On March the 3rd
Interface hasn't changed a bit though...

Public beta demos

PC 32 bit:
https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_RayBlaster_demo.zip
PC 64 bit:
https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_RayBlaster_demo_X64.zip
Mac:
https://www.tone2.com/Tone2_RayBlaster_demo.pkg

Tone2 has announced the forthcoming release of RayBlaster2 for Windows and Mac OS X. RayBlaster2 utilizes Impulse Modelling Synthesis (IMS) for sound generation. It creates its distinctive sound from many short bursts of energy, which combine to form a complex sound. RayBlaster2 is designed to offer a wide range of original sounds.

Price: €149 / $189 and will be released in March. The upgrade is free for all customers, who purchased RayBlaster in 2016 or 2017.
RayBlaster2 is 100% downward compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary.

New features:

• Over 500 new patches, the total number of patches has increased to 1076.
• Added a comfortable patch browser.
• Drag&Drop support: Drag an evnelope or LFO and drop it to a knob to create a matrix entry for modulation.
• Right-click on a knob opens a menu where you can assign a massive amount of modulation sources.
• Modulation depth control on top left of a knob if a source is assigned.
• Sectors on knobs show the modulation amount. Clipping is shown in red.
• Hovering the mouse over a knob shows the current parameter value and the modulation source.
• Added "Psychoacoustic+", a new psychoacoustic mode with enhanced presence.
• The patches can be ranked by clicking on the stars in the patch browser.
• Information tags (like legato, unison, etc) for every patch are shown in 'info' tab of the patch browser.
• File->'Quick save patch' overwrites a patch with the new settings.
• Additonal osc window functions 'Triangle', 'Hard square', 'Harder square', 'Taper', 'Sine', 'Fish', 'Add square', 'Lips'.
• Responsive and smart GUI with tooltips.
• Parameters can be reset to the default value with right-click->reset.
• Switching the effect type now selects good default paramter values.
• Edit->'Clean matrix' cleans up the mod matrix and resets unused slots.
• Edit->'Reset MIDI learn' removes all MIDI CC assignments.
• Edit->'Create random patch'.
• Help->'Show version info'.
• Help->'Download updates'.
• Additional sound categories 'Wobble', 'Pluck', 'Pad 2' and 'Sequence'.
• Midi learn support: Right-click on a knob to assign a CC.
• New effect 'Reverb Ultra'. It uses the Tone2 UltraSpace algorithm. It is inspired by the Lexicon units.
• New effect 'Reverb Big' which has a huge diffuse ambience.
• New effect 'Reverb Infinite' which simulates an infinite large room. It is useful for ambient music.
• New effect 'Reverb Trance' which has an detuned sound. It is usful for electronic music.
• New effect 'Reverb Band' which has an bandlimited reverb tail. It gives a cleaner mix.
• New effect 'Reverb Glass'. It damps low frequencies and has a very bright sound.
• New effect 'Reverb Spring' which sounds like a vintage reverb.
• New effect 'Reverb Feedb' which has a ringing sound.
• New effect 'Delay Fat' is a fat sounding delay.
• New effect 'Delay Diffuse' is a delay with a silky and diffuse sound.
• New effect 'Delay Dual' is a double delay with independend times for left and right.
• New effect 'Tape Delay' whith the sound of an analog tape with detuned Wow.
• New effect 'Echo' with fixed delay times in ms.
• New effect 'Resonator' with a ringing, oil-tank like sound.
• New effect 'Reflections' which results in many chaotic echoes.
• New effect 'Chorus 2' is an industry standard chorus.
• New effect 'Hypersaw' which sounds like many detuned oscillators.
• New effect 'Phaser Feedb' is a phaser with feedback.
• New effect 'Phaser Stereo' is a stereo phaser with feedback.
• New effect 'Flanger Feedb' is a flanger with feedback.
• New effect 'Flanger Stereo' is a stereo phaser with feedback.
• New effect 'Vibrato'.
• New effect 'Stereo vibrato'.
• New effect 'Tremolo'.
• New effect 'Autopan' which pans the sound left and right.
• 134 new impulse responses in wav format.
• 32-bit wav file format support.
• Support for exotic wav file headers (Logic X).
• Edit->'Init gate: Ramp up / down / up & down / down & up / random' initializes varius shapes for the step sequencer.

Enhancements:

• Better sound quality by adding a high-end resampling algorithm.
• Extended sonic range with more 'low-end'.
• Completely reworked user interface.
• More linear frequency response, especially for high frequencies.
• Enhanced sound of the effects by adding oversampling.
• Enhanced Init patch settings.
• It's much more easy to get good results when building own sounds.
• File, Edit & Help menues now pop up from beneath.
• Better compatibility with older hosts.
• Support for exotic mouse drivers.
• More soft parameter smoothing.
• Better workflow.
• Higher quality waveform playback.
• New knobs with enhanced performance.
• Parameters are more easy to adjust.
• Slighly enhanced gui skin and colors.
• Legato is more easy to setup.
• Many other small enhancements for the user interface.
• 2x and 4x stereo unison is more easy to setup.
• Category is rotating for a more comfortable patch browsing.
• More precise coordinates for the layout.
• Enhanced sound of 'Delay' effect by adding spline interpolation.
• Enhanced sound of 'PingPong' effect by adding spline interpolation.
• Enhanced sound of 'Multitap' effect by adding a lowcut filter.
• More smart mousewheel support.
• More chaotic behavour of the random LFO types in free mode.
• Enhanced performance.
• Higher quality waveform resampling.
• Extended range of synced LFO phase.
• Enhanced sound of unison.
• Clicking on 'Next Bank' now rotates to the first entry if the last one has been reached.
• Updated and extended demo version.
• Reworked many existing factory sounds.
• Lower CPU on Mac.
• More robustness and stability.

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This is tone2 we are talking about here, they probably wont have changed the sound either.

But thanks for posting anyway.

 

Yeah put those bright blue fake leds right behind the white font so we can all see the parameter name "better", cos fake leds are so important. They make the sound more analogue. And yeah, don't forget the fake shadows to obscure some writing, too. Great work. And the sound is as weird as the GUI, too. All Tone2 synths sound kinda washed out and just flabby. One trick pony.

 

Ouch.... That's a bit harsh ...
Why all the "hate"? Seems undeserved to me... But everyone's entitled to his opinion nonetheless.

Regarding the interface, although i agree to the remarks, i must confess i've bought Titan 2 (the poorman UVI Vintage Vault) which runs on Engine 2 and it's far less legible to my old eyes...

 

The dev is hated because he was found to be booby trapping his releases to screw with peoples computers if he thought he found some warezed items on that computer, deleted files and messed with the registry, he also messed with peoples "Hosts" file to block access to sites he didn't like.

So nothing from tone 2 will ever be put on my machine, no matter how good it maybe.

 

Ouch (bis)
Thanks for your input
Can you point me to actual hard data about this? I'm very interested as i was thinking about buying some stuff from him. But i would like to get facts not just rumors...
TIA

 

okay i've found this. It makes me oblviously nervous...
https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduct..._somewhere_about_the/?st=izn6y8nh&sh=d0cb4395

 

@yabiss We had a lot of discussions here and on sistersite. I dont know how true those statements are, but if they are real then its illegal and a criminal act to scan customers private and personal computers and/or change system files/registries in that manner. He should be sued for doing this but i dont know if anybody reported him ?

 

listed under "enhancements":

• Completely reworked user interface.

 

thanks for the information, now that i know this, not only i will never buy anything from tone2 but i won't download anything cracked from them either, that Markus devdude has fucked himself up twice!