Tone2 Audio Icarus 3D Wavetable Synthesizer Update 1.1

The wonderful Icarus 3D Wavetable Synthesizer got today a great update with some very interesting feature like Drag&Drop support. I produced during the beta a demonstration of the included vocoder.

Available here: Icarus 1.1

Icarus is a powerful, new synthesizer with ‘3D wavetable synthesis’. It offers a fresh sound, which quickly catches the audiences’ attention. The innovative resynthesis can rebuild nearly any sound with a mouse-click. The easy to use interface and a massive amount of inspiring factory sounds allow a rapid creation of professional tracks.

New features in Icarus 1.1

Drag&Drop support: Drag LFO/ENV and drop it to a knob to create a matrix entry for modulation.
Right-click on a knob opens a menu where you can assign modulation sources.
Modulation depth control on top left of a knob if a source is assigned.
Sectors on knobs show the modulation amount. Clipping is shown in red.
Hovering the mouse over a knob shows the current parameter value and modulation source.
The buttons of OSCs, Filters, LFOs, ENVs, which are inactive are grayed out.
Responsive GUI with tooltips.
New waveform display mode ‘Hypersaw’, which shows the detuning of the oscillators.
Help->Show version info.
Mouse cursor changes on editing halftones in arp.
Right click on a knob->reset initializes to the default value.
Visual feedback if a button in the wavetable editor is pressed.
TRIG button for the LFO section.
New sync mode for LFOs ‘Arp/LFO soft trig’ which retriggers monophonic LFOs after 1 second of silence.
New sync mode for LFOs ‘Arp/LFO classic trig’, which allows to set free mode for every LFO individually.
SEMI knob for the OSC section.
New matrix target ‘Filter Balance’. It’s useful to control the relationship of the filter volumes when two filters are routed in parallel.

Enhancements:

Drawing custom shapes with the STEP LFO is more comfortable.
Better work-flow.
Enhanced performance of the knobs.
Parameters are more easy to adjust.
Patch rankings are only stored when the user clicks on the stars.
Display mode is now ‘smart’ and tries to auto-detect the right one.
Polished some graphics.
Reduced RAM requirement. More instances can be loaded in 32-bit.
Many other small enhancements for the user interface.
Quick save is more smart.
Category is rotating for a more comfortable patch browsing.
Workaround for buggy hosts which submit duplicate noteOn commands. The Arp does not longer produce hanging note.
Legato is more easy to setup.
Drag&Drop of a wav sample to the OSC display can now create a new resynthesized patch.
LFOs are more smart.
Mousewheel on Arp notes now selects octaves.

Changes:

MONO in the LFO section has been replaced with TRIG.
Enhanced automation parameter naming
On initializing a new patch the default mode is set to ‘Arp/LFO soft trig’.
OSC Punch and OSC Keyfollow button have been moved to SETUP.

Fixes:

Matrix source ‘Filter Env’ sometimes didn’t work.
Removed a glitch from ‘Alien Spaceship Mac.fxp’
The browser of the Mac 64 bit version sometimes did display the stars of the first patch incorrectly
Clicking below Vocoder in the wavetable editor did open an abandoned menu.