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Retro Synth
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Retro Synth overview
Retro Synth is a flexible 16-voice synthesizer that can produce a wide variety of sounds.
Retro Synth provides four types of synthesizer engines—Analog, FM, Sync, and Wavetable. Each
engine can generate unique sounds that are difficult, or impossible, to achieve with other types
of synthesizers.
Retro Synth is very easy to use, with many identical controls found in each synthesizer engine.
If you’re new to synthesizers, it might be best to start off with Synthesizer basics overview, which
will introduce you to the fundamentals and terminology of different synthesis systems.
The first step in creating a new sound is to choose a Retro Synth synthesizer engine. Your choice
should be guided by the type of sound you want to generate.
Choose a synthesizer engine
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Click the tab of the synthesizer engine that you want to use:
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Analog: Use for classic synthesizer sounds, such as leads, pads, and basses. See Retro Synth
Analog oscillator controls.
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Sync: Use for aggressive synthesizer sounds, particularly leads and basses. See Retro Synth Sync
oscillator controls.
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Table: Use for synthesizer and real instrument sounds, or hybrids of these sound types. See
Retro Synth Table oscillator controls.
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FM: Use for classic digital synthesizer sounds. Of note are bells, electric piano, clavinet, and
spiky bass sounds. See Retro Synth FM oscillator controls.
Your choice of synthesizer engine changes the controls available. Most of these changes are seen
in the Oscillator section.
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