?
KVR Rank: 1387 718 1339 [30-Day: 1381; 7-Day: 2120; Yesterday: 1401]
| 11 members are watching HarpTime for news |
| Product | HarpTime |
| Developer | NUSofting |
| Primary Type | Strings / Orchestral |
| Price (MSRP) | €35 / €48 |
Plug-in Formats
| Instrument(s) |   |
Operating System Availability
| Operating System |
Latest Version |
Download | Is it Available? |
 | 1.5 | Demo / Trial |  |
  | 1.5 | Demo / Trial | |
Miscellaneous Information
| Copy Protection | None |
| Average User Rating |  |
Known to work
advertisement
Features
String Modeling:
- HarpTime features a sophisticated sympathetic resonance among a set of 12 individual physically-modeled strings.
- In the 'Pro' model, each string is simulated with its own timbre and pluck position parameters, for a more realistic acoustic emulation.
- The strings can be tuned individually, which allows the use of microtuned intonations and scales.
- The maximum polyphony is 12 simultaneous voices for the 'Pro' model and 8 voices for the 'Fun' model.
Bray Pins:
- Another unique feature of this synthesizer is its modeling of the effects of a harp's Bray Pins (which hold a string to the body of the harp) There are ten different different attack and decay behaviors modeled, by means of a "Shaping" control, some of which model the classic buzzing tone of mediaeval harps.
Performance Features:
- A unique "SelfBend" feature is implemented to emulate the pitch envelope typical of loose strings.
- Adjustable smoothed Pitch Modulation, controlled by an LFO.
- The playing style (from soft to hard plucking) can be affected by a "Pick" control which allows variation in the touch of the player.
- Velocity Sensitivity is adjustable.
- A "Damp" switch allows the sustain of HarpTime's strings to be set on HarpTime's control panel; this control behaves similarly to the Release stage of an amplitude envelope on a more typical synthesizer.
- The master tuning frequency of the synthesizer can also be adjusted.
- The ModWheel can be used to 'strum' octaves, in a Glissandi effect. Only the white notes are played.
Effects:
- A double "Low Pass/Band Pass" filter, which allows a great deal of control over the timbre of the sound. This means, for example, that electric harp timbres are possible.
- The internal stereo Chorus adds more depth and timbral variation to the sound.
Controls
String Controls:
The following controls are implemented as a single set in the Fun version, or one separate set per string in the Pro version of HarpTime.
- Exciter: (per string) Controls the maximum energy sent to the string.
- Tuning: (per string) Retunes the string range -100 to +100 cents of semitone.
- PikPosi: (per string) Controls the effective pluck position on the string, changing the harmonics of the sound.
- PikBrig: (per string) NoiseFilter Frequency Control affects brightness of picking.
Global Controls:
The following controls affect all strings :
- Modulation, PickAtak, SelfBend, Sympathetic, Damp, Shaping, DynaTone, ToneBals, Velocity, Pitch, Chorus, Volume.
All KVR Audio news items relating to HarpTime.
| NUSofting releases Combo Sister for Mac OS X | 1st May 2007 |
| NUSofting updates HarpTime Pro to 1.5 (incl. Universal Binary) | 20th November 2006 |
| NUSofting releases HarpTime and Microrock for OS X | 6th December 2004 |
| Liqih Synth reorganization | 26th August 2004 |
| Dash / NuSofting Summer Giveaway | 16th August 2004 |
| NUSofting HarpTime released | 1st March 2004 |
User Reviews by KVR Members for HarpTime.
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Latest 3 reviews from a total of 3 | |||||||||
Features
Docs
Presets
Support
Reviews, articles, interviews, etc. for HarpTime.
None listed yet.
