Available now: Tone2 Icarus v3.2

[Neon Breath]

New feature - XY pad:

In granular mode the X-axis is assigned to start position. The Y-axis is assigned to the grain size.

Very cool!!

[sunthief01]

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.

Very exciting. Can't wait to give this a go!

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

The phaser in Icarus was pretty weak. That's why I added 4 new types with a fat analog sound. The new formant filters were 'accidently' discovered during experimenting with it.

Added today:

- Phaser 3x +: Analog 6-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 5x +: Analog 10-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 2x -: Analog 4-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Phaser 4x -: Analog 8-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Formant 1x: Analog formant filter with soft saturation.
- Formant 2x: Analog formant filter with two peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 3x: Analog formant filter with three peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 4x: Analog formant filter with four peaks and soft saturation.

Have a nice weekend!

[zvenx]

You are on a roll Markus.. Nice
Looking forward to it.. any eta?
Have a great weekend yourself.
rsp

[D-Fusion]

Love your products and Looking forward to the Icarus and Saurus update and I wish you a great Weekend

[Korg Supporter]

The phaser in Icarus was pretty weak. That's why I added 4 new types with a fat analog sound. The new formant filters were 'accidently' discovered during experimenting with it.

Added today:

- Phaser 3x +: Analog 6-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 5x +: Analog 10-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 2x -: Analog 4-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Phaser 4x -: Analog 8-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Formant 1x: Analog formant filter with soft saturation.
- Formant 2x: Analog formant filter with two peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 3x: Analog formant filter with three peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 4x: Analog formant filter with four peaks and soft saturation.

Have a nice weekend!

Are these FX modes or per voice filter types?! I forgot to say how weak the phaser filter type sounded comparwd to allpass filters in other synths, so thank you very much!

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

It's new filter types available per voice.
Two additional phasers in the effects sections had already been added in a previous update (Krautrock Phaser).

[Benjamin923]

Wonderful work, thanks for such great support of the Tone2 products

[Neon Breath]

Looking forward to it.. any eta?

You know the old saying.... It'll be ready when it's ready! Me, I say let the man works his magic!

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

Preview - Icarus 3.2

All the fetaures below have already been implemented and are working. 


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.
• BP MS-20 12dB: A bandpas filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.
• HP MS-20 12dB: A highphass filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
• Phaser 3x +: Analog 6-stage phaser with positive feedback.
• Phaser 5x +: Analog 10-stage phaser with positive feedback.
• Phaser 2x -: Analog 4-stage phaser with negative feedback.
• Phaser 4x -: Analog 8-stage phaser with negative feedback.
• Formant 1x: Analog formant filter with soft saturation.
• Formant 2x: Analog formant filter with two peaks and soft saturation.
• Formant 3x: Analog formant filter with three peaks and soft saturation.
• Formant 4x: Analog formant filter with four peaks and soft saturation.

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 additive synthesis modes:

• Add Disharm 4: Plays 4 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
• Add Disharm 8: Plays 8 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
• Add Disharm 16: Plays 16 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
• Add St Dish 4: Plays 4 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
• Add St Dish 8: Plays 8 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
• Add St Dish 16: Plays 16 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.

New features - GUI:

• An XY crosshair is shown when you click with your mouse inside the EQ display.
• An XY crosshair is shown when you click with your mouse inside the filter display.
• New "Metal opaque" skin for the user interface.
• It is now possible to record filter cutoff and resonace with the filter XY-pad.

New feature - XY-pad for the waveform display:

• 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.
• Crossfades in the wavetable engine have more clarity and crispiness.
• 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.
• More linear freuency response for filter 'LP MS-20 12dB' with high cutoffs.
• 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".
• Better default parameters for the delay effects.
• 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. 
• Slightly enhanced colors and transparency values for the patch browser.
• Many further small enhancements.

Fixes:

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

[sunthief01]

Hype! Thank you for giving us even more options for disharmonic oscillator play modes.

Ive been getting a lot of interesting percussion from the additive modes lately

[Tone2 Synthesizers]

We wish you a Merry Christmas!
...and we say a big THANK YOU to everyone who supported our little company!

[Examigan]

I bought the Icarus upgrade to v3

[Korg Supporter]

Happy New Year, Tone2!

[tumface]

New additive synthesis modes:

Really looking forward to these. The unison/stack/additive/tuning features in Icarus are in a league of their own.