Cymbiant 1.0 by Osiris

8 Voice Polyphonic Analog Emulation 

VST is a trademark of Steinberg
This VSTI features modules by Chris Kerry
www.chriskerry.f9.co.uk
and
Attila Fustos and D. DeHaupt.

This plugin is is a beta. Developer assumes no responsibility for you messing up your computer or speakers because of it.

First 50 presets by me.  Some sound alike.  My fault.  I am in love with my Supasaw oscillator. Some presets have a high CPU usage, especially the Siren effect. It's suggested you have a powerful computer to use, although the average CPU use is 15%.  Some presets have a weird CPU spike.  I don't know why. Some Pads don't do chords well. Most are actually sweeps. If you must do chords I suggest turning velocitys way down on the other notes & have the base notes strongest.  You may have to adjust the envelopes and/or the LFO bpm sync when adding effects or composing, to match your tempo or song bars. 

Arps can be played as single notes & vice versa.  Just turn the arp off. Likewise, some Pads sound good as leads.  Just play!


The volume is very loud on this- I suggest you turn the Main Volume knob a quarter way up & take it from there.  Likewise with the Oscillator volumes- start with halfway up until you find the most pleasant mix.  If you don't hear anything--YOU HAVE IT TOO LOUD!!  Phase knob on both oscillators acts like a filter to round off some of the higher, more unpleasant frequencies and artifacts.


Specs:
Morphable Oscillator 1: Morph between Ramp to Noise, Sine to Saw, Triange to Square, Combo, or Supersaw (Note: Pulsewidth & Sync do not work with Supersaw.  Also Supersaw is VERY LOUD in volume and will overwhelm, so turn it down!!)

Morphable Oscillator 2: Morph between Ramp to Noise, Sine to Saw, Triangle to Square, or Combination.  PW modulation on both oscillators really affect the square's sound.

Phase knobs both ocillators will smoothe the sound.  Turned all the way up - no sound at all.  

Filter: Moog. Bandpass, and combo Moog/Bandpass.  Moog Cutoff 35hz to 9000khz  BP Cutoff knob seperate. Q knob the same for both. Keyboard amount : -100% to 100%.  Envelope Amount: -100% to 100%  Filter Clip On/Off.  Interestin clipper can really add some dirt to your sounds.

Envelope Generator for Filter & Volume

LFO; Tempo Synced or free from 0.20 hz to 50 hz.  Level from -10 to 10.  Usual suspect waves & Sample & Hold.  Modulation Source choose between LFO or Pitch Envelope.  Destinations: None, Filter 1 & 2. Pitch, PW, Osc 2 Pitch, Filter Q,  Moog Filter only, BP filter only.

Chorus and tempo synced arp with Velocity & Transpose choice.  If the Wet knob on the Chorus is turned too high it will generate strange artifacts in the sound.

Notes: On arps it's best not to give it too much Glide or it won't sync properly. Some arps sound better reset on note begin, some sound better free.

To tempo sync arp to sequencer BPM put mouse on BPM readout, click to highlight, then type in the BPM-for example: if the BPM is 128, you would type in 1,2,8, no need for a point 0, although you can do this.  The knob on the BPM is not that useful.


Like I said, an experiment in progress. Have fun & let me know if you make any patches/presets for it.  You can private message me at KVR.com & I will include them in the download.

Cheers, Osiris!

 
 