Humanoid Sound Systems has released Scanned Synth Pro, a virtual instrument designed to create rich complex digital tones and fantastic sound effects, while using simplifed controls and traditional synths techniques such as filters, lfo's and effects. Scanned Synth Pro is the successor to the popular Scanned Synth VST and adds many exciting new features, including :

- The Psycho! Button: antisocial behaviour in a button. This feature was requested by Trilby Temperley of The Resonance and should not be used by sensible people.
- A Polyphonic Filter with cutoff frequency modulation and pitch-tracking allowing the sound to be shaped naturally and untuitively as well as expanding the range of possible sounds even further
- An Echo effect
- Improved sound quality including making the distortion even more gorgeous
- Improved efficiency allowing you to run more synths and effects simultaneously
- A huge library of professionally designed factory preset sounds (208 in total)
- Randomisation profiles: presets that contain ideal settings (initial parameter values and randomisation amounts) to produce particular types of sound through randomisation, this enabling you to quickly generate a unique new bass or a dazzling special effect with just a few mouse clicks!
- Support for processors with SSE and SSE2 instruction sets giving a performance improvement of between 33% and 50% over Scanned Synth Mini and previous versions!

Scanned Synth Pro is currently available as a VST plugin for Windows at an introductory price of €75 until the end of August, then the price will be increased to €90. Note that a Mac version is planned for the future.

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