VSTBuzz are offering 80% off BioTek 2 by Tracktion for a limited time, now only €39.00, (usually €185.00). The offer ends August 8th.
BioTek 2 is a premium quality instrument that combines an advanced synthesis engine with a stunning array of sampled sounds from natural, urban and mechanical environments.
Built on the entirely new Acktion platform, this organic “synthesizer” sounds like nothing else. This is a powerhouse sampling and synthesis workstation offering unlimited sound design in a unique and inspirational environment – evolve your own sound!
In a world full of virtual instruments, BioTek 2 was designed to be different from the ground up.
Not only is the engine more capable than existing offerings, but the choice to use natural and environmental samples gave the instrument its unique character.
The user interface was designed to allow rapid access to inspirational parameters via macro controls on the main ‘Wild’ page whilst also presenting access to the deep editing environment.
Extensive modulation and modifier routes are intuitively assigned and all parameters are available for DAW automation.
The deep sound creation possibilities include four sound layers with four oscillators that offers the typical analog waveforms and granular sample playback, extensive frequency modulation and a separate white and pink noise generator.
The unique ‘Spinal Saw’ oscillator allows you to have up to 11 detuned sawtooth waves within a single oscillator. Considering BioTek features 4 oscillators per voice, this gives you a total of 44 sawteeth per sound layer – and you can have unlimited sound layers per patch.
Perfect for making thick leads, huge pads and rumbling synth basses – unleash the beast!
The BioTek 2 granular oscillator extracts sound grains from the sample of your choice and redistributes them into dense clouds, scattered drops or any density in-between. This allows you to create everything from uniquely textured musical instruments to otherworldly soundscapes.
The oscillator itself provides a useful visual reference for how the grains relate to the source sample, showing playback position and pitch relationships. The BioTek 2 granular oscillator brings a mighty storm surge of synthesis to an already powerful engine.
Features include:
- Spinal Saw Oscillator Type with up to 11 sawtooth oscillators in one, with FM and in-oscillator sync
- Granular Sample Oscillator Type, with FM
- Transistor Ladder Filter Type with 6, 12, 18 and 24 dB lowpass characteristic and resonance up to self-oscillation for all slopes
- Sallen-Key Filter Type with 12 dB lowpass characteristic
- Automation of all parameters (some hosts might be limited to first sound layer)
- Dedicated browser page with filters for author, category, style and timbre and full-text search
- Assign Source Info Menus showing where a modulation source is assigned to
- 500+ factory patches
- 4 virtual analog/sample playback oscillators
- 4 operator FM synthesis (can use samples)
- Sync, Ring Mod, PWM, waveshaping
- 2 multimode filters in series with distortion and EQ
- Filter Types: 4-pole & 2-pole LP, BP, HP, BS (Notch) 1-pole LP, HP Comb (Tuned Delay for Karplus Strong) Redux (SR, Bit Reducer)
- 200 modulation routes, 32 modifier routes (performing mathematical functions on the modulation sources), assignable GUI macro controls
- 8 Flow LFOs (each with 8 individual parallel syncable sub LFOs)
- 4 effects in series
- Effects Types: Reverb Delay Compressor/Limiter Distortion Chorus Flanger Phaser Redux
- 4 envelopes (can be up to 32 stages with looping sustain and release sections, curvatures for each stage)
BioTek 2 is available to PC, Mac and Linux users (VST, AU and AAX).
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