Roland Cloud System-8 Virtual Instrument

Full Description

Ultimate sound performance and control

The Roland System-8 Virtual Instrument is a powerhouse of sound quality and features, giving you all the tools to create the sound in your head. The eight-voice polyphony is driven by three oscillators per voice with a wide range of modulation parameters, powerful filtering to sculpt and shape your sound and a myriad of immaculate effects for an almost limitless potential of sound design.

Shining at both modern and vintage sounds, the System-8 Virtual Instrument has many variations of digital and analog-style oscillators and waveshapes as well as inclusion of the famous JUPITER and JUNO filter designs for authentic vintage flavour. Unparalleled in its versatility, quickly go from smooth and silky to rough and ready with just a few tweaks of the controls and discover why legendary artists are using the System-8 as part of their arsenal.

Perfect for the studio musician looking to access industry-standard sounds, the System-8 Virtual Instrument is your one-stop-shop virtual synthesizer to create epic film scores with luscious pads, intense gaming music with destructive leads and rich, harmonic keys to suit all genres of music.

Hardware integration

The System-8 Virtual Instrument also supports Plug-out format and can be used with the hardware sibling. This combination is ideal for the live musician and sound designer, reaping the benefit of playing through a velocity-sensitive keyboard and dedicated controls, with the ease of use in parameter adjusting in the digital realm. Not only this, but you have the ability to transfer sounds back and forth between the hardware and the software to carry your sounds and presets with you anywhere you go, editing on the fly with real physical controls that don't require a computer. System-8 hardware also serves as a high quality USB audio/MIDI interface. Live performers will appreciate being able to transfer their Patches to hardware and take the stage computer-free.

ACB (analog circuit behaviour) technology

The Roland System-8 Virtual Instrument features the latest generation of the renowned Analog Circuit Behaviour (ACB) technology. ACB technology was developed specifically for to enable the user to authentically recreate the sound and behaviour of classic analog synthesizers. The new System-8 Virtual Instrument features the most advanced ACB engine yet, powering the eight voices of polyphony, plus the three oscillators, high-resolutions filters and the versatile LFOs. The ACB engine provides expressive and diverse sound with incredibly smooth filter sweeps with tremendous range, allowing you to create a wide range of tones from classic analog-style pads and basses to dynamic lead synths and other-worldly textures, ideal for the avid sound designer.

Features

• Cutting-edge virtual instrument powered by Analog Circuit Behavior (ACB) modeling
• Retro-analog and dynamic modern sounds sweetened by powerful DSP effects
• Silky smooth multimode filters and extensive modulation possibilities
• Serves as a computer-based editor for Roland System-8 hardware synthesizer
• VST and AU compatible

Specification

General

• Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz
• Patches per bank: 64 presets
• Tune: 430.0Hz - 450.0Hz
• Maximum Polyphony: 8 voice
• Effects:
  • Multi-effects: 6
  • Delay: 6
  • Reverb: 6
  • Amplifier
  • Pitch
  • Filter
• Plugin format:
  • VSTi 2.4 (32 bits, 64 bits) * Windows only
  • VSTi 3.6 (32 bits, 64 bits)
  • AU

System requirements

• Operating system:
  • Mac:
    • macOS 10.10.5 or later
  • Windows:
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Microsoft Windows 10, Incompatible with Windows® RT, Windows® Phone or virtual machines such as Hyper-V, Virtual PC..
• Host application:
  • Mac:
    • VST instruments (VSTi) version: VST 3.6 compatible
    • Audio Units (AU) version: V2 Audio Units compatible
  • Windows:
    • VST instruments (VSTi) version: VST 2.4/3.6 compatible
• CPU: Intel Core i5 or better (Quad-core CPU recommended)
• RAM: 4GB or more
• Hard disk space: 100MB or more
• Display resolution and colour:
  • Mac: 1280 x 800 dots or higher, 16.7 million colors or more
  • Windows: 1280 x 800 dots or higher, 24 bits Full Color or more
• Other:
  • You'll need Internet connectivity to activate this software.
  • You'll need Adobe Reader (available free of charge) in order to read the online help.
  • The System-8 driver must be installed on your computer to connect this software to the SYSTEM-8.
• Product code: RCSYSTEM8LTK