Worship Musician Magazine April 2024 | Page 103

[ Pierre ] AstroLab has more than 1,300 premium grade sounds built into the keyboard . The sounds range from bread and butter sounds to classic emulations of vintage synthesizers . AstroLab delivers all the classic keyboard sounds that you will need when you are playing live on stage . Pianos , E Pianos , Organs and more are all there as well as more classic synth patches and a full range of iconic pads . We also have a lot of tribute sounds built into AstroLab from famous artists and keyboard players . This is great for all those musicians out there that are going to play in tribute bands or even people that have listened to all the classic keyboard sounds and they want to access them for their own music .
Not only that , but AstroLab provides access to a full range of synthesizer sounds ranging from keyboards , pads , strings , brass , pretty much anything that you can think of in terms of analog and digital synthesizer sounds are all right there . We also have Pigments , our wavetable sample synthesis workhorse built into AstroLab , so you have a lot of very modern sounds on tap as well as all those classic and vintage analog digital synthesizers .
[ WM ] I understand that Astrolab has full integration with AnalogLab , and that AstroLab comes with 22 gigabytes of user onboard storage , to load your own sounds . That is a lot of storage !
Pierre Pfister
[ Pierre ] Correct , you have 22 gigabytes of user storage available in AstroLab . Most of the sounds we have are presets which in terms of memory are very small , just a couple of megabytes for each of the presets . This means you can have thousands of presets on the unit with room to spare . Where you are going to have to be careful is when you start to use samplebased sounds which will take up a lot more memory . But for now , most of the synthesizers and pianos that we have are physical or circuit modeling . Also , we will be adding increasingly sample-based products soon after Astrolab is released . We have the augmented strings and augmented pianos , augmented woodwinds libraries planned to be integrated into Astrolab in future firmware updates .
It is super easy to customize your own sounds on AstroLab and create layers and splits and
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