Combining morphing and additive-style technologies to dazzling effect, Wolfgang Palm’s new instrument takes synthesis to the limit
Originally released as an iPad app sans the ‘Pro’, Infinite Pro (VST/AU) is the latest in an unfailingly impressive line-up of forward thinking virtual instruments from Wolfgang Palm, the father of wavetable synthesis. Its architecture centres on the morphing of multiple sound and noise sources, but its key selling point is the unmatched detail in which the partials within those sources can be individually altered over time. This, says Palm, makes Infinite Pro the first digital synth capable of emulating the nuances and harmonic variability of “natural” sounds.
Infinity and beyond
An Infinite Pro patch comprises up to five ‘sine resources’ and three ‘noise resources’, the first being resynthesised (ie, converted to series of sine waves) samples from a 300-plus-strong internal library, the second coming from a set of 50+ atonal sources. The sine resources range from synthesised inventions to real-world instrumental and environmental sounds, while the noise resources take in everything from acoustic and synthetic to percussive and vocal. And needless to say, external samples can be imported and resynthesised for use as both resource types, as can wavetables from PPG WaveMapper and WaveGenerator 2.
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