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Prodyon has released Phenome, a free multi-timbral SoundFont player instrument for Windows.
It’s designed to focus on getting ideas done quickly.
So it’s not bloated with features – just the essentials.
Phenome features
- Full stereo SF2 playback engine.
- 8 part/layer multitimbral.
- Selectable MIDI channels for each layer.
- Supports standard patch/bank selection.
- Various interpolation methods.
- High quality 8x oversampling.
- Volume/panning & selectable keysplit for each layer.
- Fine- and semi-tuning.
- Built-in phrase arpeggiator with step/gate mode, digital filter with 6 modes, unison/widener, stereo & mono delay, and chorus.
- Flexible polyphonic note-stealing.
- 3 stereo (6 mono) audio outputs.
- 256 voice polyphony (8x 32 voices).
- Fully automatable and total recall.
- VST2.0 compliant.
- Low CPU usage & RAM overhead.
Phenome is available as a freeware VST instrument plug-in for Windows PC.
Download link: http://prodyon.kilu.de/Phenome.rar
Yes, it has 8 channels and you can get a pretty substantial library of samples (sf2 files) from the prodyon web site for free. My latest tune “Winze” is made 100% with Phenome.
Version 1.63 to be released in two days :)
WOW! This looks pretty cool and useful. Good to see something besides the synth-edit mono timbral offerings.
SF2 files just seem more manageable than massive sample libraries. And the patches load a lot faster than typical samplers like Kontakt and other samplers. Sf2 files are the next best thing to hardware keyboards in terms of patch load times.