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Best Service has announced the availability of Tone2 Icarus2, a major update to the powerful software synth workstation.

Icarus2 offers 54 different synthesis methods and provides a gigantic sonic range – including 3d-wavetable synthesis, 53 effects, a vocoder, hypersaw, 62 filter types and more. The audio engine can create classic synths sounds, but also has the range to let you create unique original sounds.

*Features:

• Icarus2 is described as ‘the most advanced wavetable-synthesizer on the market, but not limited to wavetable-synthesis”
• The audio-engine can do 54 different synthesis modes
• The 3D-wavetable-synthesis allows a new dimension of dynamic expression
• High-end sound-quality with low CPU-requirement
• Easy-to-use interface with animated displays and context-sensitive help
• Wide sonic range
• Over 1600 presets
• GUI with 12 sizes, 3 zoom-levels and 26 color-schemes
• Drag & drop modulation
• Drum-sequencer with 100 drum-patterns
• Powerful arpeggiator with autochord-support, shuffle and swing
• 3 x 53 effects, vocoder
• Glitch-sequencer
• 10x stereo hypersaw, unison, stacks, chords
• Polyphonic, monophonic, several legato modes
• Dual multi-mode filters with 62 filter-types and 8 distortion-types
• Customizable user-interface
• Expandability, modular

Icarus2 is available now for $169.

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A free firmware update means that Arturia do-it-all KeyStep Pro MIDI keyboard and sequencer now does even more. Owners can download version 2.0 now.

We like to talk about new products, but for many musicians, it is the updates to ones they have already bought that are the most important.

You can get an overview of what’s new in the video above.

The new version 2.0 firmware for Arturia KeyStep Pro MIDI keyboard and sequencer, which adds both new performance features and stability/workflow improvements.

*Here are the bullet points:

• Global transpose – Transpose multiple melodic tracks at the same time
• Global value offset – Apply a relative offset for any of the five main controls for every step across the selected track pattern
• Arpeggios in sequences – You can now record arpeggios into a sequence
• Recording Chord Mode – Record Chord Mode chords into a sequence
• Arpeggios while stopped – Create and play arpeggios while KeyStep Pro isn’t playing
• MIDI Thru – MIDI Out 2 can now be set to Thru mode
• Mono Mode – The mono mode has been refactored for a smoother experience
• Arpeggio swing – You can now add swing amount to arpeggios using Shift
• Step Listen – Trigger sequence steps without playing a sequence so you can preview your notes
• Workflow and UX – various workflow improvements to performance, functionality, and ease of use

For all of us, the KeyStep Pro was already one of the best devices on the market for melodic sequencing and flexible hardware control, and these subtle yet useful improvements look set to make it even better.

Find out more and download the update for free on the Arturia website.

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The Oxi One, a new MIDI sequencer and controller has just landed on Indiegogo.

Is there anything that this flexible MIDI sequencer and controller can’t do? In fact, there is a lot going on with Oxi One. With multiple modes and connectivity options mean that this has ‘studio hub’ written all over it, meaning the instrument looks like it has enough features for it to become the central hub of your studio or live setup, should you want it to be.

Multi gives you access to eight tracks, each with its own independent parameters, meaning that you can run up to 32 tracks at a time. Chord endows you with chord generation features, to enable you to create progressions. Mono gives you control of a monophonic track, and Poly offers up to seven voices, with 4 CCs and multiple parameters per step. This is just the start, too, with more modes set to be added in future firmware updates. You can use up to 128 steps per sequencer.

The Oxi One can operate as a keyboard, with four different piano layouts. There is an eight-octave range, and you can control pitchbend, pressure, modulation and velocity using dedicated knobs. You can choose to play in specific scales and get the ‘right’ chords for that scale, with plenty of different voicings and variations.

Other features include four arpeggiators with multiple modes, a song/arranger mode, four LFOs – routable to internal parameters, MIDI and voltage control – and four loopers. Connectivity includes eight CVs, eight gates and 1 CV input, so you are all set for controlling modular gear, as well.

The Oxi One can be battery-powered and is compatible with Bluetooth MIDI.

You can find out more on the Oxi One Indiegogo website.

The funding target has already been met, but if you are quick you can still grab a unit for €530. The regular price will be €699.

Delivery is estimated to be in November 2021.

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