The wait is over! It is here! MetaSynth 5.0! Welcome back to the power of pixels! This is a bundle package that includes:

• U&I Software's Metasynth 5
• Galbanum Architecture Volume One
• Galbanum Architecture MS Waveforms
• Galbanum Abstraction 01 MS

All products are offered here together as one package at a substantial discount for new users. Purchased seperately this would cost about $825, but to celebrate the release of MetaSynth 5.0 we are offering it all together for $599.95! This page provides details on the MetaSynth Applicaiton. For details on the bundled content products please see the links above.

MetaSynth, two-time recipient of Electronic Musician's prestigious Editor's Choice Award, is an extraordinary new visual paradigm for music composition, sound synthesis and sound design that applies the power of advanced image processing techniques to a sophisticated audio rendering engine.

MetaSynth is not just another soft synth but rather a full-fledged sound design and electronic music studio. Its engaging user interface is not only immensely powerful but also fun to use. This unique approach to sound and music will invite you to explore new aspects of sound design, production, and composition. No extra audio hardware or software is required to create high definition audio. For sound creation, sample manipulation and sheer sonic exploration there's nothing like it! MetaSynth is a creation of programmer and artist Eric Wenger, the inventor of KPT Bryce.

MetaSynth features six fully-featured mini applications called rooms:

Image Synth• paint sound using any imaginable-tuning • paint scores where color is translated to spatial position and brightness is translated to amplitude • the Image Synth features wavetable, FM, additive, subtractive and granular synthesis along with multisampler instruments • the Image Synth can also convert sampled sounds into images that can be manipulated in the image domain before being re-translated into audio • Image Filter• use an Image Synth-like interface to create extraordinary dynamic stereo filters • many users tell us that the Image Filter Room alone is worth the price of admission • Spectrum Synth• a new paradigm in synthesis: spectral granular sequencing • analyze sounds into a sequence of events that you can transmogrify in ways you have never imagined • Effects Room• bleeding-edge, envelope-controllable DSP Effects • Sequencer Room• lightweight non-MIDI composition room for composing melodies, phrases and loops • Montage Room• the mixing room • 16-track audio sequencer • in MetaSynth Pro, you can also record audio in sync with your tracks

Electronic Music Production: There's simply no quicker way to develop truly original "signature" sounds than with MetaSynth. Whether you are transforming vocals and guitars, creating monster drum kits, building multi-samples or designing the futuristic aural landscapes, MetaSynth will get you there sooner and take you farther than any other processor or editor.

Sound Design: MetaSynth is used by top film, video, music and multimedia professionals who rely on MetaSynth for creating distinctive audio elements. MetaSynth is the secret weapon in the arsenal of many of the world's leading electronic musicians and sound designers.

Composition. The Image Synth is the premier tool for exploring microtonal and macrotonal music. The powerful sound-picture metaphor provides fine control of the harmonic and amplitude envelope of every note. It makes it possible to create music in any tuning or frequency mapping possible and with nuance not possible with MIDI-based synthesizers. The color brushes and filters make it possible to paint the stereo position of any note or phrase and to create dramatic stereo effects impossible with other tools.

Education: MetaSynth is used in both higher education and primary schools to teach the principles of sound and music. The Image Synth's ability to translate images to sound and sound to images provides an instantly understandable visual representation that includes amplitude, pitch and spatial information in a single image.

Image Synth• realtime editing and full-fidelity preview • capture to disk of realtime performances • new instrument architecture featuring multi-oscillator FM synths, new grain synth and more • Image Filter• high-resolution full-fidelity dynamic stereo • realtime capture to disk • realtime editing • vastly improved fidelity • uses Image Synth custom tunings • Spectrum Synth• completely new synthesis paradigm • allows the sequencing and manipulation of FFT-events created by high-resolution spectral analysis of sounds • great for creating new instruments for multi-samplers • rhythm loops and abstract soundscape generation • Effects Room• effect parameters can be controlled by envelopes • many new effects • improved implementation of all older effects • the new Shuffler and Grain must be hear to be believed • realtime capture to disk of effects performances • Sequencer Room• easy-to-use single track non-MIDI sequencer for creating simple melodies and more • more simple than composing melodies in the Image Synth daunting • Image Synth can import Sequencer Room sequences • Montage Room• MetaTrack has been much improved and integrated into MetaSynth itself as the Montage Room • easy drag and drop interface • allows all MetaSynth content-types to be layered and sequenced