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Softube Parallels

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Softube ParallelsVideo of Parallels Softube An inspiring synth, perfect for modern scoring and soundscaping Almost a hundred high quality multi waveforms and five phenomenal Softube effects Hundreds of expertly created presets from world leading synth artists, engineers, and sound designers, including Brian Transeau a. k. a. BT, Richard Devine, Inhalt, and more Modular Ready: works as a native instrument plug in and as modules in Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform.

  • An inspiring synth, perfect for modern scoring and soundscaping
  • Almost a hundred high-quality multi-waveforms and five phenomenal Softube effects
  • Hundreds of expertly-created presets from world-leading synth artists, engineers, and sound-designers, including Brian Transeau a.k.a. BT, Richard Devine, Inhalt, and more
  • Modular Ready: works as a native instrument plug-in and as modules in Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform. Learn more about Modular

For cinematic scoring, for expressive, intelligent, modern electronic music, for video game and theatrical soundscaping... a one-off synth can create a one-off mood. How often have you looked at your everyday workhorse synth with its million billion options, and thought, "nothing here sounds quite right!"?

Parallels has 97 unique sources, each with its own bespoke playback algorithm. Some are boutique synths. Some are modular setups. One or two were field-recorded at a Japanese power plant. The modules for our Eurorack modular synth Modular really expand your options. All of these provide a great basis for atmospheric, moody, high-quality cues, scores, beats, and songs, wherever you’re looking for something extraordinary.

Designed by Experts, Built on Legacy
Softube has a long history of modeling professional gear. After nearly two decades working in collaboration with premium pro audio brands like Tube-Tech, Solid State Logic, Chandler Limited®, Weiss Engineering, Trident, and more, we have a solid track record recreating indisputable classics in software form that sound precisely like their hardware counterparts. This includes expertise in component-modeled mixing and mastering tools and synthesizer plug-ins like Modular, the Eurorack platform you can use create truly unique sounds with Parallels modules and much more.

Parallels is built on this legacy, and we took the same meticulous approach we always do – everything needs to be exact, with skillful recording, precise testing, and fine-tuning. Nothing less.

Dual-Wavescanning Technology
Detailed algorithmic wavescanning means Parallels always finds its best sounds. And each of the high quality pre-recorded multi-waveforms contains a sonic journey, giving the artist endless raw material.

Beautiful, and Easy to Use
Exquisite UI design, with color-coded modulation feedback, clean layout, and interactive filter graphs, means Parallels fits on a single page, despite being a deep and sophisticated instrument.

Artists & Legends
Parallels features hundreds of expertly-created presets from world-leading synth artists, engineers, and sound-designers, including Brian Transeau a.k.a. BT, Richard Devine, INHALT, and more.

Use it in Modular
Parallels includes Source, Shape, Mod, Env, and FX modules for Softube Modular to expand your options even further.

Quality sound before everything
There are many possible approaches to take in creating a brand new instrument. Parallels focuses on two main things. First, it should always sound fantastic, with a minimum of fuss. And second, it should inspire the artist with elegant workflow, superb layout and visual feedback, and a sense of endless possibility.

A huge part of the first point is taken care of by the source material. Almost a hundred high-quality pre-recorded multi-waveforms live at the heart of Parallels. These come from classic synths, digital and analog, hard-wired and modular, FM and phys mod, and from environmental and combined sources too. Even some super-rare and unreleased pieces are represented.
 
Unique instrument, unique sounds
Each waveform has a progression of some kind in its 15 second duration – a filter sweep, or a pitch diffusion for example – and playback can start from any point of the artist’s choosing, providing almost infinite sounds-per-sound, even at the source.

The playback method can be described as wavescanning, with pre-calibrated loop lengths per source for the best possible sonic outcome. The artist can choose how far the playhead will move through the source scene, and at what rate, before returning to its start point and settling into its sustain loop. All this with up to 14 voices at once.

Even just one of these source sections would be an intriguing instrument on its own. Parallels has two –  independent and blendable in parallel – and much more besides.
 
Moving moments
Each source can pass through its own shaper section, for example, with a choice of three analog-modeled filter types; a state-variable filter (low, high, or band-pass), a vactrol-style low pass gate, or a triad of resonant peaks.

And what about the four ‘mod pods’ on the left! Each one can be filled by one of five modulator types (LFO, random, Euclidian sequencer, step sequencer, or envelope) and can modulate almost any parameter in the instrument, even pairing up to co-modulate single parameters in a blend amount selected by the artist. Apart from being utterly beautiful, the five modulation source options are versatile and intuitive, bringing all sorts of possibilities to the rest of the instrument.
 
