It’s available now for an introductory price of GBP £149 for Windows or OSX, VST, AU, RTAS, AAX and standalone. As it contains no samples it has a tiny footprint, taking up very few resources in terms of disk or processor. It has a certain style and way of being played that lends itself to this sort of sound generation. Physical acoustic modelling has the potential to create lifelike and unique-sounding instruments but it’s certainly not everyone’s cup of tea.
MELODIES, BEATS, AND CRAZY SOUNDSCAPES Chromaphone uses acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and other unique instruments.
It’s all backwards compatible with the original version and comes with a new library of over 600 sounds. Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone 2 v2.1.1 WiN MacOSX P2P 29 April 2018 64.16 MB Chromaphone strikes in full dynamics with acoustic sharpness and precision. An arpeggiator has been built in to offer movement and perspective to the sounds and there’s support for Scala scales and microtuning. The effects section has been overhauled and includes a new limiter, compressor and EQ.
So if you want to cross a harp with a guitar, a violin with a bell or drum with a flute then this is where to do it.Īmong the new features you have an envelope generator on the noise source for crafting precise one-shots along with a 10-band noise filter. It’s all about creating lifelike instruments that respond exactly as they were meant to – and it’s about creating completely original instruments that may not even be possible in real-life.
You can have the string and the soundboard of a guitar both loaded as resonators and then Chromaphone does the maths on how their vibrations interact and effect the sound. There are nine resonator types: string (think guitar string or harp string) beam (having a constant. The key feature of Chromaphone is its ability to build an instrument by combining two resonators. There are two exciter types: a noise source and a mallet. Version 2 brings in a drumhead resonator which is more realistic and responsive than a plate when creating skinned and membrane instruments. So a model of a wooden bar makes a xylophone, a tube becomes a vibraphone, a plate becomes a bell or cymbal.
Resonators are a mathematical model of the material and shape of an instrument that causes the vibration that we hear as sound. For the uninitiated, acoustic modelling is not about samples or oscillators, it’s all about resonators.