Ametrine Audio has announced the release of Fire and Ice, a new synthesizer powered by the Wusik-Engine. The concept was to make a synth with two personalities: The "Fire" section covers basses, stab, synth and lead sounds, whilst the "Ice" section features pads, keys, organs, bell-tones and arps. 160 main presets are included with 250 variations. Two brand new skins have also been developed for the Fire and Ice.
Fire and Ice costs £14.95 and is available for Windows in the VST format.
Summary:
- Powered by the Wusik-Engine.
- 160 main presets with 250 variations.
- Custom made Bass, Stab, Synth, Lead, pads, Keys, Organs, Bell-tones and Arpeggio sounds:
- Bass and Stabs 44
- Synth and Leads 23
- Arp and Wave-sequences 20
- Pads and Strings 30
- Bell-tones 21
- Keys and Organs 22
Wusik Engine / Fire and Ice Details:
- Oscillators and Polyphony:
- 6 main Oscillators / Layers with 2 Wavesequence layers.
- 2 Wavesequence Layers can hold 32 waveforms each per layer.
- WaveSequencing / Vector Synthesis / Sample Playback and Recording / Additive Synthesis.
- Up to 128 voices per layer.
- 64 note polyphony per Layer.
- Master unison mode.
- 3 octave + and - Range with fine tune per Oscillator Layer.
- Use Stereo and Mono Wav files as Oscillators.
- Drag-and-drop support for WAV, SFZ, WusikPRST and WusikSND files.
- Uses own Preset format for Sound Files.
- Individual A D S R per layer with Velocity control.
- Pan and Volume Control per Osc Layer.
- Pitch Glide per Layer.
- Fixed Pitch Switch Button per Layer.
- MicroTuning support via Scala .TUN files.
- Filters and Modulation:
- 4 simultaneous Multiband Filters Per Layer.
- Choice of Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Notch Filter Types.
- Master Filter for the Whole Synth.
- Serial or Parallel Filters.
- 2 and 4 Pole Filters (12db to 24db) with smooth switch.
- Filter Frequency and Resonance with Limit Switch.
- Smooth Over-Sampled Filters.
- 4 Equalizers per layer with Frequency and Gain.
- 8 LFOs per layer with 6 waveform choices.
- LFOs have waveform choice, along with speed and host syncing.
- Modulation Envelope with A D S R.
- Comprehensive Modulation Matrix.
- X/Y pad for WaveSequencing and Vector Synthesis.
- Effects: 2 Effects simultaneous per layer:
- Double Chorus
- Quad Chorus
- Stereo Echo
- Distortion
- Studio Reverb (Anwida Technology)
- Studio Reverb lite
- Studio Reverb Quad
- Studio Reverb Echo
- bit quantizer
- 3 Tap Stereo Delay
- 3 tap delay Parallel
- Reverse Echo
- Ring Modulator
- Phaser
- Flanger 32 band Vocoder
- Dub Delay
- leslie
- Re psycho
- overdrive
- Multi Band Compressor
- Rez Filter
- Pitch Tracker
- Vocoder
- Talkbox
- Other Features:
- Integrated Groove box.
- Complete Multi-Core Processor support.
- Integrated Sample-Editor with Audio-Input for Recording.
- High Quality Over-Sampling Options.
- Effects Collection + VST effect support.
- Detached File-Browser with search options.
- Disk-Streaming.
- Full SFZ Sample support.
- Master Limiter.
- Real Multi-Out Version.
- FX Version, which you can use to process sounds.
- Special WusikSND and SFZ options: Key Switching, Round Robin, Group-Mute, Sample-Release and Sample-Legato.
- Special WusikPACK file-format. This allows easier installation of new sounds and backup too. You can select a preset or a folder of presets, and all the required files for the preset(s) will be saved inside the WusikPACK file. For easier distribution/backup.
