Musicians, music producers, and artists looking for a powerful sampler/synthesizer will be thrilled with the tracktion Collective Synthesizer, a virtual instrument plug-in with spectacular sample-based diversity intertwined with a powerful synth engine. tracktion tapped Klause Peter Rausch, one of the most acclaimed artisans in the field of sample capture and voicing, to amass a vast array of instrument samples of the highest quality, resulting in a meticulously reviewed, edited, and voiced sonic playground for you to explore.
Collective is more than just a high-quality sample playback engine. It is also a deeply capable synthesis platform allowing for a wide array of electronic sounds to be generated with ease. The instrument combines these capabilities with layers of subtle synthesis textures under real samples for vibrant, real-world spaces.
The Collective offers a wide array of features including virtual analog, 4 operator FM, filters, LFO's, envelopes and a creative selection of FX. Over 600 factory sounds have been meticulously crafted to provide a diverse array of both real world instruments and electronica. You will find not only the obvious but also the obscure, allowing you to quickly locate the sounds you're feeling for your compositions, and explore new soundscapes from around the world.
- Filters are in series with an interconnected distortion stage
- Low- and high-pass filter types with 6, 12, and 24 dB slopes
- Band-pass and notch filter types with 12 and 24 dB slopes
- High-quality tunable comb filter with positive and negative feedback (can be used for polyphonic chorus or flanger, or to create physical-modeling sounds)
- Various distortion types including soft, medium, hard, and tube overdrive, and hard clipping
- 4 bands, fully parametric
- Low and high band types: shelf, bell, or cut
- Classic LFO waveforms triangle, sine, saw up/down, pulse, sample and hold, random
- Waveform skewing
- Synchronizable to host
- LFOs prerouted to sound-generating modules (i.e. pitch, pulse width, cutoff, volume, and panning)
- Extensive sound library with over 600 factory sounds
- Up to 256 voices (depends on CPU speed)
- Unlimited sound layers per Instrument (typically between 1 and 12)
- Macro controls for quick and easy instrument editing
- Controller support for pitch bend, modulation wheel, monophonic and polyphonic aftertouch, sustain and sostenuto pedal, expression pedal
- Full host parameter automation
- Unison with up to 16 voices and freely transposable unison notes
- Powerful arpeggiator with MIDI File import
- Internal tempo or synchronization to host
- Powerful note trigger modes for sophisticated layer sounds
- 4 oscillators
- High-quality sample playback
- Classic virtual-analog waveforms like saw, triangle, and pulse with pulse width modulation
- Sine waveform with continuous waveshaping turning it into square, saw, triangle or other waveforms
- In-oscillator sync
- Ring modulation of oscillator 1 and 2
- 4-operator FM with all waveforms or samples
- Up to 32 stages with variable slope
- Sustain and release loop
- Envelopes prerouted to sound-generating module (i.e. pitch, osc 2 + 4 level, cutoff, and volume)
- Each effect bus can be set to any effect type
- Effect types Compressor, Distortion, Filter, Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Time/Clock Delay, Natural/Plate/Nonlinear Reverb
- Full parameter set for each effect type