The Sound Engine

Ravernator uses a sound engine called the Wusik-Sound Engine

When I started to plan and create the Ravernator Sounds and Soundsets, I had a clear vision of what was needed to accomplish this task. After Checking out many Platforms I came to the conclusion the Wusik-Sound Engine was the right Choice for me.

The Wusik Sound Engine is the same Powerful Engine used by The Wusik Station. The Engine was created by William K. After Contacting William, I was able to license the wusik Engine for the use of the Ravernator Sounds.

Wusik-Engine / Ravernator Specifications

Oscillators and Polyphony

6 main Oscillators / Layers with 2 Wavesequence layers
2 Wavesequence Layers can hold 32 waveforms each per layer
WaveSequencing / Vector Synthesis / Sample Playback and Recording / Additive Synthesis
Up to 128 voices per layer
64 note polyphony per Layer
Master unison mode
3 octave + and - Range with fine tune per Oscillator Layer
Use Stereo and Mono Wav files as Oscillators
Drag-and-drop support for WAV, SFZ, WusikPRST and WusikSND files
Uses own Preset format for Sound Files
Individual A D S R per layer with Velocity controll
Pan and Volume Control per Osc Layer
Pitch Glide per Layer
Fixed Pitch Switch Button per Layer
MicroTuning support via Scala .TUN files

Filters and Modulation

4 simultaneous Multiband Filters Per Layer
Choice of Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Notch Filter Types
Master Filter for the Whole Synth
Serial or Parallel Filters
2 and 4 Pole Filters ( 12db ot 24db ) with smooth switch
Filter Frequency and Resonace with Limit Switch
Smooth Over-Sampled Filters
4 Equalizers per layer with Frequency and Gain
8 Lfo`s per layer with 6 waveform choices
Lfo`s have waveform choice, along with speed and host syncing
Modulation Envelope with A D S R
Comprehensive Modulation Matrix
X/Y pad for waveseqencing and Vector Synthesis

Effects and Other Features

2 Effects simultaneous per layer
Double Chorus
Quad Chorus
Stereo Echo
Distorion
Studio Reverb (Anwida Technology)
Studio Reverb lite
Studio Reverb Quad
Studio Reverb Echo
bit quantizer
3 Tap Stereo Delay
3 tap delay Parallel
Reverse Echo
Ring Modulator
Phaser
Flanger 32 band Vocoder
Dub Delay
leslie
Re psycho
overdrive
Multi Band Compressor
Rez Filter
Pitch Tracker
Vocoder
Talkbox

Smooth Over-Sampled Filters

Tool-Tips for near every option

Integrated Groove box

Complete Windows Vista Support

Complete Multi-Core Processor support.

Integrated Sample-Editor with Audio-Input for Recording

High Quality Over-Sampling Options

Effects Collection + VST effect support

Detached File-Browser with search options

Disk-Streaming

Full SFZ Sample support

User parameters are saved in a wIni file, instead of the windows registry

Presets can hold comments that display upon loading

Master Limiter

Real Multi-Out Version

FX Version, which you can use to process sounds

Special WusikSND and SFZ options: Key Switching, Round Robin, Group-Mute, Sample-Release and Sample-Legato.

Special WusikPACK file-format. This allows easier installation of new sounds and backup too. You can select a preset or a folder of presets, and all the required files for the preset(s) will be saved inside the WusikPACK file. For easier distribution/backup.

Categorized Library. With this tool, you can categorize your presets in any way you want without having duplicated preset files. The WusikLIB file holds a reference to the original WusikPRST file.

Creating The Ravernator Soundset

It all started about a year Ago, I had just finished creating a Softsynth using a program called Synth Edit. The synth I created was a 6 Oscillator FM Synth. The Soft Synth was actaully wired incorrectly and produced some very Good and Strange Sounds. The Problem was that it used up about 90 % Cpu power on an Athlon Amd 3200 Chip with shed loads of ram. This is when I decided that sampling / Bouncing the instrument at High Quality 44,100 24 bit wav was the best option.

After Bouncing the Sounds I used Sound Forge to Loop most of wav files. Checking not to Clip the samples in the process and Making Sure the Sound Levels were fine. The next Stage was to load the sounds into the Ravernator and create WusikPrst files. These files are wav files which have been zone mapped and saved to a Preset File. Making it easier to use withing the Ravernator Synth.

The Fun Part Comes with Mixing and layering these sounds or soundsets. I was looking to create mostly Synth Bass and Stab Sounds along with a few Keyboard and Chord Presets.

The emphasis being on Creating Unique Sounds for these Genre`s  of music :

Old Skool - Breakbeat - Hardcore - Gabba and some types of Drum and Bass.