Yeah, its an actual software synthesizer, with three oscilators, a filter section, and an effects section. Three or four envelopes, and LFO's Its a complete synth. Reaktor full version is like Synth Edit, its a Synthesizer building program. It comes with a couple dozen synths already built, basically. Very complicated program, IMO, took many months to get comfortable with it. But Carbon 2 is fantastic and easier to learn, though pretty complicated in its own right.