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MATRIX 2.0 - The Voice Coder goes classic
March, 24th, 2010 |
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Two Vocoders in one !
Inspired by the legendary VSM 201 Vocoder from Sennheiser we´ve spent MATRIX an additional Filter module modelling the analog Sound of the VSM.
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TERA / CUBE - Permanent price reduction
February, 8th, 2010 |
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KLON - The Vocal Designer released
October, 6th, 2009 |
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Pump up your voice !
KLON is a realtime Pitchshifting and correction Tool ideally suited for Choir generation, Harmonizing and more...
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REFLECT 2.0 - New RealIR Engine
July 1st, 2009 |
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Native or Hardware ?
Direct convolution of early reflections combined with algorithmic reverb tail generation rivals hi-end hardware reverbs.
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iSyn - Virtual Music Studio released...
April 14th, 2009 |
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FDELAY - The Rhythmiser released...
February 24th, 2009 |
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Pimp up your loops !
The multi-band delay machine FDELAY is an exciting tool for sound design and loop manipulation in realtime.
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VirSyn FX Line update
February 9th, 2009 |
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Our FX Line containing the impressive number of six effect plugins, each having “something special” not found elsewhere, has been updated.
All plugins are now compatible to the new Cubase 5. For BARK, MATRIX and PRISM we added the possibility to automate the band parameters.
All registered users already got their free update via email. |
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PRISM - The Pitch Designer released...
August 13th, 2008 |
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It´s time for something new...
PRISM opens a new door into selective pitch manipulation.
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BARK - The Multiband Filter released...
May 24th, 2008 |
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Critical band equalization and compression
The multiband filter BARK takes the approach to match the reception characteristic of the final destination of all sound: the ear.
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VTAPE - The Analog Tape Suite now Multichannel and VST3...
April 16th, 2008 |
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The multichannel capabilities of the new version 1.2 laid the basis for a new kind of Surround effect delay. Imagine what you can do with up to 16 tempo sync'd delay taps for each audio channel with independent level control.
VTAPE is now compatible to Steinberg's new VST3 standard.
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REFLECT 1.4 - The Algorithmic Reverb update released
March 27th, 2008 |
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The new version 1.4 includes a new algorithm for position sensitive early reflection patterns which improves the localization of separately positioned sound sources. The new built in channel mixer improves REFLECT's usability in the production workflow.
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TDESIGN - The Transient Former released...
March, 12th, 2008 |
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The idea behind the Transient Former TDESIGN is to give the user direct control over the attack and sustain characteristics of natural sounds.
But TDESIGN can do much more...
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REFLECT 1.3 - The Algorithmic Reverb goes Surround
February 27th, 2008 |
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The new version 1.3 is a true surround reverb modelling multichannel early reflections
and decorrelated reverb tails for a realistic spatial emulation.
REFLECT is now compatible to the new VST3 standard
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MATRIX - The Voice Coder VST3 update...
February, 5th, 2008 |
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The MATRIX Vocoder is now compatible to the new VST3 standard - the next major revision of Steinberg’s Virtual Studio Technology. The new side chaining capabilities in VST3 makes the handling of MATRIX much easier.
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VTAPE - The Analog Tape Suite got a new baby...
January, 21th, 2008 |
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To make our set of tape plugins more complete we have added a Tape Flanger plugin simulating the playback of two tape machines
running at slightly different speed.
All registered users of VTAPE will get the new plugin free of charge.
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MATRIX - The Voice Coder released...
December, 28th, 2007 |
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The Vocoder for the 21st century !
MATRIX sets a new milestone in the long history of Vocoders started by Homer Dudley in 1936.
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VTAPE - The Analog Tape Suite released...
November, 8th, 2007 |
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Return to Analog !
VTAPE is a set of two plugins based on a thorough simulation of the famous sound of analog tape machines.
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REFLECT 1.2 - The air moves...
October, 23rd, 2007 |
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The new version comes with a completely revised modulation algorithm to simulate the air movement in natural rooms to greatly enhance the liveliness of the reverb tail.
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REFLECT 1.1 - Fifty new Spaces
September 19th, 2007 |
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REFLECT gets new rooms !
