Kestrel

What it does

• Four layers from one pool of 32 voices

  Each layer is a complete voice with its own effects. MIDI channels 1 to 4 play layers A to D, and channel 5 plays every active layer.

• A second setting behind every knob

  Each knob has a morph state. Velocity, the mod wheel or both move the sound from the first setting to the second.

• Two oscillators per layer at 2x oversampling

  Both oscillators are band-limited and offer FM, ring modulation and hard sync. Eight zero-delay-feedback filter types include a formant filter and an 8-stage phaser filter.

• Effects and a gate sequencer on every layer

  Chorus/phaser, a pan LFO, a cross-feedback stereo delay, a 1 to 32 step gate sequencer and a limiter. 8 gate patterns and 6 delay rhythms load as presets.

• Arpeggiator, unison and 48-semitone bend

  The arpeggiator has 5 modes over 1 to 5 octaves, free-running or tempo-synced. Unison plays 2 voices per key in poly and 4 in mono or legato.

• SysEx in and out

  Kestrel imports and exports SysEx patches, bank dumps and performance dumps. The standalone app follows MIDI clock.