Aliasonix

An Early Soft Synth... Running on a 30 Year Old Home Computer!?

Aliasonix is the first release from Hideaway Studio to feature a powerful updated synth engine developed by Stephen Howell at Hollow Sun and his scripting guru, Mario Krušelj. Dubbed “Solo” the new engine is particularly well suited to serving lead and solo instruments with powerful real time modulation in a highly intuitive user interface.

So what does it sound like? Having finally tracked down a working copy of this relatively rare software their expectations were not that high but to their surprise what transpired was so primitive in nature that it imparted significant character in its gloriously aliased 8-bit audio. The filters really worked but in an odd way, the dynamics control and phaser effects full of steppy artefacts and most excitingly of all – it sampled beautifully rendering two octaves of MC68000 generated goodness.

Hideaway ended up programming up some 40 or so patches and set about capturing 630 samples in 24-bits directly from the line outputs of a recently acquired Amiga A1200.

It must be noted that Aliasonix is entirely based on waveforms captured from a low sample rate 8-bit source and therefore noise, glitches, stepping and aliasing are very much part of the intended charm and character of this library.

Overview

• 630 24-bit Samples

• 70 Instruments with edit and save ability

• 31 Layered Multis

• Updated feature rich synth engine

Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 4.2.4 is required.