- Tone2 electra x mac osx#
- Tone2 electra x mod#
- Tone2 electra x 32 bit#
- Tone2 electra x Patch#
- Tone2 electra x full#
The oscillator section is the heart of this.
Tone2 electra x full#
You'll also find the HELP button which contains direct links to Tone2 as well as MIDI mapping of knobs, and the edit button which closes or expands the interface from simple to full view.Īt the top right, you'll find the Master effect slot with selectable Mix level and various options for the Reverb Hall, Reverb Cathedral, Reverb Room, Delay, Delay Band, Ping Pong, Multitap, Chorus, Ensemble, Flanger, Phaser, Rotary, Trancegate, Compressor, Amp Sim, EQ, Surround Encode, and Vocoder effects available.īelow this basic level, you'll find the sound sculpting guts themselves. In the center, is a window for quickly altering the instrument's volume, a simple 3-band EQ for sculpting the overall tone of a sound, and a modwheel knob, useful mainly as visual feedback when the modwheel is being engaged. This includes a browser that divides sounds into folders based on categories, Next Sound/Previous Sound arrows, a heart button that allows you to highlight sounds you really like in their own special folder, and the file menu which allows loading and saving options, among others. The top level of the interface contains the items that make up the simple view of the interface (selectable via the EDIT button). This isn't a huge deal, but it's a bit confusing at first and sort of flies in the face of usual interface design. While I understand this is meant to signify the button lighting up, I think most people are used to interfaces where light grey indicates something that is off or unselectable, while the darker, more solid options are on or selectable. On the white skin, buttons that are selected go from a solid charcoal color to a light grey. If I may make one gripe, before I get into the details, there is one thing that bugs me about this interface. Multiple skins are selectable to not only allow customization, but to provide a quick and easy way to differentiate between the 4 synth engines within a patch. The interface also fits on my 13" laptop screen which was an issue with Gladiator 2 when I reviewed it. Tabs are used to select displays for items with multiple versions (ie envelopes, LFOs), and the layout follows the signal flow in a much more logical way. Tone2 has come a long way when it comes to interface design and I can report that this is a much more organized and pleasant to program synth than Gladiator 2. You can have installations on multiple machines as well.įirst of all, all fears that a synth this complex would have a nightmarishly cluttered interface can be laid to rest. With the installer run and the keyfile moved to the appropriate folder, you're good to go. When you buy ElectraX, you receive an installer that is watermarked with your identity, as well as a keyfile ElectraX will look for upon start-up. Add another effect slot at the Master level, and you have ElectraX in a nutshell. This would be impressive itself, but when you realize that each oscillator of those synths can be assigned to Virtual Analog, Sample Playback, Wavetable, Supersaw, and Noise/Fractal modes, you can see the possibilities expanding still further. So each sound in ElextraX can be made up of essentially 4 entire synths layered/split however you like. Now take that architecture and quadruple it.
Tone2 electra x mod#
Imagine an architecture with three oscillators with sync and FM capabilities, 2 freely configurable filters with 23 choices of filter apiece, 4 envelopes, 3 LFOs, a step sequencer (here called the Step LFO), a flexible mod matrix, an arpeggiator and an insert effect. In a word, ElectraX can be described as a Supersynth without being hyperbolic. Suffice it to say if you like the presets Elextra ship with, you'll probably like these.
Tone2 electra x Patch#
(Note that Tone2 was generous enough to include their new Voltage! Expansion Soundset with the review materials, but since I run a patch programming business, I'll recuse myself from comment there. Though I'm a bit late to the table with this review, I wanted to make sure I gave it a spin. That answer came late last fall when they released ElectraX. Ever since then, I was curious to see what Tone2 would do next in the synth scene. It was (and still is) a fantastic and deep synth that was perhaps hampered a bit by a cluttered, almost haphazard user interface. Two years ago around this time, I did a review of Tone2's flagship synth Gladiator 2. Price: ElectraX $199, Voltage! Expansion Soundset $49
Tone2 electra x mac osx#
Mac: Mac OSX 10.4 or higher G4, G5 or Intel Mac with at least 800 Mhz 512 MB RAMĭemo: Audio Demo, Fully functional trial demo with time limits.
Tone2 electra x 32 bit#
PC: Windows XP, Windows Vista 32 bit or 64 bit, Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit, Windows ME Intel Pentium4 compatible CPU with at least 800 Mhz 512 MB RAM