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February 1, 2012 – HighLife 1.1 Mac released

HighLife Mac 1.1 has been released.

HighLife is a sampler with editor, five built in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and highest offline resampling quality using 512 point SINC. 64-bit Audio Units and VST are supported.

What's new

  • Demo version won't recall presets.
  • Audio Units validated.
  • Fixed and optimized drop-down menus.
  • Code optimizations.
  • Revised PDF manual.

HighLife for Mac costs 29 € for a limited time and can be purchased at HighLife page.

Download HighLife Demo.

 
January 19, 2012 – Corona R3.1 Mac released

discoDSP Corona R3.1 is now available.

What's new

  • Fixed random arpeggio mode (Mac only).

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R3.1 at no cost.

 
January 18, 2012 – Discovery Pro R5.6 Windows released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.6 is now available for Windows.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillators 32/64 bit Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADsynth resynthesis, 2X oversampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports and Exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • Data folder moved to Documents > discoDSP > Discovery Pro with categorized folders.
  • EDIT > Reset > Program and Layer read the settings from Documents > discoDSP > Discovery Pro > Presets > Default.fxp file now.
  • EDIT > File > Import WAVE automatically places WAV files at discoDSP > Discovery Pro > Waves > User.dwb
  • EDIT > Reset > Program Undo will revert back to the original preset located on the current bank.
  • EDIT menu restyled to white text over black background.
  • Added Paste to All, A, B, C, D at Zone Preset drop down menu.
  • Enhanced Morph values. Tick values are show when synced to tempo.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Manual revision.

All previous Discovery Pro R5 users can get this update for free by logging at members area. Updates from R4 or previous versions cost 12 EUR for a limited time.

 
January 17, 2012 – Total Access Vol.1 released

Total Access Vol.1 is a new bank for discoDSP Discovery Pro with 120 fresh new presets designed by Brazilian engineer Ronei Leite. All current Discovery Pro customers can purchase this bank for a special introductory price.

8 distorted arpeggios.
7 arpeggios.
7 basses.
7 distorted basses.
7 effects.
8 keys.
7 leads.
7 modulated leads.
14 pads.
7 plucked sounds.
7 resonant leads.
7 sequenced sounds.
7 stabs.
7 strings.
7 oscillator modulated sounds.
7 synth lead sounds.

Available for 14.99 € or 19 USD at discoDSP Soundware > Banks > Discovery Pro and Roneimusic.com

Play the demo song (5:04).

 
January 12, 2012 – CFA-Sound releases Pro-Wave 2 Bank

Evoking even more Discovery power by adding 50 fresh wavesets, CFA-Sound delivers a fresh breeze of finest patches for electro, trance and hardstyle. 64 sound covering lush pads, smooth plucks or also screaming lead sounds have been created from the scratch to meet your needs for new sounds. Dedust your softsynth's potential once more!

Pro-Wave 2 Soundset - DiscoveryPro by CFA-Sound

Features:

  • 64 sounds.
  • 50 new waveforns included.
  • Suitable for electro, trance & hardstyle.
  • Sorted in categories

Requirements: Discovery Pro R4.1 or higher

Price: 20.00€, as bundle with Pro-Wave 1 only 32.50€

Available on:
http://www.cfa-sound.com/soundsets-discoverypro.html
http://www.resonance-sound.com/home.html

 
January 10, 2012 – Discovery Pro R5.6 Mac released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.6 is now available for Mac.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillators 32/64 bit Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADsynth resynthesis, 2X oversampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports and Exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • OS X 64-bit VST.
  • Data folder moved to Documents > discoDSP > Discovery Pro with categorized folders.
  • EDIT > Reset > Program and Layer read the settings from Documents > discoDSP > Discovery Pro > Presets > Default.fxp file now.
  • EDIT > File > Import WAVE automatically places WAV files at discoDSP > Discovery Pro > Waves > User.dwb
  • EDIT > Reset > Program Undo will revert back to the original preset located on the current bank.
  • EDIT menu restyled to white text over black background.
  • Added Paste to All, A, B, C, D at Zone Preset drop down menu.
  • Enhanced Morph values. Tick values are show when synced to tempo.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Manual revision.

All previous Discovery Pro R5 users can get this update for free by logging at members area. Updates from R4 or previous versions cost 12 EUR for a limited time.

 
January 7, 2012 – Corona R3 released

discoDSP Corona R3 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • Added 32 steps arpeggiator with MIDI out, 10 modes, 3 trigger types, 4 octaves range, velocity mix, bipolar swing, 13 clock sync types, editing and preset management. MIDI out is supported on VST plugins only.
  • Added MIDI Solo icon below MASTER label to send MIDI only.
  • Added EDIT > Settings > Tooltips.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R3 at no cost.

 
January 5, 2012 – KeyPad updated to R4

Keypad is a global purpose OSC iPad controller template for TouchOSC and OSCulator.

What's new
  • Added a full new template called KeyPadMIDI. It has been designed to send MIDI using the freeware TouchOSC Bridge tool for Windows and Mac instead OSC messages with OSCulator (Mac only shareware).

KeyPadMIDI template has the following elements to be used with TouchOSC and TouchOSC Bridge

  • 2 octaves keyboard (C3-C5 divided into two tabs).
  • Sustain button.
  • Modulation Fader.
  • XY Pad attached to Discovery Filter Cutoff and Resonance.
  • 12 button drum-pad with octave toggle.
  • 96 Key mode page + 12 drum pads.
  • MPC-style PAD with 32 pads (C1-D#3 divided into two tabs).
KeyPad is free to donwload. More information can be found at KeyPad page.
 
January 1, 2012 – House Presets Vol.2 Bank released

House Presets Vol.2 is a new bank for discoDSP Discovery Pro with 64 fresh new presets designed by Brazilian engineer Ronei Leite. All current Discovery Pro customers can purchase this bank for a special introductory price.

It is available for 14.99 € or 19 USD at discoDSP Soundware > Banks > Discovery Pro.

Play the demo song (5:10).

 
December 4, 2011 – Gigaloops Corona Dance Bank

Gigaloops Corona Dance Sound Bank is a new commercial sound set for discoDSP Corona with 128 fresh new presets: 20 Bass, 38 Lead, 15 Key, 25 Syn, 10 Pad, 20 FX for all Dance Music Production. This bank is compatible with all versions of Corona.

It is available for 11 € / 16.91 USD / 9.99 £ at Gigaloops Store.
Listen to the demo song.

 
November 20, 2011 – Corona R2.3 released

discoDSP Corona R2.3 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • MIDI Program Change supported.
  • Out of voices signal indicator by changing polyphony drop down font color.
  • Automatic wave search from other banks if original is not found.
  • Wave not found warning message.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R2.3 at no cost.

 
October 10, 2011 – Corona R2.2 released

discoDSP Corona R2.2 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • Two new oscillator combination modes: Modular addition and bitwise rotation.
  • Two new filter shapes: Quantize and asymmetric quantize.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R2.2 at no cost.

 
October 10, 2011 – HighLife Mac BETA released

HighLife Mac BETA has been released.

HighLife is a Freeware sampler with VSTi sampling, sample editor, five built in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and highest offline resampling quality using 512 point SINC. 64-bit Audio Units and VST are supported.

We ask for donations to support HighLife development at HighLife page.

Report bugs and feedback at HighLife forum.

Know issues

  • Audio Units validation tool will report warnings. Manual enabling is required.
  • Performance / Editor View drop down is misplaced.
  • SFZ, AKAI, GIG or DLS import may crash the host.

The following functions are disabled due code rewrite:

  • Sampling external VSTi (VSTi, GUI, >MIDI, Freeze and Unload buttons).
  • Editor > Time Stretch.
  • Editor > Pitch Shift.

Download latest beta or read the PDF Manual.

 
October 7, 2011 – Psychedelic Presets Vol.2

A new Discovery Pro Bank is now available. Spectro Senses Psychedelic Presets Vol.2 is 120 presets set created by Brazilian musician and designer Ronei Leite aka Spectro Senses.

