Cherry Audio's Pentaphonic synthesizer is a breathtaking virtual instrument that revives one of the rarest synthesizers ever made: the 1981 Pentaphonic by Gleeman Instruments.
With fewer than 70 units ever produced, this synthesizer is legendary for its rich tone, distinctive design, and pioneering sequencing capabilities.
Features
- Expanded voice options: monophonic mode with last/high settings and retrigger, Unison and Polyphonic voice options with 2 -16 voices.
- The VCF now provides both 12dB 2-pole and the original 24dB 4-pole options, with polarity and key tracking.
- Assignable range for pitch bend and a dedicated mod stick control.
- Dynamic arpeggiator with four pattern modes – Arp, Leap, Order, Random – with swing, chance, and feel to add degrees of randomness to arpeggiated patterns.
- Parameter Animator, an additional per-layer sequencer that acts as a 16-step x 4-pattern parameter modulation source for cutoff, resonance, pitch modulation, and oscillator gain.
- Effects control tray for on/off, solo, bipolar modulator amount slider, and dry/wet mix for each effect. Global FX on/off, level, and stereo expand
- Syncable and transposable 16x4 pattern polyphonic step sequencer with Start, Stop, Auto Start, and humanize options, with accurate DAW clock and step synchronization.
- Keyboard pressure with bipolar amount trimmers that provide discrete expressive control for pressure/aftertouch: modulation rate; oscillator 2 sync; oscillator gain and pitch; filter cutoff, resonance, and modulation; and amp modulation and volume.
- 22 studio-quality effects for the Effects panel (up to five effects) with a chain that can be arranged, saved, and recalled: BBD Flanger, Compressor, DCO Chorus, Digital Delay, Digital Reverb, Distortion & EQ, Dual Delay, Dual Ensemble, Dual Phaser, Envelope Filter, Flanger & Chorus, Galactic Reverb, Lo-Fi, Lushverb, Panner, Pulser, Ring Modulator, Rotary Speaker, Seven Band EQ, Spring Reverb, Tape Echo, and Wide Phaser.
- Over 375 presets in 14 categories, including the original 50 factory patches.
- Standalone virtual instrument and plug-in versions included
- User-adjustable oversampling control
- Complete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping (Preset and Global)
- Cherry Audio's Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag
- Complete documentation available directly online from the instrument or in downloadable PDF format
- Three oscillators per voice based on the DCOs of the original, with the original stair-stepped waveforms for Complex 1, Complex 2, 3% Pulse, 12% Pulse, 50% Pulse, Ramp, Triangle, and Sine.
- Oscillator sync and pulse-width modulation added.
- A second LFO has been added, now offering the same stair-stepped waveform options (beyond just triangle) as the oscillators.
- LFOs can now be applied to oscillators, filter, and amp.
- Original fast/slow chorusing included.
- Based on the early-80s Pentaphonic synthesizers by Gleeman Instruments that originally featured a five-voice polyphonic digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) synth engine.
- Three UI Themes inspired by the history of the Pentaphonic case: black, clear, and "Audities" clear, with click-and-drag opacity.
- Velocity added to filter and amp.
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Systemvoraussetzungen
Mac
- Prozessor: Intel or Apple Silicon processor. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or Apple Silicon CPU
- Arbeitsspeicher (GB): 8
- Festplattenspeicher (GB): 1
- Unterstützte OS-Version: 1
- Hinweise: macOS 10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura
- Weitere Anforderungen: Internet connection required for product activation.
- Unterstützung: 64_bit
- Plugin-Formate: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX, STAND-ALONE
- Internetverbindung erforderlich: Ja
Windows
- Prozessor: 3.4 GHz Quad-Core
- Arbeitsspeicher (GB): 8
- Festplattenspeicher (GB): 1
- Unterstützte OS-Version: 1
- Hinweise: Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11)
- Weitere Anforderungen: Internet connection required for product activation.
- Unterstützung: 64_bit
- Plugin-Formate: VST-2, VST-3, AAX, STAND-ALONE
- Internetverbindung erforderlich: Ja
Lizenzierung
Die Aktivierung erfolgt direkt auf dem Rechner, ein Dongle ist nicht erforderlich.
