#How to slide notes tone2 electra 2 mod#
The next section is the ADSR mod envelope. There is a level control, which can be used to drive the filter stage, a velocity sensitivity control and keyboard follow which can be negative or positive. The decay stage looks to be exponential, while the attack stage can be switched between exponential and linear. The first one is fixed to the amp and offers the usual ADSR configuration. Moving on to the envelope section, we have just two to work with. All the modulation controls are located on the various modules, so I’ll cover the modulation possibilities as we get to them. I’m going to note here that there is no mod-matrix on Carbon Electra. So, although you only have the basic analog waveforms to work with, the combined four oscillators with various sync configurations can produce much more complex waveforms, especially when OSC1’s frequency modulation is added to the mix. It can also by synced to OSC2, and OSC3 can be synced to OSC4. OSC1 features FM, which comes from a hidden sine wave tuned 2 octaves below note position. The square in particular sounds really good.Ĭarbon Electra’s waveforms are quite analog-like. These waveforms are not perfect shapes, as they resemble the kind of waveform shapes you’d see on an analog synth and they sound fuller and warmer than the perfect digital waveforms. On offer are four oscillators, including Square (with pulse width modulation), Saw, Triangle, Sine, S/H noise and a white noise oscillator.
#How to slide notes tone2 electra 2 license key#
Authorization is done via a license key file that you get when you buy the plugin, which is loaded through Carbon Electra’s menu box. The GUI is clean, logical and everything is on one page. I can immediately say that Carbon Electra appears well thought out. To take BigKick as an example, judging from this plugin it seems to me that Plugin Boutique basically understands the needs and budget of its customer base and is able to come up with the goods, and that really is the key today. It must be quite hard to get the attention of producers nowadays, so while Carbon Electra at first seems a rather simple VA synth, we might expect it to have a few tricks up it’s sleeve in order to stand out.
Both appear to be a tad niche, and fairly modest, but importantly, fill a gap in the market. Their previous releases include BigKick, a smart and very well featured kick generator, and VirtualCZ (which was previously reviewed on BPB), a sort of Casio CZ 101 on steroids. Plugin Boutique is an online store, with a massive catalog of 3rd party plugins, but they have also produced a few plugins of their own. That is, while there are a lot of developers who seem unable to release a fully rounded plugin, we’re also seeing more people do it right. Plugin Boutique is obviously keen to be in the latter category, with the resources and expertise to deliver a proper plugin, cross platform, with a good GUI and most importantly, a sound fit for purpose.
While those kinds of plugins still get released, I do believe we’ve also seen a rise in quality across the board. In the past, a lot of them were un-noteworthy, they were not cross platform or they had unintuitive, unattractive GUIs or they just plain didn’t sound particularly good. It seems like every few months there is a new developer on the scene, every week a new synth or effect plugin.
Most of us who’ve been around a while will have noticed the massive increase of plugins on the market in the last five years.
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