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Retro AS-1

Synth (Analogue / Subtractive) Plugin by Bitheadz
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Retro AS-1
Retro AS-1 by Bitheadz is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin for Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin.
Product
Version
1.0.1
Instrument
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Features:

  • 1400 Factory sounds included.
  • 24-bit 96kHz sound quality (hardware dependant).
  • Stereo output.
  • Polyphonic and legato modes.
  • Up to 64 voices (CPU dependent).
  • 16 MIDI channel multi-timbral.
  • Full MIDI implementation and automation.
  • Read and write Retro AS-1 files.
  • Save 16 channel multi-timbral setups.
  • Up to 3 oscillators per voice.
  • 13 waveform types include: sawtooth, triangle, pulse, sine (plus 5 sine variations), glottal, and noise (white, pink and red).
  • Continuous control of wave form shape.
  • Sync any oscillator to any other oscillator or filter.
  • 2 assignable filters per voice.
  • 16 filter types include: 4-pole resonant and state variable lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and notch.
  • Multiple inputs allow serial and/or parallel filtering.
  • Filter overdrive feature.
  • 8 routings.
  • 8 modulators.
  • 4 modulator types include: envelope, LFO, random and ramp.
  • LFO speed controllable by MIDI tempo.
  • 2 insert (serial) effect processor per voice.
  • Effect algorithms include: delay, chorus, flange, overdrive, phaser and distortion.
  • Full parametric and shelf equalizers.
  • Delay controllable by MIDI tempo.

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Comments & Discussion for Bitheadz Retro AS-1

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Discussion: Active
kneel
kneel
3 March 2013 at 5:31pm

This was an awesome synth at the time and I loved it. Bitheadz used to have a public FTP site for users to upload their own banks/patches that they made with the software, and Chris Cunningham of Nine Inch Nails fame had uploaded a really nice set of patches which I truly enjoyed. Will definitely miss this software and the early days of softsynths.

dSz'e
dSz'e
26 April 2018 at 11:37pm

Totally awesome. Bitheadz sent me this and Unity personally when I worked for GC in 99'. Solid tones, like the PPG, I use every once and awhile to embellish a composition. (turn those knoBsz.

GabesShenanigans
GabesShenanigans
8 April 2022 at 5:49pm

Hey, I've been looking for a VST version of this, you wouldn't happen to still have one would you?

Jinseng
Jinseng
12 August 2023 at 12:33pm

Hi,
I'm the Bitheadz' user forabout 23 years.
I have the VSTI plugin Unity 3 which joins Unity ds and Retro as. It still works even in 64-bit OS.
But i madly need their
Tubes, Tines & Transistors
May be someone of You could help me to obtain it? Or some other addons for Retro AS1 and Unity?
Thx in advance.

kneel
kneel
14 August 2023 at 12:17pm

Hi Jinseng,

I am also looking for all of the addons and patches - I have scoured through crates of burnt CD/DVD's and many, many old hard drives, but to no avail. I most likely lost them, decades ago. I had collected everything that was available from bitheadz and their FTP users back then but nothing has survived.

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