Coming soon: Icarus 1.2

[Markus Krause]

Coming soon: Icarus 1.2

The update will be free and 100% downward compatible. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound quality.

We plan to add those features:

- More FM synthesis possibilities
- More synthesis modes
- Several new effects
- Easy sample import and playback
- Tooltips
- Enhanced sound
- 3 additonal arpeggiators for every single OSC
- Minor enhancements to the drag&drop support
- lots of other stuff

When will it be released?
Autumn/Winter 2017

[Nudgeo]

awesome

[Deepbass]

I´m really looking forward to the new features, sounds great!

[satYatunes]

Looking forward to new features.

[Soarer]

Sounds so gooooood!

"- 3 additonal arpeggiators for every single OSC"   
Never heard of that in a synth before and being an arpeggiator freak myself this sounds just incredible!
(I guess you do mean three additional arpeggiators - one for every oscillator right?)

Also I'm really glad to see improved sound since the sound is already great

Much to look forward to in the autumn then!

[TB4C]

This is fantastic news!  Looking forward to this!!

Regards! !

[Markus Krause]

Just for your info:
I am currently working on this update which will be larger than originally planed. It will be HUGE. I will post more details soon.

If you still got feature requests for v1.2, you should post them NOW!
http://www.tone2.org/forum/index.php?topic=2387.0

I always go through all your requests and try to reenact your demands

[Soarer]

You're the man Marcus! Sounds incredible!
I posted a few more in the suggestions thread.

Best

[Markus Krause]

The current status of the developement. There will be even more.

New features:

- The engine is now able to do FM synthesis (PM) between oscillators. Select 'FM<-Osc1' as morph mode to modulate Osc2 with Osc1
- The synth does now offer classic sample playback. Select The OSC morph mode 'Sample'. The usual wavetable controls do have no effect in this mode.
- Classic samples can now also easily be imported with RESYNTHESIS->'Load a wav sample...'. The sample is automatically tuned on import.
- The engine is now able to do amplitude modulation between oscillators. Select 'AM<-Osc1' as morph mode to modulate Osc2 with Osc1
- New effect: 'Delay Wide' is a broad sounding delay with Hi Damp and Low Damp filters
- New effect: 'Stereo Width' allows to spread the panorama from mono to surround
- New exclusive effect: 'Laser Punch' adds additional punch. Use it with a sawtooth to gereate a zzapping 'Rubber Bass' sound
- Tooltips with info are shown when the mouse is hovered over a button or control
- Additional buttons: Previous and next Lfo waveform
- Pitchwheel and Modwheel in the patchbrowser is now animated
- Wavetable position in the wavetable editor is animated if you click on th left keyboard
- The patch browser list shows a checkmark for the currently loaded patch
- In the waveform display the mousewheel can be used to pick a wave
- Mousewheel support for the osc's wavetable selector list
- Mousewheel support for the filter frequency display
- Mousewheel support for the patch selector
- A double click to a knob resets it to the default value


Enhancements:

- Enhanced sound of Reverb Medium, Reverb Big, Reverb Plate, Reverb Glass, Reverb Infinite, Reverb Trance: Less detuned sound, smoother tail and more punchy early reflections


Fixes:

- The 32bit Mac version did not show a line when drag & drop modulation was used
- Fixed a possible crash, when the down arrow is pressed within the patch browser
- The text label for 'HP Analog 12/24 dB' was swapped
- Fixed a crash that could happen if the synth was flooded with midi program change messages


Changes:

- Category is now placed above patch selector
- More aggressive focus for the mousewheel
- 'One Shot' has been renamed to 'One Shot Wave'

[Soarer]

Sounds beautiful Marcus! Thanks so much for listening.

What does "- More aggressive focus for the mousewheel" mean?
Enhanced precision? Mouse wheel is really far too sensitive (on Mac). Both my mouse and trackpad are set to a very comfortable sensitivity (not fast at all) for overall use and both are much too sensitive to be of real use in Icarus.

It would be great if the stereo width effect can also go from stereo width to mono so that we can lessen the extreme width of most unison modes.

Looking immensely forward to this update!

[Felix]

super excited about the samples and lazer punch! Keep up the great work and thanks for keeping us updated on it.

[exmatproton]

FM and AM between osc's! Stoked!!!

Double click to reset a parameter! Stoked x2!!!

[Soarer]

FM and AM between osc's! Stoked!!!

Double click to reset a parameter! Stoked x2!!!

Yeah totally!

[Markus Krause]

What does "- More aggressive focus for the mousewheel" mean?
Enhanced precision? Mouse wheel is really far too sensitive (on Mac). Both my mouse and trackpad are set to a very comfortable sensitivity (not fast at all) for overall use and both are much too sensitive to be of real use in Icarus.

It will be a change in the Windows version. It does not affect Mac. Focus does mean that the window gets active when you click on it.

It would be great if the stereo width effect can also go from stereo width to mono so that we can lessen the extreme width of most unison modes.

It will be able to do this

[Soarer]

Thanks but no change to the extreme mouse wheel/trackpad sensitivity on Mac? And as I mentioned the direction needs to be reversed on Mac since it works upside down ATM.