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Amazing Sounds
Alchemy comes with a library of 1000 presets including a free Sound Library of your choice (view full list) covering everything from evolving pads, and sublime soundscapes to playable arps, basses, vocal textures and atmospheric sound effects designed by many of the worlds top sound designers. It also features a 5.5GB sample library recorded over many years of dedicated sampling sessions, covering both unusual creative material such as the sound of chewing polystyrene and more conventional sampling of numerous acoustic instruments and voices, including a chamber choir.
over 5.5GB of samples and analysed content from in-house designers Tim Conrardy and Biomechanoid, as well as designers such as Ian Boddy, Robert Rich, Scott Solida and Nucleus SoundLab
sound designers include Biomechanoid, Tim Conrardy, Arksun, Luftrum, Ian Boddy, Richard Devine, Michael Kastrup, Junkie XL, Ugo, Artvera, John 'Skippy' Lehmkuhl, Tasmodia, Adam van Baker, Robert Rich, Lotuzia, bManic, Beej, Xenox, Jim Hunter, Antonio Blanca, Torben Hansen, Paul Nauert, Christian Kjeldsen, Rory Dow, Bryan 'Xenos' Lee, Ole Jeppesen, Martin Walker, Pendle, BigTone, himalaya, patchen preston, yuroun and Dangerous Bear
all presets carefully tagged tagged for the new browser
intelligent random preset generation with a single click
import your own SFZ and WAV files
advanced resynthesis engines help keep the library small, reducing the need for a huge disk-straining sample library
many expansion Sound Libraries available
Powerful Browser
The new browser is the most fully-featured sound browser available, allowing you to find all your slow attack strings, glitchy dubstep basses, tempo-synched warm pads, or whatever they need in a matter of seconds. All Camel Audio presets have been carefully tagged by category, subcategory, genre, sound library, sound designer, articulation, and timbre. Finding favourites is a breeze — simply rate presets with a single click and then sort by rating. Users can add tags to make it easy to call up presets associated with a particular project or live set, and can also add comments to presets with playing tips or other notes.
Search by Category, Subcategory, Genre, Sound Library, Sound Designer, Articulation or Timbre
All Alchemy and Alchemy Sound Libraries fully tagged to make finding sounds a breeze
One click rating of presets and sort by rating or alphabetically
Add user tags, so you can tag presets associated with a particular project or live set
Easy to use tagging of presets including the ability to apply tags to multiple presets
Free text search of all fields including preset name
Add comments to presets for playing suggestions or other notes
Browser displays image for each Sound Library
Performance Controls
Alchemy is perfect if you just want to quickly and easily have access to inspiring sounds. The perform section makes it possible to have an incredibly powerful synth with an incredibly simple interface. The perform section has the most important controls for the current sound. The remix pad makes it possible to quickly experiment with variations of the current sound - simply click and drag to morph between the eight variations.
16 controls per preset carefully assigned by the preset designer, for instant access to each presets most tweakable parameters
8 remix pad variations per preset - click and drag to morph between variations
two XY squares
unique 'auto assign' feature to assign a full set of performance controls with two clicks
Morphable Sources
Alchemy has four sources which are each capable of resynthesizing sounds using a wide range of techniques. Alchemy is capable of a larger number of resynthesis techniques with higher quality resynthesis than with any other software synth. Resynthesis allows you to do many interesting things which are impossible with conventional samplers such as morph between sounds, change the balance between the pitched and noise parts of a sound, adjust the odd/even harmonic balance and stretch or elongate the parts of a sound. Listen to track one in the music player in the top left of this page to get a taste of what's possible.
4 stereo sources each of which has additive, VA, spectral, granular and sampler engines
morph between sources using advanced harmonic blending and precise time alignment
crossfade between sounds with vector mixing
modulatable stretch and position knobs for anything from tempo synced loops to wavesequencing
up to 100 zones per source using any synthesis method
easy to use file import browser with sample preview
micro tuning support with comprehensive categorized library of scales
highly optimized code including SSE and Altivec optimizations
Additive Resynthesizer
Alchemy has the most powerful additive synthesis engine available in any soft synth. Additive synthesis is capable of creating any sound you can imagine. When you import a sound to the additive engine, you break it down into its harmonics, which offers an incredible depth of control over the sound.
very high quality analysis and resynthesis - import vocal phrases, drum loops, ...
up to 600 stereo oscillators
realtime modulation of amplitude, pitch and pan spectrums by any modulator - for example, control the odd/even harmonic balance, pan partials using LFOs, stretch or contract the harmonic spectrum and lots more
individual amplitude, pitch and pan envelopes for each partial
easy to use additive editor with unique detail knob to simplify sounds for editing
Spectral Resynthesizer
The spectral synthesis engine allows you to analyse sounds and then perform high quality pitch and time stretching on them. You can also view the sounds as pictures and edit them with paint brushes and other graphics tools.
phase vocoder analysis for high quality pitch and time stretching
noise resynthesis mode using 256 band noise shaping
advanced graphical sonogram editing - choose from a range of brushes and select the colour and opacity
graphical spectral cut, copy and paste - cut or copy and paste specific frequency and time regions
Granular Synthesizer
Granular synthesis represents sounds as a stream of ‘grains’, or tiny pieces of sound. Alchemy offers a very powerful granular synthesis engine which is great for time stretching and pitch shifting as well as creating all kinds of special effects.
