The Space Synthesizer produces ambient sounds suitable for music genres, such as ambient techno, space-music and traditional ambient music. The MIDI synth comes with 64 presets and a 17 page manual (Adobe Acrobat). An additional bank of 64 presets can be downloaded for free.

The Audio unit plugin was designed to produce sounds, which can be used to create ambient music, space-music or just moody electronic music in general. The odd signal path, modulation routings and sequencer controls make it possible to come up with a vast array of sounds, which have a moving and organic character.

The ensemble creates a big and wide sound. The resonator stands for fatness in combination with a screaming feedback control. The filter gives the sound a warm analog character and the sequencer controlled evolving oscillator generates tones you have never heard before.

Features
Full polyphony is provided. Thus the number of voices that you'll get from the plugin is dependant on the power of your CPU.

The Space Synthesizer uses a resonator, to create that famous sweeping sound, and an ensemble effect to give the synthesizer that lush and smooth sound.

Many parameters can be controlled by the built-in analog style sequencer, for example the waveform of the oscillator, which can be set to make smooth or abrupt transitions. Unusual patches can be created. For example, the resonator can be swept with an LFO that has a random shape. Or the sequencer can control the filter cutoff.

Two delays add an extra dimension to the sounds. The delay time can be synchronized to MIDI or they can run on their own.

An intelligent patch generator, called IPG, can help you to create the patches you want. You just type in which kind of sounds you like and it will generate a bank of 64 such sounds for you.

Modulation Heaven
A wide range of exotic patches, with an ambient feel, can be created using the extensive modulation capabilities of the SpaceSynthesizer. How about sequencer control of the filter's resonance parameter? Or how about modulating the resonator LFO's rate with random values? Or let the sequencer control the ensemble effect's vibrato depth.

Version 2.0.3

MacOS X PPC

(AU)

Sep 26, 2004

Mac OS X 10.2 or above
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