Atypical instruments
Imagine offers hundreds of instrument layers, meticulously modeled to bring their very own character. Each preset combines two of these instrument layers to offer unprecedented acoustic timbres.
Playful sound design
Each instrument has its very own character that can be easily adjusted with great flexibility. Discover a playful sound design experience by combining and tweaking your instruments to your taste.
Vivid textures, morphing acoustic
Combine the layers of instruments and modulate their characteristics in real time, as well as additional textures for an extraordinary expressive experience.
Enhance and articulate
Imagine offers a complete tool set of effects ideal for enhancing your sounds. Everything is designed for real-time manipulation to easily create fluid articulations, breaks, drops, or to dynamically modify reverbs and delays.
Multi-stage envelope generators
For further expressive possibilities, Imagine contains MSEGs that pack a huge collection of modulations for your sounds.
Intelligent modulation system
Behind the scenes, everything is optimized to provide you the best expressive experience possible: no dead zones; sensitivity curves and ranges are continuously scaled.
Optimized macros
Significant optimization work has been carried out to allow you to modulate the sound of your instruments in real time, resulting in a unique expressive perspective.
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This is a good physical modeling synth.
The sounds that come from this are good, they are subtle and detailed, they are 2 and 3 dimensional, textured, and organic. The synth can manage a wide range of sounds, and its fun and fairly easy to do sound design with. I wouldn't say this synth is as deep and wide as something like Pigments or MassiveX, but it's good for its price and a quality physical modeling vst.
Edit: the dev fixed the earlier MIDI binding issue I reported, and MIDI binding for the sliders now works.
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There is a demo or trial version?
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Wish there was :(.
I looked all over their webpage with no luck, so I guess there is not.
I am always interested in physical modelling - I have all of AAS's instruments. Are there any clear advantages with this over them?
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I believe this is more intuitive than ASS Chromaphone's interface and this allows monophonic and portamento. But, without a demo version is impossible to know if this plugin will justify its price. Lets wait to the developer release a demo or trial version.
I guess I am just used to the Chromaphone interface, and pleased with what I can get out of this as well as their string and synth modeler. The only thing I am *not* pleased about is how these three kill my CPU.
I agree, unless there is a demo - to test out if this is actually worth the price, or additional purchase, I will probably pass, or wait for a sale.
only my first day playing with, so take this with a grain of salt.
I, too, own all of AAS's brilliant synths. So when I got a discount coupon from expressive e for buying a touché se, sizing up the two synths that expressive e has (noise and imagine), I decided to indirectly support AAS by buying imagine...
it IS very similar to Chromaphone 3 and even String Studio 3, which makes sense, but there are some updated functions (who knows? maybe they're be in Chromaphone 4?). All three are bi-timbral. All three use physical modelling. All three sound amazing.
In Imagine, there's an MSEG, for modulation, which the others don't have. And there are some more sound-shaping options for each oscillator. But they're not light-years beyond Chromaphone, from what I can see.
Honestly, I think in retrospect I would have bought Noises which, though also a physical modelling synth, is a more-different (is that something you can say?) synth from AAS's products than Imagine is. Imagine is by no means a bad synth. But I think, if you've got AAS's suite, it's redundant for now.
And, yeah, Expressive E should be offering demo versions at the very least...that's a no-brainer.
Is Erica Synths Zen Delay included?
The first image is Zen Delay.
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