Announced earlier in the year, LinPlug has now released the Albino 2 Synthesizer.
In 2002 Rob Papen approached Peter
Linsener of LinPlug with his idea of a
sound-designers dream synth. A few
months later ALBINO was born, and now a major update is ready as well.
The Albino 2 features:
32-step arpeggiator
"velocity values","tie" and "off" function for each step,
Several modes including a chord mode, modulation mode, up, down, up/down, up/down+, down/up, down/up+, as played and random mode.
Keyboard retrigger on/off for the pattern
Swing function,
Velocity of pattern or keyboard velocity mix knob.
Save, load, copy, past, init functions for the complete arpeggiator settings.
New preset browser.
More than 1100 presets
Chord memory mode, with the setting saved within a preset.
Oscillator SYNC option in Analog Oscillator 2 and 4
New digital spectrum waveforms
Spread function for ultra fat detune sounds
New Flanger FX
Oscillators activity led
Stereo panning knob in Phaser FX
Additional new Chorus
New GUI
Keyboard velocity curve respond
Microtuning for different scales, Indian, Arabic etc,
Other Key Features:
VST2.0 / AU plug-in virtual synthesizer for PC and Mac OS-X
Modular and extendable design with 3 Oscillator types Modules, 2 Filter types Modules, 2 Envelope types Modules and 6 Effect types Modules
32 note polyphonic (CPU dependent)
Unlimited sound programs, sound browser, style maps, midi program change
Up to 4 Oscillator per voice, various high quality Oscillator types with countless waveforms
Oscillator Amplitude and Frequency Modulation, Oscillator "Pulse Width Modulation"
2 Stereo Filters per voice, each with 2 types (Silk type and Cream type) of multimode filters, altogether 12 filter modes
8 envelopes with 2 types each . ADSFR type and 5-stage envelope type with loop function. Each oscillator has its own volume envelope.
4 individual LFO's with various waveforms, broad range of tempo sync, Symmetry and Phase adjustable, additional LFO-DAD-Envelopes, mono mode
Modulation Matrix which includes 8 routings with 27 sources and 33 destinations.
2 effects blocks containing 8 stereo effect including 2 different Chorus', 2 different Delays, Filter/Distortion, Phaser, Reverb and Flanger