Prices are 15 EUR or 19 USD (VAT included) at Share*it!

Check the MP3 Demo or YouTube Demo.

 
September 28, 2011 – Corona R2.1 released

discoDSP Corona R2.1 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • Performance optimizations.
  • Fixed modulation matrix filter envelope modulation (FENVMOD) destination range.
  • Free wave extension for registered customers at members area.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R2.1 at no cost.

 
September 20, 2011 – Corona R2 released

discoDSP Corona R2 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • SoundFont 2 (SF2) supported by wave oscillators.
  • Support for folders with .dwb extension for custom oscillator WAV / SF2 load.
  • Super 7 Unison. Modeled Super Saw for parabola, saw, square, triangle and sine oscillators.
  • Additional ADR curves on modulation envelope.
  • LFO smoothing.
  • Phase parameter now working with wave oscillators.
  • Modulation matrix unison detune destination.
  • Factory and Creation bank presets sorted by type.
  • GUI enhancements, sub pixel rendered fonts, new logos and module reallocation.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 114 € or 166 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Corona page.
Previous customers can update to R2 at no cost.

 
September 5, 2011 – Vertigo R3.1 released

discoDSP Vertigo R3.1 has been released for Mac + PC.

What's new

  • Reverb dry/wet amount fixed.
  • Minor GUI GFX fix.

A demo version is available at Vertigo page. Previous Vertigo customers can update to R3.1 at no cost by logging to their account.

 
September 1, 2011 – Vertigo R3 released

discoDSP Vertigo R3 has been released for Mac + PC. Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV audio and PNG or BMP images. It has a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. Demo version includes 128 presets and it is available as AudioUnits, VST and RTAS for Mac Intel and VST and RTAS for Windows.

What's new

  • 64-bit Audio Units for Mac.
  • 64-bit VST for Windows and Mac.
  • RTAS for Mac and Windows.
  • Vertigo Data moves to Documents/discoDSP/Vertigo/Banks/.
  • PDF Manual revision.
  • Cross-platform project support.

Vertigo costs 75 € or 99 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 90 € or 119 USD for Mac + PC.

A demo version is available at Vertigo page. Previous Vertigo customers can update to R3 at no cost by logging to their account.

 
August 1, 2011 – Corona Commercial Bank

Commercial Presets is a new bank for discoDSP Corona with 120 fresh new presets including percussions, basses, keys, leads, organs, pads, plucked sounds, stabs and FXs designed by Brazilian engineer Ronei Leite. All current Corona customers can purchase Commercial presets for a special introductory price.

It is available for 15 € or 19 USD at discoDSP Soundware > Banks.
Listen to the demo song or watch the YouTube video.

 
July 31, 2011 – KeyPad updated to R3

KeyPad is a global purpose OSC iPad controller template for TouchOSC and OSCulator.

What's new

  • 96 key page mode.

Visit KeyPad page for more information.

 
July 29, 2011 – Corona R1.1 released

discoDSP Corona R1.1 is now available for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • OS X 10.5 compatibility in addition to 10.6 and 10.7.
  • CPU won't spike when not playing.
  • Smaller menu fonts for Mac build.
  • Sound resets correctly after preset switching.
  • Added EDIT > Settings > Dark Theme.

This update is free for all Corona customers and can be downloaded at Members Area.

 
July 25, 2011 – Corona synth released

Corona synth is now available for Mac and Windows.

Corona is a 32 and 64-bit, virtual analog and wave synthesizer for Audio Units, VST hosts featuring 3 VA + WAVE oscillators, up to 14 combine modes between oscillators resulting in extensive timbres, 8 destination matrix modulations, 3 LFOs, 3 ADSR envelopes, unison, chorus, delay and limiter effects with high-quality sound and analog modeled filters using a straightforward and easy to use interface.

Corona costs 95 € or 139 USD (VAT included where applicable) for single platform and 115 € or 166 USD for Mac+PC bundle. A demo version is available at Corona page.

 
July 11th, 2011 – KeyPad updated to R2

KeyPad is a global purpose OSC iPad controller template for TouchOSC and OSCulator.

What's new

  • Note velocity fader.
  • Labels for all buttons and keys.

Visit KeyPad page for more information.

 
May 19, 2011 – Discovery Pro House Presets Vol.1

House Presets Vol.1 is a new bank with 64 fresh new presets including 808 percussions, arpeggios, basses, keys, leads, organs, pads, plucked sounds, stabs and white noises designed by Brazilian engineer Ronei Leite.

It is available for free at discoDSP Members Area or direct download.
Listen to the demo song or YouTube video.

 
April 27, 2011 – Discovery R3.3 64-bit released

discoDSP Discovery Release 3.3 for Mac and Windows is now available.

What's new

  • 64 bit Audio Units support for Mac.
  • 64 bit VST support for Windows.
  • New selected item EDIT menu background color.
  • Instant refresh in Bank Browser for new FXB files.
  • Better preset renaming dialog box.
  • Manual revision.

This update is free for previous R3 customers. To download Release 3.3 please log at Members Area.

 
March 14, 2011 – Discovery Pro R5.5 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.5 is now available for Mac and Windows.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillators 32/64 bit Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADsynth resynthesis, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports and Exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • Better FXP preset export compatibility.
  • Renaming a preset shows the original name instead blank.
  • Overwrite warning when a bank file already exist.
  • File dialog boxes now remember last opened locations.
  • Banks located at Data folder refresh automaticly.
  • Small EDIT menu finetune.
  • Manual revision.

All previous Discovery Pro R5 users can get this update for free by logging at members area. Updates from R4 or previous versions cost 29 EUR.

 
February 17, 2011 – Discovery Pro Psytrance Bank

Psychedelic Presets Vol.1 is a fresh set of 120 free presets created by brazilian musician and designer Ronei Leite aka Spectro Senses for discoDSP Discovery Pro.

Demos available at YouTube and audio file.

The bank is available at Members Area or direct download.

 
December 15, 2010 – Discovery Pro R5.4 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.4 is now available for Mac and Windows.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillators 32/64 bit Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADsynth resynthesis, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports and Exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • 64 bit Audio Units for Mac.
  • 64 bit VST for Windows.
  • PAD resynthesized waves now render correctly under x64 OSes.
  • Pitch and Mod Wheel events now recordable from GUI.
  • MOD value mouse range behaves correctly now.
  • Corrected arpeggio with MIDI Sustain behavior.
  • EDIT > Reset > Layer Aftertouch.
  • EDIT > Reset > Program Aftertouch.
  • EDIT > Reset > Program Morphing
  • EDIT > Bank import. Places FXB+DWB files at Discovery Pro Data folder.
  • EDIT > Help > Release number added.
  • EDIT > Switch > Aftertouch to > Aftertouch, Foot (CC# 4), Expression (CC# 11) and Breathe (CC# 2).
  • Manual revision.
  • Bugfixes.

All previous Discovery Pro R5 users can get this update for free by logging at members area. Updates from R4 or previous versions cost 29 EUR.

 
December 8, 2010 – KeyPad TouchOSC template

KeyPad is a Global purpose OSC iPad controller template for TouchOSC and OSCulator.

  • 2 octaves keyboard with octave toggle (gray button).
  • Sustain button (red).
  • Pitch Bend.
  • Modulation Fader.
  • XY Pad attached to Discovery Filter Cutoff and Resonance.
  • 9 button drum-pad with octave toggle.
  • Basic chord page with octave toggle.

Download

 
November 24, 2010 – Discovery Pro Leading Add-on

Leading is a brand new bank with 128 presets containing gated sounds, leads, pads, basses, keys and effects exclusive designed for Discovery Pro R4 or higher.

More information about Discovery Pro and Leading Bank add-on can be found at http://www.discodsp.com/discoverypro/

Demo - Purchase (19 € / 25 $ / 2.100 ¥)

 
September 7, 2010 – Zen adds support for discoDSP

Zen is a Universal preset manager for Windows Vst designed by Big Tick.