Through careful analyzing various hardware reverbs we added over 50 new reverb programs to REFLECT.
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REFLECT - The Algorithmic Reverb released
August 24th, 2007 |
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Back to the future! REFLECT is an algorithmic reverberation plugin which combines the flexibility of vintage algorithmic reverbs with the sonic quality of convolution based reverbs.
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POSEIDON 1.4 released - PoleZero Filter technology
July, 13th, 2007 |
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The new version 1.4 of POSEIDON introduces the exciting PoleZero filter technology for modelling very complex resonant characteristics with up to 8 bandpass/notch filters. But thats not all...
This update is free for all registered users.
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“...Poseidon is a beautiful instrument.” SOS August 2007 |
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TERA 3.2.1 released
June, 26th, 2007 |
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A new “free running” mode for the multi segment envelopes of TERA opens a new door to polyrhythmical sounds and “endless” ambient textures. Besides this the distortion unit goes stereo and many bugfixes are also included.
This update is free for all registered users.
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POSEIDON 1.3 - New Visualization and Sounds...
June, 14th, 2007 |
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The new version incorporates a “Waterfall” spectrum display for better visualization of the sound model and allows for keytracking the residual noise spectrum.
This update and a new set of 80 presets and 29 sound models is free for all registered users.
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POSEIDON 1.2 - The ocean gets deeper...
May, 21st, 2007 |
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New “inverse” filters for formant preservation, bitmap import for the sonification of images, and more. Exciting new features where we couldn´t resist to do this early update!
This update and a new set of 64 presets is free for all registered users.
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POSEIDON - Shipment starts
April, 23rd, 2007 |
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The boxed version of POSEIDON is available right now!
But that´s not all: 132 additional presets and 32 new sound models are also available for all POSEIDON users.
More about POSEIDON... |
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POSEIDON - The Ocean of Sound
March 24th, 2007 |
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A piece of Art is born - POSEIDON.
If you thought that everything is already invented then POSEIDON will wake you up !
More about POSEIDON... |
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miniTERA 2 released
February 26th, 2007 |
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miniTERA 2 offers a radically simplified approach to sound design.
The new version comes with layer sounds and a new sound browser and...
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CUBE 2.2 released
February 13th, 2007 |
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You already have plenty of bread and butter sounds ? Then it´s time to look for some new tastes...
CUBE 2.2 comes with a vastly improved resynthesis for complex and inharmonic sounds. Also included is a free soundbank and some bugfixes.
This update is free of charge for all registered users of CUBE 2.
More about CUBE... |
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CANTOR 2.1 released
February 6th, 2007 |
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CANTOR 2.1 adds a new voice model called “Time model” especially suited for male voices. It is like an artist's palette with a new colour added - that one new colour can add to all of the other colours already there.
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TERA 3.2 for Intel-based Macs released
January 9th, 2007 |
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TERA 3.2 brings our sound monster to Intel-based Macs.
But that´s not all - this new version also comes with a few enhancements and bugfixes.
This upgrade is free of charge for all registered users of TERA 3.
More about TERA... |
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CANTOR 2 demo version
December 11th, 2006 |
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A time limited, but fully functional demo version of CANTOR 2 is available now !
More than a dozen of demo projects including the one used to make our audio demos gives you the start for your own experiments...
Get your free test drive here... |
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CANTOR 2 release
December 1st, 2006 |
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With the vocal machine CANTOR VirSyn
introduced a groundbreaking technology for vocal synthesis for musical applications...
...with CANTOR 2 the real revolution starts.
more about CANTOR 2... |
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CUBE 2.1 for Intel-based Macs and RTAS support released
June 15th, 2006 |
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CUBE 2.1 brings the “Daddy of all additive synths” to Intel-based Macs and to ProTools users with the long awaited RTAS interface.
But that´s not all - this new version also comes with a greatly improved spectral analysis algorithm for more natural resynthesized sounds !
This upgrade is free of charge for all registered users of CUBE 2.
More about CUBE... |
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Musikmesse Frankfurt 2006 - CANTOR 2 announced !
