The music software company discoDSP has been around for many years, and during that time they have developed a long line of exceptional synth plugins and soundware. Making your own sounds is easy, gratifying, and - most importantly of all - inspiring.We check out discoDSP’s flagship synth, Discovery Pro: a powerful synth that has a good balance of ease-of-use and features. The presets might be a little 'trendier' than those of the basic version, but they nevertheless show off exactly what can be done with some of the new features.ĭiscovery Pro continues discoDSP's tradition of offering excellent sound quality and a flexible signal path in a package that won't leave you scratching your head. We've always liked Discovery, so it follows that we like Discovery Pro even more. Geeky, to be sure, but we like it!įinally, you can slap a bit of echo across your sounds with the built-in delay module, or make use of the included gate processor for those jagged trance patches. You can beef things up with one of four big, fat unison modes, and if that's not enough you can even roll your own custom unison mode via a simple text file. Up, down, up and down, and two different random patterns are included, and you can play notes across a five-octave range. However, it can also act as an arpeggiator. LFO2 is similar, but is locked to a pure sine wave. The first of these is your usual bread and butter model, featuring random, square, triangle and saw waveforms, along with a 'low-pass random' wave with a smoother curve. While we're on the subject of modulation, we should point out that Discovery Pro includes a pair of LFOs. This is a great addition, opening up many new creative possibilities.
The amp envelope is also of the ADSR mould, while a simple two-stager is used for modulation and can be routed to FM, pulse width, OSC2 or OSC3 and wave pitch.Ĭoolest of all, however, is the new Graphic Modulation envelope - a 32-step customisable affair that can be used to control OSC2, FM, pulse width or the filter. In addition to the filter envelope, discoDSP has provided a number of other envelope generators. Dual mode distortion is also on tap for those classic overdriven Moog sounds and squelchy 303 basses. Resonance is, of course, onboard and there's a dedicated four-stage filter envelope generator. There's also a formant filter and four new Moog-style filters named X and Y (each comes in 12 and 24dB varieties).
DISCOVERY PRO VST PDF
A few more tips in the otherwise excellent PDF manual wouldn't go amiss.ĭiscovery Pro sports a feature-packed filter section, offering no less than a dozen types (including the usual low- and high-pass varieties in both 12 and 24dB incarnations). In our opinion, the difficulties we encountered were less to do with the implementation and more to do with not having enough information. We're told that future updates will improve the sample management, but even now, the system is quite usable. Only 16-bit files worked for us (though we were pleased that our loop points were recognised), and the developer recommends leaving 128 samples after the loop end to prevent clicking. We had a bit of trouble getting it to work until we discovered that the samples can't be placed in sub-folders.
DISCOVERY PRO VST ZIP FILE
Nevertheless, the bundled selection of waveforms includesĮverything from plucked strings to vintage synths, and increases the sonic potential exponentially.īetter still, users can wrangle their own samples into the thing, although at this point the process becomes a bit fiddly, requiring one to compress a bunch of samples into a Zip file and change the file extension to '.dwb'. It's a rudimentary affair, offering only a single sample per layer. In addition to the two analogue-styled ones, Discovery Pro packs in a third oscillator that's devoted to sampled waves.
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