Products
Sales of commercial products will probably begin in the second quarter of 2008. For the meanwhile, check out the freebies section or try the public beta version of Straightliner (which is scheduled to be the first commercial release).
Straightliner
Straightliner is a straight-lined subtractive synthesizer in a modern guise. You will find the well known
building blocks of classic analog synthesizers (4 oscillators, a filter, 2 envelope generators) patched together
in the traditional way. Now you are probably tempted to say ’boring!’ - however, the building
blocks themselves offer much more flexibility than commonly seen in subtractive (aka ’virtual analog’)
synthesizers: Instead of relying on a set of fixed waveforms, Straightliner’s oscillators support loading of
arbitrary (single cycle) audio files which may be even stereo. In turn, the whole signal path is laid out
in stereo. The standard ADSR model for envelopes is replaced by a flexible modulation generator which
allows to define an arbitrary number of breakpoints. The heart of subtractive synthesizers is the filter, of
course. In this department, Straightliner offers a multimode filter with various modes, among them the
usual suspects like lowpass, highpass, bandpass, but also several other interesting types. The current version is 0.8 (demo, beta) and can be downloaded here:
Download Straightliner (beta demo, Windows/VST)
User Manual
for feedback like bug-reports, feature-requests, etc., please use the official support forum at KVR: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=129. You may find an already existing thread there which suits your specific request, comment, etc. - if not, simply open a new one.
Because versions >= v0.7 break some presets (namely, the make-up gain won't be recalled) and introduce some demo restrictions compared to the earlier versions, the old version 0.6.5 is still available here:
Download Straightliner (old version 0.6.5, Windows/VST)
