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#Sonic synth vst software
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It’s also begging to be touchable but sadly it’s not. It looks and feels modern and creative, it’s easy to see what’s going on and I can see how it can be a lot of fun playing with and combining instruments to create your ultimate combi’s. The layout and appearance of Freestyle is excellent. It also says you can drag in presets but I’m not sure how you access them. You can also drag and drop samples into the space which are automatically loaded into Nuance. They have some additional integration into the interface where the minimised thumbnail view also shows real-time updates – the included effects do the same. It’s got a really neat learn function which, when enabled, automatically maps the next 8 controls you touch to the 8 knobs – super easy, I like that a lot.įreestyle appears to come with New Sonic Arts’ sample-based plugins Granite, Nuance and Vice, although these could be just demo versions.

These can be mapped to anything anywhere. The other key feature is the 8 macro-control knobs at the top.

#Sonic synth vst trial

It’s not particularly clear in the documentation and I had to work it out through trial and error. However, this is how you add audio effects, you drop them in beneath the synth – or beneath the mixer if you want it to effect all the instruments. If you drop an instrument above or below – which is easy to do – it then sits in the audio chain and would depend on the instrument below it having an audio input to pass the audio through. To run instruments together you drop them side by side – they then disappear into a sort of tabbed view with only the current selected instrument on view. The way the routing works is not immediately clear and I struggled at times with an unexplained loss of sound until I realised what was going on. At the bottom of the screen a little mixer appears that lets you set the relative levels of each loaded instrument. Not sure why they went for a numeric display rather than the more helpful display of a keyboard. The layering is displayed in what they’re calling a “KeySplit” and you can quickly specify the range over which the instrument will play. If you drag another instrument next to it they will layer on top of each other so you can play them together.

#Sonic synth vst full

Click on the thumbnail to bring up the full GUI and off you go. Drag your chosen instrument into the void and it appears as a larger thumbnail ready to play.

When you kick off the program it scans and pulls thumbnails of each plug-in into the browser on the left. New Sonic Arts have announced their VST Host while it’s still in public beta and would encourage interested people to download the demo and give it a go while they are working towards a final version.įreestyle gives you a dull grey void into which you can drag and drop your instruments and effects. So along comes Freestyle from New Sonic Arts and potentially offers exactly what I’ve been waiting for.

#Sonic synth vst software

The VIP software that comes with Akai Advance keyboards is another great example but it’s tied to those specific keyboards ( click here for more information on VIP). My interest was reignited by the Multi-Instrument feature in version 3 of StudioOne which gave a simple drag and drop interface to the placement and arrangement of virtual instruments into one big combi.