Chromaphone is a Percussion Synthesizer that combines acoustic resonators
to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. At
the user's fingertips are drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings, and
tubes that get sparked into life by a mallet and a flexible noise source.

Mix and match

Chromaphone combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion,
string, and synth-like instruments. Membranes, bars, marimbas, plates,
strings, and tubes form pairs that get sparked into life by a mallet and a
flexible noise source. The resonators' material, tuning, and coupling
parameters allow the creation of a wide range of instruments and sonic
colors. Whether real, innovative, or with an ethnic touch, Chromaphone will
fill your music with rich and organic tones.

Melodies and beats

Chromaphone's sound library includes a wide range of expressive and
responsive instruments that span from warm and mellow pitched percussions
for melodies to punchy one-shots and kits for rhythm tracks. A wooden bar
makes a xylophone, turned metallic it becomes a glockenspiel. Adding a tube
transforms it into a vibraphone or marimba. Plates shape up in bells and
cymbals. Membranes are used for drum skins, combined with a tube they make
bass drums, snares, congas and bongos.

One-shot revolution

One-shots are no longer limited to the velocity dimension. Chromaphone uses
the entire keyboard range to modulate volume, mallet noise and stiffness,
noise filter frequency and density, hit position, and coupling to open a
whole world of expressive sounds and that in a totally stepless fashion.

Creative drum kits

Chromaphone ships with ready-made creative kit patches where each note
provides a new sound slightly different from the previous one. Over the
entire keyboard range the sound morphs from bass drum to snare to hi-hat.
Discover a mixture of electronic and acoustic qualities intertwined to form
highly playable, addictive, and always fresh drum sounds.

Together ensemble

A key feature of Chromaphone is a brand-new coupling technology. The
coupling refers to the exchange of acoustic energy which occurs in real
life between interacting objects. Consider a string bridged to a wooden
soundboard, both have their own behavior and characteristics, but when
assembled together, they merge into a complex string instrument. In a
similar way, a metal bar interacts with the air column from a tube in a
vibraphone. Chromaphone is the first and only plug-in to provide control
over the coupling of resonators. The result is vivid instruments with
unmatched acoustic precision, sharpness and realism.

Neat features:

Real-time control over any parameters via host automation

Host tempo synchronization for effects and modulations

Relaxed editing with unlimited undo/redo capability

Native 64-bit Audio Units (AU) VST plug-ins and AAX plug-ins


https://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone/overview/

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