Rainbow World-acclaimed software synthesizer View Screenshot Shareware - 70 Euros / ~ 60 US$ Buy online Rainbow can be used either as a standalone synth, or as a VST2.0 plugin (it has been tested with Cubase 3.7, Logic Audio Platinum 4.7, FruityLoops 3.0, and Orion 2.2). Standalone operation requires a soundcard with DirectSound drivers, and a midi controller. Thanks to an original mixture of FM, AM, additive and substractive synthesis, Rainbow is able to produce a wide assortment of sounds, from analog emulations or synthesized drums to 80's electric pianos or synth basses. Want to join our users group on Yahoo! Groups, and share patches with other users ? Simply enter your email here: Join the mailing list Oscillators section 4 fully independent oscillators per voice Separate level enveloppe for each oscillators Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle, Noise waveforms are available Every oscillator can be mixed into the audio output. A Waveshaping (WS) control allows to add distorsion to any oscillator Keyboard (KS) and Velocity (VS) control over the oscillator level. Fréquency modulation (FM) and/or Amplitude modulation (AM) controls. Filter section Rainbow is equiped with a multimode filter (lowpass, highpass or bandpass) with resonance and cutoff controls. The "x2" button can be used to toggle the filter between 2 poles (-12dB/Oct) and 4 poles (-24 dB/Oct). A dedicated filter enveloppe can be used to modulate the filter cutoff, with a variable mod control. Cutoff and Resonance can also be controlled by the playing velocity, using the VS.C and VS.R knobs. Step sequencer The built-in 16 steps sequencer allows to generate hypnotic patterns and unique effects. The sequencer can be synced to the host tempo. Random sequencer mode, to emulate the wonderful features of the Jupiter series arpeggiators. Pitch enveloppe Global pitch enveloppe Glide (portamento) with controllable time. Mono mode (for these acid bass lines) Built-in stereo chorus Rainbow integrates a simplified version of the Hexaline stereo chorus. Perfect for fattening the sound, or for ambient special effects (when using extreme feedback values). What our users say about this product: "I absolutely love this thing" - Christopher Drzal, USA "This thing's great for pads. Big big sound..." - 99devils, USA "The synth is absolutely amazing wicked piece of kit" - Danny Griffiths, UK "whoah!! - i'm really impressed by the demo's... " - K.,USA "Your synth is great, I really love to play around with it..." - Þorgrímur Guðmundsson, Iceland "Rainbow is a mighty nice piece of software... I love to use it" - Ernst-Norbert Kurth, Germany "Your softsynth is simply awesome, I love it!" - Dustin, USA "I've been using the Rainbow with N-Track, and over the course of a few months and perhaps 100 sessions, it has never failed...It absolutely kills." - Tom, USA Click here to enter your own comments Audio demos The following examples are single sounds played directly by Rainbow 2.2, without any additional processing. Bright Pad Tubular Bell Jupiter 8 Acid Drops Solinarium PWM Synthetic Kick 2 oscs sweep Electric Piano Elektric Band Download Zone (If downloads fail, please use the right-click menu and select "Save as...") Rainbow 2.4 demo version This demo version is fully functional, but can't save banks. It also can't load additional banks. Rainbow 2.x->2.4 update (Use this file if you want to update from a previous Rainbow version) Patch for 800x600 screens Additional banks (these files can only be loaded by registered versions of Rainbow) Bank 5 for Rainbow 2.2 "Experiment" (ambient/industrial sounds) bank for Rainbow 2.2 "Elektro" (synth percussion sounds) bank for Rainbow 2.2