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The FM implementation between one oscillator and another is better. Since the two waves in a single oscillator can’t be detuned from one another, the internal FM of one waveform with the other is probably not too useful. You can morph between them or use FM, ring modulation, or phase modulation to make them interact. Each Predator 3 oscillator has two waveforms. (You can view it at 2:20 in the video.) Instead of prowling through a pop-up menu, you can see a whole panel where upwards of a hundred presets are all listed at once, along with a list of the different banks I especially like the preset Manager display, which is found on some other Papen synths. To be fair, there are four banks called “All Basses,” and the names of the presets in many of the banks use prefixes such as “arp,” “lead,” and “pad.” You can add stars to your favorites, which as time goes on will help you find what you’re looking for. You’ll find banks by JoMal, Rob Fabrie, and Antonio Sage, for example, along with banks for dubstep, ambient, hip-hop, and a couple of other styles. Instead, the banks are organized either by developer or by style. My issue with Papen’s approach to sound library organization is that you don’t get banks labeled “Lead,” “Pad,” “Plucked,” and so on. Most of the presets hark back to Predator 1, but there are some new additions. Just about every preset I tried sounded great there were only one or two turkeys. Some have only 15 or 20 presets, while others have as many as 150. It’s hard to say how many presets Predator 3 ships with. I’m hoping the DSP bug can be found and fixed, but you’re never going to hear it in a mix, so don’t worry, be happy. This happens about half a second after the last note stops and the instrument falls silent. My only concern about Predator 3 is that in the 1.0 release there is sometimes some quiet popping in the audio output. There’s a 30-day demo of Predator 3, so you don’t have to believe anything I’m about to say check it out for yourself. Predator 3 is $149 by itself, so if you haven’t already maxed out your credit card, you may want to consider Explorer 7. This $499 package contains several synths, several effects, and also a VST host called Prisma, into which you can load any combination of Papen synths for four-instrument splits and layers. Predator 3 is part of Rob Papen’s Explorer 7 bundle. Audio input for sidechain ducking and ring modulation. Eight user-definable waveforms.Ī one-finger-chord feature with eight user-definable note offsets. An X/Y mouse pad on which you can record (and edit) modulation moves. Four 16-step arpeggiator/sequencers that can be linked for longer patterns. Three effects processors with a total of 34 possible effects.

#FABFILTER VOLCANO 2 DUBSTEP MOD#

Five LFOs, nine envelopes (including two multi-segment), 20 modulation routings in the mod matrix and more that are located elsewhere. There are two multimode filters with 38 possible types (see above), four filter signal routing options, and a third filter that just does highpass.

The menu of filter types is so long it flows off the lower edge of the synth.

The lineup starts with three morphing oscillators, each with its own sub-octave generator. (This review’s header picture shows the main front panel.) Then we’ll dig deeper into some of the more interesting features. Let’s start with a list of what Predator 3 has. What makes P3 a powerhouse are the details with which the instrument is fleshed out. There’s no physical modeling, additive, or granular, none of that. Predator 3 has oscillators, filters, effects, and so on, in a fairly standard lineup.

#FABFILTER VOLCANO 2 DUBSTEP SOFTWARE#

These days, the term “virtual analog” should probably be reserved for software instruments that explicitly model the sound and behavior of analog hardware. We can’t call them “virtual analog,” because so many of the waveforms (183 of them in Predator 3) are unabashedly digital. Really, we need a new term for synthesizers that run oscillator waveforms through filters. This synth has a TON of great-sounding patches, but if you’re up for designing your own, you’ll find an almost endless parade of parameters to deploy. Version 3 introduces very little that’s radically new: it just has more of everything. I’ve used the original Predator quite a bit, but I skipped version 2. Yet another great synth from one of the top European instrument developers. This one has more of everything that made it good. Jim Aikin has been using the original version.

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