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coincidental · Post by **coincidental** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:43 pm

Well, I've finally got round to experimenting properly with Chromaphone after rushing out and buying it the moment it came out. It's both enjoyably proscriptive and massively open-ended and I keep stumbling across new things it can do. Here are a few starters:
{Harpsichord}
{Deep Sticks}
{Ringing Skin}
Has anyone in the know heard anything about the likelihood (or timing?) of a further update (microtuning, modulation options, pitch bend, MIDI learn...)?

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:06 am

coincidental wrote:Well, I've finally got round to experimenting properly with Chromaphone after rushing out and buying it the moment it came out. It's both enjoyably proscriptive and massively open-ended and I keep stumbling across new things it can do. Here are a few starters:
{Harpsichord}
{Deep Sticks}
{Ringing Skin}
Has anyone in the know heard anything about the likelihood (or timing?) of a further update (microtuning, modulation options, pitch bend, MIDI learn...)?

I don't know about update speed on these features. I have found work arounds for PB. I can use Numerology to make SG pitch parameter a modulation destination. Then I just direct my pitch wheel thre a midi to CV converter to the parameter modulation slot.

Any parameter in the Chromaphone is modulateable as the parameters are exposed to yur host..

Hope this helps

Regards

Chromaphonist

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:17 am

Is this available in 64 bit? The current sale price is nice...

TabSel · Post by **TabSel** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:23 am

Yes.

And this synth is great! Have fun!

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:53 am

Here are some pure Chromaphone Demos from ChromaZone:
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/s ... romaphone/

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:42 am

got it now.

when i press record in studio one, no matter what programm i chose, it will always record the first program in a bank.

any ideas what i might be doing wrong? when i press record the actual program immedialtely changes to the first in the program list.

cyphersuit · Post by **cyphersuit** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:06 pm

ok. opened a new track and this behaviour went away... could have been the midi file, that was already on that track...

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:21 pm

It's annoying that AAS has still not addressed the poor performance features for this plugin after many months. Why no pitchbend or aftertouch support? - for a plugin that is meant to be played expressively like this such features are essential. And yes, microtuning support would also be great.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:34 pm

aMUSEd wrote:It's annoying that AAS has still not addressed the poor performance features for this plugin after many months. Why no pitchbend or aftertouch support? - for a plugin that is meant to be played expressively like this such features are essential. And yes, microtuning support would also be great.

…and MIDI learn would also be great!

Praeterea censeo Carthaginem esse delendam…

/Joachim

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:00 am

aMUSEd wrote:It's annoying that AAS has still not addressed the poor performance features for this plugin after many months. Why no pitchbend or aftertouch support? - for a plugin that is meant to be played expressively like this such features are essential. And yes, microtuning support would also be great.[/size]

Especially IMO, microtuning seems to me the most of these features for the emulation of tuned percussions

In where i'm working yet, I would be glad to have created an accurate scale for a balafon's preset, or an instrument supposed to play in countervoice with a real balafon for instance !

They are many different scales, usually pentatonic, owned by different tribal groups (Senoufo, Mandingo, Lobi, etc...) here in South-west of Burkina Faso

I didn't tried it yet but i might in the future create composition that would be entirely surrounded by an ethnic scale or another, usually african musicians always tried to a adapt their music to more or less corresponding diatonic scales, the result is often unfair because most of these professional singers don't have chromatic intervals in ears, the usual workaround for this issue is the use at extreme settings of pitch correctors like autotune that has becomes from almost a decade a kind of standard in many african commercial musics (zouk, coupé-décalé, etc...)

At my (perhaps short) point of view, pitchbend for instance, isn't such significant in acoustic modelling while it induce sound effects that aren't really relevant for this type of emulation (chromatic/achromatic percussions emulation and alike)

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:38 am

Krakatau wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:It's annoying that AAS has still not addressed the poor performance features for this plugin after many months. Why no pitchbend or aftertouch support? - for a plugin that is meant to be played expressively like this such features are essential. And yes, microtuning support would also be great.[/size]
Especially IMO, microtuning seems to me the most of these features for the emulation of tuned percussions

In where i'm working yet, I would be glad to have created an accurate scale for a balafon's preset, or an instrument supposed to play in countervoice with a real balafon for instance !

They are many different scales, usually pentatonic, owned by different tribal groups (Senoufo, Mandingo, Lobi, etc...) here in South-west of Burkina Faso

I didn't tried it yet but i might in the future create composition that would be entirely surrounded by an ethnic scale or another, usually african musicians always tried to a adapt their music to more or less corresponding diatonic scales, the result is often unfair because most of these professional singers don't have chromatic intervals in ears, the usual workaround for this issue is the use at extreme settings of pitch correctors like autotune that has becomes from almost a decade a kind of standard in many african commercial musics (zouk, coupé-décalé, etc...)

At my (perhaps short) point of view, pitchbend for instance, isn't such significant in acoustic modelling while it induce sound effects that aren't really relevant for this type of emulation (chromatic/achromatic percussions emulation and alike)

Yes it is vitally important too but don't underestimate the value of a few basic performance features - they are what brings an instrument to life. Very often I like to be able to use pitchbend to create subtle alterations of pitch, or even better, assign pitch to aftertouch to create bends or real vibrato, it turns an electronic instrument into something more humanised and it's ridiculous that AAS did not consider these very basic but essential features.

Sampleconstruct · Post by **Sampleconstruct** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:15 am

In case someone is looking for fresh Chromaphone presets, check out my new Bank Modelled Reality coming soon on patchpool:

http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/s ... ality-for/

CrystalWizard · Post by **CrystalWizard** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:57 pm

"don't underestimate the value of a few basic performance features - they are what brings an instrument to life. Very often I like to be able to use pitchbend to create subtle alterations of pitch, or even better, assign pitch to aftertouch to create bends or real vibrato, it turns an electronic instrument into something more humanised and it's ridiculous that AAS did not consider these very basic but essential features."

yes, it would be nice to see an update~

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:59 am

Riiiiiiise from your grave...

I finally have version 2 (now that version 3 is released)...
Was tying v3, in this time of cheap upgrade, but it's a bit half baked.
v3 uses about double the CPU, even with everything reduced and disabled.

The browser would be handy, but the categories are anything but useful for a percussion synth.

Applied Acoustics if you're reading this, please add either the ability to add our own categories, or add tons of USEFUL ones. I thought the categories were useless for Ultra Analog, but for a percussion synth, i really don't understand why you would have released it like that? I mean "Choirs"... There's no "Chromatic" "Conga" "Bongo"... "Hand Drum"... just PERCUSSION... on the preset browser of a synthesiser pretty much aimed at percussion. It's just silly.

Even for Ultra Analog 3 there's no plain "Synth" or "Ambience" or "Soundscape"... or "Stab" or "Chord"... just PAD and LEAD.

Shakin' My Head Stevens

ScrLk · Post by **ScrLk** » Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:31 am

sqigls wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:59 am Riiiiiiise from your grave...

But why do that?

New: AAS Chromaphone - Creative Percussion Synthesizer