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and tweaks like making envelope stages linear or exponential
to give different types of time evolution.
The only extra screen in Go2 is the Patch Manager, where
you can sort patches by category, search, and tag Favorites.
With over 1100 Patches to choose from, just spinning through
the possibilities will inspire you!
Simplicity can be fun, and if you're looking for rich evolving
timbres that are intuitive to play with and sound great right out
of the gate, then this powerful little softsynth is going to quickly
become your Go2. (Come on, you know I had to say it.)
Price: $49
More from: Rob Papen, robpapen.com

FXpansion Cypher2
Longtime readers will remember our 2010 review of DCAM:
Synth Squad, an ambitious bundle of three different modeling
synthesizers with unique and engaging sounds. Since then,
two of the three have been released as standalone products:
the analog-modeling Strobe2, and the more (shall we say) farreaching Cypher2. In my original review, I talked about Strobe
as being a good starter virtual analog synth, and Strobe2 has
come a long way from that... but even nine years ago, Cypher
was at the outer edges of sound design, and the new version
has added even more craziness.
Cypher2 bases a lot of its sonic movement and complexity
around the process of frequency modulation (FM), where one
oscillator controls another and both are running fast enough
to be audible tones, rather than the slower vibrato of an LFO.
When we think of FM synthesis, we're inclined to think of the
Yamaha DX synthesizers
and their many children
and imitators, but FM has
been around since the
very earliest analog days,
and Cypher2 leverages
this relatively approachable type of FM very effectively.
Cypher2 has three Oscillators that can frequencymodulate one another,
allowing for all sorts of
complex waveforms to
be created, even though
the Oscillators themselves
have comparatively simple waveshapes on their
own. Each Oscillator can
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be continuously changed from triangle (or sine if you wish)
through sawtooth to pulse.
Because the precise relationships of these waves has a huge
impact on the resulting waveform, there's fine control of tuning,
relative phase, sync, and keytracking, as well as the ability to
tie ratios of frequencies not just to equal temperament but to
harmonics or just intonation. Each oscillator can be blended with
white or pink noise, or with an audio-rate sample/hold signal, or
ring modulated for more clangorous inharmonic tones.
The mixed Oscillators then enter two multimode Shaper/
Filter chains with a wide choice of waveshaper/wavefolder
functions for distortion or harmonic enhancement, and many
types of filtering with overdrive control. Each Shaper can come
before or after its Filter, and the two can run in parallel or
series before being mixed to the output. Even the output mix is
unusual: it's a "quad-stereo" mix of signals taken from before
and after each Filter.
From there, the signal runs through two FX chains of
three blocks each, with 29 different effects algorithms from
conventional modulation and delay to the glorious Formants
and Chorus from Amber, the third DCAM: Synth Squad
instrument. Amber was a fully polyphonic divide-down string
synthesizer model, and while there's no sign of an Amber2
coming, it's great to have these fabulous effects, which evoke
classic synths like the Polymoog.
All this power has an equally powerful set of modulation
tools. Not only can nearly every parameter be mapped to MIDI
and scaled to taste, but there's a 24-slot modulation matrix
called TransMod that allows for all kinds of complex interactions between elements of the synthesizer and modulators like
two dual LFOs, dual Ramp generators, three Envelopes, and
much more. There's even a set of four Sequencers on their own


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Fade In
Fast Forward
Focal Trio11 Be
Eric Loomis—From live sound to Ivy Hall
Test Tones & Metering
Handy Hardware
Cool Controllers
Stellar Soundware
First Look: KRK Systems ROKIT 5 G4
Vance Powell on mixing The Raconteurs' Help Us Stranger
Steinberg Cubase 10
Plug-In Outlet: Puremagnetik Plug-ins
Lynx Studio Technology Aurora(n)
Studio 101. Part 17: Studio controllers
Readers’ Tracks
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