Dragon II

Dragon II is a lightweight audio plugin developed specifically for helping you work with a virtual analogue synthesizer. The plugin features support for three oscillators, modulation options, filters, amp envelope, and MIDI learning capabilities.

You can deploy the audio plugin on all Windows flavors out there and make use of its capabilities, provided that you have a VST host like energyXT or VSTHost installed on the target computer.

The plugin provides a well-structured suite of features. However, there are a lot of audio parameters that need to be tweaked so you need to take some extra time and experiment with the built-in options in order to understand how the plugin works. A PDF help manual is embedded in the package and comprises several useful details about the audio tweaks.

Dragon II offers you the possibility to alter the sound with the aid of three oscillators. What’s more, each oscillator comes with several parameters which are implemented for helping you apply detune options, switch between four waveshapes (Sine, Saw, Triangle, and Square), gain control over the octave, semitone, and pitch, adjust the pulse/width of the square wave, as well as change the volume.

When it comes to sync options, you should know that the second oscillator can be synced to the first one, while the third can be synced to either the first or second. Noise can also be generated, and you may choose either white or pink noise and tweak the volume.

What’s more, you are given the freedom to work with a modulation wheel and velocity control which can both emulate thirty-three parameters simultaneously. Other supported audio parameters are three LFOs (with attack, five waveshapes, and pulse width) and three envelopes (with attack, delay, sustain, and release parameters). Each LFO and envelope can modulate twenty-four parameters at the same time.

Dragon II lets you make use of two multimode filters, choose between different filter types (e.g. band-reject, high-pass, low-pass), alter keyboard tracking, adjust cutoff frequency and resonance controls, and route both filters to the envelope.

To sum things up, Dragon II proves to be a reliable virtual analogue synthesizer that packs a handy suite of audio features. It is suitable especially for music enthusiasts.