Products by NUSofting
| Product: | BDM (Broken Drum Machine) |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Drum Machine |
| Price: | $44.90 (intro) |
| OS: |    |
| Formats: |   |
BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating and inspiring. BDM basically offers 4 drum pads like an old, small, beat box with: Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick, each of those has controls like Decay, Pitch and Filter. But the creative power of the BDM is all in the four "Broken" sliders, one for each pad. With those sliders you can set the amount of wild, weird, chaotic and unpredictable variations to the sound, just like the circuits inside go crazy producing bleep... [more]
| Product: | ComboSister |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Transistor Combo Organ |
| Price: | €35.90 / $48.90 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Features:2 oscillators banks: Transistor "enriched sine wave" sound (for "Hammond imitator" electric organs).Transistor square wave (for buzzer combo!).Extra Bass oscillators bank for 16' and 8' ranks. 6 drawstops - 16', 5 1/3', 8', 4', 2 2/3', 2'.4 timbre stops - Add (no filter), String, Reed, Flute. Effects:Percussion: switch (special amplitude envelope).Sustain: switch (long release).Tremolo: with Rate and Depth knobs.Vibrato: with Rate and Depth knobs.Booster: smooth analogue saturator with switch and distortion amount knob.Transistor: knob for electric click and analogue noisiness amount.... [more]
| Product: | DK+ Virtual Drums |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Drum Sampler |
| Price: | €45 / $65 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
DK+ Virtual Drums is a powerful drum machine with 24 fully programmable drum pads, 6 output busses (3 stereo + 3 mono), an audio compressor/limiter for each stereo bus and a powerful step sequencer amongst its many features. It ships with a library of 36 drum kits with the sounds of the most widely used vintage drum machines, studio-quality acoustic kits and more. It also offers a wide library of drum styles ranging from Latin rhythms to classic rock and many modern styles. The DK+ Library is organized in 3 sections: Factory Library: with a pattern collection arranged per musical style. It fe... [more]
| Product: | Fat Machine |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Synth (Analogue / Subtractive) |
| Price: | N/A |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
2 oscillators with pulse (+PW modulation), triangle (+PW modulation), saw waveforms.Detune for second oscillator : -100,+100 cents, -12,+12 semitones.Sub oscillator triangle waveform.Noise generator with variable band width.Alias free sound generation at any sample rate, from 22K to 96K.24 db/octave resonant low pass filter with soft saturation and cutoff key tracking.3 ADSR 6 controls flexible exponential envelopes (AL AT DL DT SR RL).Easy to use envelopes with big coloured graphical display.Independent envelopes for Filter frequency, Pitch and Amplitude.Random attack level for each envelope ... [more]
| Product: | Groove Analogizer |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Audio Controlled Drum Synth |
| Price: | Free |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Groove Analogizer is an "Audio Controlled Drum Synthesizer". Working like a vintage electronic drum tone generator the percussion sound is triggered by an audio signal, not by a MIDI message. Groove Analogizer loads as a VST effect, usually in an insert slot, and features three oscillators that can be triggered and shaped by the audio input. A trigger can be any kind of percussive sound, both mono or stereo - it can be a .wav file or another VST instrument for example. For each of the three generators you can choose left, right or left+right input - input can be both mono or stereo. ... [more]
Features String Modeling: HarpTime features a sophisticated sympathetic resonance among a set of 12 individual physically-modeled strings. In the 'Pro' model, each string is simulated with its own timbre and pluck position parameters, for a more realistic acoustic emulation. The strings can be tuned individually, which allows the use of microtuned intonations and scales. The maximum polyphony is 12 simultaneous voices for the 'Pro' model and 8 voices for the 'Fun' model. Bray Pins: Another unique feature of this synthesizer is its modeling of the effects of a harp's Bray Pins (which hold a... [more]
Features: Monophonic synthesizer for basses, leads and percussions, Legato performance, pitchbend. Two FM oscillators, Double, Detune, FM by envelope, constant FM amount. One ADSR envelope with variable curvature, it controls Amp, FM and DynaTone filters. Aliasing control: actually FM keytracking. DynaTone: multiple filter parameters combined in one control. Velocity to FM, to ADSR level and time, to DynaTone frequency. Overdrive and Distorter. Mod Wheel controls Sustain stage. CC09 controls FMfx2. CC07 control output level. Chorus. Legato on off ( off for arpeggiator usage) Velocity Sensitiv... [more]
| Product: | Microrock Pro |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Guitar Synth |
| Price: | $29.95 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Capable of delivering a solid aggressive and expressive sound for solos and riffs, -microrock- was created specifically for use in bass, lead and powerchord lines. However -microrock- does not specifically attempt to emulate the guitar, and firmly remains a synthesizer, with a distinctive character all of its own. Its architecture, internal filters and expressive modulation capabilities mean that it is capable of producing a very wide variety of original and imitative timbres, including vocal and brass instruments sounds. Features: A monophonic synthesizer architecture suited to bass and lead... [more]
Modelonia is a novel physical-modelling synthesizer which uses a hybrid of two distinct model 'types' - a plucked-string model and a blown-bore (i.e. trumpet-type) model. Each model may be used simultaneously, and the signal path allows cross-modulation between the two models for more interesting and complex tones. Modelonia is not simply an emulation of acoustic instruments; advanced physical modeling has been used to enable the creation of lively and expressive new sounds and harmonic textures. The interface has been designed to be as easy and helpful as possible for newcomers to this synthe... [more]
| Product: | Modelonia Player |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Synth (Hybrid) |
| Price: | Free |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Modelonia Player is a freeware plug-in which loads Modelonia presets and allows the user to tweak them with few but powerful controls. Firstly the two "Mix & Morph" faders: Fader 1: blends the output of the two main resonators of the Modelonia engine. Fader 2: balances the cross-modulation between the resonators. The middle position of the faders set always the original preset values. The two faders can be MIDI controlled using MIDI CC 45 and 46. Moreover, the Modelonia Player features: LFO 1 and LFO 2 rate controls. Master Volume. Master Pitch. Octave transpose switch (one... [more]
