Psylab intro

Psylab Pro is a vsti plugin and standalone app dedicaced to advanced kick bass designs. its core concept is build on unique TRUE cubic bezier curves system engine.
Its not a « simple » kick synth, neither a « traditional » synth, it’s like an « hybrid » of both.

It was initially especially designed for my personal psytrance kick and bass design applications, hence the name « psylab » , i was not happy with existing limitations on others vsts, and none of them used (and none still uses..) true cubic beziers  but simplified quadratic versions.. in the best case..
..so i decided to build my own true bezier kick synth. but  it can do much, much more now and fit any electronic genre really…

wtf is a cubic bezier

other softwares (1 handle quadratic) notice discontinuities around main points
Psylab (2 handles true cubic beziers) have control over transition zone

unlike quadratic, true cubic beziers allow to shape both the in and out slopes of a segment independently, and have a smooth continuity from prev to next segment. (Professional gfx, 3D and animation software all use cubic beziers since years, for their « superior » precision)
As a vfx artist myself I always thought audio software should too and didn’t understand why..
Audio Software always went quadratic sadly for computation reasons… But today computers have evolved a lot and  now can handle real time cubic bezier at audio rate.
Psylab is one of the few, if not only one that can do both quadratic and cubic bezier versions.

Curves can control any parameter via drag n drop, be lfo shapes , or even oscillator shapes

If wanna have total shaping control, go deep on sound design,  psylab got features  unmatched yet by any  other « kick » synth on the market. Can control more than 300 sounds parameters via up to 64x sample accurate Cubic Beziers custom curves, 16x lfos, 16x AHDSR eg, seq lanes.., 4x independant parts layers, each powered by 2x flexible oscillators, including synthesis engines like maths dsp /noises /wavtable / additive / FFT /samplers, / and unique to psylab bezier waves oscilators.. per program. a powerfull multi-track scope,  ref kick re-synth engines,  phase aligment and keytracking tools…

 

PsyLab custom cubic bezier oscillators, with mix and morph to wavtable ability

Moreover unlike other softwares, psylab kicks are not static ‘pre-cached’, they are dynamically rendered, real time generated, means can have for ex lfos, curves, modulators  over any duration, even 8 bars making  any of the 20+ fx, or osc parameters  evolve over long period of time, not limited to just the kick duration itself.  

 

 But…..
this comes at a cost.. this is not a one knob synth. can use out of the box presets but tbh thats not the goal.
Psylab goal is stimulate reseach, sound design, giving user tools and power to overcome usual limits i pers faced over years, avoid classic ‘basic’ paths traps,  but really ‘work’  explore ,and shape deeply
 your own sound .

So be aware there IS a learning curve. but if you are curious and ready for that, you ll quickly realize it open unparallled possibilities as a reward.

Wav Rasterizer: Psylab can also vectorize any sample ie bass to bézier curve for custom wav edits

New 1.3 ui

1.3 had lot of efforts put in revamping/simplifying/improving ui while keeping psylab deep and modular possibilities
1.3 Automatic Phase and Keytrack kick and bass - Simply move marker where want to phase align and keytrack, done. (can now also route any ext vst to psylab sidechain inputs. Phase kick to bass, sidechain bass with a curve, process it with internal fx etc..
Build around a semi modular architecture, can reorder fx routing as wish, place amp section before/after fx ect, assign modulators being eg, curves, lfos, macros, midi datas, mouse recordings, randoms etc.. to any parameters, with any duration

Psylab  was the very first kick synth to automatically extract amp and pitch cv from a ref kck a few years back in 2020. It always had focus on opening new and unconventional ways of shaping sound with very deep control if needed.
Next gen 1.3 got its re-synth engine upgraded for new modular layers splitting abilities, with high accuracy, for a minimal number of points, and some new powerful re-vectorize engine to simplify  curves nb of points. Some new poly and stereo modes..

(below some wips for 1.3 kbb and other sounds presets in the writing)
as you ll discover with psylab, it is also far from being only limited to « kicks » or bass, the variety of synthesis engines makes it can virtually do any kind of sound..

New in 1.3.0:
_Direct2D  Hardware Gpu acceleleration
-Dual view, curves and params
_Automatic Kick n Bass Phase n Keytrack align
_Re-synth references kicks with layers splits
_Sampler loop points / Vectorize any sample to bezier with loop points
_ Pan, stereo, poly parts modes,
_Audio in oscillator, (route any ext vst in psylab, use sidechain, phase kbb, fx…)
and more…
playlist shows wip sneak peaks:
Psylab 1.3 WIP vids

Older original psylab v1.0

 psy kbb presets of the 1.0

audio demo of other sound types presets wip