Long-term review:
LinPlug's Part 1 - First Impressions
MorphoX is LinPlug's (www.linplug.com) latest soft synth. Visitors to LinPlug's website are, at the time of writing, greeted by a fatigued frog and the question, "Tired of boring sounds?" Underneath is a screen shot of MorphoX. LinPlug believe they have the answer, and they may well be right.
The first time you run the synth in do so would be to miss your host, you're presented with the the point. synth's set-up page. We'll take a look at the settings that are there in more The heart of MorphoX detail later on in the series. For the resides in the bottom most part, you can just "set and right hand corner of forget" them. On the set-up page, you the synth in a small can enter your serial number. If you box labelled, simply, don't yet have a serial number, you Morph. LinPlug can run the synth in demo mode. themselves say Having received a copy of MorphoX for Thankfully, LinPlug have taken the "Simplicity is the key. review, I've decided to do something route of giving their users a polite Don't get stuck in other than a standard "here it is, demo mode. There is only a low complexity, with here's what it sounds like" kind of hissing sound every minute or so to MorphoX you just thing. I'm going to go on a journey disturb your concentration and remind need the modulation with MorphoX as my companion. I'll you to buy a licence. To get into the wheel and the keys to be using it on tracks that I'm currently synth properly, you need simply click experience yet working on, and maybe some new in the lower right hand corner where it unheard expression ones, over the next few months. I'm says "click here to get back to front." and transformation in also going to try to get to know this So, now that we're on the main synth sound. Morphing made synth inside out and back to front in page, we can take a look at what is simple, in real-time, order to provide those who like to going on and have a listen to MorphoX. drastic changes in create their own presets with an idea A note in passing: LinPlug supply a sound, right at your of how this synth can fit into their well-written 48 page PDF manual that morph wheel." music and their workflow is worth flicking through. There are a few things mentioned in it that you OK, that's the blurb So, let’s move on to first impressions. won't come across by just pointing from the website. What does it mean? MorphoX comes as a download from and clicking. Every preset in MorphoX can be made LinPlug's site with a licence code up, if you so desire, of two completely supplied by e-mail. The installer asks The first preset that MorphoX loads on different sub-presets. There can be a whether you want to install the 32bit start up is called "Arabian Nights." It's sub-preset A and a sub-preset B. Both VST or the 64bit VST version of the a resonant, pulsating, bubbly sound presets share the same controls on synth, and then you are asked where with an eastern flavour that hints at the synth, and you change between you want to put the plug-in on your the power of this synth. Although it's the presets using your keyboard's hard drive. After navigating these a great sound and there are hundreds mod wheel or, when you're doing your steps, everything is installed quickly of other excellent presets, people sound design, using the A and B and painlessly. LinPlug also offers AU might write this synth off as just buttons on the GUI next to the morph and RTAS (Mac only) versions of another simple two oscillator analogue wheel. The graphical morph wheel is MorphoX. type synth, even if it's a really nice handy when you've already got your two oscillator analogue type synth. To hand on the mouse for editing
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May 2011