Ugo acaba de actualizar su genial String Theory, sinte de modelado físico gratuito, de lo mejor q hay para arpegios de cuerdas, pero no sólo eso, se pueden conseguir unos sonidos realmente originales, muy mujy interesantes. Para el q no haya probado este sinte, lo puede descargar aquí:
http://www.cortidesign.com/ugo/vst/stri ... ry_1.5.zip
estas son las novedades y mejoras de la nueva versión 1.5:
new features and changes:
- new tone enhancement switch (ugo logo...yes, i finally put that graphic to use.)
this greatly improves string theory's clarity, depth, and realism. its on by default but you can get the old tone back by switching it off and readjusting the volume and treble as needed.
- more even velocity response
in addition to just being a smoother response, this greatly reduces the chances of you running into volume spikes while playing
- detune slider
detunes delay osc 2 from osc 1. this offers a rather cool metallic detuneing thats somewhat reminiscent of when the upper strings of a 12 string guitar arent quite in tune.
- new amp attack envelope stage
this slider controls the attack of the analog oscillators (feedforms) before they go into the delay oscillators. this gives you a sound thats particularly good for bow and breath attacks, or just cool metallic zings.
- enhanced pitch lfo
not only does the pitch lfo now have the same waveform selection and midi sync as the other lfo's, but it also offers you the option of selecting the pitch that the lfo will peak at (from a 1 octave range.) so for example, by setting it to...
waveform = square
pitch = 5
speed = 4b
...the pitch will jump up 5 notes above what you are currently holding down for the first bar of a 4 bar measure, then go back to normal for the next 3. a setting like this can be especially useful on patches that use the arp. you can also get wacky with it by setting it to stuff like a saw wave thats doing 16th note octave bends. however, you can still do subtle pitch vibrato too by setting the pitch to 1, giving it a slow to moderate speed, and setting the depth lower.
also, all lfos now reset with host play/record. (so those bends will always occur at the same time.)
- new "to filter" volume control
this adjusts how loud of a signal comes in from the oscillators. by balancing this with the main volume slider, you can eliminate any distortion caused by overdriving the filters while still retaining a good output volume.
- improved metal lfo sound
just a minor change here, but its got a slightly more pronounced and interesting sound now.
- midi CC support
every switch and slider in ST (except for the tone enhancement switch) can now be controlled by midi CC's. just hover your mouse over a control and the hint box that pops up will show the CC number its assigned to.
- reduced polyphony to 6
this new version uses up more cpu than the last one did. so to help keep the cpu load more manageable for people with less than stellar computers (like me), i've dropped the max polyphony down to 6 voices. this way, if you hold a some notes with your left hand, and do a fast run with your right, while having a higher amp release time, your cpu is far less likely to choke.
- extra bank of 45 new presets
in the zip you'll find two fxb files. one is for the default bank of 128 patches, the other is for a new bank of 45 patches made by Geeseaplenty (Matthew DeMeritt) and me. many of the new patches show off the new features in ST.
speaking of patches, this version is not backwards compatible with your 1.0 patches. so if you've got patches you made for 1.0, you'll want to keep that version around too. both 1.0 and 1.5 can happily coexist in the same folder. btw, if you ever need it...i've placed a link to 1.0 in the "old versions" page of my site. (accessible from the vst section.)
note to sonar 4 / project5 users
its been brought to my attention that there is a conflict between the standard cakewalk vst wrapper and string theory that causes the first note (or several notes) of a sequence to get dropped. a fix for this is currently being researched, but i've been told that ST works fine with the DirectiXer wrapper from
http://www.tonewise.com.
well...thats all the info. as always, please let me know what you think of
