Fanan team has released Tropicana Fun, a free Caribbean rhythmic synth for Windows based on its bigger brother, Tropicana. Here's what they say:
Tropicana Fun is crafted for producing Caribbean musical style arpeggios. It's based on 2 independent wavetable / pad oscillators combined with a modular arpeggiator design. All the oscillators can perform together or independently.
The synthesis section provides a selection between wavetables method or pad section. It can characterize the overall sound's color by a special "character" feature and also equipped with more typical synth features including 11 types of filters, 1 LFO and 1 env modulation system with 6 simultaneous sends each, ring modulation and unique colored "Zelda filter" per oscillator. It can play in both mono or poly modes (per osc) and able to combine 3 mono playing techniques (hold stolen note, retrigger new note, retrigger stolen note).
The modular arpeggiator is actually a combination between a chords driven MIDI arpeggiator with 1000 built in arpeggios and chords driven MIDI trance gate with 16 steps (max.). Both the arp and the trance gate recognize played chords and can follow them independently or co-operate together on the same MIDI arpeggio line. This method ensure endless possibilities and fast programming of new arpeggios and melodies. Both are sensitive to complex MIDI keys fingering and can adopt the DAW's tempo and time signature as well as randomizing their parameters.
Key features:
- 2 independent wavetable \ pad oscillators.
- 2 noise generators.
- 2 ring modulations.
- 2 spread generators.
- 2 character generators.
- 2 Zelda filters.
- 11 traditional filters per osc.
- 2 LFOs.
- 2 envelops.
- 3 modes mono mode.
- 2 999 arpeggios modular arpeggiator combined with MIDI trancegate.
- Random abilities for the arpeggiators.
- 4 master built-in effects.
- Resizable GUI.
Price: Free.
