Tone2 Audio has released an update for their multilayer-synthesizer-workstation Electra. The update to v3.5 is a major update and is free for anyone who bought Electra 3. Owners of older versions can upgrade with a discount.
The update is downward compatible with previous versions. Existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound-quality.
New in Electra 3.5
4 additional INSERT FX slots:
- Each of the 4 layers has an additional insert effect slot. Here you can pick from from 64 different effect types.
20 additional MATRIX slots:
- Each of the 4 layers now has 5 additional modulation matrix slots. They can be accessed by clicking on the ’11-15′ button.
9 new filter types:
- LP MS-20: A screaming lowpass filter with self-oscillation. It sounds analog and uses 0-delay technology.
- Phaser 2x: Analog 4-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Phaser 3x: Analog 6-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Phaser 4x: Analog 8-stage phaser with negative feedback.
- Phaser 5x: Analog 10-stage phaser with positive feedback.
- Formant 1x: Analog formant filter with soft saturation.
- Formant 2x: Analog formant filter with two peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 3x: Analog formant filter with three peaks and soft saturation.
- Formant 4x: Analog formant filter with four peaks and soft saturation.
Enhanced sound:
- Major and minor chords sound better with the microtuning mode ‘Fat tune clean’.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverbs Hall and Room. They have a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverbs Infinity, Cathedral and Big. They have a smoother rolloff, less phasing, higher precision and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of the Reverbs Glass, Plate and Cold. They have a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of Delay. It has a nicer stereo field and better default values.
- Enhanced sound of Delay Band. It has a nicer stereo field.
- Enhanced sound of Delay Diffuse. It has a nicer stereo field.
- Psychoacoustic processing is now calculated with 64-bit precision.
- The equalizer is now calculated with 64-bit precision.
- The enhanced FFT precision results in more accurate resampling of waveforms.
- COPY->Stack unison sounds more in-tune.
New features for the GUI:
- A small target icon is shown next to the ENVELOPE and LFO which can be used for drag & drop.
- It is now possible to change the LFO speed by clicking on the frequency display.
More easy layering of sounds:
- It is now possible to copy and paste layers among different synth instances.
- ‘FILE->Load patch to synth layer’ now opens the patch browser where you can comfortably stack a patch.
- ‘PASTE->Load a patch to current layer’ opens the patch browser where you can comfortably stack a patch.
Enhancements for the GUI:
- The skins for the ZOOM levels 66% and 100% are sharper.
- The animations of displays and other GUI elements are smoother. They are twice as fast.
- More precise graphics for the box shadows.
- The BROWSER button is wider and is not longer called BROWS.
- The menu entries in COPY and PASTE have been reworked to be more straightforward.
- Initializing a layer or patch sets the current envelope and matrix tab to the first one.
- Enabling a layer with the ON button automatically selects the layer for editing.
- When using drag & drop the correctly linked matrix page is always shown automatically.
- Loop-points are hidden if no sample is used.
- More detailed descriptions for some tooltips.
- LFO frequency is shown more precisely.
- It is not longer possible to freeze the synth by importing gigantic wave files as waveforms.
- Many small enhancements.
Further enhancements:
- Workaround for crappy DAWs that return garbage vales as BPM-rate or song-position.
- Better default values for the ‘init’ patch.
Fixes:
- Fixed a typo in ‘OSC23 FM’.
- ‘LP Butter’ and some fractal filters could emit a tiny click under very special conditions.
- Removed a tiny DC offset that could occur with Delay Wide if LOW CUT is set to exactly 0.
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