Tone2 Audio has updated their 3D Wavetable synthesizer Icarus to v1.1. The large update includes a reworked user interface, lots of new features and many enhancements. This update is free and 100% downward compatible with v1.0.
New features:
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Drag&Drop support: Drag LFO/ENV and drop it to a knob to create a matrix entry for modulation.
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Right-click on a knob opens a menu where you can assign modulation sources.
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Modulation depth control on top left of a knob if a source is assigned.
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Sectors on knobs show the modulation amount. Clipping is shown in red.
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Hovering the mouse over a knob shows the current parameter value and modulation source.
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The buttons of OSCs, Filters, LFOs, ENVs, which are inactive are grayed out.
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Responsive GUI with tooltips.
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New waveform display mode ‘Hypersaw’, which shows the detuning of the oscillators.
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Help->Show version info.
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Mouse cursor changes on editing halftones in arp.
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Right click on a knob->reset initializes to the default value.
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Visual feedback if a button in the wavetable editor is pressed.
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TRIG button for the LFO section.
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New sync mode for LFOs ‘Arp/LFO soft trig’ which retriggers monophonic LFOs after 1 second of silence.
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New sync mode for LFOs ‘Arp/LFO classic trig’, which allows to set free mode for every LFO individually.
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SEMI knob for the OSC section.
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New matrix target ‘Filter Balance’. It’s useful to control the relationship of the filter volumes when two filters are routed in parallel.
Enhancements:
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Drawing custom shapes with the STEP LFO is more comfortable.
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Better work-flow.
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Enhanced performance of the knobs.
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Parameters are more easy to adjust.
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Patch rankings are only stored when the user clicks on the stars.
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Display mode is now ‘smart’ and tries to auto-detect the right one.
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Polished some graphics.
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Reduced RAM requirement. More instances can be loaded in 32-bit.
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Many other small enhancements for the user interface.
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Quick save is more smart.
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Category is rotating for a more comfortable patch browsing.
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Workaround for buggy hosts which submit duplicate noteOn commands. The Arp does not longer produce hanging note.
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Legato is more easy to setup.
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Drag&Drop of a wav sample to the OSC display can now create a new resynthesized patch.
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LFOs are more smart.
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Mousewheel on Arp notes now selects octaves
Changes:
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MONO in the LFO section has been replaced with TRIG.
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Enhanced automation parameter naming
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On initializing a new patch the default mode is set to ‘Arp/LFO soft trig’.
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OSC Punch and OSC Keyfollow button have been moved to SETUP.
Fixes:
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Matrix source ‘Filter Env’ sometimes didn’t work.
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Removed a glitch from ‘Alien Spaceship Mac.fxp’
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The browser of the Mac 64 bit version sometimes did display the stars of the first patch incorrectly
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Clicking below Vocoder in the wavetable editor did open an abandoned menu
Download link PC:
https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_
Download link Mac:
https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_
Tutorial Videos:
https://www.tone2.com/html/
Video, which explasins, how the new modulation works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
