Audio Damage have updated Continua, currently available for:
- Desktop – £46.00 (usually £61.00)
- iOS – £6.99, (usually £9.99)
What’s new in version 1.2:
- Four new oscillator modes join the original Virtual Analog engine. Additive synthesis stacks 64 sine waves with individual amplitude control over every harmonic. Supersaw layers five detuned sawtooths – the classic trance and electronic texture, done properly. Supersquare does the same with square waves for a darker, more hollow result. IXA combines phase modulation and waveshaping in a method borrowed from an obscure early-90s synthesizer, producing sounds that sit somewhere between FM and analog.
- The new Arpeggiator offers eighteen patterns including standard up/down, Converge, Diverge, Brownian motion, Skip Up/Down, and more. A Chance knob introduces probabilistic rests for rhythmic variation. Everything syncs to your host’s temþo.
- The Genetics panel is a new way to find sounds you wouldn’t have designed intentionally. Open it with any patch loaded and Continua generates a branching tree of mutations – each node a subtly different version of your starting point. Click any node to hear it. Double-click to make it the new root and generate another generation of variations. Toggle which parameter categories can mutate – oscillators, filters, envelopes, LFOs, effects — and follow the branches wherever they lead.
- The preset browser has been completely overhauled with a cleaner four-column layout, faster navigation, and improved import/export.
- General performance improvements and compatibility updates for current operating systems.
Continua is a virtual analog synth with a twist: a continuously morphable threesome of oscillators. With three interconnected controls defining the wave shape, Continua has a virtually limitless supply of waveforms, especially when you add cross modulation and noise in to the mix.
With two morphing state-variable filters (morph between LP, HP, BP and notch in 2-pole and 4-pole topologies), Continua has a broad palette of tone-shaping at its disposal, and is well suited for long, complex, evolving soundscapes.
With a whole host of modulation possibilities, Continua is capable of both simple synth sounds or huge, evolving soundscapes. With two ADSRs and two Flexible Envelope Generators (essentially an envelope sequencer), plus four of our Flexible (continual waveshape) LFOs and a sophisticated sample & hold function, you can modulate any knob on the user interface with a simple right click (double tap in iOS.)
Continua is fully customizable to your taste and playing style. With full and extensive MPE support, it can take advantage of the extended control set of your Linnstrument, Seaboard, Soundplane, Continuum, or other MPE controller, and support for TUN files lets you use tuning tables. The resizable Hi-DPI GUI lets you adjust the size to match your visual needs, and the cross-platform preset mechanism lets you share your creations with your friends and collaborators, no matter what system they are using. Save your preferred settings as the default state, and Coninua will always be exactly what you need.
Features include:
- Three Flexible Oscillators: Continuously variable morphing waveform, with warp, shape, and skew controls.
- Dual Morphing Filters: Filters can be used in serial or parallel modes, and morph from lowpass through bandpass and highpass to notch in 2-pole and 4-pole configurations.
- Noise Source: Noise source features a “colour” control that affects tonal characteristics of the noise.
- ADSR x 2: Continua has two ADSR-style envelope generators, with a curve on the attack, decay, and release.
- Flexible Envelope Generator (FEG) x 2: The two FEGs are arbitrary function generators, with up to 99 steps, curve and step level control, arbitrary loop points, and host tempo sync.
- Flexible Low-Frequency Oscillator (FLFO) x 4: The four FLFOs utilize four controls (phase, shape, skew, and warp) to access a virtually limitless palette of waveforms, and feature host tempo sync and retrigger.
- Sample And Hold: The S&H mod source can sample noise (random) or any of the other mod sources, at either a user-defined rate or a musical division, and includes built-in smoothing and distance limit (for a “walk” effect).
- Modulation: Every knob in Continua is a mod destination, with a very fast and simple assignment matrix access with a right-click on the knob (double-tap on iOS).
- Tuning Tables And Global Tuning Offset: Re-tune Continua to new intonations and temperaments using the open-source and easy-to-use TUN file format. A global tuning offset (default to A=440) allows you to easily retune the entire synth to match a different A frequency without using a tuning table.
- MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression): Continua understands both “legacy” MIDI and MPE. Use your Linnstrument, Roli Seaboard, Haken Continuum, Madrona Labs Soundplane, or Sensel Morph (among others) to directly access per-note pressure, pitch bend, and modulation.
- Per-Instance Settings: Continua utilizes a per-instance customization method: set MPE mode, aftertouch smoothing, pitch bend range override, tuning table, and global tuning offset for each instance in your DAW, with an option to save any state as your global starting point.
- Factory Presets: Continua comes with a substantial collection of factory content, including Designer Presets from Red Means Recording, Glitch Machines, and Sonalsystem.
- Cross-Platform Preset Format: Continua utilizes an XML-based preset manager. Work between multiple systems without troubles.
- Fully Resizable Hi-Dpi/Retina GUI: Continua’s vector-based GUI is resolution-agnostic, and displays the same on every system and resolution. Easily resize the UI (per instance) to match your visual needs, from postage stamp to poster-sized.
- Continua is available to PC, Mac, Linux and iOS users (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, AUv3 and standalone).
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