It loads in any host as a VSTi, and acts as a loader for other VSTis. So with Zen, you can search for “Rhodes piano” and get a list of all matching presets.

All discoDSP VST Windows plugins are supported on Zen.

 
August 23, 2010 – Discovery Pro R5.3 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.3 is now available for Mac and Windows.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillators Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADsynth resynthesis, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports and Exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • Faster Sine Wave VA oscillator.
  • Aftertouch support. Use EDIT > Switch > Aftertouch mode or Shift + Click ABCD button to set up.
  • MIDI CC Switch to edit Layers A-D. Use CC #63.
  • EDIT  > Help > Open HTML Manual.
  • EDIT  > File > Open Presets Folder.
  • Settings saved using XML.
  • Drop down preset zone menus are alphabetically sorted now.
  • Wave OSC tabs changed to WAVE GATE MOD DELAY.
  • Bigger click area for Wave tabs.
  • Optimized Program and Bank LCD names display.
  • More Zone presets for Delay, Gate, Mod Gate, LFO1, LFO2.
  • Bugfixes.

All previous Discovery Pro R5 users can get this update for free by logging at members area. Updates from R4 or previous versions now cost 29 EUR.

 
August 22, 2010 – Zvon Discovery Pro Wave Bank

A free wave bank for Discovery Pro users is available at Members Area.

The original samples from which this soundfont is derived are from the University of Iowa collection. The samples actually in the Zvon WB (Winds and Brass) discoDSP SoundFont are those new samples and none of the University of Iowa original samples are used in it.

There are 15 programs. The first 7 are solo instruments and the 8 others are combis: Bass clarinet, alto sax, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, french horn and tenor trombone.

More details about Zvon Sound Design can be found at lesproductionszvon.com.

 
July 22, 2010 – discoDSP CEO interview at Pro-Tone

George Reales has been interviewed at Pro-Tone.eu website.

 
July 12, 2010 – Musictrack.jp demos Discovery Pro

The video is available at YouTube and Discovery Pro page.

 
June 10th, 2010 – FJ Project Discovery Pro Bank

FJ Project has released a new commercial bank with 128 Sounds Preset Hard Trance, Hard Style, Tech Trance for Discovery Pro.

New, fresh and original 100% samples free for use in your productions. This Sound Bank Contain 128 different preset: Fat Synth, Acid&Dark Lead, Pad and Tech Sounds FX for Hard Trance, Tech Trance and Hard Style Music Production. Compatible with all model Discovery releases. All Sounds have been programmed by Luca Cominato alias FJ Project.


For someone who is not even 30 years old, Luca Cominato (also known as FJ Project) has created a name for himself in the hard trance world! Founder of the genre of music known as 'Darkstyle', you are guarenteed a mixture of ferocious beats, thumpin' acid and dark synth work with this Italian wonder! With numerous worldwide bookings, managing three very succesful labels 'Darksquad' 'Trance National' and 'Acid Records', releases on some of the worlds finest imprints such as German Trance, Compulzion, Trance NRG, and running a radio show are just some of the many talents of this producer.

After starting to use Technics decks at the age of 13, it took until the age of 16 for Luca to enter the world by discovering sampling. After four years of this, the decision was made to cooperate with his brother Massimiliano Cominato alias MAX ONE and ULTRAPHONIC Studio was formed. This opened up a whole new dimension for Luca as he was allowed to explore his sound and release many records under different guises, using the following aliases for productions: Hypersonic, The Projector, Dj Tom 809 and as he is most famously known FJ Project.

Under this guise he has revived the power of the 303 and produced countless hard trance tracks that feature distorted acid lines that rock the place, and DJs from Mark EG, Kutski,M-Zone, ASYS, Alex Kidd and Fausto right the way through to Scot Project and Bas & Ram are supporting his productions, with many DJs accross the world praising him highly! Not just known for his excellent productions, Luca has DJ'd accross the globe and has received bookings from Q-Dance to play the Orange Arena at Defqon 1 2009 (Holland), Nature One 2010 (Germany), HardNation and Programm 2 (Germany), Coast Club (DanimarK)in the UK he has been booked for the likes of FANTASY ISLAND, Atmosphere, Hindsight, Dekadance, Resonate, Premonition and Re-Beat to name just a few.

Listen to the Demo · Buy FJ Project Bank at Gigaloops.com for just 12 EUR.

 
May 25th, 2010 – CFA Sound Discovery Pro Wave Pack

Wave-Elements is a free collection of 99 processed waveforms for the DiscoveryPro. It contains 17 osc-kits with different characters like analog drive, analog tube, vintage, virtuell analog brilliance and many more. This premium collection will give the wav-osc of your Discovery Pro a new and powerful facette.


This waveform-collection works only with DiscoveryPro R4.1 or higher. It is available to download at Members Area.

 
April 19th, 2010 – Musictrack.jp showcases Discovery Pro

The video is available at YouTube.com

 
April 1st, 2010 – Discovery Pro R5.2 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R5.2 has been released for Mac and Windows.

What's new

  • WAVE LCD display now shows waveform numbers.
  • Fixed clicks with Factory and Classics wave banks.
  • VST panel displays correctly in Cubase OS X.
  • Better preset name handling in Zone Presets.
  • Better behavior using Reaper.

R5.x customers can download R5.2 at Members Area. R4.x or earlier customers can update to R5.2 for just 39 EUR using a direct purchase link.

 
February 9, 2010 – Discovery Pro R5 released

Discovery Pro R5 is a 12 oscillators Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADSynth, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. Imports and exports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new
  • WAVE PAD Synthesis Button. Resynthesis of any active Wave using PADSynth algorithm, generating a SFZ file (Data Folder/PAD Cache).
  • New Classic.dwb WAVE bank, including over 250 popular synthesizer waveforms.
  • New voice stealing algorithm.
  • New MIDI CC button mode.
  • 24-bit wave files support for User Bank (Data Folder/User.dwb).
  • Help > Tutorials screen shots, MIDI CCs and Manual.
  • Edit > Smart Randomization.
  • File > Nord Lead 2 SysEx Export.
  • File > Open Data Folder.
  • File > Open Unison Configuration.
  • Edit > Config > MIDI CC Buttons switch.
  • WAVE Active file is now marked in the drop down menu.
  • HTML Manual (Windows).

Previous customers can update to R5 for just 39 EUR at Members Area using a direct purchase link.

Demo versions are available for Mac and Windows at Discovery Pro page.

 
January 25, 2010 – Discovery R3.3 Linux released

discoDSP Discovery Linux R3.3 has been released.

What's new

  • Fixed high CPU usage when plugin was idle under several configurations.

To download Release 3.3 please log at Members Area.

 
November 19, 2009 – Miroslav Herman Vertigo Bank

A new Vertigo bank compatible with Mac and Windows versions for registered customers has been released, featuring 145 presets with cinematic, dark and ambiental feelings.

It is available for free at members area.

 
November 9, 2009 – CFA Sound Discovery Pro Bank

CFA-Sound has announced the release of its Pro-Wave Expansion for discoDSP's Discovery Pro synthesizer.

The Pro-Wave Expansion includes a sound-set of 64 trance-sounds combined with a new wave-bank, which contains 50 new waves for Discovery Pro. You'll find "smooth plucks, wicked FM-basses, fat leads, silky pads, dynamic gates and 50 waves" in this expansion.

It costs €17.50. Discovery Pro R4 or higher is required.
Listen to the demo or visit CFA-Sound.

 
October 23, 2009 – Vertigo Mac 2.1 released

Vertigo 2.1 for Mac platform has been released.

discoDSP Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV audio and PNG images. It has a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. Full version includes 128 presets and is available for AudioUnits and VST hosts to Macs with Intel processors.

What's new

  • RTAS version.

Fixes

  • Real time envelope lines display properly. RTAS version with DiscoveryPro does not crash when both are installed. AU with DiscoveryPro does not crash anymore. Bundle version now correctly displayed.

Previous customers can download this update for free at Support - Members Area.

