Bitheadz Retro AS-1

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The Retro AS-1 is a full featured programmable analog synthesizer for Macintosh and PC computers. Taking a modular approach you create and link modules of oscillators, envelopes, filters and LFO sections. The results can create stunning analog synth sounds in a clean 44.1kHz digital environment. The AS-1 is fully MIDI equipped and works with sequencers and MIDi controllers. However it has an on-screen keyboard and can also be triggered from the computer keyboard.

New patches can be stored on your hard disk for a virtually unlimited amount of user patches! The AS-1 has such extensive and complete editing and parameter control that it could intimidate, even baffle some users. Be sure and try the FREE DEMO version and see if the professional Retro AS-1 polyphonic synthesizer is for you!



8 VISITOR COMMENTS

JP Yityat
December 3, 2011 @ 7:34 am
I have a old copy never installed.....still use XP but can't get it registered........any way to get a authorization code?
wharf99
October 8, 2011 @ 7:20 pm
Forgot to add that the files also include a PDF of the Retro AS-1 manual for Mac OS and Windows 95 if anyone is interested...
wharf99
October 8, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
I just found a demo version of the Retro AS-1 in the multimedia section of Wendy Carlos' "Switched-On Box Set" CD collection from 1999. Sadly, the program is in Classic, so I cannot open it using OS X. So I am none the wiser as to how it sounds ... it's rather like a piece of digital amber...
Andrea
February 8, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
This was the very first soft synth I bought, back in the way back when. Needles to say, I never managed to make it work, so I have no idea of what it sounded like...
0=0
November 5, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
i used this on my first record.
 
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  • Specifications
  • Polyphony - Up to 32 notes
  • Oscillators - 3 oscillators per voice: Saw, Pulse, Triangle, Sine, Sine squared, Glottal, Noise (white, pink, red)
  • Memory - Unlimited
  • Filter - 2 filters: 13 filter types, including 4-pole resonant lowpass, highpass, bandpass, allpass, notch, and state-variable
  • LFO - Dozens of LFOs, 6 shapes, midi sync, modulate almost any source and destination
  • Keyboard - On-Screen keyboard
  • Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator: Midi sync, multiple modes
  • Control - MIDI (16 parts)
  • Date Produced - 1998
  • Est. Value - $200
  • Resources & Credits
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