Originally released in 2006, Albino- 3 was the result of a collaboration between Virtual Instrument designer Peter Linsener and Dutch sound designer and musician Rob Papen. Now reborn as Albingo-3 Legend and with in-house programmers now at the helm, it now has added VST3 support, different GUI sizes, and compatibility with the latest PC and Mac operating systems and processors.

The Albingo-3's key features include high-quality presets in a wide range of styles, an easy-to-use interface, highly flexible oscillators, four types of stereo filters, an enormous range of processing and modulation options, a powerful, flexible arpeggiator and a layer system that allows you to combine up to four layers in one preset.

Each filter is preceded by per-layer Saturation control, allowing you to introduce overdrive for complex textures, providing four styles of saturation that range from subtle and smoldering to striking and searing. Moreover, oscillator types feature a suite of customization tools tailored to each style, including waveshaping, wave symmetry, sub-oscillator values, a spread parameter, and oscillator blending, in addition to cent-, semitone-, and octave-level tuning adjustments.

In addition to the per-oscillator AM and FM functions, Papen and his team engineered Albino-3 Legend to maximize expression and detail in sound design, outfitting the soft synth with an immense modulation matrix. Built with 27 sources, 36 destinations, and 16 routing options, the mod matrix empowers you to test the furthest reaches of sound design, urging musicians to push this plug-in to its limits in the search for sound. The mod matrix injects your sound with more high-octane fuel by supplementing its 27 x 36 structure with a dedicated, independently controllable section for routing velocity values to the Amp or either of the two activated filters. If a mod matrix isn’t your speed, then please don’t worry; modulation is also possible through eight envelopes comprising ADSFR and 5-stage styles, featuring dedicated slope- and curve-adjustment controls for each stage of the envelope that can be modified independently of the stages around it. Albino-3 Legend even includes a Precision setting to let you dial in the degree of imperfections present in the soft synth’s virtual circuits to capture the distinctive character of vintage analog instruments.

For its limitless sound design applications, the Albino-3 Legend doesn’t pull its punches with studio or stage performances. Its 32-voice polyphony supports mono- and polyphonic portamento and glide functions, as well as microtonal scales (Scala file import required), manually configurable voicing, and adjustable velocity-response curves for your controller. An onboard arpeggiator elevates your rhythmic exploration, boasting a 32-step sequencer with modulation and chord modes alongside switchable keyboard triggering options, detailed step-length and clock controls, adjustable swing values, and variable velocity mix parameters.