 
October 6, 2009 – Vertigo Mac 2.0 released

Vertigo for Mac platform has been released. Vertigo can be purchased for 75 EUR / 99 USD at our online shop.

discoDSP Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV audio and PNG images. It has a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. Full version includes 128 presets and is available for AudioUnits and VST hosts to Macs with Intel processors.

 
September 29, 2009 – Discovery Pro R4.1 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R4.1 is now available for Mac and Windows.

Discovery Pro Mac is a 12 oscillators Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • Removed periodic noise burst from Demo version.
  • Fixed VST GUID Cubase bug.
  • Fixed Metro GUI issue.
  • Fixed crashes when mixing VST and AU in the same project.
  • Fixed Cubase VST GUI display bug.

All previous Discovery Pro users will get this update for free by logging at members area.

 
September 2, 2009 – Discovery Pro R4 released

discoDSP Discovery Pro R4 is now available for Mac and Windows.

Discovery Pro Mac is a 12 oscillators Virtual Analog VSTi, Audio Units and RTAS Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

What's new

  • Zone presets. Each section can save individual presets based on the current state. It's available by clicking the white small drop down menu icon located at the top left corner.
  • Gate values are now displayed at the LCD when mouse is over.
  • Engine fixes.
  • Host compatibility fixes.
  • Manual revision.
  • Mac DMG image now includes alias to Audio Units, VST, RTAS and Plug-Ins folders for a easier installation.
  • Apple GarageBand 09 and Logic 09 compatibility.
  • RTAS version.

All previous Discovery Pro R1 Mac and Discovery Pro R3 Windows users will get this update for free by logging at members area.

 
August 25, 2009 – discoDSP Vertigo for Mac Beta 2

discoDSP Vertigo has got a new beta build. Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV audio and PNG images. It has a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. Beta version includes 128 presets and is available for AudioUnits or VST hosts and Macs with Intel processors only.

What's new

  • VSTi version.
  • Bugfixes.

All previous customer have been contacted with download details.

 
August 24, 2009 – discoDSP Vertigo for Mac released

We have released version 2.0 Beta of Vertigo for Mac platform. Vertigo can be purchased for an introductory price of 49 EUR / 69 USD / 45 GBP / 6500 JPY at our online shop.

Price will be raised to 75 EUR once Beta finishes.

discoDSP Vertigo is a 256 oscillators additive synth with resynthesis and sound morphing. Imports WAV audio and PNG images. It has a very accurate recreation of complex musical phrases, drumloops, speech and simple tones. Beta version includes 128 presets and is available for AudioUnits hosts and Macs with Intel processors only.

 
May 26, 2009 – Discovery line updated to R3.2

discoDSP Discovery Windows, Mac and Linux have been updated to Release 3.2

What's new

  • Sound engine bugfixes.

All previous customers can download the update at members area.

 
May 5, 2009 – HighLife Shareware discontinued

HighLife Shareware has been discontinued and Freeware Open Source is the only available from now on.

More information and download available at HighLife page and HighLife forum.

 
March 30, 2009 – HighLife R3 released

HighLife R3 now has greatly improved sfz import, more in line with the official sfz specs. Most sfz files can now be used rightaway without the need to edit out any unsupported features or moving the soundfiles around on the computer.

Code by Andreas Sumerauer from Soundbytes.de.

SFZ Parser

  • Sample path can be relative or absolute to any location on the storage media.
  • Path names may contain blank spaces.
  • The <group> header can now be used.
  • <key> opcode is now recognized.
  • Comments can be put on the same line with opcodes.

Fixes and changes
  • The following additional zone parameters can now be modified from the zone editor panel: root key, low key, high key, low velocity, high velocity.
  • A couple of wave files that were refused by the previous version will now load fine.
  • Loopinfo will not be used if loopstart > loopend (workaround for some nonstandard wav editors)
  • When creating loop crossfades Highlife now implements a equal power crossfade instead of the previously used equal gain (linear) crossfade.
  • Highlife won't crash anymore whenever a sample can't be opened. Instead an error message is displayed and the load process is reverted.
  • Added Open Source Logo.
  • About box. (Click on the Highlife Logo to open).

HighLife SFZ Implementation

HighLife supports a subset of the sfz specification v1.0 opcodes. Unsupported opcodes can be included in the file. These will be ignored and should not cause any errors or misinterpretations. Unsupported headers (sfz v2.0 or third party) will be skipped. The parser will jump the next header if it finds an unknown one and ignore all opcodes inbetween.


Supported sfz Opcodes

sample, lokey, hikey, lovel, hivel, offset, tune, pitch_keytrack, pitch_keycenter, transpose, volume, pan, loop_start, loop_end, loop_mode, loccN, hiccN, lobend, hibend, lochanaft, hichanaft, lopolyaft, hipolyaft, trigger, group, off_by.


Supported Sfz Headers

<region>, <group> (new)


 
February 23, 2009 – Daniel Stawczyk Caffeine Bank

Daniel Stawczyk has announced the release of Caffeine for Discovery Pro. Caffeine bank is a new approach to sound design within the Discovery Pro environment.

The main "Caffeine" bank is a set of:

  • 78 multi-layered presets.
  • 16 rich arpeggiators.
  • 31 melody lines.

    By pressing just one key, you will witness the instrument playing the sequenced melodies. It also offers many multi-layered presets with unique melody lines enriched with various rhythm patterns, bus lines, panning effects, background atmos along with innovative mod-wheel action.

    Besides the Caffeine bank of 125 presets, there are two additional sub-banks with all the sequenced lines of Caffeine:

  • Arpeggiators/melodies (127 presets).
  • Percussion (38 presets).
  • Bass (34 presets).
  • Efx (32 presets).
  • Atmos (20 presets).

    Providing you with a free choice of your own pattern combination anytime you wish. Caffeine for Discovery Pro is available now priced at $25 and available to purchase at Daniel Stawczyk website.

     
    February 11, 2009 – Discovery R3.1 Linux Updated

    discoDSP Discovery Linux R3.1 has been updated.

    What's new

    • Fixed Renoise hangs (VST scanning and application quit).

    To download Release 3.1 please log at Members Area.

     
    December 29, 2008 – Discovery Pro Mac released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Mac is now available.

    Discovery Pro Mac is a 12 oscillators Virtual Analog VSTi and Audio Units Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, 2X oversampling/undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. It also Imports Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

    A demo and crossgrades for previous Discovery customers are already available to download at http://www.discodsp.com/discoverypro/.

     
    December 24, 2008 – Discovery R3.1 Linux released

    Merry Christmas. discoDSP Discovery Linux R3.1 has been released.

    What's new

    • Edit > Config > Midi Out switches Discovery's VST MIDI Out.
    • MIDI CC 30 and 31 now use full range instead one number for each oscillator.
    • Overall bugfixes.
    • Manual revision.

    To download Release 3.1 please log at Members Area.

     
    November 20, 2008 – Discovery R3.1 released

    discoDSP Discovery Mac Release 3.1 and R3.1 Windows are now available.
    Linux version is still being worked on.

    What's new

    • Edit > Config > Midi Out switches Discovery's VST MIDI Out.
    • MIDI CC 30 and 31 now use full range instead one number for each oscillator.
    • OS X cross-preset compatibility between PowerPC and Intel projects. Export as FXP/FXB first before updating and import into R3.1.
    • Overall bugfixes.
    • Manual revision.

    To download Release 3.1 please log at Members Area.

     
    October 16, 2008 – Daniel Stawczyk Discovery Pro Sounds

    Daniel Stawczyk work is a carefully crafted bank that will bring amazing sounds to the currently existing palette.

    It's released for existing customers only and available at Members Area.

     
    September 4, 2008 – Discovery R3 released

    discoDSP Discovery Mac Release 3 as well as R3 for Windows and, for the first time ever, Linux are now available.

    What's new

  • Better automation support (Apple Logic).
  • Edit > Program > Rename Preset.
  • Edit > Import > Import FXP.
  • Faster SSE3 assembly optimized versions.
  • Windows version fully ported from v2.10 to R3.
  • Native Linux support.
  • Minor enhancements.

    To download Release 3 please log at Members Area.

