VAST Dynamics has announced the release of Vaporizer2, a hybrid wavetable and additive/subtractive synthesizer/sampler workstation for Windows and Mac.
Vaporizer2 aims to offer an alias-free versatile high-performance wavetable sound engine with low system CPU resource usage.
Vaporizer2 features
- State-of the art wavetable engine with four independent alias-free wavetable oscillator banks with up to 24 oscillator unison.
- Low system CPU resource usage – even with more than 1.000 oscillators playing.
- Groundbreaking wavetable editor with a vast number of editing possibilities including frequency shift, smooth, clean, bend and bloat for single-cycles, parts of single-cycles or even whole wavetables.
- Easy-to use wavetable draw mode with smooth Bezier curves and snap to grid function.
- Mix-in, amplitude modulate, interpolate or normalize wavetable cycles.
- Generate FM, PWM, harmonic morphed/reduced, low pass/high pass/band pass/comb/formant filtering and even hard sync wavetables out of an arbitrary single cycle waveform .
- Morphing and phase shifting of wavetable cycles.
- Import and change standard (Serum, Icarus) format wavetables – also simply via drag and drop.
- Additive synthesis section that allows to freely edit all harmonics and phases in real-time.
- Sampler section (wav/aiff/ogg/mp3) with loop points, loop start modulation and key tracking.
- Resample samples to wavetables with pitch detection.
- Intelligent polyphonic portamento/glissando.
- Mono legato mode or polyphonic 4/16 voice modes.
- Three effects busses including 4 x oversampling and mono cutoff to preserve a clean low end.
- 10+ highly parameterizable effects including reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, bitcrush, eq, compressor, limiter, flanger, phaser, comb filter and more.
- All effect times and durations can be synced to DAW.
- State of the art filter section (30+ different types) with 4 x oversampled LPF (biquad, state variable and diode ladder implementations) plus high pass, all pass, band pass, notch, shelf, comb and scream filters – all with resonance.
- Very steep filter curves for punchy basses.
- Real-time filter response display.
- Innovative audio routing system for all sound generators, filters and effect busses.
- Five freely editable MSEG envelopes with loop function.
- Five LFOs (per voice – means up to 80 LFOs in total) with smooth generation optimized for lowest frequencies with ramp and phase that can be set per voice or global – can be synced to the DAW.
- Built-in arpeggiator that is freely editable and supports polyphonic modes and hold.
- Three step sequencers that can be synced to the DAW.
- All parameter knobs/sliders automatable.
- Comes with a daily growing number of presets – free regular updates on the website.
- Easy to use and intuitive user interface that is freely scalable and resizable even up to 4k and more with many drag and drop features.
The synth is available in VST/AU plugin formats, priced at 34.90 EUR / $39.90 USD. A purchase includes lifetime free updates. Vaporizer users can use the new version with their existing license.
More information: VAST Dynamics