freely modulatable parameters including grain size, density (up to 10 simultaneous grains), random grain time and random pan
selectable and customizable granular window shapes
Sampler
Alchemy can play back highly detailed sample libraries of acoustic instruments, as it now supports round-robin and key-switching plus unlimited keyboard zones and velocity layers. Alchemy may be the only sample player you ever need, since it can now load third-party or converted SFZ libraries, or you can select multiple WAV files and have them automatically mapped across the keyboard. When you load an SFZ file, Alchemy automatically creates eight remix pad variations using different effects and modulations.
round-robin provides realistic repeated notes
keyswitching for rapid access to different articulations
automatic easy mapping of multiple WAV files across the keyboard
intelligent memory handling to allow you to load any SFZ file no matter how large
SFZ opcodes supported: 'region' and 'group' headers and the following opcodes: sample, pitch_keycenter, lokey, hikey, key, lovel, hivel, loop_mode, cutoff, fil_veltrack, default_path, volume, tune, pan, seq_position, trigger, sw_last.
Virtual Analog Synthesizer
Alchemy has a virtual analog synthesis engine with a wide variety of waveform shapes, pulse width modulation and a powerful unison engine capable of synthesising up to 600 oscillators.
PWM and symmetry control
initial phase control
up to 600 oscillator unison with pitch, amp and pan control of unison oscillators
large library of single cycle waveforms from classic synths to new designs by Galbanum
Flexible Modulation
Alchemy has a more powerful modulation system than any soft-synth outside of dedicated synth construction environments. Alchemy features a unique ‘modular’ modulation system which combines ease of use with almost limitless flexibility. It’s a bit different from an ordinary synthesizer’s modulation system, but don’t worry: you can learn the basics in no time.
up to 16 LFOs, 16 AHDSRs, 16 MSEGs, 16 step sequencers - only those you use are displayed
virtually every knob is modulatable by up to five different modulators (including modulation-depth knobs, modulator parameters...)
advanced mod-map feature for anything from drawing custom velocity curves to creating algorithmic random note in a scale effects
xy-mseg shows you a vector style view of two parameters such as morph x and y position, with ability to import xy timelines
per destination 'smooth' control
modulation arcs intuitively show the range of modulation
modulation details of selected knob automatically displayed
right click on knob and select 'add modulation' to rapidly add and assign modulators
playing speed modulation source allows variable response to fast and slow playing; for example to crossfade between staccato and legato samples
unique flip-flop modulation source for customizable round robin effects
Analog Filters
Alchemy has 31 different filter types including many based on analog models of classic synths. With three filter slots per source, plus two main filters and two filters in the effects rack, you can have up to a massive 15 simultaneous filters.
up to 15 simultaneous filters
31 different filter types including 18 analog modelled filters, 2 comb filters, 3 CamelPhat distortion algorithms and polyphonic ring modulation
each source can be mixed between 2 parallel main filters each of which has an effects mix control
3 filters per source configurable between serial and parallel modes; applications include formant filtering with free control over the frequency and bandwidth of each formant
16 Effects
Alchemy boasts a wide variety of high quality effects processors, and what's more, virtually all the effects parameters are modulatable offering a huge variety of possibilities.
camel reverb, acoustic reverb, 2 delays, 2 mod fx (each capable of flanger and chorus effects), 2 distortions (each has bit crusher, tube, mech and xcita effects), bass enhancer, compressor, multi mode filter, 2 bandpass filters and band reject mixers, 2 three band EQs, panner and amplifier
all of the CamelSpace and CamelPhat effects included
virtually all effects parameters are modulatable
acoustic reverb with detailed control of time, damping and room design
up to five effects blocks can be applied in any order
flexible delay featuring two filter slots, crossover, offset and initial delay controls
band pass filters and associated band reject mixers allow you to apply effects to specific frequency ranges for effects such as multiband distortion
Groove Arpeggiator
Alchemy has a flexible arpeggiator with up to 128 steps and separate control over the velocity, pitch, pan and precise timing of each note, and you can even import midi files.
separate control of the velocity, pitch and pan of each note
midi file import for drum patterns and melodies
'groove import' to synchronize to a particular drum pattern
wide variety of modes including up, down, up/down, down/up, as played, random and chord
many parameters including multiple latch modes, key splits, played key velocity control, octave and source controllable from the modulation system
ability to control one source or all four
up to 128 steps
Remote Control for iPhone/iPad
The touch remote feature of the Alchemy Mobile App allows you to combine the immediacy of touch with the power of a desktop synthesizer. Change preset, move the remix pad, and access performance controls — all without leaving the comfort of your controller keyboard. Previously the domain of multi-thousand dollar devices, polyphonic pitch bend is new to v1.5, and offers an amazingly expressive way of playing instruments — especially when combined with polyphonic aftertouch. Also users can now save desktop presets and all referenced WAVs in a single .CamelSounds file, making it easier to move sounds to the mobile version, or another PC.
touch control of the remix pad and performance controls
easy one touch preset changes
polyphonic pitch bend
polyphonic aftertouch
spend more time getting inspired and less time reaching for your mouse
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