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Important note: this is an upgrade for owners of Quad, the full version of Quad-2 can be found here.
The original QUAD was the first Rack Extension synthesizer built from the ground up for Reason and was later released as a VST3/AU/AAX plugin.
Now, QUAD-2 takes a new move by updating the user interface and adding some great new features like the creative Ribbon Controller, Filter Types, FX, and much more!
The unique sound sculpting tools start in each Oscillator and are the Phase Distortion and WaveShaper.
These tools are brought to life by two XY-Pads in each Oscillator, which can be moved through an extensive modulation matrix, or by the newly added Ribbon Controller.
QUAD-2 Filter modes are expanded, including the Albino-3 Legend Cream Filter. The ARP now also includes Ratcheting and a Free row, which is great for controlling the Oscillators' XY fields!
Of course, Quad comes with a Stereo Tape Delay, Top-Notch Reverb, 11 Modulation FX like Chorus and TalkBox, 33 Distortion FX, Equalizer, and an FX Filter!
Last but not least, there is a bank manager for the 1200+ presets!
Features
General
- 16-voice virtual synthesizer with Phase-Distortion & Wave-Shaping
- 1200+ presets
- GUI size 100%, 125%, 150%, and 200%
- Different tunings possible using .tun files
- Responds to MIDI Program Change, and MIDI Bank Select
Oscillator 1 and 2
- Oscillator On/Off
- Waveforms: sine, square, saw, triangle, noise, and pink noise, plus many other additive and spectral waves.
- Free Oscillator running On/Off
- Track On/Off (keyboard tracking)
- Octave up and down
- Semi-tuning
- Fine-tuning
- Sub-oscillator with Sin, Saw, Square, and Triangle waveforms.
- Spread dial, which turns the Oscillator into a multiple-Oscillator sound with increased detuning between these Oscillators.
- Volume control
- Into Filter On/Off. Routing (only Oscillator 1)
- Sync Off / Hard / Soft (only Oscillator 2)
- Oscillator 2 Advance Modulation Functions.
- Quad-2 has several modulation types that allow Oscillator 1 to influence Oscillator 2, and vice versa; the type and parameters of these parts can be adjusted using the modulation type and amount 1 and 2 controls.
- Types: Ring Modulation (Ring) | Phase Modulation (PM) | Frequency Modulation 1/2/3/4 (FM1/23) | Feed 1/2/3 | Sign | Mix | Cross | Skew | Filter Modulation |
- Additionally, there is a 'String' model available with 'Length' and 'Damping' control.
- Phase Distortion and WaveShaper in each Oscillator with:
- Amount control
- X control
- Y control
- XY field
- Distortion/Waveshapers Types: 2 Point | And | Cos1 | Cos2 | FM (Waveshaper only) | Feed | Fold | Fuzz | Gap | Hard | Oct1 | Oct 2 | Oct3 | PWM / PWM2 (WaveShaper only) | Rez1 | Rez2 | Saw | Shift1 / Shift2 (PhaseDistortion only) | Static | Trans | Shaper 1 | Shaper 2 | Shaper 1/2 | Shaper 1>2 |
Filter 1 and 2
- Filter Path:
- Serial (Filter 1 goes into Filter 2)
- Parallel (Filter 1 and Filter 2 are parallel)
- Oscillator (Osc-1 into F1 & Osc-2 into F2}
- MIX (Parallel with mix option)
- Morph (Serial with morphing controls)
- Oscillator Mix (Osc-1 into F1 & Osc-2 into F2 with Mix control)
- Oscillator Morph (Osc-1 into F1 & Osc-2 into F2 with Filter controls Morphing)
- Oscillator 1 (Osc-1 into F1 & Osc-1+2 into F2)
- Oscillator 1 (Osc-2 into F1 & Osc-1+2 into F2)
- Filter types (43)
- 6dB LowPass | 6dB HighPass
- 12dB LowPass 1 | 12dB LowPass 2 | 12dB LowPass Z | 12dB LowPass Cream
- 12dB HighPass 1 | 12dB HighPass 2 | 12dB HighPass Z | 12dB Highass Cream
- 18dB LowPass | 18dB HighPass
- 24dB LowPass 1 | 24dB LowPass 2 | 24dB LowPass Z | 24dB LowPass Cream
- 24dB HighPass 1 | 24dB HighPass 2 | 24dB HighPass Z | 24dB HighPass Cream
- 12dB BandPass 1 | 12dB BandPass 2 | 12dB BandPass Z | 12dB BandPass Cream
- 24dB BandPass 1 | 24dB BandPass 2 | 24dB BandPass Z | 24dB BandPass Cream
- 12dB Notch 1 | 12dB Notch 2 | 12dB Notch Z | 12dB Notch Cream.
