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i8Uranus

New Product Alert! And it’s FREE too!

i8Uranus is a straightforward, 8-voice polysynth with familiar, uncomplicated architecture, honoring real-world behavior and limitations typical of mid-1980s analog polyphonic synthesizers.

FREE, for the time being! Currently available in Windows VST2, VST3, and CLAP formats. (We’re saving to get a new Mac capable of compiling this project for Apple Silicon. Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated at https://paypal.me/admiralquality)

This project is the first step in prototyping a modern code platform upon which to move our legacy plugin products into their futures. We still have a lot of work left to do in recreating their advanced GUI features (particularly support for all 3 VST mouse knob-modes, as well as features like snapping knob detents) and we’re going to do that with this product, which we’re offering for free to maximize our tester base.

All control ranges and response curves are best guesses and may be tweaked over time, so don’t get too attached to your patches just yet. (Still, please create them and send us your favorites!) Borrowed a lot of techniques from Poly-Ana, but there’s also some new DSP code in there, particularly the zero-delay filter. Envelope and velocity behavior are, again, best guesses as to how the digital/analog hybrid technology of the time behaved.

The voice is 99% there (we know, we forgot LO/HI range of the VCO-2 Range knob – next update!). Lots of room for optimization, so it should only get more CPU efficient from here. No oversampling tricks like our other products offer—if you want to do that, run your host project at a higher sample rate to render the synth parts out at. And yes, that’s self-noise and analog-drift you’re hearing and, no, sorry, you can’t tweak them, they’re hard-wired in. We’re embracing the limitations (and, we like to think, inspirations) of reality on this one.

Very much hope you like it. Enjoy!

– AQ

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Stunning Phaser 1.0.0 Released! 50% Off Sale!

Stunning Phaser 1.0.1
50% Off!

Stunning Phaser has been mature, working and tested as 100% bug-free for some time now, but we still owed you some presets and a User Manual, so here they are! This makes it official, Stunning Phaser 1.0 is feature-complete and is now the best new stereo (or mono) phaser plugin you didn’t know you needed! Producers, keyboardists and guitarists alike simply have to plug it in and take it for a test drive to immediately hear why, but a quick glance at its front panel will tell you there’s a lot more going on here than the typical three or four controls we expect on the usual phaser effect. LFO modulation is there, of course, and with twists we’re famous for like our Gliss-quanti feature that chops up LFO waves into musical intervals, and the same kind of envelope follower capability found in our SCAMP filter effect and famous Poly-Ana virtual-analog synthesizer, that adds lively, organic feeling animation to the phaser modulation based on the input audio performance. This one does some things you’ve likely never heard from any phaser before, solid or software!

Stunning Phaser also provides controls to simulate the flaws in analog circuit behavior; non-linearities, clipping, and imprecise frequency tuning between the phaser stages. You can have as much of those as you’d ever want, or dial them right back down to digital perfection – your choice! And what would an Admiral Quality product be without a — you guessed it — Quality control? You can throw CPU power at it for the most accurate phaser model you’ve ever heard, or dial it back down for economical performance (like every other phaser plug-in is stuck at!) Again, your choice! But our C++ code is fast and efficient, so even at the highest Quality setting (16x internal oversampling!), you’ll likely rarely need to turn it down.

Beyond LFO and envelope follower, the third modulation source Stunning Phaser offers is… you! Stunning Phaser takes MIDI CC# input for the two most performable controls, so use your favorite MIDI hardware expression pedals or controller keyboards to play it manually (or in combination with the LFO and envelope followers) — wah-wah/Uni-Vibe style! And of course, every control can be automated by your host software, and nobody implements flexible controls interfaces like we do — letting the user control preference of and switch on-the-fly between Linear, Circular, and Circular-Relative knob modes! Other real-world inspired interface features like knob “detents” that snap to “sweet spots” and draggable sliders (much easier to time musically than clicking – though that works too) demonstrate the same attention to detail and reproducing a natural-feeling physical interface experience that all our products share.

To celebrate, we’re offering Stunning Phaser and all our other products at 50% Off for a limited time. And if you’re a new customer and would like even more savings, this is a great time to jump on our Make Me One With Everything bundle deal that will save you a further $20 when you buy all our products together at once!

All our products are free to try, no time limits, you can even save and recall your work. So download them all right now and throw them into your latest project and get straight to real work with them — always the best way to evaluate software!

New: Installation on Apple Silicon.