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Retro AS-1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer

Retro AS-1 is the full-featured professional software synthesizer from BitHeadz. At last there is software that is so convenient and sounds so fantastic, your Mac OS or Windows 95 computer will become your favorite sound module! Using sizzling new DSP technology, you can recreate the sounds of all the classic analog synthesizers or create amazing new soundscapes of your own from scratch with full programmability.

Just imagine... your creativity will no longer be stifled by "old-school" hardware limitations on oscillators, filters, modulation, and effects. And of course, it's fully polyphonic and multi-timbral, with fast response time, and more. Extensive MIDI implementation allows real-time control of all parameters and easy integration into existing MIDI setups.You can play Retro AS-1 "live" just like any other musical instrument with layers, splits, and full MIDI continuous control, or use it as a multi-timbral sound module running behind your favorite MIDI application on the same computer.

Use the full-featured arpeggiator to generate analog-style "sequences". You can even write the synthesizer's complete multi-timbral stereo output to disk as an audio file for use in your favorite digital audio applications. Is it too good to be true? No! Computer hardware and software is finally fast enough to execute our latest "rocket science" music technology, and you get to enjoy the benefits of it. Retro AS-1 will provide you with a wealth of new sonic opportunities.

FEATURES:

• Outstanding 24-bit, 96kHz sound quality
• Excellent real-time play response time
• 100 percent programmable
• Over 100 parameters per program; up to 200 values per parameter
• "Musician Friendly" user interface
• Unlimited presets; includes 1000 factory presets
• Full simultaneous MIDI application compatibility
• Up to 64 note polyphony (CPU dependent)
• CPU limiting to accommodate MIDI applications
• On-screen keyboard; no MIDI controller required to trigger sounds
• Ability to write synthesizer output to disk in 8, or 16, or 24-bit audio file format
• Stereo output
• Up to 3 oscillators per voice (not including low frequency oscillators)
• 8-octave range per oscillator
• 9 waveform types: Saw, Pulse, Triangle, Sine, Sine squared, Glottal, Noise (white, pink, red)
• Continuous control of waveform symmetry
• Sync any oscillator to any other oscillator or filter
• Frequency modulation from any oscillator or filter
• 2 assignable filters per voice
• 13 filter types, including 4-pole resonant lowpass, highpass, bandpass, allpass, notch, and state-variable
• Multiple inputs allow parallel and/or serial filtering
• Filters can be modulated by oscillators ("poly mod")
• Dozens of modulation routings
• Dozens of envelopes and low frequency oscillators ("LFO's")
• Six different LFO shapes
• LFO's can be synchronized to MIDI clock
• Most parameters are available as a modulation source and/or destination
• Four continuous MIDI controller modulation sources are available simultaneously
• 2 insert (serial) effects processors per voice
• 2 additional global (parallel) effects processors
• 2 global effect sends per MIDI channel
• Fully parametric and shelf equalizers
• Multiple stereo reverb and reflection algorithms
• Stereo delays, chorus, phaser, and flange
• Overdrive and distortion effects
• Delay times can be synchronized to MIDI clock
• Multiple latch and assignment modes
• Enter notes manually or use on-screen keyboard for controller-free play
• Arpeggiator can be synchronized to MIDI clock
• MIDI Processor enables full control of layers and splits
• 16 simultaneous MIDI channel multi-timbral
• Real-time control of all parameters simultaneously via NRPNs
• Serial port application included for direct MIDI input (Mac OS only)
• Macintosh G4 and Pentium III optimization
• Increased maximum number of voices to 64
• DirectConnect support for ProTools integration (currently Mac only)
• Stereo signal path for oscillators and insert effects
• More oscillator types and improved oscillator resolution and fidelity
• External audio input to ring modulator, filters, and trigger
• Stereo individual channel outputs via Rewire
• Ring modulator
• More filter types, slope, threshold, comb
• Delay parameter for all modulators
• More insert effect types including pitch shift, multi-tap chorus, and degrade
• Automatic publishing of OMS and FreeMIDI names
• Patch names support for PC version of Logic Audio, Cubase VST, and Cakewalk Pro Audio
• Improved user interface
• Over 1400 patches including presets by Sound Burst
• Audio input/output matrix for ASIO and Direct I/O devices allowing
• 32 separate channelized outputs
• 8 assignable controller remappings: any controller to any other controller

System Requirements Mac OS

• 32 megabytes RAM (64 recommended)
• 120MHz or faster PowerPC® processor, G3 recommended
• 40 MB free hard disk space
• Compatible CD-ROM drive
• 800 x 600 or higher resolution monitor with 256 (8-bit) or more colors
• Operating system software version 7.6.1 or higher (OS 8 or higher recommended)

System Requirements Windows

• 32 megabytes RAM (64 recommended)
• 200MHz or faster Pentium® processor
• 40 MB free hard disk space
• 800 x 600 or higher resolution monitor with 256 (8-bit) or more colors
• Windows 95 or 98 operating system software
• DirectX supported sound card