- 24db Notch 1 | 24db Notch 2 | 24dB Notch Z | 24dB Notch Cream
- 36dB LowPass | 36dB HighPass | 36dB BandPass | 36dB Notch
- Vocal | Formant 2 Band | Formant 4 Band
- Special Filter types (11)
- Comb Positive | Comb Negative | Comb PingPong
- Ring Modulation | AM Modulation | FM LP/HP/BP Modulation | Feedback LP/HP/BP
- Cutoff Frequency control
- Resonance (Q)
- Volume control
- Pan control
- Vowel control for Vocal and Formant Filter modes
- Filter Envelope amount
- Keytrack control
- Mod.Wheel control
- Filter Envelope with Attack, Decay, Sustain, Sustain-Fade & Release
Amplifier section
- Volume
- Velocity to Volume control
- Pan control
- Amp Envelope with Attack, Decay, Sustain, Sustain-Fade, and Release control
U-Wave (user waveforms)
- 2 user waveforms can be created
- Manual draw option using Point, Line, or Erase control
- Shaper modes: 2 Point | And | Cos1 | Cos2 | FM (Waveshaper only) | Feed | Fold | Fuzz | Gap | Hard | Oct1 | Oct 2 | Oct3 | Or | Overdrive | Peak Remove | Power | Rectifier | Rez | Saturator | Saw | Soft Limiter | Square | Trans | TransBoot | Valve | Volume
- Amount 1/2 control
Envelope 1 and 2
- Attack, Decay, Sustain, Sustain-Fade, and Release control
- Velocity > Time control
- Keyboard > Time control
- Attack curve control
- Decay/Release curve control
- Sync (tempo-based envelope)
LFO 1 and 2
- Waveforms: Sine, Triangle, Saw Up, Saw Down, Square , U-Wave 1, U-Wave 2, and Sample & Hold (random)
- Speed control
- Sync On/off (tempo-based envelope)
- Modes: Poly, Mono, Legato, and Free
- Phase control
- Fade control
- Symmetry control
- Smooth control
- Velocity > Time control
- Keyboard > Time control
Ribbon Modulation Matrix Slots 1 - 12
- 12 slots with default Ribbon Controller
- Normal mode with modulation curve control
- Advanced mode with additional Low and High threshold settings.
- Bypass option per slot.
- Default is the Ribbon, but also 42 MIDI alternative sources
- Default is the Ribbon, but also 38 Modulator alternative sources
- 200+ modulation destinations.
Modulation Matrix Slots 1 - 12
- 12 slots
- Normal mode with modulation curve control
- Advanced mode with additional Low and High threshold settings.
- Bypass option per slot.
- 42 MIDI sources
- 38 Modulator sources
- 17 Audio sources
- 200+ modulation destinations.
Arpeggiator section
- Number of steps in the arpeggiator sequencer. This can be from 1 to 16 steps
- Step 1-16 On/Off
- Velocity per step
- Free setting per step for modulation purposes
- Speed: from ¼ the tempo up to 4 times the tempo.
- Modes: Up | Down | Up/Down | Down/Up | Random | Ordered | Rev. Ordered | Ordered Up/Down | Ordered Down/Up | Chord | Sequencer Reset | Sequencer Mono | Mod Free | Mod Mono | Mod Poly | Mod Legato |
- Octaves control
- Ratcheting option per step
- Rachteting modes: Off | On | Off/On Cycle | On/Off Cycle | 2 Off/1 On Cycle | 3 Off/1 On Cycle | 1 On/ 2 Off Cycle | 1 On/3 Off Cycle | Velocity
- Host sync On/Off
- Latch On/Off
- Step length control
- Swing control
- Velocity/keyboard control
- Command menu
Play mode section
- Play mode: Poly | Mono | Legato | Arp | Poly Unison | Mono Unison | Legato Unison | Arp |
- Unison modes and chords:
- Unison 2-4
- 2 Octave
- 3 Octave
- 2 SP
- Major to Diminished 7th chord (3voice and 4 voice)
- Unison Detune Amount control
- Unison Stereo Spread control
- Unison Delay
- Portamento speed
- Portamento modes: Constant Rate | Constant Time | Held Rate | Held Time
Ribbon Controller
- Ribbon Controller with tempo-based spring-back feature
- Quantized spring-back
- Unipolar or bipolar mode
- Recordable as parameter
- MIDI latchable
FX 1/ 2/3
- 3 FX in serial mode.
- 48 Top-Notch FX types.
- FX can be modulated.
Bank Manager Section
- In the Manager Section, you find and organize your Presets and Banks.
- There are four main sections: Presets, Find, Search Category and Set Category.
- For each section, the Banks are visible on the right-hand side.
Back panel features
- MIDI Channel selector menu
- MIDI Program change On/Off
- MIDI Bank change On/Off
- External MIDI Control capture mode
- Computer keyboard Up/Down On/Off
- Big screen selector 100%, 125%, 150%, and 200%
- A4 tuning setting
- Tuning Scale options (.tun files)
- Anti-Aliasing On/Off
- Anti-Aliasing Filter Cutoff Frequency setting
System Requirements
- PC: 64-bit VST3, AAX, & VST for Windows 7 or higher. (Note: PC AAX for PT 12 or higher)
- Mac: 64-bit AU, VST3, AAX & VST, for OS-10.15 or higher. ARM processor compatible.
- Serial/license system with activation while registering the product The activation system is online or offline, (offline meaning there is no direct connection between the plugin and the robpapen.com homepage)
- The software can be installed on 2 of your computer systems.
- Not yet compatible with the NI NKS system.
Installation Instructions
