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Halion one11/9/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() #HALION ONE WINDOWS#RAST-A is available now for Windows and MacOS for £51. Check out the video below to see what I mean. It may not have enough tinkering for people into deeper synthesis but you can’t deny the loveliness of those sounds. The sound is pretty amazing for a virtual instrument and the front panel is refreshingly straight forward. There are also some deeper settings hidden away behind the virtual front panel to offer things like per-voice portamento, detuning and drifting options.Ī couple of slightly unusual things are that you can change the colour of the GUI (woo!) and apparently having “fewer presets” is now a key feature. In fact, it really feels like it’s been designed for simplicity and ease of use. Separate ADSR envelopes for the filter and the amplifier and a simple LFO patching matrix makes it look very very simple to use. The two oscillators per voice can be set to saw or pulse waveforms with sync and pulse width modulation. ![]() There are 6 voices to play with and each can be tuned and shaped differently. The GUI editor looks pretty neat with all the familiar style buttons and knobs you’d find on the Oberheim synths. This is not some kind of sample pack based instrument, this is good and deep virtual analogue synthesis. They also talk about oscillator drift due to temperature and the accuracy of their modelled analogue filter. Steinberg says that RAST-A models “the musical influence of individual hardware components on sound”. With a name like that you would immediately imagine there’s some kind of Bob Marley tie-in but this seems to be about big pads, stabs and synth sounds rather than anything particularly dub inspired – so we just have to go with it. ![]()
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