Tone2 Audio Icarus 3.2 adds filters and effects

A massive filter and effects overhaul just landed for Tone2's flagship synth workstation, and it costs existing users absolutely nothing.

Icarus 3.2 filter additions

• Tone2 Icarus scored 14 fresh filter types.
• Ladder variants cover lowpass, bandpass, and highpass.
• Four phaser options span positive and negative feedback.
• Formant filters ship with one-to-four-peak configs.

Fresh frequency-shifting effects

• Ring Modulation dropped with a warmth-dampening control.
• Amplitude Modulation hits harder for percussive material.
• Weaver Shifter rounds out the trio nicely.

Disharmonic additive-synthesis modes

• Six mono and stereo oscillator banks arrived.
• Configs run at 4, 8, or 16 oscillators.
• Spread knobs handle detuning type and intensity.

Waveform XY-pad control

• Icarus 3.2 baked an XY-pad into waveform displays.
• Wavetable mode maps morph and position simultaneously.
• Granular mode ties axes to start and grain size.
• Context-sensitive tooltips pop up on hover.

Audio-quality bump at 44/88 kHz

• Aliasing got crushed by up to 40 dB.
• Wavetable crossfades picked up extra crispness.
• Harmonic Shift became the new default mode.
• Six reverb algorithms got smoother rolloff tweaks.

GUI and workflow polish

• XY crosshairs appear inside EQ and filter displays.
• Filter cutoff and resonance record via the XY-pad.
• A fresh Metal Opaque skin joined the lineup.
• Several existing metal skins got visual reworks.