Stepocea
by Flandersh Tech
by Flandersh Tech
4.0 / 5
(2 votes)
Stepocea is a polyphonic stereo sequenced synthesizer tuned for spatial, massive leads and pads that evolves in counterpoint.
- Four fat sounding oscillators with pan.
- Individual convolution reverb per oscillator.
- Dual amp envelope and mod envelope.
- Dual multitype filters with envelope and LFO.
- Individual arpeggiators for each oscillator.
- Oscilloscope and spectrum meter.
Downloads
Win 64 VST
(13.1 Mb)
A separate convolution reverb for each oscillator? What's up with that? It seems like a pretty weird and unnecessary design choice to stack up reverbs, especially for a sequenced (usually short sounds) synth and not CPU efficient at all. Might explain the CPU load complaint. Not saying it wouldn't work but in my experience you don't stack reverbs up because it usually just muddies up the sound.
Thank you for the comment! The separate convolution "reverb" option was made for spatialization means in combination with the pan controls. As different positions of choir voices, instruments and so on affect the reverb in a space differently, the possibility to recreate this in a synth through custom recorded impulse responses may have an effect on the spatialization of the sound. In addition to this, individual convolution processors on each layer of sound makes it possible in example to load an amp impulse response on one layer, a delay impulse response on another and so on for sound design means. The high CPU consumption had nothing with the convolution reverbs to do, but was according to a bug. This is sorted in the 1.5 update.
(3 / 5)
Sound is good but seem buggy for example when trying to load IR into the reverb. Also pretty heavy on the CPU. Some Updates could make this one a killer machine!
Thank you for the feedback! CPU usage is optimized in version 1.5.
(5 / 5)
It's going to take me some time to learn this but what a beautiful sound it has. I'm enjoying it very much!