Another microtunable softsynth

List,

After enjoying (quite a bit, damn it!) Aaron Johnson's latest, I pondered aloud about physical modeling for the non-Linux platforms. The usual search techniques led me to a site I had been to before, from this list: VirSyn.

Earlier this spring VirSyn's "Cube" app had been mentioned here. I demo'd it, and while I found it interesting, it just didn't seem to be my kind of 'box'. But, lo and behold, here shows *another* synth that supports tuning capabilities (please read below the specs where I mention how it is implemented):

TERA 2.0 - The synthesis workstation
http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_TERA/e_tera.html

Six new pages specializing on either

- Waveshaping
- Analog synthesis
- Spectrum Synthesis
- Formant
- FM synthesis
- Physical modeling

allows easy access to TERA's mighty sound engine. In the modular page you have unrestricted access to all modules and parameters.

- Custom waveforms for all Oscillators
- Supersaw Mode
- The unique "Slotmachine" enables the user to get random sounds which are really usable.
- Syncable multisegment (64) envelope generators
- Combi programs for layer and split sounds.
- Microtuning
- PC and Mac OS 9/OS X standalone / VST / AudioUnit
- New: ReWire 2 and RTAS.

Jon again: I've tried it out a little tonight, and it certainly seems to have a lot of depth to it (at the very least a huge supply of tools). The tuning functions are setup in a pretty oblique manner, and there is just barely a mention of how to do this in the manual. Basically, you can assign separate tunings to each 'part' (and so far, I can simply get this to mean one instance of a synth per midi channel - more investigation needed).

To do this, you copy either a .scl or .tun file into a particular directory and rename it to the 'part' you want, such as "part1.tun".

All I can say is it seems to work, and there are some very useable sounds included in the 128 demo sounds (I believe there are more in the registered version). I haven't really done a lot with it, but being that it supports both PC and Mac platforms it seemed worth a mention...

Cheers,
Jon

Jon,

This sounds like cool software. Windows always seems one step ahead of Linux
(my chosen platform) because of commercial software. It *was* nice to hear
that I could give a Windows user software envy for once with the use of
RTSynth ;)

Best,
Aaron.

P.S. I'm glad you dug '5tet-funk'....

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 01:36 am, Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
> List,
>
> After enjoying (quite a bit, damn it!) Aaron Johnson's latest, I pondered
> aloud about physical modeling for the non-Linux platforms. The usual search
> techniques led me to a site I had been to before, from this list: VirSyn.
>
> Earlier this spring VirSyn's "Cube" app had been mentioned here. I demo'd
> it, and while I found it interesting, it just didn't seem to be my kind of
> 'box'. But, lo and behold, here shows *another* synth that supports tuning
> capabilities (please read below the specs where I mention how it is
> implemented):
>
> TERA 2.0 - The synthesis workstation
> http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_TERA/e_tera.html
>
> Six new pages specializing on either
>
> - Waveshaping
> - Analog synthesis
> - Spectrum Synthesis
> - Formant
> - FM synthesis
> - Physical modeling
>
> allows easy access to TERA's mighty sound engine. In the modular page you
> have unrestricted access to all modules and parameters.
>
> - Custom waveforms for all Oscillators
> - Supersaw Mode
> - The unique "Slotmachine" enables the user to get random sounds which are
> really usable.
> - Syncable multisegment (64) envelope generators
> - Combi programs for layer and split sounds.
> - Microtuning
> - PC and Mac OS 9/OS X standalone / VST / AudioUnit
> - New: ReWire 2 and RTAS.
>
> Jon again: I've tried it out a little tonight, and it certainly seems to
> have a lot of depth to it (at the very least a huge supply of tools). The
> tuning functions are setup in a pretty oblique manner, and there is just
> barely a mention of how to do this in the manual. Basically, you can assign
> separate tunings to each 'part' (and so far, I can simply get this to mean
> one instance of a synth per midi channel - more investigation needed).
>
> To do this, you copy either a .scl or .tun file into a particular directory
> and rename it to the 'part' you want, such as "part1.tun".
>
> All I can say is it seems to work, and there are some very useable sounds
> included in the 128 demo sounds (I believe there are more in the registered
> version). I haven't really done a lot with it, but being that it supports
> both PC and Mac platforms it seemed worth a mention...
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>
>
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