Following the huge success of Albino, Rob Papen has teamed up with music
software developer Jon Ayres to bring you his latest cross-fusion virtual
synthesizer BLUE.
This fresh new synth delivers FM Synthesis, Phase Distortion Synthesis, Wave
Shaping Synthesis and Subtractive Synthesis is one creative combination!
BLUE has six oscillators which can be connected in various ways, two
analogue style modelled stereo filters, an enormous range of processing and
modulation options, sequencer and an incredibly powerful arpeggiator, all brought
together with the inspirational Rob Papen presets covering a wide range of
musical styles.
Despite these heavy features, BLUE is so easy-to-use thanks to its user
interface and the innovative 'easy edit' page for quick sound changes!
Features:
- VST2.4, AU and RTAS plug-in synthesizer for PC and Mac (IntelMac compatible)
- Six
Oscillators modules which include Analogue, Additive and Spectral type
waveforms. Osc. A and B offer PWM modulation and symmetry control.
Oscillators can be combined in several ways using 32 different
modulation routings in the Algorithm screen. Oscillators can have FM
modulation or Ring modulation and can be oscillator hard synced. Each
oscillator can be output to the filters, the effects or output as dry.
Dedicated screens available in the LCD screen section for Algorithm
selection, Phase distortion / Wave shaping settings and Oscillator
Envelopes.
- Two analogue modelled stereo Multimode filters,
offering 6dB LowPass/HighPass, 12dB and 24dB
LowPass/HighPass/BandPass/Notch, Ring, Comb and Vox (formant). Filters
with panning, panning modulation options and pre-filtering distortion.
Easy filter control by pre-defined modulation controllers like
Envelope, Velocity, Keytrack and Modulation Wheel.
- Nine
Envelopes, AHDSFR type. Direct connection to the Oscillators volume,
Filters frequency and main Volume amp to make sound editing fast and
easy. Graphic and fader-control of Envelopes in one go. Dynamic curves
and midi tempo based features like delay and envelope retrigger.
- Four
Multi-Envelopes, These free highly sophisticated envelopes can be built
up using up to 16 sections. Full graphic control and additional menus
with presets, load and save functions. Dynamic curves and midi tempo
based functions.
- Ten LFOs with various waveforms and are
midi-syncable. Directly connected to main targets to make sound editing
easy and fast. Directly connected LFO's for PWM A/B, Filter Frequency
A/B, Tremolo (amp), Vibrato (main pitch) and Three Free LFOs. LFO have
adjustable, free/poly/mono modes, keytracking, symmetry, smoothing,
attack, decay and humanize functions.
- Three modulation
Step-sequencers with sequence loop start/end, poly/mono/free play
modes, speed controls and step smooth function. Copy/paste/clear
functions.
- Modulation Matrix with 2 pages of 10 slots. 12 synth sources & 23 midi sources and 91 synth destinations.
- 32
step mono sequencer, with sequencer length, speed adjust, slide amount,
swing amount, volume smoothing. Each step has On/off, Reset, -32/+32
Semitune, Volume, Slide on/off, Filter A, Filter B and Free modulation
settings. Clear, load and save functions to exchange sequences in
between presets.
- 32 step arpeggiator, with sequencer, seq
length, speed adjust, slide amount, swing amount and step length
control. Each step has On/off, Slide on/off, Reset, -32/+32 Semitone,
Step length, Velocity, and Free modulation. Clear, load and save
functions to exchange arpeggiators in between presets.
- Poly/Mono/Legato/Seq
synthesizer play modes. Portmento featuring legato, switch-able
constant time/constant rate. Mono unison mode.
- Adjustable Precision setting per oscillator to simulate the instability of vintage analogue synthesizers.
- 16-voice polyphony. Voice amount control.
- Global
settings save with each individual preset like: keyboard velocity
response curve, over-sampling settings and filter control smoothing.
- Easy Edit page for fast new sound results or for easy access tempo changes.
- External controller hardware (fader-box or synth) settings can be saved and restored.
- Two
HQ effects-blocks with serial and parallel mode. Available effects:
Mono Delay, Stereo Delay, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Distortion, Low Fi,
Stereo Widener, Reverb, Comb Filter, Gator, Speaker Simulator,
Wah/Delay, Chorus/Delay, Autopan and Waveshaper.
Midi tempo based settings in most effects .
- Equalizer for total overall sound.
- Sound
banks of 32 presets inside build in browser. Preset handling with copy,
paste, clear and compare function. Preset banks are sorted into
style-maps for easy search. Respond to midi program change and bank
select.
- All settings included the global settings are stored inside each individual preset.
- Presets in clear catagories by Rob Papen and DnB sesion banks with Giana-Brotherz
Compatibility BLUE:
VST2.4, RTAS (OS-X only) and AU plug-in synthesizer for PC and Mac (also IntelMac)
Comments to certain host programs:
Fruity Loops Studio 4 and 5:
Not working:
FL Studio has its own method of assigning MIDI Controllers to parameters so you can't use ECS (External Controller Setup).
Generally MIDI-CCs are a bit complicated to route to VST.
Attention points / Tips:
Also the Pitch Bend range in the Channel Settings of Fruity must be 12
to not reduce the Pitch-Bend range settings of our instruments.
To save all settings of our instruments the wrapper must be configured to Allow program editing.
Sonar 3.x and 4.x:
Attention points / Tips:
If any problem should occur we recommend that you rescan using the VST
wrapper, then select the reset all option before scanning as there can
be several occasions that confuse the wrapper.