     
    July 25, 2008 – Discovery Mac Release 2 available

    discoDSP Discovery Mac Release 2 is now available.

    What's new

    • Audio Units Universal Binary.
    • FXB/FXP export.
    • Unison Edit.
      Drop /Library/Audio/Discovery_Data/unison.cfg to a text editor for more information.
    • Discovery Mono works as expected.
    • VST and Audio Units can be installed at /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins too.
    • Discovery_Data will be looked at /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/ to allow AU and VST share the same file.
    • Renamed plugins in order to avoid Logic or GarageBand confuse Demo and Registered versions. Trashing files from ~/Library/Cache/ used to fix this problem.

    To download Release 2 please log at Members Area.

     
    July 24, 2008 – Discovery Pro R3 Build 5 for Receptor

    discoDSP's Discovery Pro R3 Build 5 is now available for Receptor owners via Plugorama.

    What's new

    • WAVE Oscillator can modulate OSC1 frequency.
      There is now an FM led in the WAVE section. Once enabled, WAVE Oscillator replaces OSC2 as the FM modulator.
    • Fixed gate clicks at frequency rates higher than 44.1k.
    • Dual pitch bend: Select range from upper and lower root key independently or linking them. Click Pitch Bend LCD to set up.
    • Pitch Bend curve now fully MIDI specification compliant.

    More information at Plugorama.com.

     
    July 4, 2008 – Discovery Mac VST UB available

    discoDSP Discovery Mac is now available in VST Universal Binary in addition to AU Intel. We are still working to bring AU PPC as soon as possible.

    To download latest version please log at Members Area.

     
    July 1, 2008 – discoDSP Discovery Mac released

    Discovery Mac is a Virtual Analog Synthesizer featuring multi layering, 2x oversampling, unison edit, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 8 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects. It also imports Nord Lead 2 SysEx patches.

    The features of Windows VST version have been succesfully ported to this AudioUnits, Intel only build. PowerPC is still being developed.

    A demo is already available. Full version costs 99 USD or 75 €.
    More details at Discovery Mac page.

     
    June 1, 2008 – Discovery Pro cross-grade offer

    Now Discovery customers can cross-grade to Discovery Pro for just 75 € (19% VAT included).

    Details can be found at Members Area.

    Discovery Pro is a Virtual Analog VSTi + Wave Synthesizer featuring 8 VA oscillators + 4 WAVE oscillators (WAV and SF2 support), multi layering, 2x oversampling, unison edit, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay, gate effects, graphic modulation. Imports Nord Lead 2 and 2X SysEx patches.

    More information, demo version, video and audio showcases available at Discovery Pro page.

     
    April 1, 2008 – Discovery Pro R3 Build 5 released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Release 3 Build 5 is now available.

    What's new:

    • Soft led added using the same filter (3dB/oct lowpass) that is used to make pink noise out of white noise.

    Please log at members area to download, thanks.

     
    March 27, 2008 – Discovery Pro R3 Build 4 released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Release 3 Build 4 is now available.

    What's new:

    • Dual pitch bend: Select range from upper and lower root key independently or linking them. Click Pitch Bend LCD to set up.
    • Pitch Bend curve now fully MIDI specification compliant.

    Please log at members area to download, thanks.

     
    March 17, 2008 – HighLife Open Source R2 released

    HighLife Open Source has been updated to R2.

    What's new:

    Coded by George Yohng:

    • Menu items added to save/load instrument in a special HighLife format.
    • Polyphony stealing is changed, so that the oldest voice is stolen (this seems to work better than what there was before).
    • LFO fixed.
    • Updates to make it compile well on MSVS 8.0.
    • Changes to conform VST SDK better.
     
    March 13, 2008 – Discovery Pro R3 Build 3 released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Release 3 Build 3 is now available.

    What's new:

    • Fixed gate clicks at frequency rates higher than 44.1k.

    Please log at members area to download, thanks.

     
    February 13, 2008 – Discovery Pro R3 Build 2 released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Release 3 Build 2 is now available.

    What's new:

    • WAVE Oscillator can modulate OSC1 frequency.

      There is now an FM led in the WAVE section. Once enabled, WAVE Oscillator replaces OSC2 as the FM modulator.

    Please log at members area to download, thanks.

     
    December 24, 2007 – HighLife 1.4 released

    HighLife 1.4 has the following enhancements over HighLife Open Source R1, the latest remaining freeware:

    • Library browser

      • Disk based program managing.
      • (fxp, sfz, akp) for quick and easy access to frozen instruments, fxp, akp, sfz programs.
      • Frozen VSTis are stored in their own folder automatically.
      • Sample content library (260 MB).
      • Auto-cue marker (cue options in zone wave editor).

    • SFZ opcodes "bendup", "benddown", "offset", "end" supported.
    • More accurate SFZ format loading.
    • Sfz’s “loopstart” and “loopend” opcodes export.
    • Native FXP Program save format.
    • AIFF file support.
    • Arrow spinners for easy navigation of VSTi program, zone and library folder files.
    • * displayed in global LCD when working in Global Edit mode.
    • .cfg file for recall of previous freeze settings and new library startup folder.
    • Zone sample rate selector drop-down menu.
    • Sample editor autotuner, sample root tunning and pitch shifter.
    • File browser WAV preview (using MME).
    • MIDI sustain.
    • One shot sample type.
    • Blackman windowing for SINC interpolations resulting in a richer sound.
    • Selectable autodrum behavior under Options.
    • Program Global Edit enabled by default.
    • Freeze range maps top and bottom key range to the full scale.
    • Freeze length ranged from 1 to 16 seconds.
    • Pitchbend message reception.
    • Master volume settings value is stored.

    HighLife 1.4 costs 45 € or 69 USD (VAT included).

     
    December 23, 2007 – Phantom price drop

    discoDSP Phantom now costs 45 € or 69 USD.

     
    December 21, 2007 – Discovery Pro R3 for Receptor

    discoDSP's Discovery Pro R3 is now available for Receptor owners via Plugorama.

    Discovery Pro is provided as a full Receptorized installer and brings the Receptor compatible version up to date with the native version which greps for the architecture (RevA/B/C) and installs the appropriate versions of the program, SSE or a faster SSE2 build.

    More information at Plugorama.com.

     
    December 12, 2007 – Discovery Pro R3 released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro Release 3 is now available.

    What's new:

    • Polyphony increased to 64 voices.
    • Industry standard SoundFont 2 support (.SF2 files must be copied to Discovery_Pro_Data folder).
    • User.dwb folder bank added to enhance custom WAV file load workflow.

    To download R3, please log at members area.

    Discovery to Discovery Pro crossgrade offer will end on January 1, 2008.

     
    November 8, 2007 – HighLife source code released

    discoDSP HighLife source code has been released under BSD license.

    We hope to get contributors and make HighLife even better.
    Visit Source Forge project page.

     
    September 12, 2007 – Discovery Pro for Receptor

    discoDSP's Discovery Pro R2 is now available for Receptor owners via Plugorama.

    Discovery Pro is provided as a full Receptorized installer and brings the Receptor compatible version up to date with the native version which greps for the architecture (RevA/B/C) and installs the appropriate versions of the program, SSE or a faster SSE2 build.

    Discovery Pro Receptor will have an introductory price of $199 until November. Crossgrade from v2 Receptor to PRO Receptor will cost $99 and crossgrade from Windows VST to Receptor just $49.

    More information at Plugorama.com.

     
    August 7, 2007 – Discovery v2.10 for Receptor

    A new version of discoDSP's Discovery (v2.10) is now available for Receptor owners via Plugorama.

    Discovery is provided as a full Receptorized installer and brings the Receptor compatible version up to date with the native version (v2.10).

     
    August 1, 2007 – Discovery Pro updated to R2

    discoDSP Discovery Pro has been updated to Release 2.

    What's new:

    • Added XPO Filtersweep and Jeff VSTSoundBanks.com banks (total of 128+ presets).
    • New Mod Envelope destination: OSC2+Wave
    • Minor GUI polish.
    • Revised PDF manual.

