French company Rhizomatic Software Synthesis has announced the release of Synestia, a multi-effect plugin for the creative sound processing.
Synestia combines eight effects: physical modeled resonators, filters, modulated delays, distortion and more. All parameters can be controlled by any combination of a wide selection of dynamic modulators. They say that its flexible and unique approach to patching opens unexpected possibilities, and brings signal routing under the control of modulation.
Synestia Effects Include:
- Sympathetic: An array of 6 physical-modeled resonators. Sympathetic responds to the audio it’s fed with shimmering harmonic textures.
- Diffuse Delay: A network of modulated delays, covering a huge range of sounds, from shifting metallic resonances to vast spaces.
- Echoes: A pair of delays with lots of character, from 0.1ms to 10 seconds in length.
- Dual Ladder: A pair of self-oscillating multi-mode filters. Combine them to create dynamic new filter shapes.
- Distortion: Saturation and Wavefolding mayhem, with a selection of dynamic waveshapes.
- Sidebands: Frequency Shifting with its own feedback delay for unique effects.
- Flanger: Deep modulated delay effects. Flanger covers a very wide palette of tonalities.
- Formants: Rich and complex filter resonances.
MIDI Control: Synestia’s Sympathetic resonators can be played by MIDI note input, with MPE and microtuning support. And all modulators can be triggered by MIDI notes, opening all kinds of possibilities for rhythmic effect control.
Modulation: Modulators can be triggered rhythmically, freely looped, or triggered by MIDI and audio input. Modulation depth, polarity, inversion and more are all adjustable per-parameter, making modulation control very precise.
Synestia Modulators Include:
- 8 Macros provide control over groups of parameters, making it easy to expressively modify any preset. All factory presets have extensive macro assignments.
- 3 Multi-Segment Envelopes with up to 128 segments and precise editing of breakpoint parameters.
- Envelope Follower-Trigger: Make Synestia’s effects respond expressively to musical input.
- 3 LFOs with Sample and Hold, plus a unique chaos control to break up cyclic monotony.
- 3 ADSR which are fast and precise.
- 3 Random Generators for obscuring predictability.
Synestia was developed by Brian Clevinger, creator of Rhizomatic’s Plasmonic and Native Instruments‘ Absynth.
Pricing and Availability.
Synestia is available on the Rhizomatic website at an introductory price of $79/€79, increasing to $119/€119 after the promotional period. A free demo of Synestia is available at this link.
