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Aalto For Mac

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A new semi-modular software synthesizer. #Audio synthesizer  #Audio equalizer  #Audio EQ  #Synthesizer  #Equalizer  #Synth  

Aalto comes with an innovative, patchable UI, distinctive package of sounds and, as a result, it has a charming personality.

Aalto's sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now. The heart of Aalto is a Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds.

These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.

Aalto is designed as much for sequencing patterns as for playing individual notes. Each voice has a separate, built-in sequencer with a patchable, independently controllable rate and offset that make it easy to achieve evolving, chaotic textures.

Each voice also includes a lowpass gate module with a vactrol emulation in the control path. The vactrol equation slows down the response to incoming control signals through a complex nonlinear filter. You can turn the vactrol response down to instantaneous, or up to a pronounced ring.

System requirements

  • AU host
  • 1.6GHz Intel Core Duo processor

Limitations in the unregistered version

  • The demo version is identical to the full version, except that a gentle reminder sound plays every 60 seconds or so, and saving of patches is disabled.

Download Hubs

Aalto is part of these download collections: Audio Synthesizers

What's new in Aalto 1.6.1:

  • fixed a problem where parameter automation was turning off due to a loop.
  • Fixed "ghost window" issue on close in 32-bit Live
  • fixed issue with AU version not loading in Live
  • fixed errors in OSC enabled state
Read the full changelog
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Aalto 1.6.1

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Mac OS X 10.5 or later (Intel only)
  file size:
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  filename:
AaltoMacDemo1.6.1.zip
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