Astralis Baby Bion
by Homegrown Sounds
by Homegrown Sounds
4.1 / 5
(50 votes)
Baby Bion is lightweight Synth using the Oscillator from the forthcoming Astralis Bion.
It was designed primarily with SoundScaper in mind, the free FX plugin from hgsounds which can create Complex Undulating Collages. Baby Bion adds a Synth to create the Sound Source, as well as Flanger/Filter, a complex LFO and a couple of 32 stage Envelopes. Although it specializes in Soundscapes and Atmospheres, it can also be used as a general Lightweight Synth, the uniquely developed Dual Oscillator provides over 3500 different waveforms which can be mixed in many flexible ways including FM.
It was designed primarily with SoundScaper in mind, the free FX plugin from hgsounds which can create Complex Undulating Collages. Baby Bion adds a Synth to create the Sound Source, as well as Flanger/Filter, a complex LFO and a couple of 32 stage Envelopes. Although it specializes in Soundscapes and Atmospheres, it can also be used as a general Lightweight Synth, the uniquely developed Dual Oscillator provides over 3500 different waveforms which can be mixed in many flexible ways including FM.
- Dual Oscillator - The Oscillator provides 2 waveforms which can be mixed using on of the many modes which includes A+B, A-B, Various FM Modes, Dual Pitch, Split and Distorted.
- Filter - Cascadable up to 8 times and includes Low Passes, Hi Passes, Band Passes, Comb, Low Shelf, Hi Shelf and Peak.
- 32 Stage Envelopes - Capable of Repeating Sections, One Envelope is for volume and the second is for the Filter and general purpose, assigned via the Modulation Routing.
- Drive - Auto Volume Distortion
- LFO - Uniquely Developed LFO with standard Shapes, plus custom shapes with Smooth Control.
- SoundScaper - Comb / Delay / Reverb Effect for creating interesting soundscapes.
- Flanger/Filter - Switchable between Flanger and Filter effect, LFO has over 300 predefined shapes with smooth control as well as standard shapes.
- FX Routing - 3 different Paths available.
- Modulation Routing - Multiple options for assigning Modulators to Destinations.
- Stereo Spread - Allows setting a random value to the Pan of each voice.
Downloads
Win 32 VST
(2.5 Mb)
Some good ambient noises could be cranked from this thing. This is better than the magazineware "quad-oscillator" with almost the same name. The "soundscaper" is kewl, I have the separate VST worth using besides anything based on "Freeverb". However I don't like the "menu fade" trick that any of this author's plug-ins enables without warning nor permission. I don't want to know what happens if I use this on Linux with Wine with a few music apps having enough problems drawing their own controls. I've downloaded the big pack by this author a short time ago but might never go to it because I want snappy OS controls not children's visual effects.
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(5 / 5)
Muy bueno , lo recomiendo!!!!!
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Great....
(5 / 5)
Great. I tried generating sounds using the Randomize button and have come up with some great ambient sounds. I haven`t found a way to save settings and Bion doesn`t have any presets to my understanding.
After using this synth for a while I discovered that you can save banks and presets.
Hi Thrak, how did you manage to save banks? I can't seem to find that functionality.
(5 / 5)
Sounds great, but looks absolutely hideous.
(5 / 5)
I love it... Use it to close a lot of tracks...
(5 / 5)
One of the best, download it now.
(5 / 5)
Doesn't work in fruity... Only if you don't press play it's works... When you press play it will hang...
(5 / 5)
GREAT! one of the best I've tried so long.
(5 / 5)
The greatest free software I�ve ever had.