That being said the quality of the presets is generally high and more are appearing already if you prefer to leave the tweaking to others. Finally there is a powerful little arpeggiator/sequencer with up to 96 steps which has the ability to record a pattern from the keyboard and also export a pattern to midi.īassline 101 ships with a fairly modest 300 presets but as with a real 101 it is so clearly laid out and easy to use that it's more fun to just dive in and start tweaking and programming your own sounds. The pitch wheel can be routed in varying amounts to oscillator pitch and the filter and the mod wheel controls the LFO modulation amount sent to pitch, i.e. We have portamento, either normal or a legato mode for 303 style glides and the glide curve can be switched from original to linear. A single (very snappy) envelope controls either the filter, the VCA or both and further modulation comes from a single sync-able LFO with triangle/square/random and noise shapes. These feed into a single 24db lowpass filter which will self-resonate.
I won't go too much into the specs as these are on TAL's website but basically as per the Roland we have a single oscillator (mixable saw/pulse/noise) with a square or 25% pulse sub oscillator 1 or 2 octaves below the main osc. TAL's new addition to their commercial offerings is another Roland emulation, this time the target is the ubiquitous analog studio staple: the SH-101.
At the time I had a Juno 60 to directly compare with and I have to say the differences to me were no more significant than the likely differences between two individual vintage Junos, even down to the amazingly authentic noise when you switched the chorus on. Last year Patrick released his first commercial product in the form of a fully re-written and considerably improved version of his venerable free Juno emulator. It's not just me either, I've watched many Producer Masterclass videos where TAL plugins are being used by successful artists with more than adequate funds to purchase whatever plugins they desire.
I'm a big fan of the work of Patrick Kunz, who creates soft-synths and FX under the name Togu Audio Line (TAL), his work has always illustrated the point that free plugins are not necessarily inferior to their commercial counterparts.
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