New: AAS Chromaphone - Creative Percussion Synthesizer

[Sampleconstruct]

Ummm... at first glance, this seems to be Collision repackaged, with a few effects added. I'll try the demo later, but.. any opinions on that from someone who owns Collision?

I have Collision but have not tried the new one to compare. AAS mentions some sort of tying together of the two resonators that looks like it might be a new feature.

Yes, coupling the two resonators makes them interact and yields very interesting, unusual, unheard results.

[Sampleconstruct]

Check this out:

http://www.davisblanchardwindchimes.com/

Give a listen to the Westminster Quarters Wind Chime..absolutely gorgeous!

Can this be accurately done with Chromaphone? I'm going to try to spend this weekend giving it a shot.

The decay phase won't be the problem so much but the attacks might be harder to emulate in Chromaphone, those noise bursts can be modelled quite a bit but it's quite hard to make them sound like a real mallet...at least with more metallic instrument emulations.

For that sort of sharp attack I use Zebra... It is outstanding... You have much more control over the attack in Zebra than with Collision (haven't tried Chromaphone yet) For the wind chimes and other struck metal I would use Zebra.

Hmm, I don't think Zebra's Combfilter comes anywhere near Chromaphone, also the Attack is much more tweakable and can be even made into a LFO-modulated, sustained noise texture that triggers the Resonators - just check it out...

[pdxindy]

Check this out:

http://www.davisblanchardwindchimes.com/

Give a listen to the Westminster Quarters Wind Chime..absolutely gorgeous!

Can this be accurately done with Chromaphone? I'm going to try to spend this weekend giving it a shot.

The decay phase won't be the problem so much but the attacks might be harder to emulate in Chromaphone, those noise bursts can be modelled quite a bit but it's quite hard to make them sound like a real mallet...at least with more metallic instrument emulations.

For that sort of sharp attack I use Zebra... It is outstanding... You have much more control over the attack in Zebra than with Collision (haven't tried Chromaphone yet) For the wind chimes and other struck metal I would use Zebra.

Hmm, I don't think Zebra's Combfilter comes anywhere near Chromaphone, also the Attack is much more tweakable and can be even made into a LFO-modulated, sustained noise texture that triggers the Resonators - just check it out...

I love physical modeled sounds! Cannot have too many and look forward to trying Chromaphone. I have Collision, Tassman, String Studio from AAS. Zebra stands right with them for modeling percussion/string sounds.

The AAS stuff has a rounder sound so for some stuff I like it better and it is easier. Zebra has much better control of the attack.

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

[vata44]

i f**king love AAS!

[goldenanalog]

Indeed sounds as you described it, pdxindy!

[whyterabbyt]

Now that AAS have this out of their system, I hope they'll devote their undivided attention to updating Tassman!

Not holding my breath. Im sure there's other bits of T4 they'll decide to cannibalise and repackage instead.

[Gosh]

are there still people waiting for the email from aas? i would love to buy this at the reduced price but haven't had an email until now (owner of 5 aas products). cheers

[auricle]

are there still people waiting for the email from aas? i would love to buy this at the reduced price but haven't had an email until now (owner of 5 aas products). cheers

I am

[aMUSEd]

Just got mine but I'm in the "W's"

[auricle]

Just got mine but I'm in the "W's"

I'm in the 'S's' but still nothing

[todd_r]

So can Tassman 4 do everything this can do?

All the demos sound really nice

[Sequent]

Nope. I should have been towards the beginning of the line.

Maybe the problem is... you need to own six!


Maybe wait a day and if you really want to get this just send them a note. That's what I might do. Because... maybe there was some technical issue and the email was sent but didn't go through?

are there still people waiting for the email from aas? i would love to buy this at the reduced price but haven't had an email until now (owner of 5 aas products). cheers

[Gosh]

thanks sequent. that is exactly what i'm going to do. btw, has anyone noticed that aas has at least gotten rid of their old preset browser? i never understood why you could hide the browser in the standalone version but not in the vsts.

[aMUSEd]

So does this support microtuning (preferably using TUN or SCL)?

[polyslax]

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.