BiFilter 2.5 - available now!

[Markus Krause]

BiFilter 2.5 - now freeware!

"After nearly 20 years BiFilter has become vintage and even though it's no longer profitable to remain a commercial product, we feel that more people should deserve an opportunity to enjoy this useful tool. That's why we decided to release one last update and turn it into freeware. BiFilter is now available for free and you are allowed to share it with your friends. We want to say a big THANK YOU to all customers who support the development of our products, by purchasing our software! Enjoy!"

Download link:
https://www.tone2.com/bifilter2.html



What is BiFilter?

BiFilter is a stereo multi-mode filter with a selection of 47 different sounding filter types. These filters are known from our famous Gladiator synthesizer. You can combine all filters with 8 additional distortion types, FM, AM, wave-shaping and lo-fi effects to create new sounds. A high precision display shows the frequency response of the filter in real-time. Since you can always see and hear what's happening, BiFilter is very user-friendly.

Features:

- 47 unique filter types
- 8 distortion types
- FM, AM, wave-shaping, bit-crushing, re-sampling, comb-filtering, vocal-filtering, equalizing, reverbaration
- All filters can be combined with different effects to create new sounds
- High precision frequency-response-display in real-time
- Parameter smoothing and click-free knob movements
- High-end quality filter algorithms, anti-aliasing, oversampling
- True stereo architecture, works with all known sampling rates
- Easy to use interface
- 100 presets
- Midi and automation support
- Very low CPU


Distortion types:

- Volume ? Drive controls the volume of the signal
- Tube Amp ? A soft-knee distortion
- Transistor ? An asymmetric distortion
- Presence ? A saturated distortion with falloff at higher levels
- Hard Clip ? A hard-knee  distortion
- Bitcrush ? Reduces the bit rate of the audio to ?lo-fi?
- Waveshape ? This distortion type adds additional harmonics
-  Pow2 ? Adds harmonics. It is similar to exciters

System requirements:

PC: Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11
Plugin format: 64-bit VST
It's not possible to port BiFilter to Mac (Intel 64bit / M1) or VST3 with reasonable effort. So please don't us ask for it. ;-)

[Markus Krause]

What's new in BiFilter 2.5?

Enhancements:

- Setup detects the correct VST plugin directory automatically.
- Linear instead of circular knob movement.
- Faster loading.
- Frequency resonse display is also animated when plugin does not process audio.
- canParameterBeAutomated is supported now.
- BiFilter2.dat is not longer placed to the plugins directory.
- Several minor fixes and enhancements.

Changes:

- It is not longer necessary to enter a serial number.
- The Icarus 3 demo can optionally be installed with the setup. We hope that more people give it a try!

Fixes:

- A warning message does not longer show on installing to an existing Vstplugin directory.
- Fixed a possible crash (audioMasterBeginEdit).