Sample Logic introduces Animation Station 2.0 – ‘The World’s Most Advanced & Flexible Arpeggiator’
Sample Logic has introduced Animation Station 2.0, a major update to their MIDI sequencing tool, described as “the world’s most advanced and flexible arpeggiator”.
What they say about it:
“ANIMATION STATION 2.0 is an intuitive and dynamic one-stop solution for creating awesome arpeggio patterns with a little stutter and glitch on the side. The included presets offer a world with limitless possibilities, from simple standard arps to extreme experimental patterns and everything in between. For songwriting inspiration, try the melodic and chordal sequences, or drum machine style patterns for kicking your beats up a notch, or even glitchy stutters that would previously have taken forever to create using standard MIDI programming.”
New in Animation Station 2.0:
- ABCD patterns: now it is possible to switch between 4 patterns. There is right-click menu for copying, pasting and reseting patterns. There are 4 key switches that can be attached. When host plays, plugin switches patterns at the first beat of the next bar.
- Updated preset management to support ABCD presets as well as original 1-pattern presets. When a 1-pattern preset is picked, it is loaded into the currently active slot only; presets with several active patterns load into all slots and inactive slots are rewritten with default patterns. It is also possible to load a single pattern from any preset into the currently active slot by picking ABCD buttons at the right side of the preset name.
- Global settings (gate, velocity sensitivity, swing) exposed as plugin parameters which enables users to modulate them.
- Modulation system has been reworked with 2 modes: mod wheel does not edit sequence directly; instead, it is applied as modulation to stored values and visualized as semi-transparent fills on top of velocity/duration bars. Absolute mode ignores current values); Relative mode takes current step values as a mid-point.
- Transpose sliders are reworked. Now there are 2 edit modes: octave and chromatic. Modes can be switched in the right-click menu under slider presets, or with a left click on the transpose slider then holding shift key while sliding up/down.
- Extended stutter rates: added triplets.
- Reworked Latch filter to support notes compound. When new note is played, latch filter activates to 200ms timeframe to let other notes of a potentially played chord to be latched as well. Then latch filter closes and resets currently latched notes when new notes or a chord is played.
- Minor bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Included new 250 preset expansion pack “Breaking Borders” by Ben Aylon added.
Animation Station 2.0 (VST/AU/AAX) is available now, with an intro price of $99.99 through August 22nd, 2023 (regular $149.99).
