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PoiZone is a subtractive software synthesizer designed to bring you professional quality results, without a learning curve that hinders your creativity. The concept behind PoiZone was to design a synthesizer that had the smallest number of controls while providing the maximum flexibility and features.

Useless knobs were ruthlessly removed so what remains is a UI where every knob counts. Once you have spent some time auditioning the preset patches we are sure you will agree that PoiZone packs a lot of punch in what appears to be a simple package, enjoy!

Features :



2 oscillators that can produce the two most popular and useful shapes for subtractive synthesis: fat, bright SAW and PULSE shapes, with adjustable pulse width.

Noise generator.

Ring modulation

Sync modulation

16 voice polyphony


4 voice UNISON with user-adjustable stereo panning and 'Octaver'. The Octaver expands the harmonic range and flexibility of the unison sound to support the creation of realistic 'vox-like' effects



2 ADSR envelope generators. One for traditional envelope duties, the other can be user assigned



3 FILTER modes - low pass, band pass and high pass. PoiZone features a warm, super-trooper-extra-analog-moog-like-mega filter with self oscillation. Special attention has been given to precise filter tuning so that when KEYTRK is set to maximum, the PoiZone filter will track keyboard frequency precisely so it can be used as an oscillator. The PoiZone filter has bright and clean sound or it can be 'grungy' and 'angry' when resonance is introduced as it features some light distortion. And even with distortion the filter sounds clean on high frequencies as it has no aliasing



Keyboard and Velocity tracking for the filter



Multi-mode Arpeggiator



Noise Gate with an adjustable 16 step pattern. The gate features smoothness control and the ability to import/export patterns to .fxp files



DELAY effect, with tempo-synced click-free stereo delays and delay time modulation. Lo-cut and hi-cut for trancers!



CHORUS with a warm sound with great unison emulation



MIDI learn feature with the ability to save/load MIDI setups to/from a patch



LFO and MOD WHEEL modulation. Can be assigned to a wide range of performance parameters in PoiZone

Operating System :




Windows XP/Vista



OSX 10.4 (Tiger)



Plugin formats:





FL Studio plugin



VSTi 2.4 (Win/OSX)



AudioUnit (OSX)



Standalone (Win/OSX)



Hardware Req:




2Ghz Intel Pentium 3 compatible CPU with full SSE support



Intel CPU or G4 PowerPC (Mac) with full Altivec support



512 Mb RAM



30 Mb disk space

Price: 79 dollar

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