Seer Systems Reality
Seer Systems has created a very extensive and full featured Analog Synthesizer Software Emulator program for the Windows 95 or higher platform. Complete control of oscillators, LFO, filters and four envelopes. Memory is limited only by the size of your hard disk. It even has multi effects like reverbs for sprucing up your patches. A bit pricey for a software synth and the lack of any Mac version limits this software to only a few serious users. However once you master it you can sell that old ARP 2600 and Matrix 12 because Reality can muster fat analog synth tones just as well! Unfortunately Seer Systems doesn't seem to know that there is another computer system out there - the MacOS. Reality is currently only available for Windows 95 / Pentium II or higher.
- Demos & Media
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Download Demo - Download the free demo and play with it yourself!
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 128 voices
- Oscillators - 4 oscillators
- LFO - 4 LFOs
- Filter - 2 filters: 8 pole low, band, hi, pass and notch
- VCA - 4 envelopes
- Keyboard - None
- Arpeg/Seq - Designed for use under MIDI or MIDI sequencer control
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1997
- Resources & Credits
Images from Seer Systems web site.
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BTW You can use pcms for FM synthesis. A feature i've only seen on the yamaha sy99
It features the typical sample, VA, and FM synthesis methods; but also has physical modeling and something else I forgot the name of. Interestingly, this will let you mix and match synthesis types. If I remember correctly, it will do FM synthesis with PCM samples too.
Unfortunately, it works on Windows 95 - 98 First Edition reliably only. It works unreliably on 98SE and ME. It does not work at all on NT operating systems. According to the company, a huge portion of it was written in assembler and the company just kinda fell apart during the years long attempt to port it. Seer Systems no longer really exists.
Sound wise this has been surpassed by numerous modern and cheaper VST instruments so this really isn't worth the effort to get it to run.