Their first product was an adult video game based on Tetris, which they then offered on floppy disks in the ad section of Computer Magazine. Image-Line was founded by Jean-Marie Cannie and Frank Van Biesen, who after seven years of creating stock market software for Pavell Software, decided in 1992 to branch into video games. The company also produced EZGenerator, a template-based web editing program. In 2007, Image-Line introduced Deckadance, a virtual DJ console application.
4 FILTER modes – low pass (24 & 12 dB/Oct), band pass and high pass.Image-Line Software (commonly known as simply Image-Line) is a Belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program FL Studio and related audio plugins such as Sytrus and Harmor. 2 ADSR envelope generators (one user-assignable to modulation parameters). 8 voice UNISON with user-adjustable stereo panning, detune and ‘Octaver’. Sub oscillator (-2 to +2 octaves) with level, phase & detune controls. 
Main oscillator for subtractive synthesis: SAW shape with Sync frequency. Maxx realized this was no mistake but a discovery and built on this, adding some frequency modulation to give it a touch of analog authenticity and so ‘Sawer’ was born. While programming the SAW oscillator, Maxx accidentally set some incorrect variables and immediately the sound gained bass, acquired some light but pleasing noise on the attack and an overall richer sonic spectra. Keeping the oscillators stable and in tune has been likened to ‘moving a pile of live frogs, by wheelbarrow’, impossible!Īs Sawer is algorithmic, this solves the problems of tuning and stability, however, in the same way electrical component instability makes analog gear unique (if not cranky), Sawer benefits from the 21st century equivalent, a coding error. Maxx has devoted meticulous attention to the detail of Sawer’s filter and envelope designs, ensuring Sawer delivers a unique sonic character reminiscent of the Polivoks hardware. But Polivoks, like all analog synthesizers, wasn’t without its problems. 
Sawer pays homage to the envelopes and filters of a rare 1980’s Soviet analog synthesizer, Polivoks.
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