"If interplanetary excursions are your thing, you will love Astralis, a synth to loose yourself in. Astralis is packed with soundscaping features, an intuitive hands on professional sound design environment. Ideal for any style of music though particularly suited to Ambient, Psy, and styles requiring atmosphere. It is a tweakers synth though be warned whole nights can vanish very easily!Aside from having 2 independent synths with dual and spectral oscillators, 2 cascadable filters (8x), 2 Modulation Sequencers, a Gate Sequencer (TranceGate), and a comprehensive FX section, Astralis also includes an impressive Microtonal Scale System. This system uses patches created using the included Microtonal Bank/patch manager. Custom scales of up to 24 notes can be created, and scale entry is designed with scala files in mind using either ratio or cent values. 160 patches are included as default including a wide selection of eastern tunings. Unlike many other microtonal systems Astralis does not rely on the pitch bend which remains fully functional."
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HGSounds Astralis aka Home Grown Sounds Astralis.
Looking at the feature set, I was thinking, wow...I'll bet that sounds great! Listening to the sound samples, I can't help but think "If twee new age trance is your thing, you will love Astralis". Not a lot of density here for all it's bells and whistles.
ReplyDeletethis is an amazing synth in so many ways- but I really love the vast array of tunings! middle eastern (maqam), persian, asian, etc.... the only plugin I've ever seen to handle these so elegantly!
ReplyDeleteI use it in Tracktion and post process the sound to get all kinds of insane things- or even send it to my modular!
-Street Electronics