Tone2 just announced the release of the RayBlaster 2 Synthesizer Public Beta. The german company is best know for their high-quality and Synthesizer based on advanced new synthesis methods. What is RayBlaster? It unveils a completely new & unique dimension of sounds, exclusive to Rayblaster and not possible with other synthesizers. The revolutionary Impulse Modeling Synthesis is not just a marketing buzzword – but a radically new and different approach to synthetic sound generation. Check out the new features and improvements coming to RayBlaster 2. Attention, the list is very big.
New features:
- Over 500 new patches, the total number of patches has increased to 1076
- Added a comfortable patch browser
- Drag&Drop support: Drag an Envelope or LFO 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 a massive amount of 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 the modulation source
- Added “Psychoacoustic+”, a new psychoacoustic mode with enhanced presence
- The patches can be ranked by clicking on the stars in the patch browser. The rankins are stored as .rnk files within RayBaster_sounds
- Information tags (like legato, unison, etc) for every patch are shown in ‘info’ tab of the patch browser
- File->’Quick save patch’ overwrites a patch with the new settings
- Additonal osc window functions ‘Triangle’,’Hard square’,’Harder square’, ‘Taper’, ‘Sine’, ‘Fish’, ‘Add square’, ‘Lips’
- Responsive and smart GUI with tooltips
- Parameters can be reset to the default value with right-click->reset
- Switching the effect type now selects good default paramter values
- Edit->’Clean matrix’ cleans up the mod matrix and resets unused slots
- Edit->’Reset midi learn’ removes all midi CC assignments
- Midi learn support: Right-click on a knob to assign a CC
- New effect ‘Reverb Ultra’. It uses the Tone2 UltraSpace algorithm. It is inspired by the Lexicon units
- New effect ‘Reverb Big’ which has a huge diffuse ambience
- New effect ‘Reverb Infinite’ which simulates an infinite large room. It is useful for ambient music
- New effect ‘Reverb Trance’ which has an detuned sound. It is useful for electronic music
- New effect ‘Reverb Band’ which has an bandlimited reverb tail. It gives a cleaner mix
- New effect ‘Reverb Glass’. It damps low frequencies and has a very bright sound
- New effect ‘Reverb Spring’ which sounds like a vintage reverb
- New effect ‘Reverb Feedb’ which has a ringing sound
- New effect ‘Delay Fat’ is a fat sounding delay
- New effect ‘Delay Diffuse’ is a delay with a silky and diffuse sound
- New effect ‘Delay Dual’ is a double delay with independend times for left and right
- New effect ‘Tape Delay’ whith the sound of an analog tape with detuned Wow
- New effect ‘Echo’ with fixed delay times in ms
- New effect ‘Resonator’ with a ringing, oil-tank like sound
- New effect ‘Reflections’ which results in many chaotic echoes
- New effect ‘Chorus 2’ is an industry standard chorus
- New effect ‘Hypersaw’ which sounds like many detuned oscillators
- New effect ‘Phaser Feedb’ is a phaser with feedback
- New effect ‘Phaser Stereo’ is a stereo phaser with feedback
- New effect ‘Flanger Feedb’ is a flanger with feedback
- New effect ‘Flanger Stereo’ is a stereo phaser with feedback
- New effect ‘Vibrato’
- New effect ‘Stereo vibrato’
- New effect ‘Tremolo’
- New effect ‘Autopan’ which pans the sound left and right
- 134 new impulse responses in wav format
- 32 bit wav file format support
- Support for exotic wav file headers (Logic X)
- Edit->’Init gate: Ramp up / down / up & down / down & up / random’ initializes varius shapes for the step sequencer
- Edit->’Create random patch’
- Help->’Show version info’
- Help->’Download updates’
- Additional sound categories ‘Wobble’, ‘Pluck’, ‘Pad 2’ and ‘Sequence’
Enhancements:
- Better sound quality by adding a high-end resampling algorithm
- Extended sonic range with more ‘low-end’
- Completely reworked user interface
- More linear frequency response, especially for high frequencies
- Enhanced sound of the effects by adding oversampling
- Enhanced Init patch settings
- It’s much more easy to get good results when building own sounds
- File, Edit & Help menus now pop up from beneath
- Better compatibility with older hosts
- Support for exotic mouse drivers
- More soft parameter smoothing
- Better workflow
- Higher quality waveform playback
- New knobs with enhanced performance
- Parameters are more easy to adjust
- Slighly enhanced gui skin and colors
- Legato is more easy to setup
- Many other small enhancements for the user interface
- 2x and 4x stereo unison is more easy to setup
- Category is rotating for a more comfortable patch browsing
- More precise coordinates for the layout
- Enhanced sound of ‘Delay’ effect by adding spline interpolation
- Enhanced sound of ‘PingPong’ effect by adding spline interpolation
- Enhanced sound of ‘Multitap’ effect by adding a lowcut filter
- More smart mousewheel support
- More chaotic behavour of the random lfo types in free mode
- Enhanced performance
- Higher quality waveform resampling
- Extended range of synced LFO phase
- Enhanced sound of unison
- Clicking on ‘Next Bank’ now rotates to the first entry if the last one has been reached
- Updated and extended demo version
- Reworked many existing factory sounds
- Lower CPU on Mac
- More robustness and stability
Changes:
- Matrix source ‘Env1’ has been renamed to ‘Aux Env1’
- Gate’ has been renamed to ‘Step’
- Moved some sounds to a different category
- Off’ window function has been renamed to ‘Off/Square’
Fixes:
- Workaround for buggy hosts, which forget noteOff commands. The Arp does not longer produce a hanging note
The Public Beta is available here: Tone2 RayBlaster 2
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