UVI has introduced Synth Anthology 4, a virtual instrument for Mac & Windows that’s based on the sounds of 200 vintage and modern synthesizers.
Synth Anthology 4 features a fully redesigned engine with powerful features, fx, arpeggiator, smart sound suggestion engine, native MPE support and more.
Features:
The “authentic sound” of 200 synthesizers, from vintage to modern
4,000+ presets and layers deliver incredible sound with hardware soul
Organizers of Superbooth, an international trade fair focused on electronic music gear, have announced that Superbooth 2024 is scheduled to be held from 16th to the 18th of May 2024 at FEZ-Berlin.
For 2024, the Superbooth Berlin plans to build on the success of 2023, so that it can continue to live up to its status as the world’s biggest trade fair for electronic musical instruments.
Ticket sales for Superbooth 2024 will begin November 1st, 2023. Organizers also welcome inquiries from companies that are interested in exhibiting at Superbooth.
They say that Superbooth 2023 was “a resounding success”, and the biggest and most successful Superbooth to date, with over 250 exhibitors from all the world and over 9000 visitors and participants.
Additional details will be announced later in the Fall.
Find out more information on the Superbooth website.
Waldorf has released version 3.0 of the Quantum & Iridium firmware, offering “a ton of new features.”
Waldorf says that the common platform for all Quantum and Iridium models makes sure that all hardware variants will participate from future developments. It’s Waldorf’s Synthesizer OS powering forward-looking instrument designs.
Quantum / Iridium Firmware 3.0 Feature List (compared to version 2.8):
Quantum (MK1 & MK2)
Added 8 additional digital-only voices to increase polyphony up to 16.
New “Voice Allocation” mode on Layer/Voices page to choose from various analog, digital and mixed modes.
Gain staging has been adjusted to new increased polyphony of 16.
Oscillators
New “Mix” Screen providing levels, pans and destinations for all 3 oscillators.
“Control” renamed to “Pitch & Tools.”
New “Min Note” and “Max Note” parameters per oscillator.
For Mono Mode: New “Mono Retrig” parameter to force oscillator to retrigger when previous note is still in release.
Wavetable Oscillator
Re-organizing some parameters into new “Mode” sub-screen.
Now all parameters from hardware controls are also available on the display.
New Wavetable FX “Truncate” and “Reduce” will perform value quantizations similar to bit reduction.
Waveform Oscillator
New Noise modes “Pings” and “Geiger.”
Both noises react to “Reset Phase” parameter.
Noise is now stereo and width is controlled by “Stereo” parameter.
Resonator Oscillator
Re-organizing some parameters into new “Exciter” sub-screen.
Now all parameters from hardware controls also available at display.
“Track Pitch” option for samples to disable pitch tracking (in Samples->Edit).
Sequencer
New popup selector styles for quick access.
Increased maximum step count from 32 to 64.
Samples
“Mods only” option for “Track Pitch” in sample map.
“Track Pitch” sample options also for Particle Oscillator.
Increasing maximum samples per round-robin zone from 8 to 128.
LFOs
New “polarity” parameter for unipolar option.
Modulation Matrix
New mod-matrix presets
Encoder Menues
New popup selector styles for quick access.
Effects
New Tremolo FX.
New effect routing algorithms.
Drive
New drive type “Cuff” for FX and Digital Former.
MIDI
“Apply Split to Inputs” option in Global->MIDI->Inputs.
“Send NRPN” option in Global->MIDI->Outputs.
Sustain & Control Pedal now adhere to local off & MIDI Out.
XY pad sends midi CCs.
Iridium Desktop
New option in Global->MIDI->Inputs:
“Latch” button will also latch incoming notes from external controller.
Global->System->Info –
The beta number is now displayed in Global->System->Info in case it’s a beta.
