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BioTek 3
Simplified Power, Amplified Creativity
BioTek 3 represents a true evolution of our deepest, most creative synthesizer to date. Experience a revolutionized workflow with extensive upgrades to the UI, UX, and audio engine, designed to accelerate your creative process and simplify sound design. The breathtaking new 'Easy' page places all essential controls at your fingertips, while the dynamic visual XY pad offers tactile mastery over sounds that evolve and morph on demand. Dive into the unparalleled power and depth of BioTek 3's immersive world.
Sleek New Look & Rapid Workflow
BioTek 3 not only boasts a sleek new look but also transforms your workflow with reimagined edit pages. Each page has been redesigned for one-page parameter assignments, making sound design more intuitive and faster than ever. The new 'Easy' page is designed to inspire, placing all essential parameters within easy reach in a clutter-free layout. This intuitive interface ensures that your creative flow remains uninterrupted, empowering you to produce your best work effortlessly.
Effortless Performance
The new 'Easy' page was designed to make performance tweaks effortless and enjoyable with all key parameters within easy reach. Sculpt your sound quickly and efficiently by assigning any parameter you wish, ensuring that your most-used controls are always quickly accessible. The dynamic XY pad offers intuitive control over evolving and morphing sounds, providing stunning visual feedback that enhances your creative experience. Experience a seamless blend of functionality and creativity that makes performance a joy.
Superior Performance, Unmatched Efficiency
Groundbreaking improvements to the audio engine have resulted in an instrument that is incredibly responsive and remarkably efficient on your CPU. Whether you're crafting complex soundscapes or layering multiple tracks, BioTek 3 can handle over 50 instances effortlessly, ensuring your project runs smoothly. Say goodbye to lag and hello to seamless creativity with BioTek 3's superior power and efficiency.
Explore Over 800 Premium Presets
Explore a world of sound with over 300 exceptional new presets from renowned sound designers Miclop, ModeAudio, Databroth, Spektralisk, Hydratek and Alessandro Cardinale. Taking the total number of factory sounds to over 800 you'll find: dark cinematic atmospheres, evolving ambient textures, lush pads, otherworldly keys, deep basses, warped percussion and much more. Each preset has been meticulously crafted to harness the full potential of BioTek's XY pad, giving tactile control over sounds that evolve and morph on demand. Detailed preset tagging makes it quick and simple to find exactly what you need in the browser - keeping your creativity flowing without interruption.
Huge Range of Oscillators
BioTek 3's wide range of oscillators are a sound designer's dream. Beyond the standard waveforms and noises, BioTek 3 offers a sampler, granular, and the innovative Spinal Saw oscillator which provides up to 44 oscillators per voice. Combine that with the unison of up to 16 voices and a nearly unlimited number of layers you can – in theory – play 11264 oscillators with one note! This is where the power of BioTek 3 becomes truly apparent and whether you're crafting intricate soundscapes or pushing the boundaries of electronic music, BioTek 3 delivers the tools you need to bring your vision to life.
Expansion Sound Packs
Elevate your music production with BioTek 3's extensive range of expansions, tailored to suit any genre or creative need. Whether you're crafting cinematic masterpieces, deep house grooves, ambient soundscapes, or techno anthems, BioTek expansions provide the perfect tools to elevate your sound.
BioTek User Story
Sound Designer Richard Devine
Electronic music aficionado Richard Devine is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from glitch to old and modern electronic music. Alongside his own productions, which have included remixes for legends such as Aphex Twin and album releases on Warp Records, Richard has contributed sound design on some of the most successful hardware and software instruments. Explore his world of electronic adventures with over 100 new custom sound patches. For more click here.
Deep Parameter Control
BioTek 3's limitless engine can scale to tens of thousands of parameters, making efficient workflow management essential. Our updated, intuitive system for importing your own samples and promoting parameters to the main 'Easy' macro page empowers you to swiftly construct your own unique instrument. Any macro exposed on the ‘Easy’ page is instantly accessible in your DAW automation list, granting you unprecedented control over all the instrument's sound-shaping tools. Experience the ultimate in flexibility and creative freedom with BioTek 3.
Premium Filtering and Effects
Warp your sound with BioTek 3's comprehensive filtering and effects section. Featuring nine high-quality effects that can be loaded into four effect slots per voice, BioTek 3 offers
extensive creative sound-shaping possibilities. Whether you're enhancing depth, adding texture, or creating unique sonic landscapes, BioTek 3's effects section provides the versatility
you need.
The filtering capabilities are equally impressive, with a variety of types to choose from, including the newly added Transistor Ladder and Sallen-Key filters in BioTek 3. These
advanced filters allow you to sculpt your sound with precision, giving you unparalleled control over your audio creations. Experience the ultimate in sound design flexibility and power
with BioTek 3's premium filtering and effects.
The BioTek Sample Library
To help set BioTek apart from the status quo, an entirely new collection of audio samples was required. Enter composer and
engineer, Mike Wall.
BioTek's natural and environmental sounds are samples from Mike's collection spanning 20 years of field recording in Washington, Oregon, California, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado,
Arizona, and Hawaii, with a bit of Texas stirred in (for seasoning). For the industrial sounds, Mike did location recording at several manufacturing facilities near Seattle. Mike
achieved exceptionally high resolution and low noise by utilizing various stereo microphones, hydro-phone rigs and digital recorders that are customized for intense field conditions.
The samples were carefully looped and mastered for the Acktion Engine™. A lot of time, attention to detail and TLC went into preparing these samples – we're sure you'll enjoy them!
BioTek User Story
Film Composer Jörg Hüttner
Hollywood composer Jörg Hüttner has worked on some of the biggest films released in recent years. These include "Independence Day: Resurgence", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Total Recall" and many more. He demonstrates his use of BioTek to create complete arrangements. For more on Jorg, visit: www.jorghuttner.com
All About The Sound
All instruments are not created equal! BioTek's codebase was skilfully created by the industry veteran, Wolfram Franke who refined his craft designing a long list of instruments for Waldorf Music – revered for their outstanding depth of sound. Sculpting this beast into weird and wonderful soundscapes has been the task of some of the most prominent sound designers of our day including: Richard Devine, ModeAudio, Spektralisk, Taiho Yamada, Alessandro Cardinale, Hydratek, Databroth, Miclop, Kulshan Studios and Christian Halten. The expansive factory patch list has swelled to over 800 deeply creative sonic experiments.
- Purchase options
- BioTek 3 for $179, upgrade from BioTek 2 for $99
- Expansion sound packs
- Many expansion packs available for purchase from $30. Get started
- Training guides
- System requirements
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macOS 10.15 or Later
64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon
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Windows 10, 11
64-bit
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Tested on Ubuntu 20.04
64-bit
VST3
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