| Product: | Morphing Delay |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Delay / Echo |
| Price: | €19 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
This is not you every day delay effect, it's a special FX tool for space-time warping grooves, Morphing Delay is powerful but very easy too use, tailored for the musician, it gets straight to the goal with few accurately chosen controls. Morphing Delay is a two states delay effect, with envelope morphing from one state to the other, envelope is controlled by the audio input. It also includes a unique morphing auto pan effect.Features: Sens, input sensitivity for the envelope. Time, morphing envelope time. Delay Time 1, in ms or Tempo division (Sync Switch). Feedback 1 amount, regeneration of d... [more]
| Product: | Mother Ship Astrobelt |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Synth (Analogue / Subtractive) |
| Price: | No Longer Available |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
2 oscillators with pulse (+PWM modulation), triangle (+PW modulation), saw waveforms, High Quality generators, alias free at any samplerate from 22KHz to 96KHz, for full basses and the clearest high range, just like a real hardware synth. Calibration of aliasing possible thru menu selection, for extra harmonic effects, available settings are: - Alias free - Some - Lots - Total Detune for second oscillator : ±100 cents, ±12 semitones. Sub oscillator triangle waveform. Noise generator with variable band width. 12 dB/octave resonant filter with soft saturation and cutoff keytracking, the filter ... [more]
Peti uses hybrid FM synthesis technology and was developed primarily to emulate the sounds of the Harmonium, a member of the Reed Organ family, which is also known as the "pump organ". The Harmonium, in its smaller form, is widely used in north Indian music, and its full, sweet sound is often used in pop and rock music, but Peti is not limited to this instrument alone.Peti is also capable of emulating a wide variety of reed organ variants, and can model timbres which resemble the many instruments in this family, ranging from from accordions to pipe organs, and even the famous melodica often us... [more]
| Product: | Pizza Synth |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Synth (Unclassified) |
| Price: | $9.99 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Pizza Synth is an "experimental" VST instrument for Windows. Features: Pizza controls: Tomato.Cheese.Onion.Banana.Beer ADSR.Shape.Fire.Salt.Option menu:PitchDetune: On or Off.PickSalt: Sparse or Spots.Volume: High, Normal or Low.MIDI Learn.32 presets.... [more]
| Product: | PK3 Limiter |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Dynamics (Compressor / Limiter) |
| Price: | No Longer Available |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
PK3 is an advanced mastering peak limiter, with a variable look-ahead time window. The state-of-the-art algorithm behind the processor is the result of long research and years of experience, and offers clean peak limiting without audible distortion. Thanks to its design PK3 also offers an "analog" feel similar to a warm studio compressor with all the accuracy of the 64-bit precision of a digital limiter. No compromise between the sound quality and the CPU usage have been made, except for some clever optimizations that are necessary to get this kind of limiter to work in real-time. No... [more]
| Product: | Prima Delay |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Delay / Echo |
| Price: | $45 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Prima Delay is capable of producing a myriad of echo types and a compelling array of reverbs. And as if that isn't enough, it's also able to produce stereo chorusing and a cluster of unique phasing effects that will provide complete transformations of your sounds. Features: Number of Delay Taps adjustable from 1 to 128. Tap Delay Time, each from 1 to 2000 ms (dependant on Sample Rate). Amplitude Envelope for taps with adjustable curvature. Tap Times deployment for accelerated or decelerated delay effects ("bouncing ball"). Positive or Negative Feedback. LFO modulation of delay lengt... [more]
| Product: | Reverbering |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Reverb |
| Price: | Free |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Reverbering is a simple reverb effect sporting low CPU usage and two features not normally found in other similar effects - Noise and Grain - of course these can be set to zero for a clean reverb effect. Features: Noise: this adds a filtered noise sound to the decay. Grain: this saturated the audio signal for a vintage feel. MIDI learn on every parameter, menu by right click. Reverbering use the same optimized algorithm featured in Modelonia. 100% skinable. ... [more]
| Product: | Strings Dream Synthesizer |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | String Synth |
| Price: | $89 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Strings Dream Synthesizer is able to reproduce the infinite array of rich, analogue pads from the most famous strings machines in synthesizer history - emulating the classic Eminent Solina as well as its sister keyboards from Elka, Crumar and even their Japanese cousins. Strings Dream Synthesizer does not use samples. Instead the "octave divider" circuitry typical of those early polyphonic synths has been natively emulated, so that all sounds are computed in realtime in true VA fashion. The fundamental "Ensemble" effect (like the vintage Solina chorus) accurately follows th... [more]
| Product: | Trimmetry Tapper |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Delay / Echo |
| Price: | $11.90 |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
Trimmetry is a stereo delay effect, featuring 3 cascaded (serial connection) delay modules. Each module has its own feedback filter and LFO for time modulation. Trimmetry is a VST plugin simulating rich, stereo tapped "vintage" echo effects with the ability to independently sync the 3 delay times with different rhythms to the VST host tempo. It also is capable of warm stereo chorus effects. Using the VST host automation of parameters it can produces amazing and complex effects, thanks to the delay time controls which react smoothly for great pitch-shifting "tape echo" effects. Friendly GUI: th... [more]
| Product: | VSTPLOOGGin |
| Developer: | NUSofting |
| Type: | Sampler/Sample Player |
| Price: | Free |
| OS: | |
| Formats: | |
VSTPLOOGGin is a "time and disk space saver" VSTi that allows you to stream from disk stereo OGG encoded audio files. It can be controlled both from the GUI and by MIDI notes messages.... [more]
Coming Soon...
