reFX presents VANGUARD, a new breed of virtual analog synthesizers. VANGUARD is the long awaited replacement for your old 19" hardware gear which will remain unused after you´ve tried VANGUARD.

Extended information

VANGUARD is a complete new product. reFX put all knowledge and experience that has been collected over the past years into this projects and the result is audible: virtual analog synthesis made a big step forward.

VANGUARD combines the good old analog synthesizer idea with the latest technology: all analog devices of classic synthesizers are emulated by high-quality DSP (digital signal processing) functions. reFX spent a lot of time programming the synthesis functions as good as possible: the result is a warm and rich sounding synthesizer plugin with all the benefits of todays digital technology.

VANGUARD is more than just a simple synthesizer. It is equipped with 31 different type of oscillators, including uncommon digital oscillators with fresh modulation options. There is also a huge selection of filters: 13 filter types are onboard with different slopes and including a new kind of combined dual-filter variations.

In need of inspiration? No problem for VANGUARD - the trancegate and arpeggiator can help you out! The trancegate is a 16-step gate to create rhythmic gated patterns and the arpgeggiator comes with inspiring patterns and several play modes. In addition to these creative tools VANGUARD is equipped with a delay and reverb.

Technical specifications

128 High Quality Trance/Techno preset sounds; programmed by Manuel Schleis.
Advanced analog-modelling synthesis with 3 oscillators and up to 32 voices
31 different oscillators
3 low frequency oscillators
13 different filter types with resonance
2 ADSR envelopes with several modulation targets
Amplifier section with drive
flexible and easy to use arpeggiator (not available in VANGUARD LITE)
16 step trancegate (not available in VANGUARD LITE)
built-in delay with four different types (not available in VANGUARD LITE)
built-in reverb (not available in VANGUARD LITE)
Temporal effect parameters are tempo-sync'd to the VSTi host