Vertigo

Vertigo is an additive synthesizer featuring up to 256 oscillators, Bitmap / Wave (WAV/AIFF/OGG/FLAC) re-synthesis and morphing with very high sound quality and built-in effects.

Vertigo boasts the following powerful feature set:

General:

• Up to 16 voices polyphony.

Envelope:

• 256 breakpoints parabolic envelopes with stage slope control.

Partials:

• Euler generated (Max: -120dB s/noise ratio) (no wavetables used).
• Up to 256 per voice.
• 2 Modulation sources with morphing.
• Phase.
• Amplitude.
• Note pitchshift amount.
• Frequency ratio.
• Frq/amp envelope (see Envelope above).

Synthesis options:

• Harmonize (Harmonic/Odd Harmonic vocoder).
• Phase smearing.
• Frequency smearing (ensemble).
• Classic waveform generator assistant (saw/sqr/tri/2xsaw/…).

Vertigo’s two filters can be used in parallel or in series, and offer the usual comb, low-pass, high-pass and band-pass modes, with either 12 or 24 dB/octave roll-off.

Filter:

• Low Pass/High Pass/Band Pass 12/Band Pass 24/Notch/Peak.
• Cutoff envelope.
• Wheel/Key/Velocity modulation amounts for cutoff.
• Wheel/Velo modulation amounts for resonance.

Voices:

• Two resonant filters (serial/parallel mode).
• Pitch envelope.
• Amplitude envelope.
• Pitchbend control.

Mono Effects:

• Distortion (8 times oversampled overdrive with softclip).
• Phaser (up to 128 taps).
• Flanger.
• Compressor.
• Equalizer (6 bands).

Stereo Effects:

• Chorus.
• Delay.
• Reverb.

Resynthesis and Sampling:

• WAV PCM analysis. Bitmap import.
• Method: Overlapped FFT windows/parabolic peak estimation.
• Partial amp/frq tracking.
• 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 FFT framesizes.
• 4 Windows: Bartlett, Hamming, Hanning, Blackman.
• Peak level detection threshold control.
• Peak desestimation using ‘ATH’ (Absolute Hearing Threshold) and ‘Tone Masker’ psycho acoustic models.