User Interface

  • Waveform and spectral visualization of output sound, updated in realtime as you edit
  • Most workflow concentrated on single page
  • Immediate preview of menu content (meshes, shapes, envelopes) on hover
  • Resizing of entire UI as well as of internal panels
  • 'Player' UI mode for quick loading and minimal memory usage
  • Helpful mouseover messages and usage hints in console
  • OpenGL acceleration for high graphic performance
  • Standalone application provided in addition to plugin, for easier content creation
  • Knobs and sliders tuned for greatest sensitivity in the most useful ranges
  • Immediately hear results of editing (to waveshapes, spectrum, impulses, etc) on playing notes

Sound Generation

  • Waveform, magnitude, and phase surfaces
  • Unlimited mesh layers per surface
  • Per-layer panning
  • Either additive or multiplicative nature (for magnitude layers)
  • Dynamic range adjustment (for magnitude and phase layers)
  • Easy formant filtering
  • Up to 16x oversampling for waveform-layers
  • Up to 2048 harmonics processed per cycle, covering completely the audible range

Editing Workflow

  • Intelligent vertex selection / deselection
  • Smart line creation logic helps minimize work
  • Collision detection for lines to prevent unwanted overlapping
  • Line path deforming for irregular paths, for any of the following parameters: time, phase, amplitude, and curve sharpness
  • Destructive editing operations: slice, connect, merge, extrude, delete
  • Undo history for all destructive edits
  • Non-destructive tools: group select, move, vertical & horizontal stretch
  • Simply drag on curve to adjust sharpness
  • Free-form drawing tool for creating new paths or for snap existing vertices to
  • Wave-file loading, pitch tracking, and rendering for easy modelling reference

Waveshape Curve Design

  • Meticulously crafted for audio purpose
  • For waveshapes, curve has cyclical symmetry to prevent discontinuities
  • All standard waveshapes are easy to create with few points
  • Sharpness of curve is adjustable at any vertex
  • Very smooth―in technical terms, the curve has a minimum of C^3 continuity
  • High locality―curve is affected only by closest 2 vertices, so is intuitive to work with

Effects

  • Programmable waveshaper with up to 8x oversampling
  • Impulse response designer can create impulses of up to 16384 samples in length
  • Automatic vectorization of impulse wave samples
  • Delay with revolving pan
  • 10-voice unison with phase and detune jitter
  • Reverb
  • Basic EQ

Presets & Browser

  • Over 160 high quality factory presets
  • Preset rating, tagging, sorting, revision counting
  • Integrated preset sharing / downloading from central server
  • Multi-keyword search looks through all text fields to narrow down list to specific author, tag, or keyword