Poseidon Synth vs Discord4

Poseidon Synth - The Ocean of Sound For all creatures in the ocean of sound - Sonic textures from other worlds, Analog signature sounds,  Cut-through-the-mix leads and silkily smooth pads: Poseidon sets a new standard for sound design and ease of use. All of this was made possible through a combination of the familiar, conceptual simplicity of the analog synthesis and our frequency domain based Spectral modelling synthesis technology. Spectral model oscillator Select a basic sound model from over hundred delivered with Poseidon. The basic sound model determines the sound characteristic you want to start: taking a artificial model like “Sawtooth” gives you analog style sounds. Use complex models from analyzed samples for earth shaking ambients and evolving pads. Model parameters High level controls allow for changing the spectral shape, the harmonicity and balances the level of residual noise and spectral amount of the oscillator model. F-Domain Filter The newly developed F-Domain filter allow for drastic changes in the resulting sound spectrum. Five filter types including lowpass/highpass characteristic can be used to shape the sound. They have the usual controls like cutoff but also very unusual ones like a variable slope ranging from 0 dB to 72 dB / Octave and independent controls for resonance and bandwidth! This kind of controls are only possible in the context of our F-Domain synthesis technology. This results in an extremely clear filter sound with breathtaking fast modulation possibilities.

The filter type “Inverse” interprets the sound model as a "Source" and a resonant body "Filter". The cutoff parameter shifts the filterbase - this is the equivalent to making the instrument body smaller or bigger. Spatializer This simple control gives your sound a distinctive moving distribution in the stereo panorama. Every atomic sound particle has it´s own path through the space ! Sound browser The sound browser in Poseidon gives you a fast selection of sounds based on category and timbre. Spectral modelling synthesis • Harmonic/Inharmonic/Noise sound models • 512 oscillators per voice • 300 Sound models / 600 factory presets Unique sound control • Pitch modulation / Harmonicity control • Time machine • Timbre control • Frequency Domain Filter • Spatializer Arpeggiator • Uses programmable sequences with up to 32 steps.  • Can trigger single notes and chords. • Unique randomiser generates Arpeggios with 100% usability. • 32 Arpeggios included, unlimited user arpeggios possible. • For each step you can program tie, accent, transposition and note order Effects • Chorus • Phaser • Flanger • Distortion (aliasing free!) • Equalizer • Echo/Delay • Reverb Global • Audiobus 3 compatible (Input slot) • Audio Unit AUv3 • Inter-app audio compatible (Instrument/Generator) • CoreMIDI / Virtual MIDI / Tempo Sync / MIDI Learn • Audio recorder with Metronome. • Audio pasteboard / File sharing. • Ableton Link support • Bluetooth audio A2DP

Discord4 is the Audio Damage stereo pitch shifter, in its fourth generation. Each channel has its own pitch shifter, delay, bandpass filter, and feedback, and every repeat runs back through the shifter, so the same effect can double a vocal, stack fifths into an arpeggio, or send echoes spiraling up or down. Three engines set the character. Vintage is modeled on the H910 and H949 and has their grainy, glitchy character. Modern is cleaner and more transparent. Both have a buffer control from 32 to 2048 samples that changes the character of the shift. Granular cuts the signal into grains from 15 to 100 ms long, with an interval control and a Chaos knob that scrambles them, for anything from soft clouds to complete destruction. Detune the two sides a few cents in opposite directions over a short delay for a wide doubler. Set one side a fifth up, sync the delays, and raise the feedback so each repeat climbs another step. Keep the reverb in the loop for shimmer, then hit Freeze to hold a pad under the part. Turn on MIDI Shift to play harmonies from a keyboard, or ride the pitch wheel for bends. • Three pitch-shift engines: Vintage, Modern, and Granular • True stereo: each side has its own shifter, delay, filter, feedback, and pan, or link them so the right follows the left • Up to three octaves up or down, set by the cent or locked to semitones • Delays up to two seconds per side, free-running or tempo-synced, with feedback and cross-feedback • A bandpass filter in each feedback path, set from an XY pad • A stereo reverb inside the loop, with Freeze to hold the tail indefinitely • Saturation in the loop to keep runaway feedback in check • Two flexible LFOs for pitch, delay time, and filter frequency, shaped by Wave, Skew, and Warp, free from 0.01 to 14 Hz or synced to tempo • MIDI Shift: play the shift amount from a keyboard, with pitch bend, in hosts that send MIDI to effects • A preset browser with folders and favorites, and 50 factory presets from everyday doubling to the thoroughly strange Discord4 runs as an AUv3 plugin inside any compatible iOS host, including AUM, Cubasis, Drambo, and apeMatrix, and as a standalone app with background audio for live input. It is also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux as a desktop plugin. Requires iOS 16 or later. An AUv3 host app is recommended. No subscriptions. No accounts. No nonsense. Buy it once, own it forever.