discoDSP’s Discovery was one of the company’s first and finest efforts. Heavily inspired by Clavia’s Nord Lead series, Discovery earned a place on many a hard drive with its dual-oscillator architecture, resonant filter and built-in effects.

Borrowing the layers and morph abilities from the instrument that inspired it, Discovery was – and still is – a synth capable of blistering basses, lush pads and scorching solo sounds.

Discovery Pro ups the ante considerably – with more filter types, more oscillators and advanced features such as sample import – without exacting a prohibitive price.

Yes, it costs twice as much as its sibling, but it’s still hardly expensive and, as you’ll see, it offers a much wider palette than the initial version.

Discovery Pro is a 12 oscillator Virtual Analog Synthesizer featuring 4 layers, WAV and SoundFont (SF2) support, PADSynth, 2X oversampling / undersampling, built-in arpeggiator, sync, FM, 12 filter types, panning modulation, stereo delay and gate effects, graphic envelope modulation. Imports and exports Clavia Nord Lead 2 SysEx data.

Main features:

• Multi-sized GUI (400p, 600p, 800p) including Retina.
• 32 / 64-bit VST2 / VST3 / Audio Units / Standalone / AAX
• 128 voice polyphony.
• 128 Patch Memories per bank.
• Parameter Morphing using Modulation Wheel or MIDI velocity.
• 2x oversampling.
• 2x oversampled distortions.
• Nord Lead 2 modeled Unison.
• Nord Lead 2 modeled Zero Delay Feedback filters.
• Dual / Quad octave key split.
• Bank browser (by clicking arrows in display led and bank name).
• More than 5.000 presets in 60 banks (including a percussion one).
• Nord Lead 2 and 2X patch import and export.
• 4 Layers per Patch, each with:
  • 2 Oscillators (Sine, Saw, Triangle, PWM, Square, Parabolic, White and Pink Noise) with Ring modulation, Sync and Frequency Modulation.
  • 1 Wave Oscillator. Can load mono, stereo WAV and SoundFont 2 (SF2) files using high quality resampling interpolation.
  • PADsynth re-synthesis. User banks are easily added.
  • Resonant Filters (LowPass, HighPass, BandPass, BandReject, Formant, 8 taps phaser, X 12/24 dB and Y 12/24 dB are Moog modeled).
  • ADSR for Amp & Filter. Amplitude envelope can switch between linear and exponential curves.
  • 2 LFOs.
  • Modulation Envelope.
  • Graphical Modulation Envelope.
  • Arpeggiator.
  • Built-in Chorus, Phaser, Panning Delay and Gate effects.
  • Symmetric, Asymmetric and Asymmetric 2 Distortions.
  • Limiter.
  • Portamento.
  • Poly / Mono / Legato modes.
• MIDI CC control.