discoDSP Vertigo Public Beta released

discoDSP have released a public beta version of Vertigo, their new "Spectral Sampler" Additive Windows VSTi. Feast your eyes on the features below and then wince at the system requirements ;)

General features

• 16 Part Multi-timbral.
• 16 Stereo Outputs.
• Up to 16 voices polyphony per part (256 total).

• 256 breakpoints parabolic envelopes with stage slope control.

Partials

• Euler generated (Max: -120dB s/noise ratio) (no wavetables used).
• Up to 256 per voice.
• 2 Modulation sources (morph).
• Phase.
• Amplitude.
• Note pitch shift amount.
• Frequency ratio.
• Frq/amp envelope (see Envelope above).
• CPU usage: 4% each 64 partials, a 256 partial program = 16%. (Pentium 4 - 2.4Ghz).

Synthesis options

• Harmonize (Harmonic/Odd Harmonic vocoder).
• Phase smearing.
• Frequency smearing (ensemble).
• Classic waveform presets (saw/sqr/tri...).

Filter

• -24dB/Oct modes: Lowpass/Hipass/Bandpass/Notch + -12dB/Oct Lowpass mode.
• Cutoff envelope.
• Wheel/Key/Velo.
• Modulation amounts for cutoff.
• Wheel/Velo modulation amounts for resonance.

Voices

• Two resonant filters (serial/parallel mode)
• Pitch envelope.
• Amplitude envelope.
• Pitchbend control

Mono Effects

• Distortion (8 Times oversampled overdrive with softclip), Phaser (up to 128 taps), Flanger, Compressor, Equalizer (100hz /1 kHz/ 10 kHz bands).

Stereo Effects

• Chorus, Delay, Reverb.

Resynthesis and Sampling

• WAV PCM analysis.
• Method: Overlapped FFT windows/parabolic peak stimation.
• Partial amp/frq tracking.
• 1024,2048,4096,8192 FFT framesizes
• 4 Windows: Bartlett, Hamming, Hanning, Blackman.
• Peak level detection threshold control.

• Fully compliant VST2 host.
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon 3200+!
• 256mB RAM.