Most synths fake their resonance with reverb slapped on the end, but Quantastical Sound went the other way with STRÄNG 2.3 and stuffed convolution inside the voice.
Underneath sits familiar subtractive gear, a single core oscillator with its helpers alongside filters that bite. Each note then rings out through a short tonal body, kind of like a tone traveling through actual material, and that resonance shifts from note to note. Repeats never land identically. Corridor handles the room surrounding everything.
Headlining this update is STRING, a physically modelled exciter firing either a Karplus-Strong string or a modal ping directly into the body. Dial it back for extra bite on pads. Push it hard, and the whole thing morphs into a plucked instrument.
Rounding out the list, MPE arrived with per-note pressure heading toward volume or the modulation matrix, along with preset packs supporting import, export, and a .strangpack format. Bipolar modulation depths reach FM and both LFOs, while a pitch envelope, compressor attack and release knobs, and a hefty Windows GUI performance fix join in.
Mac covers AU, VST3, AAX, and Standalone, with VST3 on Windows. Sixty bucks minus a dollar, and a 14-day trial costs nothing.
Underneath sits familiar subtractive gear, a single core oscillator with its helpers alongside filters that bite. Each note then rings out through a short tonal body, kind of like a tone traveling through actual material, and that resonance shifts from note to note. Repeats never land identically. Corridor handles the room surrounding everything.
Headlining this update is STRING, a physically modelled exciter firing either a Karplus-Strong string or a modal ping directly into the body. Dial it back for extra bite on pads. Push it hard, and the whole thing morphs into a plucked instrument.
Rounding out the list, MPE arrived with per-note pressure heading toward volume or the modulation matrix, along with preset packs supporting import, export, and a .strangpack format. Bipolar modulation depths reach FM and both LFOs, while a pitch envelope, compressor attack and release knobs, and a hefty Windows GUI performance fix join in.
Mac covers AU, VST3, AAX, and Standalone, with VST3 on Windows. Sixty bucks minus a dollar, and a 14-day trial costs nothing.
