Corona is a hybrid synth combining virtual analog and wavetable synthesis. Three VA/WAVE oscillators with 16 combine modes, Super 7 unison modeled on the Roland® JP-8080, dual zero-delay feedback filters, a 32-step arpeggiator, 4 LFOs, 3 ADSR envelopes, an 8-destination modulation matrix, and built-in distortion and chorus.
MIDI Learn with CC overlay badges on every assignable control. Edit > MIDI, click a control, move a knob — done. MIDI boards group by manufacturer.
Mod matrix has 30 destination presets in the Destination dropdowns. Arpeggiator has a Show/Hide toggle and scroll-wheel support for ArpSteps.
Drag-and-drop import for Synth1 (.sy1) presets and SysEx import for the Roland JP-8000 and JP-8080 — load existing patches you already know rather than rebuilding them.
Three oscillators run through operator combine modes — 12 in Phase mode, 16 in Detune mode — so the same three sources cover ground from clean stacks to FM and ring-mod territory:
Bitwise modes
Standard and absolute AND, OR, XOR applied to waveform samples at the binary level. Doesn't sound like additive or subtractive — it sounds like bit math, with the digital grit and pseudo-rhythmic artifacts that come with it.
Drop a SoundFont 2 or WAV file onto the GUI, or use Edit > File > Import Wave. Folders with a .dwb extension show up as their own categories in the browser.
14 filter types in 2-pole and 4-pole versions, with selectable shapes (tanh, poly, asym1/2/3, hardlimit, polywrap, asymwrap, quantize, asymquantize). Bipolar drive, keytracking, and pre/post volume envelope routing. ZDF mode for the zero-delay feedback path.
Dedicated unison stage with octave spread, voice count, detune, and stereo spread.
Super 7 mode with saw, parabolic, square, triangle, or sine sources for JP-8080-style supersaws.
Wave Expansion includes 300+ MB of multi-layer waveforms on top of the standard VA set (saw, triangle, square, sine, parabola, noise).
Two extra DWB banks add 300+ single-cycle waveforms sampled from hardware:
Six selectable curve shapes per envelope stage.
Sources for the matrix:
Supported Platforms
Universal Binary 2: Native Intel and Apple Silicon.
Standalone Application: No additional software required.
ProTools AAX. Apple Audio Unit. Steinberg VST. Steinberg VST3.
System Requirements