Image Line Software Introduces A Revolution To The World Of Additive Synthesis With Morphine 1.0
United States
English
Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, July 11, 2007 — Image Line Software, the creator of FL Studio, has released its first additive synthesizer, Morphine. With a flexible architecture and low CPU usage algorithms that retain a warm sound, Morphine introduces a revolution to the world of Additive Synthesis. Available in AudioUnit, VSTi and Standalone versions.
“The development of Morphine was a long, stressful process -- it took thousands of man-hours work, but it was worth it,” said Maxx Claster, the developer of Morphine. “Now we have a powerful additive synthesizer with a tightly optimized, high-quality sound engine, great resynthesis features and a logical user-friendly interface.”
Breaking the Myth of Additive Synthesis
Additive synthesis has long been considered complicated and difficult to implement, but Morphine sweeps aside these perceptions. In many ways, Morphine can be compared to a multi-sampler that plays “synthetic” samples. Morphine can capture the harmonic variations of any sound, as a series of snapshots or breakpoints, and “plays” by interpolating a series of breakpoints in real-time. Users also have the freedom to program the breakpoints manually. Additive synthesis in Morphine seems simple and, in fact, it really is.
High quality sound
Morphine’s pristine and detailed sound is guaranteed by the 128 harmonic oscillator engine, optimized for fast amplitude and frequency modulation across an unlimited number of harmonic snapshots per spectrum.
Just like the original
If authentic reproduction of instruments is important to you then Morphine will deliver by taking any audio sample and automatically “resynthesizing” it. Morphine has four generators per voice with each generator able to map a unique sound on every note, if needed. The noise generator can mix library or user-specified audio samples back into the resynthesized sound to reproduce more complex untuned noises associated with acoustic instruments such as breath, key and hammer sounds. Together, these features allow the accurate recreation of almost any acoustic instrument.
Effects
Morphine incorporates several built-in effects including Portamento, Distortion, Chorus, Stereo Delay, Reverb and 8-band Graphic Equalization, for creating a perfectly customized sound.
Presets
Complex evolving pads, deep basses, acoustic instruments, synthetic leads and keyboards -- everything is possible with Morphine, which ships with 290 high-quality factory sounds, covering a broad range of music styles.
Key features:
System requirements
Price and availability
Until the end of July 2007, Morphine is available for USD $99. Regular retail pricing will be USD $159.
Morphine can be ordered from FL Studio Web shop.
Demo
A fully functional demo is available at the Image Line website.
About Image Line Software:
Established in 1994, Image Line Software provides high quality music applications to the computer-based music community and is well known for its leading digital audio workstation FL Studio (formerly Fruityloops), high quality synthesizers including Sytrus, PoiZone and ToxicIII, a mix of innovative Effect plugins and range of sample libraries used in their multi-sampler plugins DirectWave and Soundfont Player. In May 2007 Image Line Software released its acclaimed DJ mixing software application Deckadance. In addition to their audio software, Image-Line develop and distribute the web site building application, EZGenerator.
“The development of Morphine was a long, stressful process -- it took thousands of man-hours work, but it was worth it,” said Maxx Claster, the developer of Morphine. “Now we have a powerful additive synthesizer with a tightly optimized, high-quality sound engine, great resynthesis features and a logical user-friendly interface.”
Breaking the Myth of Additive Synthesis
Additive synthesis has long been considered complicated and difficult to implement, but Morphine sweeps aside these perceptions. In many ways, Morphine can be compared to a multi-sampler that plays “synthetic” samples. Morphine can capture the harmonic variations of any sound, as a series of snapshots or breakpoints, and “plays” by interpolating a series of breakpoints in real-time. Users also have the freedom to program the breakpoints manually. Additive synthesis in Morphine seems simple and, in fact, it really is.
High quality sound
Morphine’s pristine and detailed sound is guaranteed by the 128 harmonic oscillator engine, optimized for fast amplitude and frequency modulation across an unlimited number of harmonic snapshots per spectrum.
Just like the original
If authentic reproduction of instruments is important to you then Morphine will deliver by taking any audio sample and automatically “resynthesizing” it. Morphine has four generators per voice with each generator able to map a unique sound on every note, if needed. The noise generator can mix library or user-specified audio samples back into the resynthesized sound to reproduce more complex untuned noises associated with acoustic instruments such as breath, key and hammer sounds. Together, these features allow the accurate recreation of almost any acoustic instrument.
Effects
Morphine incorporates several built-in effects including Portamento, Distortion, Chorus, Stereo Delay, Reverb and 8-band Graphic Equalization, for creating a perfectly customized sound.
Presets
Complex evolving pads, deep basses, acoustic instruments, synthetic leads and keyboards -- everything is possible with Morphine, which ships with 290 high-quality factory sounds, covering a broad range of music styles.
Key features:
- High-quality sound engine optimized for low CPU usage with fast amplitude and frequency modulation response
- 4 independent “generators” per voice
- Keyboard layering with 128 unique keyboard zones
- Unlimited number of harmonic “snapshots” (breakpoints) per spectrum
- Amplitude, detune, and panning control for all harmonics
- Filtering and velocity response for each Generator source
- Highly CPU optimized, accurate resynthesis, allowing emulation of audisamples with high precision
- Manual override options for the resynthesis process tachieve accurate emulations
- Ability timport wave shapes from audifiles
- Variable-time control for spectra, mix/morph envelopes (can alsbe linked tkey number, velocity or any other controller)
- 4 PWM filters (spectral emulation of comb filtering, unison or pulse-width)
- Additional generator that allows any noise sample audifile tbe mixed with the synthesized sound, complete with filtering
- A morphing path, which morphs harmonics in real-time, controlled internally or from external modulation source(s)
- A morphing square, which mixes the 4 generator sources in a single, convenient interface
- Four multipoint (EG) envelopes, which can be routed tvarious internal Morphine controls
- 1 t32 note polyphony, user-selectable
- ADSR master envelope
- Adjustable velocity response
- Up t5 in-built simultaneous effects: Chorus, Delay, Reverb, Equalizer, Distortion
- Attractive, user-friendly interface, developed through thousands of man-hours of testing and development
- 290 high-quality factory sounds
- Available in VSTi, AudiUnits and Standalone versions.
System requirements
- Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, OS X 10.4
- Processor: Minimum 2GHz Intel Pentium III compatible with SSE support, G4 PowerPC on Macintosh with full Altivec support.
- RAM: 512 MB
- Hard disk space: 130 MB
Price and availability
Until the end of July 2007, Morphine is available for USD $99. Regular retail pricing will be USD $159.
Morphine can be ordered from FL Studio Web shop.
Demo
A fully functional demo is available at the Image Line website.
About Image Line Software:
Established in 1994, Image Line Software provides high quality music applications to the computer-based music community and is well known for its leading digital audio workstation FL Studio (formerly Fruityloops), high quality synthesizers including Sytrus, PoiZone and ToxicIII, a mix of innovative Effect plugins and range of sample libraries used in their multi-sampler plugins DirectWave and Soundfont Player. In May 2007 Image Line Software released its acclaimed DJ mixing software application Deckadance. In addition to their audio software, Image-Line develop and distribute the web site building application, EZGenerator.
