Inear Display has introduced Lancinantes, a new drone synth plugin for Mac & Windows.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
Lancinantes is a drone synthesizer plugin : having no amplitude control envelope its oscillators are freely running, generating a constant sound. Three special additive oscillators are layered, allowing the creation of chords that can be conformed to a melodic scale.
The oscillators are built around harmonic combinations where each partial has a random amplitude modulation applied to create perpetual subtle variations. New sets of harmonics can manually be regenerated at will.
A mixer section allows you to adjust individual oscillators levels as well as the amplitudes of a sub oscillator and a white noise generator. The mixer output then goes through a resonant filter, an overdrive, a delay, and a reverb to further shape the sound.
Most of the settings can be set to random values thanks to a versatile randomizer section.
Features:
- Continuous Sound Output
- Additive Oscillators based on Random Modulations of the Harmonics
- 3 Oscillator Layers to create Chords
- Up to 32 Harmonics per Layer
- Sub Oscillator
- White Noise Generator
- Mixer to Combine the Sound Generators
- Resonant Lowpass/Highpass Filter
- Overdrive
- Delay with Feedback Damping
- Reverb
- Optional MIDI Key Tracking
- Quantize the Notes to Melodic Scales
- Scale Root Note Setting
- 13 Melodic Scales
- Extensive Randomization Options : Notes, Mixer, Filter, Harmonics, All
- Graphical Plot of the Oscillators Harmonics
- 11 Factory Presets
- Scalable User Interface
- Cross-Platform presets
Audio Demo:
Pricing and Availability:
Lancinantes is available now with an intro price of 20€ + VAT (normally 39€).
Interesting sounds but I think we need a proper video demo for this to demonstrate what it can do, how much sonic variety can be achieved and whether it’s ultimately mostly random or you have some control over timbre.
Richard,
You have lots of control over the timbre. The pitch of the oscillators are not random. The randomizer buttons are just for finding new, interesting sounds. You can, basically, randomize a new preset.
The PDF manual is very easy to understand and it’s about 15 pages. A very quick read and it will all make sense. There is a demo version available. You can see for yourself what it can do. I spent last evening recording things with it.
I like it very much.