Audio Damage – AD055 Quanta 2 v2.1.2 (Mac\Win\Linux)

Quanta 2 is a full-featured, easy-to-use granular synthesizer.

New User Interface

The user interface has been cleaned up, modernized, and updated with panels for greater clarity and to accommodate new controls.

Modulation Assignment Reworked

We’ve replaced the matrix modulation assignment panel with a right-click context menu,
like in Continua and Phosphor 3. Additionally, the controls now have indicators to show the modulation.

Quanta 2 ‘s extra VA Oscillator

has two virtual analog oscillators instead of the original’s one.
Use one for sub-bass, send both to the grain engine, granulate one
and leave the other normal – whatever you like!

Defining and Assigning a Root Note

When you drag a sample onto Quanta 2 or load it via the import dialog, Quanta 2 attempts to find the sample’s root note. (This obviously works better with single legato notes than with chords or complete musical loops.) Once imported, you can adjust the root note to your liking.

Grain Pitch Quantization

You can optionally limit the pitch of a grain to specific notes. This quantization is post-modulation, so any randomization or modification applied to the grain tuning will be quantized to the scale you choose. Quantization also takes into account the tuning table or MTS-ESP tuning.

Quanta’s effects

now include chorus, stereo dual delay, and reverb taken from the Audio Damage studio effects library.

New Modulation Features

The Envelope Generators and LFOs have been significantly improved. The FEGs take the amplitude and timebase knobs, and the FLFOs gain amplitude control, a switchable bipolar output, and a sync switch that causes FLFO 2 to reset whenever FLFO 1 is triggered.

Additionally, four macro knobs have been added to the modulation panel, and they can receive global MIDI CC assignment, allowing you to control macros from the MIDI controller of your choice, regardless of what the preset author has selected.

Quanta 1 Preset Download

Quanta 2 contains all the presets from Quanta 1 and all the post-release packs we commissioned, plus new preset packs from Red Means Recording and Red Sky Lullaby, as well as those created in-house. In addition, Quanta 2 will download all the presets created for Quanta 1. If you created presets for Quanta 1, simply drag the folder into your Quanta 2 user presets folder and they will appear in Quanta 2, ready to go.

Possibilities

1. Sample Loader

• Quanta 2’s multi-format sample loader can load AIFF, WAV, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg at any sample rate, bit depth, and channel configuration.
• Automatically converts the sample to the session sample rate.
• Attempts to find the root note.

2. Grain Engine

• Up to 100 simultaneous grains per voice, up to 1 second long.
• Control over grain rate, pitch, direction, shape, length, pan, source position, and level.
• Two virtual analog oscillators.
  • Continuously variable waveform with pulse width modulation.
  • Independent pitch control (separate from the grain engine).
  • Can be fed directly into the grain engine.

3. Noise Source

• Noise source has a ‘colour’ control to adjust the tonal characteristics of the noise.
• Can be fed directly into the grain engine.

4. Dual Multi-Mode Filters

• Filters can operate in series or parallel mode.
• Include low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch filters.
• Available in 2-pole and 4-pole configurations.

5. Flexible Envelope Generator (FEG) x 4

• Four arbitrary function generators (FEGs).
• Control over up to 99 steps, step curves, and level.
• Arbitrary cycle points and host tempo sync.

6. Flexible Low Frequency Oscillator (FLFO) x 2

• Two bipolar FLFOs with five controls: amplitude, phase, shape, skew, and warp.
• Virtually limitless waveforms, host tempo sync, and re-trigger.

7. Sample and Hold (S&H)

• Modulation source that samples noise (random) or other sources.
• Can operate at a user-specified rate or with musical separation.

8. Modulation Menu

• Easily assign each modulation or MIDI source to any destination via a right-click context menu.
• Quickly add or remove mod sources.

9. Micro-Tuning

• Native support for ODDSound’s MTS-ESP session tuning system.
• Re-tune Quanta 2 with tuning tables in TUN file format.
• Global tuning offset allows for easy re-tuning to different A frequencies (default A=440).

10. MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE)

• Supports both “legacy” MIDI and MPE.
• Compatible with devices like Linnstrument, Roli Seaboard, Haken Continuum, Madrona Labs Soundplane for note pressure, pitch bend, and modulation.

11. Per-instance Settings

• Per-instance tuning, MPE mode, aftertouch smoothing, pitch bend range override, tuning table, and global tuning offset for each instance in your DAW.

12. Factory Presets

• Comes with an extensive collection of factory presets from designers like Marcus Fischer, Joseph Fraioli, Chris Carter, Red Means Recording, Red Sky Lullaby, and Richard Devine.

13. Cross-platform Preset Format

• Uses XML-based preset manager.
• Stores samples within presets for easy asset management.
• Seamlessly work across multiple systems and share presets or create preset packages for sale.

14. Resizable Hi-Dpi/Retina GUI

• Fully resizable, vector-based GUI that is resolution independent.
• Can be resized on a per-instance basis, from small to large, and preferred sizes can be saved in global settings.