support of your products. Any news on possible few more modulation matrix slots? Just tried Saurus (nice sounding synth btw!! Well done!) and that relatively simple thing has more slots than Electra 3!

[buzz1]

+1 for more mod slots. Hobbles an otherwise good synth.

[Chipi]

[Markus Krause]

The update to v3.2 is available for free for all Electra3 customers. Electra 3.2 is downward compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benfit from the enhanced sound-quality.

Product page:
https://www.tone2.com/electra.html

Download link (free demo & update):
https://www.tone2.com/download.html

New features:

• 'Fat tune clean' and 'Fat tune soft' make chords sound a lot better.
• A checkmark shows the currently selected editor size.

Enhancements:

• The microtuning-range is now limited and can not longer run 'out-of-tune'.
• The synth 'sits better in the mix' with other instruments.
• Enhanced stability and robustness.
• Enhanced GUI performance with drag&drop.
• The blue shadow that appeared with drag&drop did confuse some users. It was removed.
• Range-clipping makes the envelopes more stable when extreme modualtion settings are used.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Heavy' microtuning-mode. Detuning does not longer get too extreme.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Light' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Fat tune soft' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
• Broken patches with invalid dropdown-menu values get fixed automatically.
• Enhanced parameter-smoothing.
• The mousewheel is more responsive with knobs on the Mac.
• Buggy DAWs can not longer crash Electra by sending garbage midi-note values.
• Several small enhancements.

Fixes:

• The Hypersaw modes with '9x' oscillators could occasionally create a phasing sound on Mac.
• The microtuning mode 'Fat 1' was not downward compatible and could sound too much detuned.
• The cursor did only change to modulation-depth-editing when zoom was set to 100%.
• The gui-size-changer on the bottom-right did not longer work after after the patch-browser had been opened.
• Fixed some really rarely happening crashes.
• The sound-design of the patch 'Electra3 Hypersaw' had a misstake.
• Fixed a rare crash with IQM that appeared on certain DAWSs on Intel Macs after loading while playing chords.

[Chipi]

The update to v3.2 is available for free for all Electra3 customers. Electra 3.2 is downward compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benfit from the enhanced sound-quality.

Product page:
https://www.tone2.com/electra.html

Download link (free demo & update):
https://www.tone2.com/download.html

New features:

• 'Fat tune clean' and 'Fat tune soft' make chords sound a lot better.
• A checkmark shows the currently selected editor size.

Enhancements:

• The microtuning-range is now limited and can not longer run 'out-of-tune'.
• The synth 'sits better in the mix' with other instruments.
• Enhanced stability and robustness.
• Enhanced GUI performance with drag&drop.
• The blue shadow that appeared with drag&drop did confuse some users. It was removed.
• Range-clipping makes the envelopes more stable when extreme modualtion settings are used.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Heavy' microtuning-mode. Detuning does not longer get too extreme.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Analog Light' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
• Enhanced sound of the 'Fat tune soft' microtuning-mode. Thirds sound more plesant.
• Broken patches with invalid dropdown-menu values get fixed automatically.
• Enhanced parameter-smoothing.
• The mousewheel is more responsive with knobs on the Mac.
• Buggy DAWs can not longer crash Electra by sending garbage midi-note values.
• Several small enhancements.

Fixes:

• The Hypersaw modes with '9x' oscillators could occasionally create a phasing sound on Mac.
• The microtuning mode 'Fat 1' was not downward compatible and could sound too much detuned.
• The cursor did only change to modulation-depth-editing when zoom was set to 100%.
• The gui-size-changer on the bottom-right did not longer work after after the patch-browser had been opened.
• Fixed some really rarely happening crashes.
• The sound-design of the patch 'Electra3 Hypersaw' had a misstake.
• Fixed a rare crash with IQM that appeared on certain DAWSs on Intel Macs after loading while playing chords.

Hi Markus,
A much desired feature request would be to be able to copy an oscillator from one preset and paste it into another, now impractical.

[Examigan]

A much desired feature request would be to be able to copy an oscillator from one preset and paste it into another, now impractical.

I tried clicking Copy (in the Settings section) and then selected an Osc from the menu that appears, switched to another preset, and clicked Paste. It seems to work OK here.