Review of Albino 3

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Review of Albino 3
Can be read here:

http://audio-pro-central.com/review_of_albino_3.htm

Excerpt:

Sometimes a soft synth comes along that is so cool you want to use it nearly all the time. Sort of like potato chips. Once you have one, you want more. So it is with instances of Albino 3. Once you have one laid down in a track, you want another. And then another. The good thing is that, unlike chips, you can have as many as you want. While the synth is not a lightweight, its not a CPU killer either.

Albino is am ideal synth for dancey, trancey music. Hip Hop too. But it's not limiting. Any context where an analog style synth would be used is fair ground for Albino--leads, pads, basses, EPs, atmospheres and more--Albino 3 works it's charm on you. This is due to its voicing of oscillators, strong filters, great arpeggiation and chord effects. To top it off you get a huge library of sounds. Lets go over each of these in more detail.

Read the rest at the link above

[Beau]

Looks like a can't miss. Thanks Tweak!

--Beau

[Proteus9]

Albino 3 is a huge improvement over Albino 2. It excels at getting a highly processed and polished "producer" type sound.

Albino is great, if you're using it for what it was intended for, mainly dance music. The over all sound, by any other comparison, is cold and sterile. The midrange frequencies are almost all but absent and the filters lack character.

I blame this more on market analysis than I do the development team. It's just economic sense to come in under a price point with a specified and focused instrument.

The day where analog emulations were the focus are over; filling the void we now have the priveladge of paying for convenience. But that also means we see a decline in highly functional, multi purpose instruments with a wide, yet consistent sound.

Refx Vanguard and Papen's other synth Predator are wamer, yet sadly simpler, other options.

[BlindSummit]

yup, i've got albino (sadly i bought it before i got my mac and it's only on the pc), i loved that thing but i haven't replaced it yet, i suppose i just don't wanna buy it again lol. the layers are what i love about it and it's all on one screen, no annoying tab flicking like you get with alot of powerful synths these days