MASSIVE is a sonic monster. The analog concept belies the cutting edge, contemporary sound it generates. The high-end engine delivers pure quality, lending an undeniable virtue and character to even the most saturated of sounds. The interface is clearly laid out and easy to use, ensuring you will have MASSIVE generating earth-shuddering sounds from the very first note.

Uncompromising Sound

Covering an exceptionally wide range of styles, MASSIVE is a true multi-talent. From violently rugged and deep monophonic bass rumblings to silkily smooth, gliding and gently fluctuating electronic pads, from techno and leftfield electronica to pop and film music, MASSIVE’s sonic spectrum is as broad as it is inspiring. This unique synthesizer has its own uncompromising character that produces the most distinctive of sounds.

Good To Go

Equipped with some 420 production-ready presets and multi-sounds, all crafted by leading artists and designers, you can start using MASSIVE immediately and without any fuss. The integrated KoreSound? Browser makes managing the KORE-configured presets easy. Fast search and filter functions let you find presets according to specific characteristics and attributes ? a particularly musical and intuitive approach.

Center Stage

On stage, MASSIVE is sure to grab the limelight. An array of special features makes it ideal for live performances. The integrated step sequencers and effects section as well as a highly flexible modulation concept deliver the necessary versatility. All these features have been implemented with a focus on usability, with the result that MASSIVE is just as easy to use on a hectic stage as it is in the creative environment of a studio.

Features:

• High-end audio engine sets a new standard both in sound quality and sonic character

• Flexible signal flow delivers huge range of sounds: from deep, brutal basses to delicate, crystalline leads

• Wave Scanning oscillators generate sounds of both a digital and an analog nature

• Innovative and intuitive features allow fast and easy creation of fresh new sounds

• Combination of simplicity with revolutionary, advanced features make MASSIVE ideal for both beginners and experts

• Easy-to-use knobs with dynamic value indicators, drag’n'drop modulation assignment

• Integrated step sequencers and an effects section with 17 master and insert effects

• MASSIVE uses the KoreSound? format, ensuring perfect integration with KORE

• KoreSound? Browser for easy searching of 420 KORE-configured sounds

• Advanced sequencing and remote features make MASSIVE perfect for live performance

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Sonic Specialities

The new AUDIO KONTROL 1 is a high-end audio interface. Offering crystal-clear 192 kHz, 24 bit-quality, it is far more than just a sound card. Freely-assignable buttons and controller knob combined with advanced MIDI and key command functionality grant full control of software applications – setup files for popular programs ensure it’s hassle-free. AUDIO KONTROL 1 merges innovation and quality and does so with an ear for practicality.

For more pictures on the Input, Output & Functionality.

Audio Kontrol 1 Features:

• High-quality, portable audio interface with sturdy aluminium casing
• 24-bit / 192 KHz quality, high end Cirrus Logic? A/D, D/A converters and 103 dB-A SNR
• 2 balanced inputs: 1 line/mic (XLR/1/4″ TRS Neutrik, phantom power supplied) and 1 line/HiZ (TRS); individual gain controls with acitvity and clip LEDs
• 4 balanced outputs (1/4″ TRS ) with two stereo level controls
• Headphone output with A/B source switching and level control
• Direct monitoring with mono switch and mix control
• Low latency ASIO/Core Audio driver
• USB 2 bus powered, MIDI I/O
• 3 freely-assignable buttons and 1 controller knob. MIDI and key commands support for control of professional audio software and other media applications such as iTunes, Winamp or Final Cut Pro
• Includes full versions of TRAKTOR 3 LE, GUITAR COMBOS and XPRESS KEYBOARDS

For a full list of Technical specifications.

Steinberg’s ultra versatile Music Workstation Hypersonic 2 contains thousands of top-drawer sounds in a package programmed to spare resources. Boasting four extraordinary sound engines, 1.7 GB of high-quality samples, and 1,800 jaw-dropping factory presets, Hypersonic 2 offers an all but inexhaustible pool of sounds, effects and instruments. Sensational sound quality and intuitive playability and handling make this virtual Music Workstation a flexible tool equally well-suited for almost every style and genre of music.

For more information, visit Steinberg.net.

It looks great and sounds awesome. Safe to say people will be cutting throats to get their hands on this puppy…

• Features

• AU, RTAS and VST plug-in synthesizer for PC and Mac
• 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 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

• The Layers



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, either Mac or PC can usually handle about 120 Albino 3 Digital Oscillators or 75 Albino 3 ?Analoge? Oscillators. But to explore the musical possibilities that the Albino 3 Layers offer to you we recommend to check out the presets that come with Albino 3. Some people told us that now they have a full song right at their fingertips. Thanks for the compliment.

• Rob Papen Presets

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. Get hold of the third version of this masterpiece of instrument design and sound design, get hold of Albino 3 and the more than 2100 Rob Papen presets for the music of today.

• Requirements AU or VST2.0 capable host software
  Minimum
  Screen resolution of 1024 x 768
  PC: 500 MHz, 256 Mb RAM, Windows 98 or newer
  Mac: 500 MHz, 256 Mb RAM , Mac OSX 10.2.6 or higher
  Recommended
  Screen resolution of 1280 x 960
  PC: 1 GHz, 512 Mb RAM, Windows XP or newer
  Mac: 1 GHz, 512 Mb RAM , Mac OSX 10.2.6 or higher

Price: R1431 at Paul Bothner Music