We released a big update for RayBlaster. RayBlaster unveils a completely new dimension of sounds, impossible with other synths. The revolutionary Impulse Modeling Synthesis is not just a marketing buzzword, but a radically different approach to synthetic sound generation.
The update to v3.5 is a major update. It overhauls the innovative sound-engine of the Impulse Modeling Synthesizer. The complete factory content has been reworked.
The update is free for anyone who bought RayBlaster 3. Owners of RayBlaster 1 or 2 can upgrade with a big discount.
Enhanced sound quality:
- Significantly enhanced sound quality when 44 kHz or 22 kHz is used as the DAW’s samplerate. Reduced aliasing up to 12 dB.
- Drastically enhanced sound quality when 88 kHz or 176 kHz is used as the DAW’s samplerate. Reduced aliasing up to 20 dB.
- The enhanced FFT precision results in more accurate resampling of waveforms.
- More precise interpolation of the oscillator impulses.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Ultra‘. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Big‘. It has has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Infinite‘. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Trance‘. It has stereo input, a smoother rolloff, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Band‘. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Enhanced sound of ‚Reverb Glass‘. It has a smoother rolloff, less phasing, more detail and more depth.
- Reduced detuning in ‚Delay Dual‘ effect.
- Reduced detuning in ‚PingPong‘ effect.
- Slightly reduced detuning in ‚MultiTap Delay‘ effect.
- Slightly reduced detuning in ‚Delay‘ effect.
- Slightly reduced detuning in ‚Delay Band‘ effect.
- Slightly reduced detuning in ‚Delay Diffuse‘ effect.
- The equalizer uses 64bit processing for coefficient calculations.
- The upper midrange is less sharp in the EQ modes ‚Psychoacoustic+‘, ‚High Boost‘ and ‚Psychoacoustic‘.
- Enhanced sound of the per-voice distortion.
Better factory content:
- The complete factory content has been reworked.
- 50 new sounds have been added.
- Lots of existing sounds were enhanced and fine-tuned.
- All sounds are now properly sorted into the right categories.
- Mediocre sounds have been kicked to provide only top-quality content. You can download them optionally.
New features:
- It is more easy to see soundsets in the patch browser. They have blue color.
- Tutorial patches have grey color in the patch browser.
- The patch browser can show a scrollbar for the categories.
- There is an additional equalizer in the Setup section. ‚EQ: Soft Midrange‘ damps frequencies around 3.5 kHz with -6dB.
Enhanced graphics:
- Much faster animations of the waveforms, the VUs and the effect parameters.
- More precise layout of the small knobs and various GUI elements.
Further enhancements:
- Better default settings for the init patch.
- Better default parameters for various effects.
- Enhanced stability.
- The installer is smarter and VST3 is installed with the default setting.
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Included a workaround for crappy DAWs that return garbage values for the BPM-rate or song-position.
- Many small enhancements.
Fixes:
- Fixed an unlikely crash that could happen when the Windows function of the oscillator is automated.
Downward compatibility:
- RayBlaster 3.5 is downward compatible with all previous versions. Existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound-quality.
- The factory content has been reworked and many sounds have been moved to other categories. To avoid duplicates we recommend to uninstall your previous RayBlaster version before you install v3.5.