Subverter

Overview

Subverter exists for one job: making bass move. Two oscillators (saw, square, triangle or sine) with up to seven-voice unison for reese stacks, a noise source, and a dedicated sub (sine or square, one or two octaves down) that skips the filter so the low end stays solid. The filter is the instrument: a state-variable filter (low-pass, band-pass, high-pass or notch, 12 or 24 dB) with drive and key tracking, modulated per sample so fast wubs stay clean instead of turning to zipper noise. The showpiece is the drawable step-pattern LFO: sketch the rhythm you want and the filter plays it, synced to the session. Two LFOs, a DAHDSR mod envelope, a 12-slot mod matrix and four macros mean one knob can pull a whole patch around. An oversampled waveshaper with tanh, hard clip, foldback and bitcrush adds the grit, and a finishing stage (multiband OTT, a mono-maker for the lows, a tempo-synced pump and a limiter) makes it sound done without extra plugins. Twenty factory presets. Built for deep dubstep, but it does DnB, halftime, and anything else that needs a talking bassline.

Features

• Two PolyBLEP oscillators with up to 7-voice unison, noise, and a sub that bypasses the filter
• State-variable filter: LP, BP, HP or notch, 12 or 24 dB, drive and key tracking, per-sample modulation
• Drawable step-pattern LFO for instant wub rhythms
• Two tempo-syncable LFOs, a DAHDSR mod envelope and a 12-slot mod matrix
• Four macros for performance and automation
• Oversampled waveshaper: tanh, hard clip, foldback, bitcrush
• Mono or poly (up to 16 voices), legato or always glide
• Finisher: multiband OTT, mono-maker, tempo-synced pump and limiter
• 20 factory presets

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