    To download this update, please log at members area.

     
    July 15, 2007 – Discovery Pro released

    discoDSP Discovery Pro pre-order has finished and release 1 is now available.

    Discovery Pro costs 149 € / 199 USD (VAT included). All previous customers and beta testers will receive a update e-mail the next week. For more information please visit Discovery Pro page.

     
    June 29 2007 – Discovery Pro Pre-Order announcement

    discoDSP Discovery Pro is a brand new VA Synthesizer featuring 12 oscillators (8 Virtual Analog + 4 Wave based) with extensive sound design capabilities.

    Pre-Order price will be 99 € / 149 USD (VAT included, beta access membership) and final price 149 € / 199 USD (VAT included).

    All Pre-Orders will gain access to the beta program and will be able to download the latest beta as soon as payment is validated.

    Release version should be out pretty soon. For more informaion please visit Discovery Pro page.

     
    May 24, 2007 – Discovery v2.10 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.10.

    What's new

    • All leds are clickable now.
    • Manual revision.
    Previously registered users can download the update at members area.
     
    December 20, 2006 – Vertigo v2.6 released

    Vertigo has been updated to v2.6.

    What's new

    • Further optimizations with at least 20% additional CPU speed ups.
    • Added Copy and Paste envelope functions.
    • Fixed partial panning bug.
    • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

     
    December 14, 2006 – Vertigo v2.5 released

    Vertigo has been updated to v2.5.

    What's new

    • Full additive engine rewrite and optimization with up to 100% speed ups.
    • Importing with A-B Link button enabled will be applied to both layers.
    • Open/Save programs will always point to Vertigo Data folder.
    • Reset button now asks for confirmation.
    • Revised PDF manual.
    Version 1.x and 2.0 users can buy this update for $19 or 15 € at members area.
     
    November 29, 2006 – Discovery v2.9 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.9.

    What's new

    • Pitch bend range raised to 48 semitones.
    • Edit > Swap > FX Bypass reworked and enhanced.
    • Edit > Config > High Quality Distortion added (2X oversampling).
    • Right click on GUI will now return contextual Edit menu at cursor position.
    Registered users can download the update at members area.
     
    November 12, 2006 – HighLife now freeware

    discoDSP HighLife is now free of charge.

     
    October 24, 2006 – Discovery v2.8 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.8.

    What's new

    • New high-quality chorus.
    • Alt will move current knob from four layers at once.
    • Reworked Edit menu including new functions:
      • Copy/Paste Delay.
      • Reset all effects (Chorus/Phaser/Limit Off and Panning/Delay/Gate to default).
      • Randomize Layer Morphing.
      • FX Bypass. Will work while changing presets and banks too.
      • Swap between new and classic chorus.
    • Revised manual.
    • Revised unison presets.
    Previously registered users can download the update at members area.
     
    August 18, 2006 – Discovery v2.7 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.7.

    What's new

    • Filter frequency compensated. Consistent response at any sample rate.
    • Pedal sustain works using arpeggio.
    • Edit > MIDI Velocity to Morph function from v1.x re-implemented.
    • Ctrl+Alt+Left Click resets knob morph amount.
    • Default bank has been categorized and includes 64 new presets.
    • Revised PDF manual.
    • Edit > Sync functions placed into a submenu.
    • Global Voice settings menu available at Edit menu.
    • Active layer is recalled after closing a project.

    Registered customers can download this update at members area.

     
    May 24, 2006 – Discovery v2.6 for Receptor

    A new version of discoDSP's Discovery (v2.6) is now available for Receptor owners via Plugorama.

    Discovery is provided as a full Receptorized installer and brings the Receptor compatible version up to date with the native version (v2.6).

     
    March 1, 2006 – Discovery v2.6 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.6.

    Added

    • Unison edit.
    • Full VST 2.4 SDK compatibility. (Now works perfectly with FL6).
    • Further SSE optimizations resulting in less CPU consumption.
    • Full Multi-core CPU compatibility.
    • MIDI sustain pedal support.
    GUI
    • Pitch bend and filter drop-down menus (clicking status LEDs).

    Previously registered customers, including bundles, will receive an e-mail with download details this week. Receptor customers should contact Muse Research instead.

     
    December 1, 2005 – Discovery v2.5 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.5. Receptor version will follow as soon as possible.

    Added

    • 2x oversampling and 2x undersampling (clicking voice leds).
      2x undersampling will make Discovery work at half the current bit rate, which is useful when working with 96/192k projects in order to save plenty of CPU.
    • Bank drop down menu browser (clicking bank name).
    GUI
    • Randomized gate refreshes properly.

    Previously registered customers, including bundles, will receive an e-mail with download details on December 2.

     
    November 2, 2005 – Discovery v2.4 for Receptor

    Discovery is now available at Plugorama. Any previous customers can download this update at no cost.

     
    June 20, 2005 – Discovery v2.4 released

    Discovery has had an intensive optimization and will lead to up to 100% speed ups by using SSE assembler instructions or 65% on plain FPU.

    This update is also free to any previous Discovery customers. They will be e-mailed this week with all the required information.

     
    March 12, 2005 – Discovery v2.3 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.3.

    Added

    • Chorus, Phaser and Distortion use SSE optimizations if available.
    • Layers can be toggled on/off using MIDI CCs 111 to 114.

    GUI

    • New Edit button using a more consistent listing.
    • Sync and Gate/delay panels available from Edit menu.
    • SysEx Import moved to Edit menu.

    Improved

    • Less CPU use, more noticeable on Intel processors.
    • Manual revision.
     
    February 2, 2005 – discoDSP at Plugorama.com

    Discovery, Phantom and Vertigo have been added to Plugorama, the support and partner site for Muse Research's Receptor, the portable, versatile, hardware VST plug-in player designed for performing musicians. They are inmediatly available to order.

     
    January 1, 2005 – Integral Bundle released

    If you want it all at the best price, Integral Bundle offers Synthesizer Legacy, HighLife and FX Bundle for an outstanding price.

    • discoDSP HighLife: Performance sampler with VSTi sampling, sample editor, five built in effects, flexible modulation route and morphable scheme. Featuring the highest offline resampling quality of 512 point SINC and a 260 MB sample content library.

    • discoDSP Discovery: Virtual Analog VSTi Synthesizer featuring multi layering, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 8 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects. Imports Nord Lead 2 sysex patches. Includes more than 3.500 presets.

    • discoDSP Phantom: Eight voices, four operators PM/FM synthesizer, featuring the same Discovery parameter morphing capabilities. Imports Yamaha DX100, DX27 and DX21 SysEx data. Including 256 preset, 64 of them designed by Scott Solida.

    • discoDSP Vertigo: Additive synth with resynthesis and morphing capabilities. Vertigo resynthesis engine was pioneer into VST software synths and currently the only one capable of accurate complex musical phrases like drumloops, speech or simple tones recreations, based on his 256 partials engine. Includes 128 high quality presets.

    • discoDSP FX Bundle: Two superb, single and multi-band, analog modeled compressors and a 30 band stereo EQ.

    Integral bundle can be purchased at Share-it! using a 128 bit SSL secure connection.

     
    December 12, 2004 – HighLife v1.4 released

    discoDSP HighLife has been updated to version 1.4

    Added
    • New sample content library (260 MB). Thanks to Brian from Sectionz.com.
    • Auto-cue marker (cue options in zone wave editor).
    Changes
    • Faster engine (60% usage per voice than v1.3)
    • New 24dB filters.
    • Small program LFO improvements.
    • Enhanced Daft phaser effect.
    Bugfixes
    • Problems changing zone 'sync' ticks or coarse/fine settings while playing.
    • Other minor stuff and improvements.
     
    November 1, 2004 – Receptor + discoDSP plugins

    Muse Research, Inc. announced that it will ship the Discovery virtual analog synthesizer and Vertigo additive synth plug-in by discoDSP with their v1.0.1 software release. These synths bring remarkable functionality and a vast sound palette to Receptor, their portable hardware VST player. Discovery and Vertigo will be shown at the 117th AES show in addition to being made available for download on the company’s www.plugorama.com website. All Receptor owners can download the plug-in from the plugorama website and try Discovery or Vertigo free for 30 days.

