Never too experimental, never bland either. The set features a wonderful blend of useable, bread and butter type sounds. BigTone already impressed me with his previous soundsets (LinPlug Albino, Camel Audio Alchemy, and Tone2 ElectaX) and Stratospheres does not disappoint either. To be honest I already knew I was going to like this set before even checking it. Like: High quality, expressive sounds, especially pads section is amazing With a focus on classic analogue type sounds the set includes deep bass sounds, lush house chord stabs, polysynth sounds, 303 acid type bleeps, a large selection of huge pads, and much more. The sounds are divided into eight categories:
The patch names indicate which controls are used, and Zebra’s info panel has detailed information for each patch. The sounds are generally extremely expressive, with many patches having modwheel, pitchbend, velocity and aftertouch assigned.
The Stratospheres soundset includes a total of 136 patches for Zebra. The main focus of this soundset is on meticulous emulations of classic analogue sounds – but several surprises are also included! Great care has been taken to ensure that all patches remain rich and expressive across several octaves: all sounds are truly playable… Stratospheres is a must for all aficionados of analogue synthesis! One of them is Stratospheres, the sequel to the acclaimed Chronospheres soundset by BigTone Studios. Hot on the heels of the recent updates for Zebra follows the release of three new patch libraries for the virtual modular synthesizer.