Morphing
- Significantly improved audio morphing that uses advanced cross-synthesis incorporating Additive, Spectral, Formant, Pitch, and Envelope elements
- Linear and XY morph options and control of individual elements with intuitive display
Additive
- More accurate additive resynthesis with a new partial tracker
- 8 new additive effects – Pulse/Saw, Harmonic, Beating, Stretch, Shift, Magnet, Spread, Auto Pan
- Enhanced additive editor
- Real-time spectrogram visualization
Spectral
- Enhanced resynthesis improves clarity of transients and pitch shifting
- Support for stereo resynthesis
- Enhanced spectral editor with masking
- Real-time spectrogram visualization
Pitch
- Pitch correction with adjustments for amount and speed
- Correction methods include: One Note, Octaves, Fifths, Octave & Fifths, Chromatic
Formant
- Formant resynthesis with unprecedented flexibility using Shift, Keyboard Tracking, Size, Center and Smooth controls
- Formant synthesis for transforming and morphing between a wide range of filter shapes including vowel, comb, hi/low pass and notch
Granular
- Up to 8 taps with up to 10 grains per tap
- Tap spacing control
- Control for spreading taps across stereo field
Sampler
- Imports EXS24 sampler instruments
- Redesigned keymap editor
- Support for release samples
- Reverse playback button
- Import audio using Drum or Pitch automatic keymap modes
- Group editor with round robin, key-switches, and controllers
Virtual Analog
- Dedicated virtual analog engine with sync and alias free PWM
- Noise section with 13 noise types
- Waveform shape display
Filters
- Completely redesigned filters which faithfully reproduce analog filters from classic synthesizers
- New dirty 'Bee' filter, FM, Compressor, and ultra steep LP10 and HP10 filters
- Enhanced comb filters
Source Controls
- Per source voice management and portamento controls
- Send each source to its own effect rack
- New source filter types with drive control
- Keyswitches can now be modulated
- More intuitive layout with tabbed synthesis areas
- Arpeggiate each source individually
Arpeggiator
- 4 discrete arpeggiators; one for each source
- Switch between up to 16 patterns using modulation
- Multi view unifies the editing of patterns and per-step tie, tune and pan
- Rate knob with modulation support
Effects
- Convolution reverb with access to over 1000 impulse responses – arenas, cathedrals, halls, bathrooms, cars, and more
- 5 discrete effects racks; one for each source and master output
- Phaser with up to 32 poles
- Waveshaper with interactive breakpoint graph uses multiple nodes and curves to emulate the sound of tubes, rectifiers, and other distortions
- Vintage compressor
- Use multiple instances of any effect
- Drag and drop reordering within effects chain
- Each rack holds up to 16 effects
Modulation
- Real-time post modulation visual feedback
- Graphical AHDSR controls
- Tempo sync for AHDSR
- Performance Controls can be locked, allowing you to keep their position while moving the Transform Pad
- Transform Pad snapshots can be named
- 16 modulation slots per destination in scrollable Rack
- Modmap Key Mode – specify a value for each note on the keyboard
- Envelope followers at 8 points in the signal chain
- Enhanced MSEG editor
- Extra layer of modulation
Import Browser
- Redesigned Browser Window
- Mark folders as favorites
- Dropzone for importing multiple files
- Drag and drop samples onto import browser or source to import
Sample Library
- 3100 Alchemy presets
- 300 Logic patches using Alchemy
- 14 GB of samples
- Each preset provides eight specially designed Transform Pad variations which can be individually named
Other improvements
- Redesigned, more intuitive user interface
- Quality control to reduce CPU usage
- Browse and load Alchemy 1.5 presets (some presets may sound different than in 1.5)