Modal Electronics has just released Firmware Update v1.1 for their COBALT8 line; – COBALT8, COBALT8M and COBALT8X, a free update that adds six new algorithms and user-requested workflow enhancements.
With COBALT8 Firmware v1.1, users have access to six new unique algorithms, focused on FM and AM oscillation models, complete with dual controls for precise sound sculpting capability.
These new algorithms include:
FM Saw:Square: Frequency Modulation using a Sawtooth as the carrier and a Square as the modulator with full control over FM Depth (A) and Modulator Frequency Ratio (B)
FM Square:Square: Frequency Modulation using a Square as both the carrier and modulator with full control over FM Depth (A) and Modulator Frequency Ratio (B)
FM Tri:Square: Frequency Modulation using a Triangle as the carrier and a Square as the modulator with full control over FM Depth (A) and Modulator Frequency Ratio (B)
Noise AM Saw: Sawtooth Wave amplitude modulated by a filtered noise source with full control over AM Depth (A) and Noise filter cutoff (B)
Noise AM Square: Square Wave amplitude modulated by a filtered noise source with full control over AM Depth (A) and Noise filter cutoff (B)
Noise AM Tri: Triangle Wave amplitude modulated by a filtered noise source with full control over AM Depth (A) and Noise filter cutoff (B)
Additionally, Firmware v1.1 also adds a variety of new feature updates and workflow enhancements, including a Master Clock Mode to continually send MIDI clock information to compatible studio peripherals.
Modal Electronics today introduced Skulpt SE Portable Synthesizer. Modal Electronics says that Skulpt SE is the most affordable MPE hardware synth available today.
Modal Electronics has taken the original Skulpt portable synth back to the drawing board and returned with the Skulpt SE, offering the same compact form factor as its predecessor, this replaces the grey and black touch keypads with more traditional black and white ones. The front panel descriptors have been made more legible, and the build quality has been improved.
User gets 127 brand-new patches and MPE support – something that was added to the original Skulpt via a firmware update. The sound architecture consists of two Wave groups per voice, each with four oscillators. This enables user to smoothly sweep between waveforms, and there is additional oscillator modulation, as well. There are also state-variable 2-pole filters – these can morph from low-pass through to bandpass and high-pass – and three envelopes. The two LFOs – one global and one polyphonic, can be synced to internal or external tempo, and there are integrated delay and distortion effects.
Additionally, the Skulpt SE also comes with an integrated sequencer and arpeggiator, and you can polychain up to four of the devices or the original Skulpt, to create a 16-voice virtual analogue sound engine. In-depth sound and editing and management can be done using the Modal Electronics app, which runs on all major computer and mobile platforms and is VST/AU compatible. The presets from the original Skulpt can be accessed from the Modal Electronics website.
Free sound set for the Modal Cobalt 8 synthesizer.
The company, Modal Electronics has released Baltica, a new sound set for their COBALT8 line of synthesizers.
The Baltica, created in collaboration with sound designer Soundsauca, is available now as a free download from both Modal and Soundsauca.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“BALTICA includes one hundred synth patches. Music producers and synth performers can play and record with the massive array of warm basses, wide pads, energizing plucks, and soaring leads and new avant-garde synth textures that take full advantage of the unique Extended Virtual-Analogue synth engine with 34 sophisticated algorithms, the morphable 4-pole Ladder Filter and the comprehensive modulation matrix.”
The COBALT8 is available in three variants, with 37 or 61 keys and as rack module.