    Discovery Features amazing virtual analog performance at a bargain price. Discovery DSP is a truly powerful virtual analog synth with dozens of powerful features, such as multi layering, a built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM capabilities, 8 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, and thousands of enticing presets.

    Discovery’s architecture provides maximum flexibility when programming your own sounds. Start by selecting from the two oscillators, and then add one of the several types of filters, and then program the appropriate ADSR envelope for the sound. Finally, the flexible modulation scheme and built-in effects allow you to color your sound to your liking and save it to one of the 128 patch memories in one of 38 banks. With support for 4 layers per patch, and morphing between layers, Discovery quickly becomes a remarkably expressive synth for any type of music. Discovery even imports Nord Lead 2 and Nord Lead 2X patches directly.

    Vertigo offers rich additive synthesis sounds coupled with powerful user interface. The notion of additive synthesis was once confined to research institutions due to the demanding computational load required by the nature of Additive Synthesis. Now with Receptor, it’s possible to have additive synthesis available in a portable form. Vertigo has two discrete additive synth engines for creating layers, and also for morphing between individual sounds using a mod wheel or such real time parameters such as keyboard velocity.

    go to vertigo page

    Vertigo’s programming capabilities are quite impressive, with a dedicated spectral viewmode that makes it possible to evolve spectra using a variety of control mechanisms,including importing the user’s own bitmaps. To top it all off, Vertigo offers impressive resynthesis capabilities, a rather remarkable feature considering the price of the product.

    For more information, about Receptor, visit www.museresearch.com, or send an email to info@museresearch.com, or call +(650) 326-5400.

     
    October 1, 2004 – discoDSP Synthesizer Legacy

    Synthesizer Legacy Bundle gives a new sonic palette boost by offering three dedicated synthesizers:

    • discoDSP Discovery: Virtual Analog VSTi Synthesizer featuring multi layering, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 8 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects. Imports Nord Lead 2 sysex patches. Includes more than 3.500 presets.

    • discoDSP Phantom: Eight voices, four operators PM/FM synthesizer, featuring the same Discovery parameter morphing capabilities. Imports Yamaha DX100, DX27 and DX21 SysEx data. Including 256 preset, 64 of them designed by Scott Solida.

    • discoDSP Vertigo: Additive synth with resynthesis and morphing capabilities. Vertigo resynthesis engine was pioneer into VST software synths and currently the only one capable of accurate complex musical phrases like drumloops, speech or simple tones recreations, based on his 256 partials engine. Includes 128 high quality presets.

    Trial is already available to download (30 MB). You can purchase Synthesizer Legacy using Share-it! 128 bit secure connection.

     
    August 12, 2004 – New Vertigo presets

    Full version now has 128 presets and it is immediately available to order.

    go to vertigo page

    All our previously registered customers will receive these presets for free.

     
    May 27, 2004 – HighLife v1.3 released

    discoDSP HighLife has been updated to version 1.3

    Added:
    • Sample editor autotuner, sample root tunning and pitch shifter.
    • File browser WAV preview (using MME).
    • MIDI sustain.
    • One shot sample type.
    Changes:
    • CPU optimization (0.85% per voice).
    • Blackman windowing for SINC interpolations resulting in a richer sound.
    • Selectable autodrum behavior under Options.
    Bugfixes:
    • Sfz’s “loopstart” and “loopend” opcodes export.
    • Samplerate related bug.
    • Presets having slashes on their names are correctly freezed.
    • Master volume settings value is stored now.
    • File functions not working in some cases.
    • Sample view displays correctly with cut/paste operations
     
    May 6, 2004 – HighLife v1.2 released

    HighLife, our performance sampler VST instrument/host for windows, has been updated to v1.2.

    Added:
    • New library browser:
      • Disk based program managing.
      • (fxp, sfz, akp) for quick and easy access to frozen instruments, fxp, akp, sfz programs.
      • Frozen VSTis are stored in their own folder automatically.
    • SFZ opcodes "bendup", "benddown", "offset", "end" supported.
    • More accurate SFZ format loading.
    • Native FXP Program save format.
    • AIFF file support.
    • Arrow spinners for easy navigation of VSTi program, zone and library folder files.
    • * displayed in global LCD when working in Global Edit mode.
    • .cfg file for recall of previous freeze settings and new library startup folder.
    • Zone sample rate selector drop-down menu.

    Changed:

    • Program Global Edit enabled by default.
    • Freeze range now maps top and bottom key range to the full scale.
    • Freeze length now ranged from 1 to 16 seconds.

    Bugfixes:

    • Pitchbend message reception.
    • Multi-output waves (>2 channels) were played mono.
    • Mod LFO sync and filter not behaving correctly when using Program Global edit.
     
    May 1, 2004 – HighLife v1.1 released

    HighLife, our performance sampler VST instrument/host for windows, has been updated to v1.1.

    Overview

    • Built-in VST host for 32bit sampling of VSTis (freezing).
    • Built-in wave editor.
    • 32-Bit floating point based wavetables.
    • 128 Programs with unlimited zones.
    • Up to 32 voices polyphony (Multi layered zone sampling engine).
    • Selectable interpolation engines: Hermite, Sinc 64 and Sinc 512. Both sinc modes are not suitable for realtime purposes but bouncing to audio.
    • Morphable scheme and automatable zone parameters (incl. cue and loop points).
    • Syncable LFO with configurable Phase.
    • Stepping-free modulation sends, pitch bend and modulation to morphing wheels.

    Sampler Import formats

    • Auto mapping when multiple files are opened at once.
    • Samples: .wav (8 to 32 Bit), .mp3, .raw.
    • Programs: proprietary .fxp/.fxb, .akp (Akai S5000/S6000), rgc:audio's SFZ.

    Sampler Export formats (registered version only)

    • Samples: .wav.
    • Programs: proprietary .fxp/.fxb, rgc:audio's SFZ.

    Program overview

    • Unlimited zones.
    • ADSR amplitude envelope.
    • ADSR envelope filter and pitch assignable (both bipolar).
    • -24dB/Oct filter modes: Lowpass/Hipass/Bandpass/Notch and disabled.
    • Stepping-free Cutoff and Resonance.
    • High quality Chorus, delay and reverb.
    • Wow factor effects: Daft and rock da disco.
    • Full mono/poly and legato operation.

    Zones overview

    • Independent envelope amplitude, modulation envelope, LFO and filter settings.
    • Automatable zone parameters (including cue and loop points).
    • Up to 128 MIDI triggerable cues, with different start/end and loop settings each.
    • Automatable per-cue pos/end/loop points, supporting swapping of cue range/loop markers.
    • 5 Loop types (one shoot, forward, bidirectional, backward, forward w/sustain).
    • Group/Off by triggering settings.
    • Amp Env, Mod Env and LFO (syncable), 24dB Filter (5 Types).
    • Full MIDI Input triggering control.
    • Chorus, delay and reverb sends.
    • Glide with auto-switch control.

    Sample editor overview

    • Zoom up to 1:1 resolution.
    • Clipboard: Cut, copy, paste and sample trim.
    • Amplitude: Fade in/out, normalization and DC removal.
    • Effects: Reverse, rectifier, sin/tahn drive and spectral mirroring.
    • Cues and loops editing.
     
    April 15, 2004 – Discovery v2.2 released

    Discovery has been updated to v2.2.

    Added:

    • Morphable tempo-synced gate effect.

    Improved:

    • Manual revision.
    • Minor GUI enhancements.

    Fixed:

    • Small bug fixes.

    Trial version is already available to download.

     
    March 10, 2004 – Phantom v1.1 released

    Phantom has been updated to version 1.1.

    go to phantom page

    What's new:

    Additions:

    • New default bank designed by Scott Solida and Jaime C. Newman

    Bugfixes:

    • Small filter issue.
    • Knobs parameter automation behaviour.
     
