Tone2 support forum
General Category => Icarus => Topic started by: Markus Krause on November 13, 2017, 12:32:10 PM
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This huge update includes a better user interface, many new synthesis modes, enhanced sound and a large number of new features. The update is free and 100% downward compatible with all previous versions.
New features:
- The engine is now able to do FM synthesis (PM) between oscillators. Select 'FM<-Osc1' as synthesis/morph mode to modulate Osc2 with Osc1
- The synth does now offer classic sample playback. Set the OSC synthesis/morph mode to 'Sample' or 'Sample Loop'. The usual wavetable controls do have no effect in this mode.
- Classic samples can now also easily be imported with IMPORT SAMPLE->'Load a wav sample...'. The sample can be 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
- The engine is now able to do Waveshaping between oscillators. Select 'Shape<-Osc1' as synthesis/morph mode to shape Osc1 with the wavform of Osc2
- 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
- Icarus_wavetables now contains subdirectories for categories which contain the wavetables
- Submenus provide a more logic structure and better overview
- 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 the 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 filter frequency display
- Mousewheel support for the patch selector
- A double click to a knob or slider resets it to the default value
- Added an undo button which restores the recent parameter changes
- 43 additional wavetables with over 1000 new waveforms
- 'Natural scrolling' support for mousewheel on 64 bit Mac
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
- Enhanced GUI skin
- Larger text for the menus on PC
- FILE->'Create random patch' gives better results
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
- Fixed a possible crash on opening the GUI
- Knobs did jump if cirular mode was forced by the host
- Fixed a crash that happened if 'Create random wavtetable/patch' was pressed when no wavetables were installed
- Fixed a crash of the beta where pressing the arrow keys could crash the plugin
- If OSC volume was set to 0 there was still a very low volume sound emitted
Changes:
- Category is now placed above patch selector
- More aggressive focus for the mousewheel
- 'One Shot' has been renamed to 'One Shot Wave'
- Initializing a new patch sets the LFOs to 'classic trigger mode'
- Reso knob is grey, lfo shape knob is blue
- Resynthesis menu is now called 'import sample'
Download link:
https://www.tone2.com/download.html
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Thanks Markus. Off to check now.
No Crashes with the arrows on mac, and it changes patches like it use to.
Thanks!!!!!
rsp
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This is a nice update. I tried it yesterday and didn't notice any new problems (although I am still losing mousewheel focus periodically.)
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You can force a more aggressive mousewheel focus by placing a file called IcarusMouse.cfg to the same directory as Icarus.dll / IcarusX64.dll .
Please note that this can cause incompatibilities with certain versions of Ableton and midi controllers.
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i saw that 1.5 has been released. Any changelog between 1.5 beta2 and the released version?
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i don't remember important changes. if you already installed v1.5 beta 2 you can skip it.
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I downloaded and reinstalled.
Figured it can't hurt :-)
rsp