Devine Machine Announces Kirshna Soft Synth
French concern, Devine Machine has created a movie trailer to pimp their new Kirshna soft synth.
Here’s a rundown of the Kirshna’s specs:
Main Features:
• New Synthesis System (Frame Oscillator)
• Sound/Speech/Waveform importation with Frame Analysis Technology (F.A.T.)
• Full Control Over Frame Rate and (re)Animation of imported sounds
• Variable PWM Effect
• Mirror Effect
• Mirror Quantized Effect
• Repeat Effect.
• Bit Reduction Effect
• Lo.fi Effect
• Squarer Effect
• Exclusive Draw Screen
• 9 Sizable Draw Tools to draw Frame Oscillator :Sine, Triangle, Ellipse, Square, Line, Noise, Harmonic, Smooth, Pencil
• Several interpolation modes
• Volume and Pan control
• Coarse Control(-36/+36 semitones)
• Fine Tune Control (-50/+50th of a semitone)
• User friendly Import Menu
• Batch Import
• Preset Randomizer (choose any number, the same number generates the same random preset)
• Mini Preset Browser
• Big Parameter Read-out in the central screen
• Visual Modulation Routing
• Over 1000 presets
Analog Model Oscillators
• 2 Analog Model oscillators
• 5 Oscillator shapes on both Analog Oscillators : Saw, Sine, Square, Triangle, Noise
• Volume and Pan control
• Coarse Control(-36/+36 semitones)
• Fine Tune Control (-50/+50th of a semitone)
• Old synthetizer defect emulation for each oscillator
• Desync for each oscillator
Filters / Post Oscillator Synthesis
• 3 Fat Analog Model Filters (Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass)
• FM Synthesis
• RM Synthesis
• AM Synthesis
LFOs
• 5 LFOs, each with 3 bipolar sends
• Free drag’n drop assignation to any control on screen
• 108 internal modulation destinations
• 16 external MIDI OUT modulation destinations
• 11 LFO shapes : Saw, Inverse Saw, Triangle, Sine, Chaos, Square, Noise, Log, Inverse Log, Triangle Log, Ellipse
• 6 Drawable LFO Step Sequencers Shapes: Simple, Ramp, Saw, half-Saw, Soft, fine
• Speed Settings : from 32 Bars to 128th with dotted and triplets, and up to note frequency multiples
• LFO Phase Control for each LFO
• Unipolar/Bipolar switch for each LFO
• LFO per voice (Polyphonic), or synced (Monophonic) for each LFO
• Perfect Sync of LFO with host tempo and timecode
• LFO Speeder knob : Up all LFO rates live with a single control
• Feedbacked LFOs : LFOs can control LFOs/AHDSRs
• Knob Movement Recorder : get control movement recorded into LFO
• LFO Visual Feedback : see the action of LFO directly on the destination
• LFO Visual Routing : any control affected by LFO shows up in green
Envelopes
• 3 Envelopes with Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release
• Free drag’n drop assignation to any control on screen
• 108 internal modulation destinations
• 16 external MIDI OUT modulation destinations
• Five respons modes : Velocity, Key, Velocity Sync, Key Sync,Velocity To Decay
• Envelope discreet parameters : time in samples of the “zero ms” attack/release
• Feedbacked AHDSRs : AHDSRs can control LFOs/AHDSRs
• AHDSR Visual Feedback : see the action of AHDSR directly on the destination
• AHDSR Visual Routing : any control affected by AHDSR shows up in yellow
• Auto-Zoom Envelope to Screen Adjust
• Showing all envelopes by soft transparency
Note Step Sequencer
• 16 Steps Sequencer
• 128 Pattern Memories
• Step Size from 1 to 16
• +2/-2 Octave Control for each step
• Slide Control for each step
• Velocity Control for each step
• 2 Randomizers (Intelligent/Chaotic)
• Speed Settings : from 32 Bars to 128th, with dotted and triplet
Effects
• Tube Emulation with customizable cabinet size and frequency
• Full High Quality Effect Chain
• Phaser
• Flanger
• Chorus
• Delay
• Reverb
• Several Models of Phaser, Flanger, Chorus and Delay
• Perfect sync of effect parameters with host tempo and timecode
• Effect Preset Managers including dozens of Effects Presets
Play Modes
• Legato
• Mono
• Unison using from 1 to 16 note (user selection)
• Unison Pitch detune (added to each extra unison voice)
• Unison Phase delay (same)
• Unison Random Pitch detune (same)
• Unison Random Phase delay (same)
• Unison Master Level Compensation to avoid output saturation
• Free polyphony per preset : from 1 (mono) to 16
• Time or Distance Portamento
• Build-in Hold implementation
• Distinct Up and down values for Pitchbend range
• 16 voice polyphony
• Preset Master Tuning
• Global Master Tuning
MIDI Features
• Advanced and visual MIDI Learn Mode
• MIDI Learn Edit Screen
• MIDI Controller number and Channel Edit
• MIDI Learn invertable min and max Edit
• MIDI Intelligent Random Mutate
• MIDI OUT Full Implementation
• MIDI out controls on channel, Controller number, minimum and maximum output values
Devine Machine’s Kirshna will be available for Mac and Windows in the Spring of 2007 in the DX, VST, AU, RTAS, and Standalone formats. No pricing has been announced. More information on the Devine Machine Kirshna Synth.
