Full Bucket Music has introduced a new synthesizer instrument that aims to brings the sounds of the paraphonic Crumar Trilogy and Stratus keyboards from the early 1980s.
Paralogy closely emulates all the quirky features of these instruments.
In 1981, the Trilogy and its little brother Stratus1 were Crumar’s answer to the still new and extremely popular polyphonic synthesizers coming from Japan and the US. Obviously, the idea of having a separate oscillator, filter and amplifier section per voice was striking. But it has one problem: You usually need a little computer or micro controller to schedule notes to voices.
Having a lot of expertise with string machines and multi-keyboards, the Italian company decided to combine a dual top octave generator/frequency divider design with a set of six voices. Each voice contains a voltage-controlled lowpass filter (VCF), a voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) and an envelope generator (EG). All these components are realized with the famous CEM chips, which are used in countless instruments from Oberheim, Sequential Circuits and many other manufacturers, too.
Paralogy features
- Close simulation of the original hardware.
- Fully “polyphonic” paraphonic madness.
- Organ, Synthesizer and String sections.
- Additional Phaser and Delay effects.
- Resizable user interface (not “N” version!).
- MIDI Learn – all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC.
- Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32 bit and 64 bit).
Paralogy is free to download in VST/VST3, AU, AAX and CLAP plugin formats.
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