Carbon Electra 2

Synth power meets musical intelligence

Create expressive sounds, grooves and chord progressions with Waveterrain oscillators, Scale Lock, Musical Filters and a scale-aware sequencer.

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Carbon Electra 2 combines an intuitive workflow with advanced synthesis, bringing harmony and musical intelligence into every stage of sound design. Whether you’re designing expressive leads, evolving textures or powerful basses, Scale Lock and musical filters help every sound stay connected to your music.

"It’s absolutely brilliant - my go to synth."

"Carbon Electra 2 Synth Changes EVERYTHING!"

"Scale Lock is the sort of feature that can change how producers actually use a synth."

"A beautiful evolution. Now with wave terrain synthesis, and a higher focus on musicality."

"The big feature is Scale Lock - pick your key and the synth stays in tune with it automatically, so your sounds don't clash even when you're experimenting. The built-in sequencer is great for quickly building chord progressions that just work."

"There's scale lock, which I super love. You pick your key and you pick your mode, and it applies to the oscillator, the sequencer, and even the filters."

"Carbon Electra 2 has everything you’d want in a modern and flexible package."

"It's blazingly fast and easy to operate. It sounds really, really good. It's the shortest possible way between thought and execution."

"It's going to help you write chord progressions and melodies super easily and intuitively."

What can Carbon Electra 2 be used for?

Sound Design

Create evolving pads, cinematic textures, aggressive basses and expressive leads with Waveterrain synthesis and deep modulation.

Electronic Music

Produce modern house, techno, drum & bass, trance, synthwave and beyond using musical sequencing and Scale Lock.

Film & Games

Design unique atmospheres, hybrid instruments and evolving soundscapes with musical filters and advanced modulation.

Songwriting

Quickly sketch riffs, basslines and chord ideas using the scale-aware sequencer and harmonic workflow.

Highlights

Scale Lock

Wave Terrain Oscillators

Key-aware Sequencing

Musical Filter

Modulation

Five Effects Onboard

Carbon Electra was built with harmony and musicality front of mind. With Scale Lock activated and a scale selected, your patch now reacts in a more musical way, with oscillators and filters 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.

What’s the next evolution of the wavetable? Carbon Electra’s Wave Terrain 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.

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 like swing and playback direction, with presets to get things moving instantly.

Turn on Keytrack and Scale Lock to create a resonant bank of band-pass filters that bubble in key with your track. Arrange the filters by Scale, Chord or Interval, then shape the movement with Resonance, Density, Focus and Window controls. Filter 2 is Carbon Electra 2’s musical filter, while Filter 1 provides traditional filter types, a morphing Vowel filter and dedicated Envelope Amount control.

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. Modulation assignments work from a convenient drag and drop.

Delay, Distortion, Chorus, EQ and Reverb are onboard to provide extra depth and customisation to your sound. Choose one in each of Carbon Electra’s five effect slots, with no limits set on using the same processor two or even five times. Drag to re-order effects to put the finishing touches on a patch, and modulate effects parameters with the sequencer, LFOs or envelopes.

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Dive into the Features

Four-oscillator synth engine with classic, wavetable and Waveterrain oscillators.
Upload PNG images to create your own Waveterrain oscillators.
Scale Lock keeps oscillators, filters and sequencing perfectly in key.
Musical Filters respond to scale notes, chord tones and intervals.
Scale-aware note and chord sequencer for riffs, basslines and harmonic patterns.
Multi-shape modulation sequencer with independent timing.
Flexible modulation matrix with assignable destinations.
Five high-quality onboard effects including distortion, chorus, EQ, delay and reverb.
Reorderable FX chain.
Four-channel oscillator mixer with flexible routing.
Multiple LFOs and envelopes.
Advanced voice controls including unison, glide and legato.
Hundreds of factory presets plus artist banks from Carl Cox, Timo Garcia, Faze Action and Christian Laffitte.

System Requirements

macOS

macOS 11 Big Sur or later (macOS 12 Monterey or later recommended)
Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit processor (Apple Silicon M1 or later, or Intel quad-core i5/i7 or better recommended)
64-bit AU, VST3, or AAX compatible host

Windows

Windows 10 64-bit or later (Windows 10/11 64-bit recommended)
Intel/AMD 64-bit processor. Modern quad-core i5/Ryzen 5 class or better recommended
64-bit VST3 or AAX compatible host

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