Musikmesse 2014: Rob Papen Intros Blue II

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Musikmesse 2014: Rob Papen has announced Blue II – an update to his Blue ‘cross-fusion’ synthesizer.

First released in 2005, BLUE offered FM and subtractive synthesis, combined with Phase Distortion and wave shaping synthesis. Papen called it ‘Cross-fusion synthesis’, since it covered so much musical ground.

BLUE-II offers even more options, starting with six oscillators. These can be connected in various ways, together with two analogue-style modeled stereo filters with 27 different filter types, an enormous range of processing and modulation options, sequencer, and an incredibly powerful arpeggiator.

A new range of specially selected waveforms based on samples have been fashioned for creating ‘fresh-sounding’ synth sounds.

BLUE-II takes the XY pad features from its virtual instrument sibling Blade, perfect for time-based sound movements and vector pad-type sounds. All this is complemented by four FX processors, each offering 35 FX types,

Blue II is scheduled for release Monday 10 March 2014. See Papen’s site for details.

2 thoughts on “Musikmesse 2014: Rob Papen Intros Blue II

  1. Looks more like Blue 1.5 – still, I’m interested. Blue could do some pretty cool stuff. I hope they modernized the audio engine. Waveshaping and FM combined can have some cruel artifacts.

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