Vintage Tonic, a holiday gift from Sonic Charge (for Microtonic owners)

[TheSteven]

Just received email:
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Dear Microtonic owner,

We hope you are all well in these challenging times. In the spirit of the season, we have a gift for you. We call it Vintage Tonic and it is a collection of Microtonic patches that recreates the sounds of ten famous vintage drum machines.

To make them sound as close to the originals as possible, we took help from a new machine-learning algorithm that we have been working on. We are sure that you will be surprised by some of the results.

Go to https://soniccharge.com/forum/topic/1779-vintage-tonic to have a listen and to download our gift to you.

Best wishes,
Magnus & Fredrik Lidström

[TheSteven]

I haven't played with my Sonic Charge plugins in a while and got inspired by the Holiday patch freebie mentioned in the OP.
Was trolling around their forum and found I missed an update posted in Oct 2020
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Hi folks!

For your information: We have just released minor service updates to all our plugins. No new features. Only a few bug-fixes, cosmetic changes and updated user guides.

Here is the short list of bugs that have been squashed:

• All plugins on Windows : Made a workaround to handle a rare Windows problem with generating a unique machine-id.
• Echobode : Fixed a bug where, under some extremely rare circumstances, the big knob would not draw correctly, and an error message was generated.
• Microtonic : Fixed an issue that could cause the host user-interface to become sluggish when running many instances of Microtonic (even with closed plug-in windows).
• Permut8 : Fixed a bug that prevented the zoom feature from working correctly in some hosts (e.g., Cakewalk).
   

To update just download and run our installer as usual. If you have already registered you should not need to run Authenticator again.

Take care, stay safe and make lots of music!

/ Magnus

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and missed an apparently huge update back in March 2020
https://soniccharge.com/forum/topic/1568
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Magnus Lidström
31 Mar15:49

I hope you are all doing well in these difficult times. We are doing fine here. Working from home is not much of a change for us, of course. Fredrik and I have been working remotely together for over 20 years. But these are undoubtedly tough times for us all. Luckily there is nothing safer than staying indoors and making music on a computer, or developing music software for that matter. So we will continue doing just that. As always.

We are pleased to announce that updates to our entire line of products are available today. With these updates we have taken the opportunity to refactor and clean out obsolete technologies in order to move forwards into the 2020's. Some of our products have not been updated in over five years, so there has been a lot to work on.

While most changes in these updates are under the hood there are some very visible additions too. First and foremost, all plugins (except Synplant) now features high resolution graphics and re-scalable user interfaces. (Synplant has however been updated with other bug and compatibility fixes.)

 

Second, Microtonic can now be extended with scripts written in Javascript and these scripts can display custom user interface elements. A separate installer with a selection of clever scripts is available on our download page for registered customers. Here is a little demo:

 

For a detailed list of other fixes and changes please refer to the individual product user guides. The most important compatibility fix is that our plugins are now compatible with Mac hosts that are built with the latest SDK from Apple. (This includes Cubase 10.5 and Garageband.)

We have also updated the official Permut8 Firmware Installer with the previously released Specular firmware as well as two brand new firmwares: Vortex and JS80RMX. Vortex is a generative synth (based on the "about box easter egg" in Microtonic) and JS80RMX lets you import songs from the JS80TRX chiptune tracker and transform them beyond recognition. Have a listen