Helix is a Wave-Table-Shaping, Phase modulation, Virtual Analog, Physical Modelling Hybrid Synthesizer with high sound quality, massive modulation, creative audio-routing and many built-in effects.

Features:

• CPU-friendly.
• 800+ Presets from BigTone and others.
• Up to 64x Unison per voice.
• Wave-table-shaping oscillators.
• 17 filter types.
• 10 distortion types.
• All stereo signal path.
• Deep Modulation.
• Arpeggiator.
• Built in effects.

New in v2013-08-08

• New Mac installer (AU&VST)
• No longer supports Power-PC Macs
• 64bit Support
• Optimized shape-sliders
• Improved sound morphing when doing fast rhythmical morphs
• Import pure-sine
• Supports corrupt wave files
• Better trial mode (now supports saving, and nag screen comes up later)

New in v2011-02-14

• Bug-fix: Some filters could freak out with very high cutoff-frequency.
• 100+ new cycles included (for wave-type oscillator).
• New and improved re-sampling algorithm for the rompler.
• Slightly quicker startup time.
• LFO "free"-phase, to feel more analog.
• More Global LFOs.
• Global LFO can retrigger each time a new key is pressed.
• Step-sequencer "key-step" (start at a new step with each key-press).
• Chorus stereo-flip.
• Shaper-postgain as a modulation destination.
• Bugfix when saving patches on mac: properly ask before overwriting.
• Reverb dry-level.
• Support tuning in sfz-files.
• A bunch of new presets.
• Support for "zen" preset manager.

New in v1.0 (2009-12-01)

• Mac-installer caused problems on Snow Leopard. Reverting to simpler archives (VST and AU in same archive).
• Bug fix in pop-up-menu, now supports big number of user-waves and samples.
• CC-D MIDI-learn now works.
• 2-Band Global Dist support wide-band operation (put cut-off frequency at max).
• Bug fix: (introduced 2009-09-08) no more "click" attacks with exotic filter modes.
• Minor optimization for phaser.