Albino is a AU, RTAS and VST plug-in synthesizer.

The famed Dutch sound designer Rob Papen provided more than 2100 presets that cover all type of sounds for todays contemporary music. After providing presets for the Emu Orbit-3 and Access Virus.

Each layer can have an up to 32 step rhythm arpeggiator with several modes: up, down, up/down, down/up, as played, random mode and a chord and modulation mode.

It can be retriggered, it can swing with your music and you can mix its step velocity values with the velocity you played the chord. Your own creations can be save or copy/pasted to other presets.

Many of the new presets use the Arpeggiator and so the possibilities become endless.

Each preset can now be made up of 4 individual layers. So actually a sound can make use of up to 80 oscillators for a single note (4 Layers, 4 Oscillators each, 5 times Spread).

A typical todays DAW can usually handle about 120 Albino 3 Digital Oscillators or 75 Albino 3 "Analoge" Oscillators.

Here are some key features of "Albino":

· AU, RTAS and VST plug-in synthesizer
· Modular and extendable design currently with with 4 Oscillator Modules, 4 Filter Modules, 2 Envelope Modules and 12 Effect Modules
· 32 voice polyphonic (CPU dependent)
· more than 2100 Rob Papen presets, integrated sound browser
· up to 4 oscillator per voice and layer, various High Quality Oscillator types with countless waveforms
· Oscillator AM and FM and "Pulse Width Modulation" for all waveforms, oscillator sync, filter FM
· up to 2 filters per voice and layer, each with 4 types of multimode filters, altogether 20 filter modes, saturation control
· up to 8 envelopes per voice and layer, 2 types: 5 levels / 5 rates with loop and ADSFR mode
· Variable keyboard and velocity tracking, individual for each envelope
· up to 4 LFO's per voice and layer with various waveforms, broad range of tempo sync, Symmetry and Phase adjustable, additional DAD envelopes for every LFO
· Controller hardware (faderbox or synth) can be used to control Albinos parameters using the LinPlug ECS
· Portamento / Glide with various options, constant Time or Rate and Auto-Bend
· Improved adjustable Precision to bring in the warmth of good old analogue modules
· Sophisticated Arpeggiator per layr with 32 programmeable steps, several modes, swing, several clock settings, save/load/copy/paste and many more functions
· Modulation matrix with more than 1000 possible modulation routings
· Spread for ultra-fat sounds (up to 20 Oscillators per layer)
· Microtuning support (TUN files) for different scales
· Up to 4 effect blocks per layer with chorus, flanger, phaser, filter, distortion, delays, reverb, gator, wah, compressor and LoFi effects
· Fully recognized velocity, mono and poly aftertouch, pitch bend, mod-wheel and various other controllers
· Full version comes with a comprehensive PDF manual (box version with printed manual)
· Sample accurate timing, full automation and settings are saved with your song


Requirements:

· AU or VST2.0 capable host software
· Screen resolution of 1024 x 768
· PC: 400 MHz
· 256 MB RAM

Recommended:
· Screen resolution of 1280 x 960 or better
· PC: 1 GHz
· 512 MB RAM


Limitations:

· Demo version emits a noise about once every minute.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· fixed problem when loading Albino 2 presets with Triangle osc wavefoms
· fixed flickering preset name when loading presets
· fixed Cubase 4 incompatibility
· fixed problem when randomizer changed effects only visually
· fixed problem of certain matrix modulations not working
· all delays are now optimized for smooth behaviour on tempo changes
· fixed different filter sound of version 3.0.1
· 63 new Rob Papen presets