New: AAS Chromaphone - Creative Percussion Synthesizer

[cryophonik]

Hey guys, does this look a little suspicious?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4734507

It's his first post, too. Hmmmmm.....

[Sampleconstruct]

Hey guys, does this look a little suspicious?

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4734507

It's his first post, too. Hmmmmm.....

But how would he/she do a licence transfer when it wasn't a legit copy?

[Sampleconstruct]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

[aMUSEd]

OK this demands hands-on tweaking with a controller so here is a draft Kore 2 template I just whipped up. I think I got everything but might have to fine tune the ergonomics - it wasn't easy making it all fit.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5646041/Kore%20 ... mplate.ksd

The nice thing is some of the controls, especially the manual ones, are very fiddly to use with a mouse - this makes it much easier.

I suspect where this will be most useful (as with Modelonia) will be in adding the ability to morph between patch variations - something that works particularly well in a physically modelled instrument. I always longed to do this in Tassman but it doesn't support host automation.

[aMUSEd]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

[Sampleconstruct]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

One of those totally unplanned things - but this synth is inspiring enough to make a whole Bank for it...but first I have to finish my Alchemy stuff.

[Winstontaneous]

I've always wanted to do accurate emuultions of 'tuned' wind chimes, like the works of art that Davis sells. I'm assuming that Chromaphone is probably capable of getting well in that ball park, so to speak; and then (of course) it would be really interesting to distort that reality...create classes of chimes that are freaks of nature, that couldn't comfortably exist in nature (or who'd want to build them?) That's where physical modelling on the level of Chromaphone could be a boon-perhaps even revolutionary. We'll see....I'm going to play with Chromaphone as much as I can this weekend.

That's my interest with physical modeling, too. If you need a good reference for tuning real-world chimes/bells/bars etc. I highly recommend Bart Hopkin's "Experimental Musical Instruments"

Also Brian Eno did the same thing with imaginary bells (using FM7, I believe) on "Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now"

[Borealis]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

One of those totally unplanned things - but this synth is inspiring enough to make a whole Bank for it...but first I have to finish my Alchemy stuff.

I agree! This is a lovely expressive instrument, very inspiring to play. I too will await your bank with enthusiasm.

[Sampleconstruct]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

One of those totally unplanned things - but this synth is inspiring enough to make a whole Bank for it...but first I have to finish my Alchemy stuff.

I agree! This is a lovely expressive instrument, very inspiring to play. I too will await your bank with enthusiasm.

Sou you bought it too Ben

[aMUSEd]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

One of those totally unplanned things - but this synth is inspiring enough to make a whole Bank for it...but first I have to finish my Alchemy stuff.

I agree! This is a lovely expressive instrument, very inspiring to play. I too will await your bank with enthusiasm.

Yes it is but I am really missing aftertouch, pitch bend and microtuning - why are these left out?

[pdxindy]

This is an old struck bell sound I did in Zebra... Quite different from the wind chime, but gets the idea of using a metal rod to strike a bell and that sort of sharp metallic attack. I know Zebra a helluva lot better now than then, but it still stands up well.

http://draigathar.org/zebra/sharp-bell.mp3

Nice work indy!

As for Chromaphone, this is probably my favourite subset of the Tassman tools and an area I've wanted to see AAS explore further for a long time... I've never tried the Ableton version... Collision, is it?

Anyhow, this is quite nice imo and really useful for the work I do.

It does seem right up your alley...

If Chromaphone adds something that Collision doesn't then I likely will not be able to resist! I quite like Collision.

[goldenanalog]

Even with solid comparison to Collision, I'm betting that Chromaphone really is at one dot zero, and that it will be further developed and the tech integrated into a future revision of Tassman-makes sense, right?

[Mitch I.]

I'm working my way through the presets, and overall I like it. One thing I like is that the presets aren't drowned in delay. I sure wish the demo limitations weren't so severe -- it's really annoying that the sound keeps cutting out.

It seems to be fairly easy on the CPU. My Q6600 didn't take much of a hit.

I agree that the lack of microtuning is disappointing. I hope they add this.

I also wish they'd update Tassman.

Mitch I.

[pdxindy]

Even with solid comparison to Collision, I'm betting that Chromaphone really is at one dot zero, and that it will be further developed and the tech integrated into a future revision of Tassman-makes sense, right?

AAS has not typically done much further development on their instruments... mostly maintenance updates. I would love to have seen a v2 of String Studio for example.

So I would not count on their being much more for Chromaphone in the future.

[Borealis]

A Soundcloud widget with today's Chromaphone demos can be found here

I await your bank with enthusiasm

One of those totally unplanned things - but this synth is inspiring enough to make a whole Bank for it...but first I have to finish my Alchemy stuff.

I agree! This is a lovely expressive instrument, very inspiring to play. I too will await your bank with enthusiasm.

Yes it is but I am really missing aftertouch, pitch bend and microtuning - why are these left out?

I could live without pitch bend, but aftertouch and microtuning certainly would be most useful. They do something with tunings though, have you noticed the non-linear tuning in the Stockhausen Mallet program (#31 in the Soundscape bank, I can't figure out how they programmed that (I bet you could tell me). I also like the pitch envelope you can insert, e.g. in program 30, Meditative Crash (again in the Soundscape bank). Anyway let's hope for those additions in 1.2.