SoundsDivine - Aalto 'Chaos Ripple'

This is great, but we also need the software. Where's Aalto? :P

Krazinkypows

This is great, but we also need the software. Where's Aalto?

If I can get 2 persons to give me the retail version

Demo versions do not count

Then I or ASSiGN can find and have the watermarks removed off the software

Watch and hear = https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q9rJIilSBso

System requirements

Both Mac and Windows versions are fully 32- and 64-bit compatible. Mac versions requires OS 10.5 or higher. Windows versions require Windows XP or 7. Windows Vista may work, but is not officially supported. All versions require a 1.6GHz Intel Core Duo processor or better.

Aalto is quite heavy on the CPU (CPU intensive)! A 1.6 GHz Core Duo should be able to run all four voices without skipping, but this may take almost half of the CPU. Results vary between hosts and operating systems — the best thing to do is try the demo before purchase.

Copy Protection

Aalto doesn't have it. Copy protection always creates hassles for legitimate users, and is by definition a hassle. Our approach is different.

What we do is watermark each copy of Aalto securely with your name and a unique ID. At any time, Aalto may unobtrusively check to ensure that the terms of the license are being respected. Since you are only licensed to run one copy at a time, and we're all so connected these days, we assume you will be very careful about where your watermarked copies go.

Specs: Aalto From Madrona Labs Is A Patchable Softsynth

Aalto is a semi-modular software synthesizer with an innovative, patchable UI and distinctive sounds. You can try Aalto for free and we encourage you to do so. If you decide to buy the full version, it will set you back $99. Click for more.

Aalto’s sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now. The heart of Aalto is a Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds. These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.

Aalto is designed as much for sequencing patterns as for playing individual notes. Each voice has a separate, built-in sequencer with a patchable, independently controllable rate and offset that make it easy to achieve evolving, chaotic textures.

Each voice also includes a lowpass gate module with a vactrol emulation in the control path. The vactrol equation slows down the response to incoming control signals through a complex nonlinear filter. You can turn the vactrol response down to instantaneous, or up to a pronounced ring.

Following the lowpass gate is a patchable waveguide / delay module with a waveshaper and a peaking EQ built into the feedback loop. Because it has such short and controllable delay times, unlike a typical analog delay, it can be used as an additional oscillator or waveguide.

Aalto’s filter is a state-variable topology with mixable simultaneous outputs, tuned to have a similar range to an Oberheim SEM filter. (Though I couldn’t resist turning up the resonance just a little more.)

Subjectively speaking, Aalto can make a wide range of sounds, from lush to edgy, including some very complicated ones, without sounding too thick in a mix. Aalto’s sounds are not hyped or confined, they are wide-range, open and natural. We hope our approach will appeal to experienced sound designers who have their own favorite EQs and limiters. And for those just getting into synthesis, Aalto is an accurate and honest tool for learning. We have tried to make Aalto a deep instrument that will reward lasting engagement.

BoomBoomPash
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Yes it's one of those intruments that will keep serving you for years. The sound is exemplary!

Krazinkypows
This is great, but we also need the software. Where's Aalto?

If I can get 2 persons to give me the retail version

Demo versions do not count

Then I or ASSiGN can find and have the watermarks removed off the software

Yes it sounds very good !!!! If someone wants to buy it with me, I'm in ! (49.5$ each) And then send it to Horse

I would pay 49.50$ for it.

I am surprised at how well this audio unit sounds. To me it sounds like Omnisphere and Alchemy put together IMHO. Very appealing and original. Can't wait to try it someday...

AudioThanXXX!

you really think it sounds like alchemy+omnisphere(especially some of alchemies nicer pads) judging by youtube videos it doesn't?

Alucard,

What "nicer pads" you referring to? I am simply curious. Ever since I installed the Alchemy 1.25 off AudioZ, I haven't been able to load preset sounds. There is a "fix" that I need to look into...

Back to your original quesiton, I do own both omni and alchemy and under my use extensive use with omni and moderate use with alchemy I would say ALTO does sound similar to Spectrasonics and even more so to Camel Audio. I would have to use it before rating it within their respective caliber however. Really hope it shows up on AudioZ soon!

These are the following presets I would love to use from the youtube demo: 0:15, 1:00, 1:30. Nice chatting with you.

This one is a real interesting synth for sure,thanks !