Description

Ferine is a fairly extensive rework of the microbruto synthesizer by modlfo: http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device/2276/microbruto

June 27, 2015 - Solved the buffer-filling-up issue.

June 25, 2015 - This device has been updated to solve the issue with internal patch routing affecting multiple devices.

Ferine is a monophonic, dual oscillator synthesizer, based on the architecture of the Mini/Microbrute synthesizers.

Each oscillator contains a saw, square, and triangle wave. The saw is now more closely modeled after the minibrute, with detune and rate adjustments. The square, pulsewave adjustment, and the triangle has a "metalizer" adjustment. There is now a single sub oscillator, and noise adjustment.

Pitch glide/portamento has been added, and the pitch envelope can be assigned positively or negatively. At full strength, the envelope will travel one octave.

The envelope section has seen some updates - Legato, Retrigger, and Last-Note triggering are available. The setting applies to both envelopes. The envelope/gate triggering has been removed in favor of this. The synth is also responds to velocity as well.

The LFO section is completely new. A number of waveforms are available to select from, the LFO can be rate or tempo synced (right now, Live has to be running to sync to clock - I'll see what I can do about this), phase adjustments, and smooth & jitter modulations can be applied. There was some sloppy note-taking on my behalf when I did this - I believe some of the routings/setup of this came from one of Robert Henke's early LFO devices. So, kudos to him and everyone else in the M4L community for doing some of that heavy lifting.

The mod matrix, as it existed, no longer exists. Pitch or filter can be modulated by the second envelope, and that's it. The utility (and effect) of assigning the saw, pulsewidth, or metalizer settings to it were minimal.

Pitch, pulsewidth, and the filter can be modulated by the LFO. I removed the saw modulation, as the sawtooth oscillator saw some significant changes. It essentially has it's own LFO (two, really) internally. Modulation for the metalizer effect was removed, mainly due to the fact that it didn't sound good when modulated. There's a fairly drastic change that occurs midway through the adjustment. I may update it to more closely reflect the minibrute.

So, there you have it. Enjoy, and thanks for all the downloads thus far.