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Starplugs sound like something you might buy at an Ann Summers party, but are actually a German software company who use Jeff McLintock's Synth Edit package to create a range of shareware plug-in effects, synths, processors and utilities.
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£132.95 including VAT upgrade from v2 39 Euros. Incidentally, Mr Papen is giving away a few extra presets on his web site, And further commercial presets from Linplug include soundsets from British synth pioneer Ian Boddy and the recently released 'Yemski in Motion', comprising 350 evolving textures and soundscapes designed for film scores and ambient music.
For current owners, it's definitely worth keeping pace with developments by upgrading, particularly at the very reasonable price of 39 Euros. If you haven't sampled the Albino magic before, you really owe it to yourself to check out the demo. Albino 's main strength is its ability to produce sounds and textures that can find a place in all kinds of music, not just the obvious electronica suspects. It's actually quite difficult to come up with something duff even if you don't know what you're doing - which can't be said for all soft synths. Experimentation is made easy by the user-friendly single-screen interface, and the synth's transparent architecture. It's almost impossible not to feel inspired to create new music every time you load one of them up, which is surely the test of any sound designer's mettle.īut Albino isn't just about playing back other people's efforts. Albino 3 comes complete with 2100 new Rob Papen presets, ranging from out-and-out hardcore trance boneshakers to subtle shimmery arpeggios which fall like digital meteor showers.
And Oscillator 1 can now be used as an audio input, so you can use the synth to process external audio. The effects have been expanded with a wah-wah, a great lo-fi effect, a more flexible reverb and a revised compressor.
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Other significant Albino 3 changes occur in the filters department, where the previous Silk and Cream varieties are joined by a rather less than polite Scream variation (very tasty when the resonance is cranked up) plus a Comb filter.
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In real terms, on a dual-processor Power Mac G5 running Pro Tools LE, I can't realistically run more than three instances of it.
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Linplug reckon that a well-specified Mac or PC digital recording setup should be able to handle about 120 digital or 75 virtual analogue oscillators' worth of sounds. Or rather, attempt to run several instances, as Albino continues to have a large appetite for CPU resources. But it also makes up for the fact that Albino is not a multitimbral instrument, so if you want to run several sounds at once you have to run several instances of it. This literally quadruples the creative possibilities when programming individual sounds (80 oscillators per note, anyone?).
Probably the biggest news for existing users is that each preset can be made up of four individual sound layers. The latest version, Albino 3, carries the flag forward a further stage. Version 2 duly followed, adding a powerful arpeggiator and new digital waveforms, and beefing up the effects. These presets alone were well worth the cost of the program, and for anyone wanting to try their own hand at sound sculpture, they also showcased the exceptional range of tones and textures that Albino was capable of producing. That might sound just like a lot of other 'generic' soft synths on the market, but Albino 's trump card was its 1400 high-quality sounds designed by Papen himself. The result was Albino, a soft synth with four oscillators, two filters, comprehensive modulation routing, and effects. In 2002, Papen approached Peter Linsener of Linplug with the idea of building a virtual instrument worthy of bearing both their signatures. Even if you haven't heard of this Dutch sound designer by name, you'll have heard his handiwork in soundsets for Access, Alesis, Emu and Waldorf. Rob Papen seems to be the kind of guy who is able to program inspirational synth sounds in the way that the rest of us breathe - regularly and without any apparent conscious effort. Formats: Mac AU, RTAS & VST PC RTAS & VST
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