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Redoptor is not just for guitarists вЂ“ who usually only require a mono signal path for distortion. Most typical amplifiers have a fixed graphical equaliser, with 3 or 4 bands and only allow gain of the signal in each band. This degree of EQ is rare in this type of device.

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Redoptor has a full parametric equaliser with 4 controllable bands. Redoptor allows the cut-off point for low and high tones to be set before the signal is amplified. In a typical guitar amplifier, the preamp is usually fixed. The emulation doesnвЂ™t just focus on the characteristics of the tube part of the circuit it also models the rest of the circuits co-functioning with the tube within the distortion unit to capture all the subtletiesвЂ™ and dynamics of proper high-quality analog tube distortion. Redoptor has a very precisely modeled tube distortion module. As a result, the amplitude of even harmonics is not constant in time. Similarly, like a hardware tube distortion, Redoptor reacts dynamically to each change in the amplitude of the input signal. This allows subtle amplification of even harmonics and gentle transient reshaping in the signal. Redoptor has an adjustable tube bias parameter. This creates a very sonically pleasing distortion. As the sound source falls in volume in its release phase, the harmonics (which were created by the sound being initially above the clipper threshold), gently disappear with the original sound. This sounds unnatural and is unpleasant to listen to. If the volume of a signal oscillates above and below the threshold, the clipping harmonics will appear and disappear with the signal level. As the signal volume falls back below the threshold (as the sound reaches its release stage), the harmonics added by clipping suddenly disappear. In ordinary fuzz, when a signal goes over the threshold level it goes through the clipper circuit. Transistors produce only odd harmonics and limit the sound. Tubes produce even and odd harmonics and naturally compress the signal. JPS Harmonic Synthesizer is available now as a Reason Rack Extension for в‚¬79 from the Propellerheads website.The popularity of tube distortion units are as a result of their superiority over the solid-state fuzz distortions which are based on transistor clipper circuits. ThereвЂ™s some unusual character here that, if youвЂ™re a Reason user, would be worth checking out. In listening to the sound examples I feel the JPS Harmonic Synthesizer sits somewhere on the edge between gritty 80вЂ™s synth and a Bontempi keyboard but somehow manages to sound interesting rather than naff.

All this is good stuff and helps bring the potential out of this ancient box of sounds. TheyвЂ™ve also added a bunch of stomp box effects called the Acidman FX Array. Few virtual synth makers can resist the urge to embellish upon the focus of their development and so despite the painstakingly вЂњmodelled logarithmic resister potentiometersвЂќ they couldnвЂ™t help themselves in adding things like another preset per oscillator, panning and a polyphonic gated mode to the arpeggiator.

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TheyвЂ™ve added a few controls to the panel mod and pitch wheels pan knob and theyвЂ™ve expanded the envelope sections, but otherwise it fits the profile. I particularly like the way the preset buttons are all slightly off kilter. So how does this recreation stack up? On first inspection they have certainly captured the look of the synth control panel. It can be heard on Jean Michel JarreвЂ™s OxygГ©ne album and plays the bass and lead on the title track. Before the Harmonic Synthesizer then produced the Electra-piano favoured by Genesis, Yes and Deep Purple and then somehow managed to release a digital sample player that used waveform models on punch cards вЂ“ and this was the early 70вЂ™s! The RMI Harmonic Synthesizer featured two digital harmonic generators with 16 harmonics each, an LFO, arpeggiator, VCF with mixable LP, BP and HP outputs, and AM and FM capability. The style of the instrument is amazing, almost a clichГ© of vintageness, even down to the funky font on some of the labelling. Rocky Mountain Instruments (RMI) were part of the Allen Organ Company.