Tone2, a professional audio software company renowned for creating award-winning plugins for music production, will be releasing Icarus3, a virtual synthesizer-workstation that you can use in your favorite professional digital audio workstation, such as Pro Tools, PreSonus Studio One, FL Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro, etc.
Key features
Below are some of the interesting key features of the upcoming Icarus3 sound design software:- Sound engine with true stereo architecture, stereo oscillators, and filters.
- 3D-wavetable-synthesis: Waves can be morphed in 3 dimensions.
- Multicore-processor support.
- MSEGs with BPM sync (multistage envelope generators).
- Very flexible mod-matrix with precise modulation up to the audio range.
- Efficient patch-browser.
- One of the most powerful wavetable editors available on the market.
- Spectrum editor for editing single harmonics.
- The re-synthesis allows you to rebuild any sound with a mouse click.
- A random button allows you to create new sounds with a mouse click.
- Sample import and automatic tuning.
- 54 different synthesis modes that can be combined.
- Dual multi-mode filters with 2 x 62 filter types.
- 2 x 15 distortion types.
- 3 x 57 effects, vocoder, trancegate.
- 10x Hypersaw, 12x Megasaw, 14x Supersaw, unison, stacks.
- Polyphonic, monophonic, legato.
- Up to 256 waveforms per wavetable.
- An unlimited number of wavetables and waveforms.
- Random generator for wavetables.
- Midi-learn.
- MPE-support (Midi polyphonic expression).
- Context-sensitive help.
- Drag & drop modulation.
- Punchy envelopes and very fast LFOs.
- Expandability.
- Customizable user interface.
- Can import and export samples, waveforms, or wavetables in WAV format.
- Standalone version for PC.
- Flexible preset-management.
- Microtuning for enhanced chords.
- Equalizer with dynamic bass boost and psychoacoustic processing.
- Free support and updates.
Filter types (they can also be combined):
- Low-pass: Digital 12dB, Digital 24dB, Butter 24dB, Curtis 12dB, Curtis Analog, Tone2 24dB, Tone2 Analog, Tone2 Scream, 303 18dB, 303 Analog, Chain 6-48dB, Elliptic, Octave, Shaped, AM, HighQ, Ladder 24dB, MS20 12dB.
- High-pass: Digital 12dB, Analog 12dB, Analog 24dB, Chain 6-48dB.
- Band-pass: Digital 12dB, Digital 24dB, Analog 12dB, Analog 24dB, Boobs.
- Equalizer: Notch, Peak Tight, Peak Medium, Peak Wide, Shelf Tight, Shelf Wide, Bandlimit.
- Vocalic: A, U, I, IEA, AOU, IYU, IEAOU.
- Comb-filters: Phaser 2x, Phaser 2x FB, Phaser 3x, Phaser 3x FB, Comb+, Comb-.
- Fractal filters: LP 1, LP 2, LP 3, LP 4, FO 1, FO 2.
- Ring-modulation: Ringmod, LP, LP2, FM Lowpass, AM.
- Physical-modeling resonators: Guitar, Flute, Odd, Even.
- LoFi: Resampling, Sample & Hold.
Effect types (they can be combined to create new effects):
- Reverb Medium, Reverb Big, Reverb Plate, Reverb Glass, Reverb Dark, Reverb Infinite, Reverb Feedback, Reverb Spring, Reverb Trance, Reverb Cheap, Reflections.
- Delay, Pingpong, Multitap, Delay Fat, Delay Dual, Delay Diffuse, Delay Band, Tape Delay, Echo.
- Chorus, White Chorus, Unison, Ensemble.
- Phaser, Phaser Stereo, Krautrock Phaser, Krautrock Stereo.
- Flanger, Flanger Stereo.
- Vibrato, Vibrato stereo.
- Autopan, Surround Pan, Rotary, Tremolo.
- EQ High Cut, EQ Low Cut, EQ Param.
- Saturate, Soft Clip, Hard Clip, Rectify, Bitcrush, Warp, Waveshape, Amp Sim, Multiband Distortion, Degrader, Multiband Degrader, Noise, Digital XOR, Digital AND, Digital OR.
- Compressor, Limiter.
- Surround Encode, Haas Effect.
- Trancegate.
- Glitch-sequencer with Repeat, Gate, Pan, Tremolo, Lowpass, Highpass, Bitcrush, Degrade, Detune, Pitchslide.
- Feedback.
- Microtuning.
- Psychoacoustic processing.
- Bass-boost, Transient shaper.
Sound synthesis methods for sound design or synth programming (they can be combined):
- 3D wavetables/classic wavetables.
- Hypersaw/stereo Hypersaw/Supersaw/stereo Supersaw/Megasaw/stereo Megasaw/unison.
- Additive synthesis.
- Subtractive/analog.
- FM with up to 6 operators.
- Granular synthesis.
- Speech-synthesis.
- Formant-synthesis.
- Resynthesis of samples.
- Vocoder.
- Wave-shaping.
- PWM.
- Sync.
- Ringmod, AM.
- Noise.
- Physical-modeling.
- Phase-distortion.
- Time-stretching.
- Pitch-shifting.
- Samples.
- Harmonic-morphing.
- FFT-filtering.
- Lofi.
- Import of waveforms and wavetables.
- Stacks/chords/autochord.
- Many other innovative modes are exclusive to Icarus.
System requirements
Of course, you may be wondering about system requirements regarding this audio software plugin and here they are:- PC: Windows 11/Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/Linux with WINE (supported PC plugin formats: 64-bit VSTi, VST3, Standalone).
- Apple Mac: macOS 10.12 and later including macOS Sonoma. Intel CPU or M2 or M1 (native support for enhanced performance); (supported Apple Mac plugin formats: VSTi, Audio Unit, VST3, Standalone, Universal Binary).
- User-friendly copy-protection: No dongle, no cloud, no data-collection, no need to be online, does not install an additional 'license manager' or driver.
