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Fxpansion Cypher 2 Software Synth Development
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It features a vast range of sound design tools and over 1300 sounds, including 500 MPE-optimised presets.

Experience an unparalleled level of expression through analogue-modelled oscillators, waveshaping and thru-zero FM.

Our signature TransMod modulation system, now upgraded for Cypher2, ensures that every session with this premium synthesizer is a sound design adventure.

Assign 5D expression to parameters with Cypher2s 5D TransMod sources (based on ROLIs Five Dimensions of Touch: Strike, Glide, Slide, Press and Lift).

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Building on the original (has it been nearly a decade), and the improvements made for Strobe v2 and 2.3, Cypher2 is simply the most powerful 5D, MPE-enabled, TransMod-powered synthesizer ever.

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The same circuit modelled filters you know and love from v1, plus four brand new models.

A fully scalable vector-based GUI with colour themes for every taste and lighting environment.

The powerful FX engine from Strobe2 with a few new twists, and the most capable sequencer arpeggiator weve ever shipped.

Switchable tri sin core oscillators with additional audio-rate modulation paths for more complex, dynamic timbres.

LFOs with multiple phase outputs and sub-oscillators, envelopes with four simultaneous curves, dual looping ramps, and a poly audio routing subsystem that lets you apply different FX mixes to different oscillators, different parts of the keyboard, different bits of the frequency spectrum.

Firstly, a sound designer unknown to me at the time, going by the alias Himalaya, reached out about making a sound pack for Cypher and Fusor, to really recreate the sounds of the 70s and 80s greatest synths on our then-new circuit modelled synth engine.

Id not heard any of his work, but he came with a great reference from my old friend Alchemy inventor, Ben Gillett (nowadays at Apple), and we bonded over a shared appreciation of Yamahas SY-77 - a one-of-a-kind sampling FM hybrid synth from the early 90s.

FXpansions co-founder Rhiannon McLaren immediately spotted the potential in offering a wider ecosystem of sound sets for Synth Squad owners, and we kicked off a project which evolved in to the Antiquity, Modernity and Electricity sound packs.

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The industrial designer was Roland Lamb, and the something top secret turned out to be a very early prototype of what we know today as the Seaboard.

But its a brand new instrument, and nobody really knows yet how it should sound; few existing sound engines can really cope all that well with the sheer depth and range of data generated by the new surface, let alone produce something that sounds musical.

So I put Rolands team in touch with Himalaya aka Rafael Szaban, thinking hes just the person to subcontract for a week or two to figure it out.

Raf and I worked on a customised build of Synth Squad to support what was then known as Multi Dimensional Control - the MPE standard didnt exist yet - which ROLI used to demo the pre-production Seaboard GRAND.

Fxpansion Cypher 2 Software Synth Development

Over the past two years, weve spent many an hour figuring out the intricacies of 5D expressive sound synthesis: not just implementing the MPE protocol (anyone with a JUCE SDK and a rudimentary knowledge of software synth development can do that) but making it respond smoothly, believably and above all musically.

Especially if youve got a 5D controller (whether an inexpensive Seaboard BLOCK, Lightpad M or one of the big boys), youre going to enjoy the result.

Roger Linn and Kikumoto-san (principal inventor of the TR-x0x boxes) never imagined their creations becoming the keystones of hip hop or acid house.

Dave Smith couldnt have foreseen, in 1983, that MIDI would find a home in multiple billions (yes, b) of devices.

What this means is that you get a whole additional layer of emergent behaviour: just as I cant anticipate what the sound designer will create with the synth engine, when they put it in the hands of a musician, something yet more emerges.