Psychic Modulation has released Phonec3, the latest evolution of the original Phonec Synthesizer, retaining its distinctive character while introducing new and expanded features with an improved workflow.
Inspired by the remnants of the video age, Phonec3 embraces the haunting qualities of decay and imperfection, exploring the various facets of ageing sound. Drifting tones, fragile textures, faded melodies, distant atmospheres and irregular harmonics form a palette that feels organic and evolving.
Aside from it’s quirky nature, Phonec3 is a unique and powerful synthesizer, capable of producing a wide range of sounds in the realm of vintage analogue tones, lo-fi synthscapes, ethereal ambiance, minimal techno sequences, retro leads and hard hitting synth basses. Its intuitive GUI attempts to strike a balance between form and function, making it a very practical tool that can be creatively inspiring to work with.
Features:
- Dual Oscillators with various combinations: Mix, Ring, X-wave, logic.
- Sub Oscillator for beefing up the low end.
- Cascading lowpass filter with 4 stages + Milk & Acid Filters.
- Post Highpass Filter.
- Pre/Post Filter Distortion.
- 3-Stage Filter Separation.
- Melt: A unique feature that adds instant character to any patch with drifting pitch and amplitude fluctuations.
- Extended Melt functionality with extra tweaks under the hood.
- Arpeggiator that works in conjunction with a set of Note & Modulation Sequencers.
- Note Sequencer: 16-step pattern sequencer for pitch ranging -/+ one octave.
- Scale Mode: Locks the Note Sequencer to scale for snapping to harmony.
- Pitch Wheel Quantizer for note-stepped pitch bending that can snap to Scale Mode.
- Modulation Sequencer: 16-step pattern sequencer for amplitude and filter cutoff.
- 3 LFOs: BPM or Manual modes w/ Keytracking, and Note Retrigger.
- HFO (High Frequency Oscillator): FM style audio-rate modulator.
- 3 Modulation Envelopes for several additional parameters.
- Aftertouch and Modwheel control of multiple parameters at once.
- On-board FX include:
- EQ: A 3-Band Parametric Equalizer.
- Chorus: A lush chorus with multi-voice stereo spread.
- Echo: A dub-style delay unit with bandpass filter.
- Pan-Tracking.
- Patch Randomization of Sub-sections.
- Sub-presets: load/save settings for sub sections.
- Preset Import from Phonec2.
- Custom GUI scaling.
- Intuitive patch management system.
- Several presets to get you started.
Pricing & Availability
Phonec3 is available as a VST3 and Audio Unit plugin for macOS and Windows for $89.
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