Albino 3
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on Mac available as RTAS instrument
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Future Music Platinum Award in September 2004 issue

Awards given to the Albino 2:

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Traxmusic Gold Award

Awards given to the Albino 3:

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“Pads, leads, basses, weird noises, bell tones, FM-style purity or analogue grit - Albino can do the lot. In this respect, it could conceivably be the only soft synth you need”

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 Key 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 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

 

 Demo Songs

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.
 

 

play now Factory Demo by Rob Papen (only Albino3)
play now Sweet ‘n Sour by Oliver Imseng (Albino 3 + drumloop)
play now Strife by Brice Duncan (Mighty Hero) (only Albino3)
play now Albino C by Diego Mancamura (only Albino3)
play now Italo Vibes in Berlin by Loic Rathscheck (A3 + drum samples)
play now Albinetics by Marco Lehmann (only Albino 3)
 

 Rob Papen presets

 

 Powerful Arpeggiator

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.
 

 

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 make use of the Arpeggiator and the possibilities are literary endless.
 

 Requirements

 

 Purchasing Information

AU or VST2.0 capable host software
Minimum
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768
PC: 400 MHz, 256 Mb RAM, Windows 98 or newer
Mac: 400 MHz, 256 Mb RAM , Mac OSX 10.2.6 or higher
Recommended
Screen resolution of 1280 x 960 or better
PC: 1 GHz, 512 Mb RAM, Windows XP or newer
Mac: 1 GHz, 512 Mb RAM , Mac OSX 10.3 or newer
 

 

The Albino is available in a box including more than 2100 presets, a CD and a comprehensive printed manual in English (in Japan in Japanese) from your favourite music store.
The SRP is 239 US$ / 199 Euro / 27,800 Yen.

The Albino is also available directly from LinPlug including more than 2100 presets, a CD, and a English, French and German PDF-manual. Instant Delivery from our shop !
The license fee is 239 US$ / 199 Euro