March 31th, 2006 |
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The worlds first and only vocal synthesis program CANTOR is approaching version 2 !
It will be a milestone in intelligibility and naturalilty. Stay tuned for more information soon.
All our products will be compatible with the new Intel Macs in the next months.
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Berklee College equipped with CUBE 2
March, 20th, 2006 |
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Two years after succesfully replacing their old K5000 with CUBE 1 in the synthesis course, the Berklee college of music now upgraded to CUBE 2 of the “Daddy of all additive synths”
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TERA 3.1 released
February, 13th, 2006 |
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TERA 3.1 adds some more features to the ever growing monster
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miniTERA - The sound machine
January, 9th, 2006 |
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miniTERA will change the way you use and design sounds.
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TERA 3 has landed !
December, 19th, 2005 |
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The long wait has an end: TERA 3 is released and the shipment starts this week. Many new features including a multi sampling module makes TERA the most comprehensive and versatile synthesis workstation you can dream of.
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Upgrade details for registered TERA users |
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COMPETITION: The winners are ...
August, 2nd 2005 |
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CUBE 2 Spectral morphing resynthesizer available !
May 5th 2005 |
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With the release of CUBE 2 the award winning additive synthesizer CUBE opens an exciting new world of sound design: take your samples as base material and shape them into an entire new instrument by modifying the spectral evolution of it's sound characteristic with simple painting operations. The exceptional resynthesis quality of CUBE 2 let you manipulate your samples in ways no sampler can ever dream of !
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Upgrade details for registered 1.x users |
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CANTOR 1.6 also sings german now
February 3rd 2005 |
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Besides the availability of voices and a pronounciation dictionary for the german language CANTOR 1.6 also offers a MIDI import function which can also read the embedded lyrics ! But the best new feature is perhaps the great choir rendering: Create choir parts with hundred of voices with one finger snip...
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Demo program |
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TERA 2 crossgrade offer for Steinberg D´cota users extended
January 4th 2005 |
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Our crossgrade offer for users of D’cota is now extended to January 31th.
Click here for ordering the crossgrade. |
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CANTOR 1.5 the next generation
December 20th 2004 |
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CANTOR 1.5 is a major upgrade incorporating a completely revised vocal synthesis engine. Due to the consequent design as a real synthesizer without using samples the main usage of CANTOR is not primarily the replacement of "human" singers but more the creation of new virtual character voices whose base sound can be influenced by the user in an extremely flexible manner. Read more...
...and listen to our new demo song:
K-EriC featuring CANTOR |
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VirSyn CANTOR review at audioMIDI.com
November 17th 2004 |
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Click here to read the review of VirSyn CANTOR written by Richard Zvonar for audioMIDI.com |
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VirSyn User Forum opened !
October 13th 2004 |
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It was a long time wait...
...now it´s there. Forum... |
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OS X Updates for CUBE and CANTOR released
October 13th 2004 |
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The OS X versions of CUBE and CANTOR are updated now to pass the AUValidation needed for Logic 7. This update will be automatically send to all registered users. Details... |
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TERA 2.1.1 Update released
October 13th 2004 |
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Maintainance update of TERA 2 for Mac OS X and PC released. The OS X AudioUnit was updated to pass the AUValidation needed for Logic 7. This update will be automatically send to all registered users. Details... |
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CANTOR - The vocal machine has landed !
July 5th 2004 |
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Shipment for CANTOR has started !
CANTOR - The vocal machine
This is a vocal synthesizer capable of producing convincing vocal sounds in realtime !
More details and sound examples
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CUBE 1.5 with Resynthesis released !
Feb 2nd 2004 |
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Our award winning additive synthesizer CUBE makes the next big step into the future of synthesis.
CUBE 1.5 can resynthesize stereo samples of virtually unlimited length. Sound morphing between up to 4 sources and the unique Time warping envelopes together with the exceptional sound quality of the resynthesis process opens a new era of sound synthesis.
More details and the first sound examples
Demo versions for all platforms
Upgrade form
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TERA 2.0 shipping !
Dec, 8th 2003 |
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Shipment for TERA 2.0 has started !
