And as good as these manuals are, having a good old play with Warlock will soon have you feeling your way around the edges of its wavetable-like innards.Ī good old play with Warlock will soon have you feeling your way around its wavetable-like innards
Yet experimentation often yields that ‘Eureka’, just-come-up-with-your-own-sound-but-not-quite-sure-how kind of moment. On a basic level, there is no need to really understand what is going on – although it helps, and reading both the Warlock and the more detailed Gladiator manuals from the Tone2 website pays dividends. This means that on a sound design level you can simply change a waveform here or a morphing action there and you will instantly hear an obvious sonic development.
What Warlock does well is put the minimal number of parameters you need from this synth architecture on display for you, with each control having a dramatic effect. And already you can see that Warlock is delivering in its promise, at least with the numbers.ĭrop-down menus are used to select both the Spectrum Table and the morphing algorithm (Image credit: Future) Performance and verdict Unlocking the detail 84 oscillator-types (and up to 24 per voice), 38 filter types, 18 effects, an arpeggiator with 22 modes, a Random button for instant sound generation and over 2000 of said sounds (not generated randomly but expertly-programmed – see later) are just some of the stats. Looking at the specs though, and things do start getting a lot more interesting.
Surely what we all want, right? What’s that you say? Less than 70 bucks? Can this be, then, the golden synth ticket we’ve been waiting to unwrap? Grunt, diversity, ease of use and amazing sound quality. Many software synths have become unwieldy, weighed down by their own bloated offerings, unable to focus on anything in particular, jacks of all trades and full of so many options that you become terrified of the choice and loading them up.Ī powerful, feature-packed synth with a smooth workflow is something of a dream, then, but that’s what Tone2 is attempting with Warlock. But then the ability to have unlimited features can have an adverse effect.
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