Audio Damage AD051 Continua (Win)

Daniel Holden

6 years ago

Publisher: Audio Damage
Product: AD051 Continua (Retail)
Version: 1.0.21
Format: VST, VST3, AAX
Bit Depth: 64-bit
Operating System: Windows 8.1 or newer

Audio Damage’s Continua is a morphing synth VST (Virtual Studio Technology) plugin for Windows 8.1 or newer version. Continua runs as a VST, VST3, AU, and an AAX plugin. Continua VST plugin can be used with all major digital audio workstations (DAW) including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, Pro Tools, and others.

If you’re looking to download the macOS version of Continua, we’ve got you covered!

A brief overview of Continua, a virtual analog synthesizer for your Windows, macOS, or iPadOS music-making. Continua bucks the current trend of Robocop wavetable synths to bring you a somewhat more chill environment. Morphing oscillators and filters ease your sonic environment in to place, while custom chorus, delay, and reverb algorithms blend it in to a huge and complex soundspace. Full MPE implementation and modulation routing for days make Continua an incredibly expressive synthesizer, while TUN file loading allows explorations outside equal temperament. A true player’s synth, Continua is both bedrock and atmosphere.

Continua features:

Three Flexible Oscillators
- Continuously variable morphing waveform, with warp, shape, and skew controls.
Dual Morphing Filters
- Filters are often utilized in serial or parallel modes and morph from lowpass through bandpass and highpass to notch in 2-pole and 4-pole configurations.
Noise Source
- Noise source features a “color” control that affects tonal characteristics of the noise.
ADSR x 2
- Continua has two ADSR-style envelope generators, with a curve on attack, decay, and release.
Flexible Envelope Generator (FEG) x 2
- The two FEGs are arbitrary function generators, with up to 99 steps, curve and step level control, arbitrary loop points, and host tempo sync.
Flexible Low-Frequency Oscillator (FLFO) x 4
- The four FLFOs utilize four controls (phase, shape, skew, and warp) to access a virtually limitless palette of waveforms, and have host tempo sync and retrigger.
Sample And Hold
- The S&H mod source can sample noise (random) or any of the opposite mod sources, at either a user-defined rate or a musical division, and includes built-in smoothing and distance limit (for a “walk” effect).
Modulation
- Every knob in Continua maybe a mod destination, with a really fast and straightforward assignment matrix access with a right-click on the knob (double-tap on iOS).
Tuning Tables And Global Tuning Offset
- Re-tune Continua to new intonations and temperaments using the open-source and easy-to-use TUN file format. a worldwide tuning offset (default to A=440) allows you to simply retune the whole synth to match a special A frequency without employing a tuning table.
MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression)
- Continua understands both “legacy” MIDI and MPE. Use your Linnstrument, Roli Seaboard, Haken Continuum, Madrona Labs Soundplane, or Sensel Morph (among others) to directly access per-note pressure, pitch bend, and modulation.
Per-Instance Settings
- Continua utilizes a per-instance customization method: set MPE mode, aftertouch smoothing, pitch bend range override, tuning table, and global tuning offset for every instance in your DAW, with a choice to save any state as your global start line.
Factory Presets
- Continua comes with a considerable collection of factory content, including Designer Presets from Red Means Recording, Glitch Machines, and Sonalsystem.
Cross-Platform Preset Format
- Continua utilizes an XML-based preset manager. Work between multiple systems without troubles, make a preset on your desktop machine and paste it to the iOS version with Handoff, easily share your creations together with your friends, or make a preset bundle sell.
Fully Resizable Hi-Dpi/Retina GUI
- Continua’s vector-based GUI is resolution-agnostic and displays an equivalent on every system and determination. Easily resize the UI (per instance) to match your visual needs, from postage to poster-sized.