Carbon Electra (AU/VST) is a new subtractive synth plugin from Plugin Boutique, and with our reviews of their previous instruments – Big Kick (9/10, 205) and VirtualCZ (8/10, 214) – being positively upbeat, expectations are high.
Operated via a one-screen interface with no hidden pages, highlights include four oscillators, five Effects modules and step-sequenced parameter modulation. All four Oscillators can run any one of five waveforms (Pulse, Saw, Triangle, Sine and Noise), and feature pulse Width, Pitch (+/-36 semitones) and reset (Trig) controls, with fine-Tune (+/-50 cents) for Oscillators 2, 3 and 4. Oscillator 1 also gets frequency modulation, and Oscillators 2 and 4 can be synced to Oscillators 1 and 3, respectively.
Oscillator levels are balanced in the Mixer section, where you’ll also find the level control for an…
