Fundamental, sonicLAB

Fundamental 2

sonicLAB presents the root of electronic music brought into the now.

Fundamental 2 is designed and programmed by Sinan Bökesoy.

What is Fundamental ?

Fundamental is a sound synthesis tool combining different roots of electronic music history. Fundamental wave engine is a faithful recreation of a vintange Rohde&Schwartz vacuum tube oscillator ( having been widely used at WDR by Stockhausen )

Fundamental leaves behind the limitiations of the original device with a genuine instrument design by proposing effective modulation possibilities, stochastic distributions addressing the sonic parameters like frequency, gain, panning etc. in continuum, which has not been applicable until now.

Fundamental feels like something Stockhausen, Xenakis and HAL 9000 might have dreamt up after a bender; recalling the past of electronic music through a dynamic modern interpretation of massive german vacuum oscillator.

8 vintage sine wave oscillators

A test equipment sound is not pure technically. The gain stage has a vacuum tube also the frequencies below 60hz do sound anything but a sine wave. All these are the signature of a vintage sonic richness.

Art & Engineering meets instrument design

The grounds of this projects have been founded during a visit to Hainbach’s studio in Berlin, who is well known for incorporating these vingate tools of the past in his electronic music compositions.

The core idea was basically recreating an instrument with a test tone equipment sound in software form but with the approach and design which sonicLAB has followed on its previous products.

The initial concept is based actually on sonicLAB PaSSBot.

The Fundamental software presents you 8 instances of a vacuum tube sine wave generator with all the artifacts and sonic richness of a vintage equipment.

It is squared ! What is new in Fundamental 2..

sonicLAB proudly presents Fundamental 2 after a long development run. The new features and improvements highlight this genuine instrument once more as a priceless tool for the electronic musicians.

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A Morphing Engine capable of rendering audio rate transitions between parameter spaces of 4 Fundamental instances. ( It is the same DSP inherited from our Cosmosf Saturn ). One can even morph between tuning scales..!

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Manual and stochastic control of the morphing pointer. Morph interpolation speed, and distance settings can be adjusted.

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A full Morse code translator is available as a GEN modulation source and can be sent to pitch, gain, panning and harmonic ratio destinations. Each oscillator can have its unique morse code, likewise capable of creating complex poly rhythmic patterns easily.

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Fundamental Banks contain now 24 presets.

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Fundamental2 test equipment oscillators can be addressed directly with multichannel midi note-on messages on respective midi channels from your DAW tracks to perform sequences.

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Midi CC7 (oscillator post volume) and CC10 (panning) destinations are targeting directly each oscillator when sent on respective midi channels. Also the CC14 and CC15 is targeting directly the morph pointer of the morph engine.

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The Sensel Morph map has been revised to access the new morph engine of Fundamental 2.

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Whether you play live electronics, compose for media or interested in early
electronic music...

Unique polymorphing wavetable synthesis without any compromise in data content and precision.

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Each voice represents infinitesemal steps of frequency and gain combinations of the vintage oscillator between 1Hz and 3800Hz.

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8 simultaneous voices / oscillators each with custom freq, boost, panning modulation settings.

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Custom or harmonic frequency distribution of voices with variable spread ratio and tuning scales.

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4 independent stochastic modulators for each voice ( 32 in total ) addressing all parameters with various continuous and discrete distributions and also standard waveforms.

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4 Full MPE support with various configuration possibilities..

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Independent Attack / Release envelopes for each voice with various modes, AR times can be set to degrees of randomness..

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Vintage oscillator / Pure Sine wave mode

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offers finest MPE interaction....

For essential information about the Sensel Morph and Fundamental integration.

Fundamental is available for OSX , Windows and iOS platforms as VST3, AU, standalone and AUv3 formats.

All sonicLAB products are 64bit only.