What is Icarus?Icarus is one of the most powerful synthesizers available on the market. The award-winning audio-engine provides a gigantic sonic range, offers true high-end sound quality and creates sounds impossible with other synths. Icarus ships with over 2000 hand-picked patches from professional designers.
Product page:https://www.tone2.com/icarus.html
Upgrade:https://www.tone2.com/icarus-update.html
Free demo download:https://www.tone2.com/download.html
Overview video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0TITwsWXU
Icarus3 synthesis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nts-_qYJlio
Icarus3 filters:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqyXpEBdGe8
Factory sounds:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrpOEpOpfSE
What's new in v3.2?New filters:- LP Ladder 6dB: This is a 6dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- LP Ladder 12dB: This is a 12 dB lowpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- BP Ladder: This is a bandpass Ladder filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- BP MS-20 12dB: A bandpas filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- HP Digital 24dB: This is very a precise digital highpass filter.
- HP MS-20 12dB: A highphass filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- Phaser 3x +: Analog 6-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 5x +: Analog 10-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 2x -: Analog 4-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Phaser 4x -: Analog 8-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Formant 1x: Analog formant filter with soft saturation.
- Formant 2x: Analog formant filter with two peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 3x: Analog formant filter with three peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 4x: Analog formant filter with four peaks and soft saturation.
New effects:- Ring Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It comes with a Damp control for a warmer sound.
- Amplitude Modulation: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It has a more extreme sound than Ring Modulation. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
- Weaver Shifter: You can find this new effect under the 'Frequency shifting' menu. It works best for effects, percussive sounds and drums.
New additive synthesis modes:- Add Disharm 4: Plays 4 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
- Add Disharm 8: Plays 8 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
- Add Disharm 16: Plays 16 oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
- Add St Dish 4: Plays 4 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
- Add St Dish 8: Plays 8 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
- Add St Dish 16: Plays 16 stereo oscillators with a disharmonic relationship. You can use the 'spread' knob to control the type and level of detuning.
New features - GUI:- An XY crosshair is shown when you click with your mouse inside the EQ display.
- An XY crosshair is shown when you click with your mouse inside the filter display.
- New "Metal opaque" skin for the user interface.
- It is now possible to record filter cutoff and resonace with the filter XY-pad.
New feature - XY-pad for the waveform display:- The XY-pad controls are available when you click and move your mouse within the wavefrom display. They add a new dimention of dynamic expression as you can now manipulate 2 parameters at the same time.
- Context-sensitive help appears as soon as you move your mouse.
- In wavetable mode the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter. The Y-axis is assigned to the wavetable position.
- In granular mode the X-axis is assigned to start position. The Y-axis is assigned to the grain size.
- In sample mode the X-axis is assigned to start position.
- If you play back a single waveform the X-axis is assigned to the to the morph parameter.
Enhanced sound quality:- Significantly enhanced sound quality in 44 kHz. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 24 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality in 88 kHz samplerate. Reduced aliasing in resampling up to 40 dB.
- Crossfades in the wavetable engine have more clarity and crispiness.
- Significantly enhanced sound quality of the synthesis mode 'Harmonic Shift'. It is the new default mode for new patches.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Medium. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Swirl. It has better default parameters, a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Infinite. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Plate. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Big. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverb Glass. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Major chords soun better with the microtuning mode 'dynamic silky'.
- Slightly enhanced sound quality of the equalizer.
- More linear freuency response for filter 'LP MS-20 12dB' with high cutoffs.
- Slightly enhanced sound quality and stabiliy of the filters 'LP Digital 24dB', 'LP Digital 12dB', 'LP Elliptic', 'LP Octave', 'HP Digital 12dB', 'BP Digital 24dB', 'BP Digital 12dB', 'EQ Notch', 'EQ Peak Tight', 'EQ Peak Medium', 'EQ Peak Wide', 'EQ Shelf Tight', 'EQ Shelf Wide' and 'EQ Bandlimit'.
Further enhancements:- Reworked the default skin.
- Reworked the skins "Metal Fire", "Metal Aqua", "Metal Monochorome", "Metal Pink", "Metal Yellow", "Metal Red".
- Better default parameters for the delay effects.
- More contrast for the tap selector buttons.
- Reworked EQ settigs and parameters of the init-patch. It sits better in the mix and has longer release times.
- Setup always selects full installation as a default.
- Updated the texts of some dialog boxes with warnings.
- Slightly enhanced colors and transparency values for the patch browser.
- The filters are switched to ON automatically if the 'filt env' or 'lfo3' knob is tweaked.
- Many further small enhancements.
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