Never before was it so easy to handle the power of this mighty synthesis workstation. Get your first impressions on how this beast looks and sounds here...
Demoversions for all platforms on our Demo page
Details about upgrading can be found here...
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TERA 2.0 and CUBE goes on tour in Italy
October 17th 2003 |
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CUBE version 1.01
Morph animations for easy programming
July 3th 2003 |
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The first update of CUBE is now available. Besides some bugfixes the new stunning “Morph animations” makes programming sounds much more intuitiv and even more fun !
Registered users can download this update for free here:
Update 1.01
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CUBE shipment starts June 2nd !
Demo versions now available here
Mai 31th 2003 |
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The shipment of CUBE starts on June 2nd for all supported platforms. We also put demo versions of CUBE on our demo page.
Two brand new demo songs made from our beta testers are also finished
A moment of your time / Bruce Satinover
Cubissimo / Summa
Thank you all for your support in bugfixing CUBE and providing us with the demo songs !
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CUBE Spectral morphing additive synthesizer
The first demo songs and new sound examples
Mai 21th 2003 |
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MusikMesse 2003:
VirSyn announces CUBE - a milestone in additive synthesis
March 5th 2003 |
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CUBE is a groundbreaking new software instrument giving you the power and flexibility of additive synthesis together with easy editing and morphing capabilities. Macro parameters allow you to control this beast with unequalled ease. CUBE will be released in May 2003 for Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X as standalone program and VST / AudioUnit plugins. Read more... |
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NAMM 2003:
VirSyn releases OS X and AudioUnit versions of TERA
January 16th 2003 |
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At the NAMM Show VirSyn presented the Mac OS X Version of TERA. We are proud to be one of the first manufacturers of software musical instruments offering support for OS X AudioUnits, Apple´s new standard for audio plugins.
The OS X version of TERA can be run in stand-alone mode, as VST plugin and as AudioUnit plugin. The update is downloadable for free to all registered TERA users. |
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TERA receives the Remix Technology Award 2002
January 2003 |
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“This awesome-sounding soft synth offers as many as 16 modular synths, each with a 64-step sequencer/arpeggiator and three effects.” |
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TERA receives the PERFORMANCE Award from computer music
October 2002 |
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"...TERA´s comprehensive specifications make it one big mama of a synth..."
"...expressive textures and fat Oberheim-like sounds that go beyond the capabilities of many other soft synth... " |
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TERA receives the KEYBUY Award from Keyboard
July 2002 |
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“I cooked up some incredible sounds in TERA: warm complex drones, startling nasal leads, wild cascades of beeps straight out of a sci-fi soundtrack, even a sweet, unobstrusive string patch...”
“I´d rather program a good synthesizer than eat, so working with TERA was a real treat. Great filters, great oscillators, over-the-top timbral resources, versatile modulation routings - it has the right stuff”
Jim Aikin |
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Kraftwerk using MATRIX Vocoder live |
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VirSyn is proud to report that Kraftwerk used our MATRIX Vocoder live on stage at their world tour 2008. Starting in September in Dublin, Krakow and Kiev and in the following concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Singapur and Hongkong. The MATRIX vocoder was used there live as a VST3 effect in Cubase 4 on a Sony VAIO FZ laptop.
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CANTOR is very proud singing together with Mike on the track called “Surfing”:
"I overlaid tracks of my vocals mixed with virtual vocals from a software package called Cantor, which has a very robotic sound, and this track popped out." Mike Oldfield |
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CANTOR premiere at Staatsoper Stuttgart ! |
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Premiered at the FNM / Staatsoper Stuttgart July 9,10,15,16,17
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CUBE 2 Testbericht in Keyboards 07.2005 |
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Spectral painting
“It´s sensational how good the conversion of samples to additive sound spectra works and how easy it is to work with the analysed data graphically.”
“Even if you have never tried additive synthesis CUBE 2 will convince you to start. The new version is a stroke of genius. Its innovative ideas have raised the bar of musical potential.”
thanks to KHC for translation... |
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Most Innovative Product (software) |
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“..every once in a while, something really stands out that gets our total attention. Such is the case with this year's most innovative software, VirSyn's Cube additive synthesizer.”
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