Linda Audio releases Digimorph – experimental digital synthesizer. It does not emulate any real hardware, instead it brings original combination of substractive and additive synthesis with powerful modulation matrix. On top of that there are quality master fx (chorus, delay, reverb and two saturations) and arpeggiator. Digimorph is capable of wide range of sounds from ethereal evolving pads to gritty chiptune leads, raw digital basses or synth arpeggios, beatiful organs or some fm-like sounds. There are 200 presets included, covering all of these areas. Digimorph is great for modern electronic music, soundtracks, chiptunes, or anywhere where you need to add some original and interesting digital sounds.
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The core of Digimorph is additive non-band limited oscillator which can contain mix of 16 harmonics. Its shape can be sinus, triangle, pulse, saw and multi-pulse. This can be run in monophonic, polyphonic (max 16 voices) or live-arp mode. In live-arp mode presed notes are automatically generating arpeggio sequence.
Additive section (violet) allows to set gains of harmonics. Other parameters are Phase shift – adjusts phase offset added to harmonics, Harmonics slope – adjusts how fast harmonics decay or rise in time and Harmonics LFO – introduces modulation to harmonics gains.
Each oscillator has several classic parameters (yellow) such as amp, pitch, fine tune, pan, glide and spread (random spread of notes in panorama).
There are some more sound-character parameters (orange section). Pulse width adjusts pulse width for pulse, saw and multi-pulse shapes and can be applied in two different modes – classic and harmonic. Wave shaper introduces wave-folding by sine wave. And Ring mod adds ring modulation by sine or saw wave with adjustable speed (this can be free or locked to harmonics).
In gray section there are sound degradation parameters – Bit div is sample rate divider, Bit feed introduces feedback of samples reduced by Bit div and Pitch noise adds random pitch modulation with variable speed.
After each oscillator there is one multi-mode, state-variable resonant filter (red section) which can be continuously switched between low-pass, band-pass and hi-pass with adjustable frequency and resonance.
Each oscilator can be modulated by two ADSR envelopes (one for amp envelope and second for anything else) and two LFOs. It can be also modulated by note velocity, modwheel (can be switched to listen also to aftertouch controll) and arpeggiator. LFO’s amp and speed can also be modulated by ADSR 2 and by modwheel. All available modulations can be set directly by sliders in the center of the Digimorph gui.
Arpeggiator is a tempo synchronized step sequencer of maximum 16 steps. You can adjust sequence length, loop start and tempo. For each step you can adjust oscilator pitch, shape and modulation source. Modulation source can be interpolated.
In Live-arp mode you can select from several sequence shapes. If Arp-on switch is engaged, shape and mod arpeggiator modulations are applied.
At the end of the sound generator chain there are several master fx (blue section). Available is Chorus, Ping-pong delay, Reverb and two distortion modules (DIST1 adds more subtle harmonic distortion while DIST2 applies tube saturation).
Digimorph also provides undo, redo, A/B and 200 presets.
