Focussed on the essential modules of an analogue synthesizer Alpha 3 offers true hands on operation. Everything is where you would expect it, nothing is more complex as it needs to be. Nothing is less powerfull as it needs to be. Alpha 3 is the sum of all our experience in synthesizer manufacturing.

Just when you get tired about the many over-complex synthesizers of today, when you want to return to the roots, the beginning of all synthetic sound, the times when a Synthesizer could be fully programmed, then the Alpha 3 is the right synthesizer for you. Get the synth that you can control. Completely.

 AU and VST plug-in instrument for Mac and PC
 2 Oscillators with numerous waveforms
 PWM (symmetry of all waveforms modulatable)
 Switchable freerun for both oscillators
 Extended Ringmodulation (modulatable Off-AM-RM)
 Noise Oscillator
 Spread (5 detuned oscillators per voice, adjustable)
 Rich sounding multimode filter with saturation
 dedicated filter ADSFR envelope
 Amplifier section with dedicated ADSFR envelope
 7 slot Modulation Matrix, 19 sources, 18 destinations

 3 individual LFOs with tweakable attack time, speed  (syncable), multiple shapes, switchable freerun
 Portamento / Glide with various modes
 adjustable Chorus, no other effects (intentionally)
 Adjustable analogness
 Global tuning and Microtonal support
 Powerfull ECS (MIDI learn for almost all Controllers)
 sample accurate processing, total recall
 all controls automatable
 direct access to all banks and presets
 32 voice polyphonic (adjustable), true mono mode

 Alpha 3 allows Frequency Modulation of the Filters Cutoff, a feature only found in very few Synthesizers. The source of the Filter FM can be any oscillator, even noise. Together with the Ring Modulator which can be gradually morphed from pure Oscillator 2 over Amplitude-Modulation to Ringmodulation this is a guarantee for some of very finest and most exotic sounds a classic subtractive synth can produce.

 Demo songs

 From Alpha to Omega by Marco Lehmann
 Alpha Centauri A by Tsvos
 Alpha Step by Marco Lehmann
 The Insider by Richard Hider
 all demos do only use Alpha, no other instruments !

 Alpha 3 has two oscillators with each producing a continuously adjustable mix of 2 from 30 waveforms. Taking into account that both basic waveform can have a different pitch already allows for thousands of resulting waveforms. But don’t worry, our concept of handling is dead easy, pick the waveforms and adjust the mix. Done.

 Confirmed Quality: Alpha does exceptionally well in reviews of world leading magazines. In example Computer Music gave it a 9/10 rating [ read the full CM review for free ] or Future Music said “It’s a truly premium instrument at a ridiculously low price” [ read the full FM review for free ]

 Requirements

 Distribution

AU or VST2.0 capable host software. Alpha itself requires about 8 Mb memory only (first instance, 2 Mb for all additional instances).
Screen resolution of 1024 x 768
PC: 400 MHz, 256 Mb, Windows XP or newer
Mac: 400 MHz, 256 Mb, Mac OSX 10.3 or newer
 

For a comparison with Free Alpha [ click here ]

The Alpha 3 is exclusively available directly from LinPlug. It comes with a comprehensive 32 page English PDF-manual and many sound banks (more than 900 carefully selected sounds from some of the best sound designers: Big!Tone, Summa and XenoX).

The license fee is 99 US$ / 79 Euro
The upgrade is 19 US$ / 19 Euro