Softube quality effects
Perhaps best of all; the effects. Softube’s track record for rich, living effects in software is well-established. Many synthesizer effects are an afterthought. Ours have been our very essence for more than a decade. Parallels features five three-knob effects in sequence; individually adjustable, modulatable, and bypassable. A hot and hairy distortion precedes a chewy, tasty chorus. Then a flanger with stereo spread built into its feedback control. Finally delay, and a succulent purpose-built algorithmic reverb to kiss the output signal goodbye.

Parallels is a software instrument like no other; a beautiful, intuitive, single-page interface concealing a wealth of treasures within. Created by dreamers, controlled by you.

What's Included
Parallels Instrument

Parallels instrument is a synth plug-in with dual wavescanning source sections and near-infinite source material for your unique sound creation needs.

Modular Ready
The Source, Shape, Mod, Env, and FX sections of Parallels are included as modules for Modular, for when you want a section of a synth to be able to combine with something else. It’s easy to use and combine single parts of the synthesizer in a modular workflow to build patches and get an extraordinary, otherworldly sound. This really opens up possibilities for innovative sound creation. Learn more about the individual modules below.

The Modular modules
Parallels Source

Parallels Source is the source engine from one half of Parallels as a stand-alone module. It has a built-in amp and color envelopes, vibrato, and one-shot mode. It can be played polyphonically within modular over midi and/or monophonically at the same time via the gate and note jacks. All envelopes stages, pitch parameters, and color parameters have CV control via the external jacks.
 
Parallels Shape
Parallels Shape is the shaper section from Parallels as a stand-alone module. It has three built-in modes, LPG, SVF and RES. All controls have external CV control.
 
Parallels Mod
Parallels Mod is the modulation section from Parallels as a stand-alone module. It has four different modulation modes that can be externally controlled in different ways. The random source, Euclidian sequencer, and step sequencer can be externally clocked. The sequencers have extensive CV control over the first step, the last step, and the output slew. When not externally clocked, the sequencers are automatically locked to the DAW tempo at all times.
 
Parallels Env
Parallels Env is the modulation envelope from Parallels as a stand-alone module. It’s externally triggered by a gate over 1.33v and has CV control over each phase at any time. When decay is activated, it shifts from ASR to ADSR type.
 
Parallels FX
Parallels FX is the effects engine for Parallels as a stand-alone module. It has five modes, distortion, chorus, flanger, delay, and reverb, that can be run one at a time. Three parameters in each mode have external CV control.

