INTRO: Discover New Sonic Horizons with This Wavetable Synthesizer
Welcome to the world of INTRO by BK SynthLab – a powerful stereo wavetable synthesizer designed to expand your sound palette and inspire new musical experiments. This virtual instrument combines the flexibility of wavetable synthesis with an intuitive interface, making it ideal for both experienced sound designers and newcomers to the VST world.
INTRO offers a rich set of features that allow you to create a wide variety of timbres – from warm analog pads and juicy leads to aggressive basses and futuristic textures. Its stereo architecture provides a wide sound field and depth, which is essential for modern production.
Key Features of INTRO
This synthesizer has a number of impressive features that set it apart from others:
- Flexible Polyphony: INTRO supports mono and polyphonic modes with a maximum of 6 voices. This allows you to create both classic solo lines and complex chord structures and multi-layered textures.
- The Heart of Synthesis: Oscillators and Waveforms: The plugin is equipped with 4 independent oscillators. At your disposal is a huge library of 64 built-in waveforms (wave tables), which are the basis for creating unique sounds. By switching between waveforms and modulating them, you can achieve incredible timbre transformations.
- Noise Generator: Add character and richness to your sounds with the built-in noise generator. It supports two types of noise – white and pink – which gives additional possibilities for sound design, from adding “sand” to percussive elements.
Advanced Sound Shaping Capabilities
INTRO gives you wide control over the character of your sound thanks to powerful filters and flexible modulation capabilities:
- Two Powerful Filters: You have two independent filters at your service, each of which can work in different modes (LP, HP, BP1, etc.). You can choose from 1 to 8 filter cascades to achieve the desired cut-off steepness. The Gain Compensation function for some filter types helps to preserve the dynamic range when changing resonance.
- Detailed Filter Control: Each filter has individual settings for cutoff frequency (Frequency), resonance (Resonance), level (Level), panning (Pan), and keyboard tracking (Keytrack). This allows you to precisely integrate filtering into the overall sound image or create dynamic effects that change depending on the note’s pitch.
- Extensive Modulation System: Modulation is a key element of dynamic sound design, and INTRO does not disappoint in this regard. It offers 10 ADSR envelope types that can be freely assigned to control different parameters. Also available are 3 low-frequency oscillators (LFOs) to create cyclical modulation and one Sample & Hold (S&H) random value generator for unpredictable and interesting effects.
Unique Rhythmic and Sequential Functions
INTRO goes beyond the standard synthesizer, offering creative tools for creating rhythmic patterns and modulation sequences:
- Sequence Mod: The 16-step modulation sequencer allows you to program sequences of values for any parameter that supports modulation. This is ideal for creating complex, evolving timbres, arpeggios, or changing filtering and other characteristics over time.
- 4×16 step Trancegate: A specialized 16-step gate optimized for trance and electronic genres. Allows you to “cut” the sound signal, creating pulsating rhythmic patterns that are synchronized with the tempo of your project. 4 independent gate sequences are available.
- 8×16 step ENV Gate: Another 16-step gate, which probably works in conjunction with envelopes or other modulators, providing even more opportunities for complex rhythmic control and shaping sound dynamics. The presence of 8 such sequences opens up space for experiments.
Built-in Effects Block
To complete the sound image, INTRO contains an integrated effects block:
- Chorus: Adds width and movement to your sound, emulating the effect of a chorus of instruments.
- Delay: Creates echoes and spatial effects, adding depth and rhythmic interest.
- EQ: Simple equalizer for final timbre correction.
INTRO by BK SynthLab is more than just a synthesizer. It is an instrument for creativity that provides many opportunities to explore sound and realize your musical ideas. Try it in your Windows (32-bit) projects and see its potential!
