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Bass Line

Owner's manual:

Price: 59.00 Eur
Also available in:

Total Bundle for 43.40 Eur (- 26 %)
Classic Boxes Collection for 47.25 Eur (- 19 %)

Overview

Taking the classic analog sound of the legendary silver box into the future, PHOSCYON offers an unmatched sound together with advanced features such as a state of the art Distortion unit; fully user configurable BPM sync'd Arpeggiator and Randomizer; a unique 'Play Live' mode; vintage arrangement and pattern builder, full MIDI CC support and, to top it off, the most authentic 18db/oct low pass filter ever created!

Diehard fans of the original Bass Line will be blown away with PHOSCYON’s uncanny emulation of the classic, but will also marvel at the ease with which new sounds can be crafted; sounds which were not possible on the original. PHOSCYON gives you access authentic vintage sounds at a fraction of the cost of the real thing. With the familiar Bass Line interface coupled with the added sound generation tools, we at D16 Group feel that PHOSCYON is quite simply in a class of its own.

PHOSCYON's designers are also musicians who believe that in order for electronic music to stay relevant, it needs to evolve – just like any other genre. Our approach is to give forward thinking musicians and producers the tools they need to craft the sounds they want. Whether it’s Techno, Acid, Triphop, IDM, D&B, Ambient, or any other kind of genre-bending music, PHOSCYON will take your sound further. Please visit our ONLINE SHOP to start making new music now with PHOSCYON!

Capabilities

Phoscyon is a vintage analog modeled Bassline synthesizer with a unique low pass filter with an 18db/oct dumping and constant resonance amplitude throughout the entire frequency domain. The filter sounds phenomenal! Hear that squelch and you’ll swear its analog! We’ve also equipped it with a fully customizable integrated arpeggiator (essential in electronic music) as well as an exhaustively analog modeled distortion effect, crucial for those screaming acid bass lines!

Hear the sounds of for yourself in the Audio samples section and be prepared to be amazed!

System requirements

PC

OS:	Windows XP/2000 and Windows Vista
CPU:	1.2 Ghz
RAM:	512 MB
Software:	VST host

Mac

OS:	OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x
CPU:	1.2 Ghz
RAM:	256 MB
Software:	VST host

It's not a standalone program so you need a host application to use it.

MIDI CC Map

Control	CC No.
Accent
Accent Decay	20
Accent Link Mode	21
Env Accent	22
Accent Volume	23
Reso Link Mode	24
Sweep Time	25
Distortion
On/Off	40
Preamp	41
Clip	42
Size	43
Wetness	44
Density	45
Brightness	46
Dist route	47

Control	CC No.
Arpeggiator
Arp. Mode	50
Arp. Chord	51
Arp. Multiplier	52
Arp. Repeater	53
Oct. Range -1	54
Oct. Range 0	55
Oct. Range +1	56
Oct. Range +2	57
Filter
Cutoff	70
Resonance	71
Env Mod	72
Env Attack	73
Env Decay	74

Control	CC No.
Oscilator
Waveform	75
Tuning	76
Sequencer
Slide Time	5
Step Length	106
Tempo	107
Volume	7
Event threshold
Gate	109
Accent	110
Slide	111

Reviews

La bible de la musique sur PC, No 22 2007

» [...] ceux qui veulent voir du pays, les blasés de la 303, devraient jeter une oreille sur Phoscyon car il risquerait fort de les surprendre. On sent de l'mour dans ce plugin ! «

Bigshot, May/June 2007

» Hosting all the features that made the 303 king, plus some massive improvements after years of tweaking, this emulator may just be the best reproduction ever wired. [...] Fatboy Slim might just have to change his track to, “Everybody needs a Phoscyon!” «

Future Music, May (174) 2006

» It's a fun synth with a mighty big sound that simply begs to be tweaked and then tweaked some more. [...] Definitely worth a fiddle «

Computer Music, (99) May 2006

» There are loads of 303 emulations already out there, but we're still relishing the prospect of testing d16's unorthodox take on the classic acid box «

Keys, Juni 2006

» Phoscyon ist eine äußerst autentische Emulation der TB-303 und ein echter Geheimtipp für Vintage-Sound-Entusiasten «

Beat, Juni 2006

» Phoscyon überzeugt vor allem durch seinen guten Sound und die Klangerzeugung. Subjektiv gefällt der Sound - insbesondere bei zugeschaltetem Plug-in-internen Verzerrer - sogar einen Tick besser als der der AudioRealism Bass Line «

GUI

PHOSCYON

Wave comparison

Accented sound with full resonance

Low and high note without resonance (no accent)

In the left channel of .wav file you hear Phoscyon and in the right channel original 303.

Spectrum comparison

Not accented sound with full resonance at low cutoff

Not accented sound with full resonance at high cutoff

Not accented sound without resonance at low cutoff

This is real spectrum of FFT size 4096 with Blackman window at sampling rate 44100Hz

Full Features

2 authentically emulated analog oscillators (saw/square)
screaming 18db/oct low pass filter with absolutely no self oscillation
filters equipped with transistor amplitude clipping
perfectly scaled knob ranges
additional synthesis controls expand the synthesizer's range
built-in arpeggiator:
- 7 predefined chords and 1 user definable chord
- arpeggiator tempo multiplier (1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6)
- arpeggiator repeat feature
- 4 arpeggiation patterns (Up, Down, Up-Down, Random)
- defined offsets of octaves to work with
built-in distortion effect (equivalent to a transistor amplifier with equalization):
- tailored for the Acid Bassline sound!
- equipped with signal routing (Dist <=> Eq)
several Programming options:
- internal sequencer (128 patterns, each pattern up to 16 steps, each step defined with Note, Gate, Accent, and Slide values)
- external mode (compromise)
- play Live mode
powerful randomizer:
- generates patterns from user defined range of notes, user defined chords or predefined chords (Major, Minor, 7th, m7th, M7, m7-5, DIM)
- generates random values for Note, Gate, Accent, and Slide attributes
- allows user to define attribute frequency
fully controllable via MidiCC
precise synchronization with host sequencer

FAQ

If You have a problem, maybe someone before You had it, please check out our FAQ section here

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