In short

  • An Inspirational, creative, and beautiful plug-in synth perfect for modern scoring and cinematic endeavours
  • Almost a hundred high-quality pre-recorded multi-waveforms
  • Five top-quality effects: distortion, chorus, flanger, delay, and reverb
  • Includes five modules for Softube Modular: Source, Shape, Mod, Env, and FX. Learn more about Modular
  • Sonic progression within each waveform means near-infinite source-material
  • Two parallel sources means blended sounds, opening up exponentially more possibilities
  • Up to fourteen voices (seven per source when both sources are active)
  • Hundreds of expertly-created presets from world-leading synth artists, engineers, and sound-designers, including Brian Transeau a.k.a. BT, Richard Devine, Inhalt, and more
  • Three analog-modeled filter types (state-variable, vactrol LPG, and resonant peaks)
  • Five sophisticated types of modulation source; LFO, random, Euclidian sequencer, step sequencer, and envelope
  • Crucially, it always sounds amazing
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Tyi Campbell
Chelsea, US
★★★★★ 5
Great product and worth the money.
Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Black
Portable and stable. Perfect size and gives me the privacy I need when working from home. Stability is great as long as you place the stands correctly it won't wobble. I love it.
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West Palm Beach, US
★★★★★ 5
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Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Grey
The assembled product is just as described. The screens look great! I am using them to hide the cluttered shelving in my garage. The area now looks quite neat Something I must say, though, is that the assembly was extremely difficult. I had to use a silicone spray and some pounding to get the A and B poles to fit together. Also, it required a great deal of strength to stretch and hold the fabric panels so that the bars inserted in each hem lines up with the screws inserted in A/B poles. I strongly recommend having a partner to help with the assembly. while sc and screw into poles them once inserted intetchedtne end of each pole ( and B poles barely fit together. I used silicone spray on the end and then pounded them
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karine
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
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It’s beige and not white. Once install - hard to disinstall. Need a drill to put it together
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ralversity
Alexandria, US
★★★★★ 3
Does the job, but assembling by yourself is a nightmare
Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Black
Does it do the job? Yes, although as others said there are small gaps but it's not a huge deal. The price is also good. But the reason I'm giving it a 3/5 is simply because the assembly for this was a complete nightmare. I honestly don't think I would recommend this to anyone unless they have another person to help them assemble it, because doing it by myself was terrible. I don't think I'd buy this again, I think I'd opt to just spend a bit more money and save myself the trouble personally.
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Talagand
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 4
Reasonably adequate room divider
Size: 4 Panel-88'', Color: Beige
I'm reviewing this as I assemble it. Couple things: 1. I didn't expect as much assembly. I've ordered dividers before and they more-or-less came as one unit. Sometimes the panels needed screwing together. These require complete assembly and come largely as three rods: two make up vertical columns and snap together. Another one (called part "C") makes the horizontal columns and you have two of these per panel (one attaches to part "A" and the other part "B"). These parts are metal with a plastic shim. Using the wood screws to attach to part "C" is a real pain in the neck. There's not much holding the panel in place so it's a little tricky. One tactic I've found while I'm assembling that works for the initial connections from parts A and B to their respective "C" rods is to hold the screw in place with a screw driver and then rotating the rod around the screw. This will do a number on your hands if you aren't wearing gloves. This obviously doesn't work when completing the connection. Using a driller driver on this is really near impossible because there isn't anything you can use to secure it in place. You can use it on the first panel, but as it gets longer, it becomes increasingly difficult and because it isn't wood, it's really tight. I considered drilling larger pilot holes but since there are only 4x4=16 screws I need to screw in, I just decided to use my screw driver to complete it. 2. Also related to assembly. When completing the panels (attaching parts "A" and "B" to parts "C" that have the cloth cover on it), you have to be careful that when you tighten that side that it isn't loosening the other side. Because the pilot holes are so tight, you can end up rotating the rod, which rotates it in the same direction as looser on the original side. Having someone hold the "C" rod in place while you screw it in is probably the easiest approach. I didn't have a 2nd person, so I just had to keep flipping back and forth and tightening both sides as I screwed it in. Not the worlds biggest deal, but annoying nonetheless. 3. The way the instructions are written, they seem to suggest building this thing progressively; that is, you do panel 1, then 2, connect them together, then do 3 and connect it, etc. I took a different route that I suspect saved me quite a bit of trouble, and I assembled all four panels first and THEN connected everything together. 4. For the love of God make sure you check that the plastic tip is on the same side for every panel. Otherwise, you have to take one side apart again and reverse it. On the bright side, if this happens, you've essentially bored out the pilot holes to be the correct size... which is having me question if I shouldn't have just bored them out to the appropriate width in the first place. 5. Attaching all of the panels together is also an enormous pain in the ass unless you happen to have an 88" long elevated surface. Attaching the legs either requires you to elevate one side, which will invariably twist the inexplicably cheap material in the bottom connectors... or you can attach them sideways... or you can put this thing upright, having two people hold the panels in place while you use the allen wrench to tighten the bolts on the underside. None of those are particularly great options. NOW on to the utility itself. 1. The panels do let some light through (I didn't believe their advertising, and that was one of the reasons that I bought beige, is that I wanted it to not be too dark). They aren't transparent though, so it isn't that far off from their description. They functionally work great, and keep the mess of wires hidden and when I'm sitting at my desk, actually reflect quite a bit of light into my office. Great! 2. My wife has described these as "the most hideous piece of furniture ever conceived of by man." So it does not have spouse approval factor. Granted, she will seldom be in my office area, so that isn't the end of the world. 3. These are really hard to align in a way that doesn't look a little tacky. There are some plastic connectors but they don't do a bang up job of keeping these in place. Each panel is slightly tilted and it's... quite obvious. I may at some point make my own improvements to these to help make them more level. It's not a particularly expensive product so I wasn't expecting much so it's fine and I'm not going to ding them on the rating because of it. All said, would I buy this product again? Probably not. It's assembly was ~90 minutes which is about 75 minutes longer than I was anticipating spending on this (not including the 5 minute writeup that I'm doing here). But am I going to return it? Also no, if for no other reason I'd be just as annoyed taking it apart and putting it in the original box to return it.
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