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Cypher - audio-rate modulation monster
 Cypher takes analogue FM into the future, combining the most realistic audio-rate modulation to date with digital luxuries like polyphony and precise tuning. With dual shaper/filter stages to drive and sculpt the raw output of the oscs, alongside DCAM features like the TransMod modulation system, Cypher is a tweaker's utopia for producing timbres ranging from visceral mono and poly sounds to abstract textures and sound effects.
The ethos behind Cypher is to provide a truly accurate model of a synth capable of analogue-style FM, wave modulation, variable-depth sync and other interesting oscillator processes. The osc section is a source of vast sonic diversity even before the dual filter section is called into action. Cypher can also be used as a more conventional 3-osc subtractive synth, for situations when you require more complexity than Strobe can offer.
Advanced oscillators
 Cypher's 3 oscillators feature continuously variable waveshapes, ring modulation, white/pink noise sources and beat-detuning (which keeps the rate of oscillator-beating the same across the whole keyboard).
The real depth of the oscillators lies in the various ways that they can inter-modulate each other at audio rates. Osc3 can perform FM on Osc2, while Osc2 can modulate the waveshape of Osc3 at audio-rate frequencies. The osc section features thru-zero FM behaviour and the ability to tune in precise harmonics, which allows musical digital-style FM sounds rendered with fat-sounding modelled analogue oscillators.
Innovative osc-sync and audio-rate sample-and-hold
The oscs also feature advanced sync capabilities - Oscs 2 and 3 sync to Osc1 to varying degrees, leading to a range of 'hard' and 'soft' osc-sync sounds. Another innovative feature is the audio-rate sample-and-hold, which quantizes the waveform of one osc with the frequency of another. The sound is reminiscent of lo-fi digital FM and sampling, but has a unique sound of its own.
Dual Filters and polyphonic waveshaping
 The osc section is fed into two paths, each containing a filter and waveshaper, which can be routed in various ways. The waveshapers allow you to twist the osc shapes further with several flavours of gritty distortion. The filters are selectable from state-variable and transistor-ladder models, with rich drive and realistic filter FM.
 Cypher is available as part of DCAM: Synth Squad from all good music retailers as well as from our Online Shop
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 | 3 advanced oscillators, dual waveshapers and filters
| | Continuously variable osc waveforms
| | Precision-modelled audio-rate modulation
| | Audio-rate FM, wave modulation, sample-and-hold
| | Variable-depth oscillator sync
| | Ring modulation, beat detune and more
| | Built-in arpeggiator, 2 LFOs, 3 envelopes
| | Advanced modulation with the TransMod system |
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