Product Description

In 2002 Rob Papen approached Peter Linsener of LinPlug with the idea of a sound-designers dream synth... A few months later ALBINO was born! Within a very short time it stole the hearts of many musicians due to it's high quality sound, usability and inspirational presets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7313 in Musical Instruments
• Brand: Rob Papen Soundware

Features

• VST2.0, AU and RTAS plug-in synthesizer for PC and Mac
• Amplitude and Frequency Modulation and "Pulse Width Modulation" for all (!) waveforms, Sync
• 1500 Rob Papen presets and more
• Microtuning support for different scales
• 2 effect blocks with two chorus, flanger, phaser, filter/distortion, two delays, gator and reverb effects

Customer Reviews

4.5 stars, Rounded up...
Albino is a wonderful synth.

The filters are smooth and powerful, the oscillators offer a wide variety of sounds, and the ability to "morph" between digital waveforms allows for supreme tweaking. The mod-matrix is easy to use and offers good possibilities. Built-in effects are sub-par, but usable. The arpeggiator is a bit complicated, unless you're familiar with old-school tracking software. The default patches are *incredible*... Rob Papen has much skill in this area.

There are only two gripes I have with this software: 1) it occasionally caused my environment (Live 5, at the time) to freeze on rendering a track (put never during playback)--there may have been a better way to solve this, but I ended up replacing these tracks with impOSCar... which segues right into reason 2) I prefer impOSCar. :) Despite the flexibility of Albino, and sleek, smooth filters it offers, I was looking for something with a little more punch and character.

Another very minor gripe: all of the patches are set to relatively low volumne, by default (about 6db lower than other soft-synths).

That said, I would (highly) recommend this synth to any composer interested in a soft-synth capable of nice, smooth analog sounds and even a touch of digital grit here and there. In my opinion, this is a perfect synth for ambient and "lighter" electronica: sublime pads, nice icy plucks, and enough thickness to the PWM sounds to sit well in a subtle mix. Though there are plenty of trance-like patches, I think you will be happier (if you write that kind of music) with something "fatter", like Z3ta+.

I should also mention: CPU use is relatively low, but not super-low. A little more than, say, NI's Pro4, but less than most synths these days.