Big Tick Rainbow

Rainbow is gaining reputation as a really good standalone & VSTi synth - check it out.

Rainbow can be used either as a standalone synth, or as a VST2.0 plugin (it has been tested with Cubase 3.7, Logic Audio Platinum 4.7, FruityLoops 3.0, and Orion 2.2). Standalone operation requires a soundcard with DirectSound drivers, and a midi controller. Thanks to an original mixture of FM, AM, additive and substractive synthesis, Rainbow is able to produce a wide assortment of sounds, from analog emulations or synthesized drums to 80's electric pianos or synth basses.

Features

Oscillators section

4 fully independent oscillators per voice
Separate level enveloppe for each oscillators
Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle, Noise waveforms are available
Every oscillator can be mixed into the audio output.
A Waveshaping (WS) control allows to add distorsion to any oscillator
Keyboard (KS) and Velocity (VS) control over the oscillator level.
Fr�quency modulation (FM) and/or Amplitude modulation (AM) controls.

Filter section

Rainbow is equiped with a multimode filter (lowpass, highpass or bandpass) with resonance and cutoff controls.
The "x2" button can be used to toggle the filter between 2 poles (-12dB/Oct) and 4 poles (-24 dB/Oct).
A dedicated filter enveloppe can be used to modulate the filter cutoff, with a variable mod control.
Cutoff and Resonance can also be controlled by the playing velocity, using the VS.C and VS.R knobs.

Step sequencer

The built-in 16 steps sequencer allows to generate hypnotic patterns and unique effects.
The sequencer can be synced to the host tempo.
Random sequencer mode, to emulate the wonderful features of the Jupiter series arpeggiators.

Pitch envelope

Global pitch envelope
Glide (portamento) with controllable time.
Mono mode (for these acid bass lines)

Built-in stereo chorus

Rainbow integrates a simplified version of the Hexaline stereo chorus.
Perfect for fattening the sound, or for ambient special effects (when using extreme feedback values).

S'posed to be a good one this - it has a large loyal & enthusiastic following and is rated highly by the s/w community.... check it out & try the demo!!...

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