Tone2 updates RayBlaster to 3.5

Tone2 Audio has released an update for their impulse-modeling-synthesizer RayBlaster. The update to v3.5 is a major update and is free for anyone who bought RayBlaster 3. Owners of RayBlaster 1 or 2 can upgrade with a discount.

New in RayBlaster 3.5

Enhanced sound quality:

• Significantly enhanced sound quality when 44 kHz or 22 kHz is used as the DAW's samplerate. Reduced aliasing up to 12 dB.
• Drastically enhanced sound quality when 88 kHz or 176 kHz is used as the DAW's samplerate. Reduced aliasing up to 20 dB.
• The enhanced FFT precision results in more accurate resampling of waveforms.
• More precise interpolation of the oscillator impulses.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Ultra'. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Big'. It has has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Infinite'. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Trance'. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Band'. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Enhanced sound of 'Reverb Glass'. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
• Reduced detuning in 'Delay Dual' effect.
• Reduced detuning in 'PingPong' effect.
• Slightly reduced detuning in 'MultiTap Delay' effect.
• Slightly reduced detuning in 'Delay' effect.
• Slightly reduced detuning in 'Delay Band' effect.
• Slightly reduced detuning in 'Delay Diffuse' effect.
• The equalizer uses 64-bit processing for coefficient calculations.
• The upper midrange is less sharp in the EQ modes 'Psychoacoustic+', 'High Boost' and 'Psychoacoustic'.
• Enhanced sound of the per-voice distortion.

Better factory content:

• The complete factory content has been reworked.
• 50 new sounds have been added.
• Lots of existing sounds were enhanced and fine-tuned.
• All sounds are now properly sorted into the right categories.
• Mediocre sounds have been kicked to provide only top-quality content. You can download them optionally from the website.

New features:

• It is more easy to see soundsets in the patch browser. They have blue color.
• Tutorial patches have grey color in the patch browser.
• The patch browser can show a scrollbar for the categories.
• There is an additional equalizer in the Setup section. 'EQ: Soft Midrange' damps frequencies around 3.5 kHz with -6dB.

Enhanced graphics:

• Much faster animations of the waveforms, the VUs and the effect parameters.
• More precise layout of the small knobs and various GUI elements.

Further enhancements:

• Better default settings for the init patch.
• Better default parameters for various effects.
• Enhanced stability.
• The installer is smarter and VST3 is installed with the default setting.
• Included a workaround for crappy DAWs that return garbage values for the BPM-rate or song-position.
• Many small enhancements.

Fixes:

• Fixed an unlikely crash that could happen when the Windows function of the oscillator is automated.

Downward compatibility:

• RayBlaster 3.5 is downward compatible with all previous versions. Existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound-quality.
• The factory content has been reworked and many sounds have been moved to other categories. To avoid duplicates we recommend to uninstall your previous RayBlaster version before you install v3.5.