HG Fortune Alphatron

Alphatron is not just a simple VA synthesizer, instead, in using a 3rd oscillator with digital waves of single cycle type, it offers more variation. Thus it can do analog-style sounds reminiscent of the old Moog and Prophet days but also merge this with the digital realm.

Main features (based on Pro version)

• 1 VA Oscillator with up to 6 poly waves for Saw, Ramp, Sine, Tri, and Pulse.
• 1 VA Oscillator with single waves as above plus white and pink noise, Sync slave.
• 1 Sample Oscillator with fairly typical digital waves (single cycle type) with different harmonic content, Sync master.
• 1 Amplitude Modulation with dedicated output.
• 1 24 dB resonant Low Pass filter with dedicated ADSR EG, 4 mixable mod sources.
• 1 VCA EG. Note: Both EG have 3 modes: exponential, reverse exponential, and linear; and optional control for Attack and Decay by velocity.
• 1 Booster or Exciter selectable.
• 1 Mystify with three selectable types (Brite, Soft, Dark).
• 1 BPM synced Delay with adjustable Offset controlled manually or by modsource, Pan.
• 1 Bass Boost.
• 1 Pan for undelayed signal.
• 1 small Reverb for adding some nice flavour.
• 1 Saturator.
• 1 main Volume.
• 3 x LFO, 1 x Duo LFO (with two waves and phase control for 2nd wave), 1 x S&H.
• 1 Pitch LFO with option to speed up or down the LFO speed.
• 16 Step Sequencer (with Shuffle) for notes and velocity plus mute buttons for each step. Includes 8 pattern slots per patch and 4 global pattern slots for instant changes.
• 3 Wheels.
• Aftertouch as selectable modsource.
• 8 Lazy buttons.
• 8 GUI variants selectable.
• 128 patches.

Both free and commercial versions are available. The major differences of Basic Free (less features)

• Only 64 patches.
• No Lazy buttons.
• Only 4 Seq Pattern per patch & 2 global Seq Pattern.
• 2 voices.
• No selectable GUI (instead there is a choice of four different dll to download).
• No patch select on GUI, but a silly scroller reminder not to forget to support the developer.

Pricing & Availability

Alphatron is available for Windows as a VST instrument plug-in. The commercial version costs €29.