Where Synth Power Meets Musical Intelligence?

Scaler Music releases Carbon Electra 2   29-May-26

Scaler Music has released Carbon Electra 2. This is what they have to say about it...

What if a synth was built to be as musically intelligent as it was sonically powerful? Carbon Electra 2 brings together scale-aware oscillators, waveterrain synthesis, musical filters and a key-aware note and chord sequencer.

With musicality, harmony and theory guiding every patch, Carbon Electra 2 lets you explore scale-locked oscillator tunings, get creative with diatonic sequencing, shape sound with musical filters that can follow Scale, Chord or Interval relationships. 
The synth's four-oscillator engine includes both wavetable and innovative waveterrain synthesis, taking the traditional wavetable into another dimension, cutting paths through 3D space to make and modulate complex sounds.

Carbon Electra 2 is available now in VST3, AU and AAX formats for Mac and PC, at the introductory price of $79 (regular price after 13th July, $99). Upgrade pricing for Carbon Electra 1 users is $39, and users should upgrade at the same vendor where they purchased Carbon Electra 1.

Scale Lock
With Scale Lock activated and a scale selected, your patch now reacts in a more musical way, with oscillators and filter 2 able to act in key. Use Filter 2's cutoff to emphasise notes of the scale for a more musical effect, and build stacks of oscillators that move in tune with your music. Your scale also affects note and chord information in the sequencer.

Wave Terrain Oscillators
Carbon Electra 2's waveterrain synthesis calculates a 3D surface over which a 2D harmonic curve moves and modulates. The resulting oscillator waveform changes in a way that's more dynamic and more musically related. Classic wavetables and basic analogue shapes are also in stock, and oscillators let you introduce FM, employ hard sync, and activate unison.

Key-aware Sequencing
Carbon Electra 2's sequencer understands the key you're in, helping you to make musical patterns intuitively. Being cut from the same cloth as Scaler, it lets you work in Chord mode to sequence meaningful chords that work in your key, and to sequence inversions and parallel substitutions. All this besides the usual sequencer parameters.

Oscillator Scale Lock
With Scale Lock activated, synth oscillators are tuned dynamically by scale degrees, not semitones. If a synth patch uses thirds, fifths or other intervals across its oscillators, Carbon Electra 2 keeps them singing with your musical key. Whatever note you play, an oscillator stack with root, third and fifth can wander through minor, major and diminished voices.

Musical Filter Scale Lock
Turn up the resonance and switch on Scale Lock for a low-pass filter that bubbles and moves in key with your track. Set to filter by Scale, Chord or your chosen Interval, and refine with Density, Focus and Window controls. Filter 2 is Carbon Electra 2's musical filter, while Filter 1 contains both traditional types and a morphing, shifting Vowel filter, and has a dedicated Envelope amount.

Modulation
Three LFOs and two envelopes are available to affect synthesis controls and onboard effects parameters, and LFOs can self-modulate or be routed to one another. The sequencer's dedicated modulation lane can be routed to the same targets, and offers a curve shape per step, to create animated movements for oscillators or other parameters.

Pricing and Availability:
$79 until June 13th (Regular price:  $99)

More information:

• Carbon Electra 2