Rob Papen Blade Introduction

At the heart of BLADE, ready to twist and transform your musical mind, lies the Harmolator. An additive synthesis system, which rather than using the system of changing additive partials, uses global controls which capture the essence of additive synth in an intuitive way making the creation of sounds much easier than using other additive synths.

The nine Harmolator controls allow you to create a vast range of sounds so you get all the amazing sounds that additive synthesis can generate with the added simplicity of traditional subtractive synthesis.
The Harmolator allows oscillator spreading, fattening the sound and also square / sine wave sub-oscillator. What's more, the sound can be modified further by the 21 per-voice distortions types and 14 filter types.
Blade offers total control of the sound over time using an array of different modulation controls.

The most significant of these is the central XY screen. Here you can either alter things directly by moving the cursor around, or you can record paths which can be replayed.
The recorded path can be looped, bi-directional looped and tempo based as well. Even the speed of the XY recording can be modulated for dynamic changes!
So the XY pad is also an incredibly advanced "human input" modulation source.

Furthermore, Blade has the full range of other modulation sources, including a dedicated envelope, LFO and velocity as modulation source for Harmolator controls.

Two FX units featuring all the FX from other Rob Papen products, plus the Arp / Sequencer and an Easy page which allows you to easily control sounds, all add up to an amazingly flexible and useful instrument at the cutting edge of today's synthesizers!

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[Attila Gregory]

Rob Ho .... Do not wait the Vangelis dying to do a tribute to him with their VSTs .... There are already too many sounds for Dance Music... thx!!!

[Rob Papen]

Check some of the Predator presets inside the classic synth banks and ambient bank.

[Ike Smith]

great synth! Any chance this will be in an RE?

[Rob Papen]

Hi, with the current 'developer kit' it is not possible. But maybe in the future :)

[Sphereal]

Can it kill vampires?

[Rob Papen]

Sure! Blade sounds work like garlic ;)

[Alex Sage]

It would be great if we were able to use our gaming peripherals like joystick, wheel, pedals as midi controller devices... you just need a separate utility that converts the input into a preffered format mean while... but I'm pretty sure you can make it possible too =))) You inspired me to build my own vst's  =)))))

[SoundToyzAreUs]

Don´t know what keyboard that is. But I rest my case. Use a smart phone or iPad to run the X,Y of blade. Much easier to get good results.

[audiovoid]

Was talking about the (hardware) Midi controller being used in this demo video. You can see small clip of it around 4;00

[TRUNXLUCENT]

I love your stuff but this one was the weakest of the bunch.