Helix is a Wave-Table-Shaping, Phase modulation, Virtual Analog, Physical Modelling Hybrid Synthesizer. Unusually high sound quality, massive modulation, creative audio-routing and many built-in effects all make Helix a synth easy to like.

Your CPUs new best friend

Few synths can match Helix's features, and even fewer can match the CPU-friendliness. Intel, AMD, and PowerPC. They all love the Helix treatment.

Proud Presets

Helix comes with over 800 presets, from BigTone, Reason Lahalla, MaliceX, Alonso Sound and more. The presets range most styles where electronic instrument might fit.

Super Sound

Inspired by the "super-saw" of the late nineties, Helix takes the unison-sound to the next level and allow you to make any waveform "super". This makes Helix capable of huge and wide unison pads and leads. Where many Virtual analogs stops at seven or nine detuned waves for a supersaw, Helix takes the extra step and allow for 16 detuned and panned waves per oscillator. At four oscillators per voice we realize that we can max out our sound at 64 (sixty four) waves per voice. That's super!

Wave-Table-Shaping

Combining the wave-shaping of synths like z3ta+ with the wave-table synthesis of the Prophet VS and the ESQ-1, Helix lets you shape the first and the last waves in a table, the in-between are automatically filled in. The morph control picks the wave to play.

Clean Cut

Great care has been taken to ensure no aliasing in the oscillators, so the sound is free from many artifacts traditionally associated with software (and Virtual Analog) synthesizers. This becomes very clear when playing high notes.

Filter Frenzy

Three Filter per voice, including traditional low/band/high pass, EQ, and comb, less usual dynamics, to the exotic String Model and PM Delay, a delayline where the delaytime is modulated in audiorate.

Distortion Delight

Three stages of distortion/waveshaping per voice and one global can add a touch of old school harmonics or turn any sound into a nightmare of screaming machinery. Select from ten different shapes to find your favourite style of dirt.

Surely Stereo

All parts of Helix are stereo in - stereo out. Oscillators, filters, shapers and effects. This helps keeping the signal huge.

Modulation Mayhem

More modulation slots than you can handle. Each with one source, two destinations and a scale-source. The amount of modulation possible would be impossible to find in the analog realm (it would require a great amount of cables, splitters, multipliers/ringmods and mixers) and hard to find anywhere.

Exhilarating Effects and Radical Routing

Helix comes with some built-in effect: Distortion, Flanger/Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Limiter, Reverb, 3 band Eq. The effects can be applied in any order.

Both the Voice architecture and the Effects of Helix follow an approach where a signal can be mixed in or sent to the effect at any point. The result is great freedom on how to apply filters and effects.

Features

4 bandlimited unison wave-morphing-oscillators in full stereo, each of which can generate 16 voices per note.

Each Oscillator have additional modes: Noise, PWM, dual-saw, string-model and rompler

3 stereo filters per note. Selectable lowpass, bandpass, highpass, lowshelf, peaking, highshelf.

3 stereo distortion stages per note. 10 different distortion-modes including bitcrushing and sample rate reduction.

24 Notes of polyphony, which adds up to a total of 1536 simultaneous oscillator voices and 72 filters in realtime.

8 ADSR envelope generators per note.

4 Low Frequency Oscillators per note (plus 2 global) with 18 different waveforms.

36 Modulation slots with 57 different selectable modulation parameters each.

Easy to use built-in master effects section consisting of 7 hi-quality sound effects: distortion, phaser, chorus, equalizer, delay, reverb and parallel-limiter.

Stereo chorus, adjustable delay time, depth, rate and feedback for flanging effects.

Global distortion stage in full stereo, with oversampling to minimize aliasing artifacts.

Equalizer with low-shelf, peaking and high-shelfing controls.

Stereo phaser with stage count selectable between 4 and 12, an embedded LFO, feedback and frequency spread adjustment.

Delay module with low- and high-pass filters, 5 different "pingpong" settings

Smooth reverb with adjustable pre-delay, pre-eq, damping

Stereo parallel limiter with attack, release, threshold.

3 Modes of portamento sliding, slide speed can depend on velocity.

1000+ presets.