    March 3, 2004 – Vertigo v2.0 released

    Vertigo has been updated to version 2.0.

    go to vertigo page

    What's new:

    Additions:

    • Ultra heavy CPU optimization (250% faster than Vertigo 1.x).
    • BMP Bitmap Import (any size, any color, linearly interpolated pixel resampling).
    • Spectrogram editor.
    • Stretch envelope.
    • Play mode (Poly, Mono, Legato).
    • Partial amplitude and frequency view.
    • Improved morphing (with timestretch).
    • Formant filter.
    • Morph envelope.
    • Redesigned left layout.
    • New Harmonize buttons.
    • Dedicated formant for each operator.
    • Better filter type select behaviour.
    • Panning position for each partial.
    • Zlib implemented for presets (compress/decompress on the fly).
    • Other minor additions.

    Bugfixes:

    • Preset extention added when saving.
    • Fixed Filter 2 behavior.
    • Better filter list sorting.
    • Wave loop points are imported.
    • Filter selection buttons work correctly.
    • Playing position display-tracks extended to partial amp and frequency curve monitors in spectral editor.
    • Active operator selection in spectrogram view.
    • Other small additions and bugfixes.
     
    February 14, 2004 – Discovery v2.1 released

    Our Virtual Analog synthesizer has been updated to version 2.1.
    There is a new skin available for download too.

    go to discovery page

    What's new:

    Added:

    • VST automation.
    • MIDI bank change supported.
    • 11 new banks containing 1300+ presets.

    Improved:

    • Wave cache. Waveforms have a better, high-end bass.

    Modifications:

    • Filter Attack MIDI CC changed to 89.
     
    January 15, 2004 – Receptor hardware VST player

    Receptor allows a person to run VST format software synths in an easy-to-use, portable, and robust hardware package.

    go to Muse Research website

    discoDSP software will be available pre-installed on the Receptor platform, providing musicians with a powerful array of synths with which to create. discoDSP software will be available in demo mode that allows their software to be evaluated, and then purchased with a simple web-based license transaction. This makes software synth technology easier and more convenient than with a computer.

    “We are very excited to welcome discoDSP as one of the charter developers to the Receptor platform” comments Bryan Lanser, VP of Business Development at Muse Research.

     
    November 23, 2003 – Phantom v1.0 released

    Phantom is a eight voices, four operators PM/FM synthesizer. It is able to import Yamaha DX100/DX27/DX21 SysEx data.

    click here to go to Phantom page

    Demo version is available to download. The launch price has been lowered since 19th Jan 2004 and can be ordered online for 80 € now, featuring Share*It! instant download after purchasing.

    For further details and specifications visit Phantom page.

     
    October 29, 2003 – Vertigo v1.5 released

    Vertigo, the additive resynthesizer with morphing capabilities has been updated to v1.5, featuring 64 patches in the full version. This update is free for any previous registered users.

    click here to go to Vertigo page

    Demo version is already available to download and can be ordered for a special introductory promotion price thru ShareIt online shop, featuring the new instant download after purchasing, which has been implemented in all our products.

    What's new:

    • New GUI.
    • Envelope morph engine for operators' freq/amp envelopes and program envelopes.
    • Added A/B/Linked editing for operators and envelopes.
    • Additive synthesizer engine enhancements.
    • Overall enhancements.
    • VST Automation.
    • Bug fixes.
     
    September 8, 2003 – Discovery v2 released

    Discovery v2, our virtual analog VST synth is out. Demo version is available as well.

    What's new:

    Added:

    • Delay morphing sense for delay left/right time and feedback.
    • MIDI Out. You are able to do MIDI CC learn now.
    • 3 new filters (hipass12, formant, 8 tap phaser).
    • Built in-bank browsing engine (by clicking arrows in status LCD).
    • Stereo panning (with lfo modulation, sync and lfo retriggering).
    • More than 2500 presets by default. (Including dedicated percussion bank).
    • Customizable Pitch Bend range (by clicking arrows in pitch bend LCD).
    • New waveshaper distortion.
    • FM anti-aliasing.
    • Phaser FX.
    • Limiter.

    GUI:

    • Enabling/disabling sync in lfos, delay and panning moved to clickable leds.
    • Minor graphics enhancements.

    Improved:

    • Up to 45% CPU usage optimization.
    • New crystal clear, true aliasing free oscillators.
    • Morphing engine. Using 'sense amount' instead absolute knob morphed position. (Exactly like Nord Lead 2 does).
    • Layering mixing engine (different delay settings per each layer, etc).
    • Faster filtering.
    • GUI code, refreshing/repainting optimizations, flicker-free LCD.
    • VST to host I/O data.

    Bugfixes:

    • Small aliasing amount caused by filter tap waveshaper.
    • Modwheel and some other parameters not saving right under some hosts.
    • Lfo(s) buffers cleanup related problem.
    • Denormalization issue in delay unit.
     
    August 15, 2003 – Vertigo v1.0 released

    Our additive synth with resynthesis and morphing capabilities has been released.

    click here to go to Vertigo page

    Demo version is available to download. Registered users will have access to Vertigo patches library, available online.

     
    June 20, 2003 – Discovery v1.5 update

    Version 1.5 is available

    What's new:

    • Added: Knobs alphablend to visualize in knobs both morph and source states.
    • Added: Reset layer/program/bank options.
    • Added: New default bank. Original presets keep available as .fxb file.
    • Changed: New GUI.
    • Changed: Single library for different processors instead three.
    • Changed: Context menu retuned.
    • Changed: Improved MIDI event handling code
    • Changed: Minor synthesis enhancements and optimizations.
    • Fixed: Miscellaneous issues related to several hosts.
     
    April 27, 2003 – discoDSP Forum

    Our forum is now working. Support will be given there too.

     
    April 15, 2003 – Vertigo audio example

    First Vertigo audio example is now available.

    It is first played on Native Instruments Kontakt thru major C1 to C9 scale, and after on Vertigo modelled version. Audio is just DRY output. Differences are interesting. Listen.

     
    April 2, 2003 – Vertigo announcement

    First screenshoot (alpha) of our forthcoming additive synthesizer.
    More details to be announced soon.

    click to enlarge

     
    March 10, 2003 – Discovery updated

    Version 1.3 is available.

    What's new:

    • Added: Memory optimization (more instances, less memory).
    • Added: Program LFO1/LFO2/Delay fx 'sync to host tempo' menu.
    • Added: Reset layer/program/bank options.
    • Added: New GUI buttons and knobs.
    • Added: Better asymmetric distortion wave shaper.
    • Added: Small enhancements and fixes.
    • Changed: Link to discodsp available in right-click menu only.
    • Changed: Linear knob values.
    • Fixed: Nord Lead 2 .syx import works properly now (importing banks/patches).
    • Fixed: Mod Wheel amount to morph calculation.
    • Fixed: Output properties (Cubase 5.1/SX handle outputs as stereo pair now).
     
    February 10, 2003 – Discovery v1.1 released

    Our first VST Instrument has been released. Version 1.1 is available.

     
    January 20, 2003 – discoDSP FX Bundle

    Now you can order discoDSP FX bundle [eq30, nightshine and thrillme].

     
    January 15, 2003 – EQ30

    EQ30 is based on Alesis M-EQ 230 dual 1/3 octave precision equalizer specs.

     
    January 1, 2003 – NightShine v1.1

    discoDSP NightShine, our single band compressor has been updated to version 1.1.

    What's new:

    • Better Depth algorithm.
    • Several GUI enhancements.

      Registered users will get the update for free.

     
    December 12, 2002 – NightShine v1.0

    NightShine is a new compressor with the look and feel of retro equipments and the modern digital technology.

     
    October 24, 2002 – ThrillMe updated

    Our multiband compressor have been updated to v2.2.0

    This update is available for registered users only.

     
    August 5, 2002 – ThrillMe v2.1.1

    We are glad to inform that our first product is available to order.

    ThrillMe v2.1.1 is a Spectral Enhancer, Multiband Compressor and Limiter with Vintage 3D looking and awesome quality.

     
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