More details about Wusik 8000

Wusik 8000 had been announced last June (see this news), but its new features were still to be specified. Here there are:

• HQ Grand Piano – This piano has a great dynamic sound, and we do not use filters for the velocity layers, instead, we use a new system that only Wusik 4000 / 8000 has: dynamic velocity to layer cross-fade.
• “Freeze” preset option. This will render the current preset to several mapped keys with the preset sample information that is sampled in real-time. This is handy for heavy-on-cpu presets. You will be able to select how many seconds to sample per key, how many keys, start and end keys, multi-velocities, and the output file will be saved SFZ format. Once this is done, the preset will be replaced by a simple sample-player preset and the SFZ file is loaded up.
• Mixer View with the ability to solo/mute modules.
• Matrix View: this view will show all the connections in a matrix style. So if you don’t like “wires”, this is the view for you. You can always disable wires and use only this view instead.
• Option to zoom in and out: 50% to 140% zoom options.
• VST Module Wrapper (mostly to be able to use VST effects, as we can’t guarantee that VSTi plugins will be possible to use, but we may find a way).
• Option to show mini-oscilloscopes on each module that has a modulation source.
• Extra Preset options, such as rating system.
• Better Preset Browser and Searching.
• Audio Input and special modules that will use this feature.
• Wusik Station preset import/converter.
• Wusik 8000 will read Wusik 4000 presets and sounds without problems, since part of the code is based on Wusik 4000 engine, but re-written to accommodate some new options. Now, Wusik 4000 may not be able to read correctly Wusik 8000 presets, since it uses a new format.
• More and more presets, specially for the included Wusik Station sounds.

Wusik 8000 will also include new modules:

• MIDI: Scala TUN files for Micro-Tunning.
• Modulation: Pure Data (PD) Scripting.
• Sound Generator: Karplus String Delay.
• Sound Generator: Sample Player XT: new mapping options, including Loop Editor and auto sample options.
• Sound Generator: Sample Player XT: Pad-Synth support.
• Filter: Comb Filter and other types too.
• Filter: Special glitch filters and other crazy filters schemes (polyphonic).
• Sound Generator: FM Sound Generators.
• Effect: more effects, mostly ported from the Wusik Station effects list.
• Audio Glitch Module

We still don’t know when Wusik 8000 will be released but you can see below that the team is working hard: