Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Icarus 2.0 - Tone 2

Amazing new updated version of icarus ,which already has proved itself to be one of the best out there, yet surprisingly not listed as such on many 'best of' VST  lists. 

With the new addition of a programeable drum machine it now falls into more into the workstation category, much like VPS Avenger and as such is a whole new ball game so to speak. Apart from the drums where one can load ones own samples, they have also incorporated a glitch machine which can do all manner of things to your drums sounds, from repeats,gates,pitch shifts to panning etc. This alone is a great effects feature to have. Also on board are new resynthesis features, including the amazing meolody/phrase resynthesis which takes a melodic sample and places it into the arpeggiator for you to tweak  Speaking of which the redesigned interface, albeit larger, has a much improved display of the  arpeggiator section which is a great improvement over the previously too smaller one.

There's many other new features too, far to many to include here , but the new MSEGS in particular  are great. Great fun too are the one hold patches. which are complete songs with the press of one key! WHAT!!!

All in all a fantastic major update to an already fantastic synth and by the way it won't harm your CPU much either!!

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