WirePluck

WirePluck is a synthesizer created in the tradition of the Rob Papen brand, which is known for thinking outside the box with innovative musical instruments. These are all possible now due to the amazing power of today's computers.

At the heart of WirePluck are the three layers made up from four selectable source synthesis types, which allow you to create new synthesizer pluck sounds. And nope... the focus is not in recreating real acoustic instruments, but creating new inspirational sounds.

The user interface has been laid out in the Main screen in a way that allows for fast editing using the most important parameters, selecting different ARP presets, and selecting the 'Advance' screen on which all available parameters can be tweaked:

• The 1st source synthesis type for each layer is 'Wire', a newly developed sound source that sounds a bit like hitting a wire.
• The 2nd source synthesis type available is 'String', which uses a custom Karplus physical modelling synthesis.
• The 3rd source synthesis type is 'FM', which is a 3-Operator FM (phase modulation) synthesizer. A unique addition is that each Oscillator also has a Pitch Envelope Decay control, which is uncommon in classic FM synthesis, but great to add extra pluck to the sound.
• The 4th source synthesis type is 'Wave', which is a 1 Oscillator subtractive synthesizer lineup featuring an array of various Filter types.

All of these different sources can be combined in the 3 layers of course and each layer has its output routing.

The included FX inside WirePluck are 'Distortion' with various types, 'Modulation FX' which are Chorus, Flanger and so on, a Stereo Delay, and our top-notch Reverb.

WirePluck also features a fully featured ARP, an extensive Chord Memory section, Modulation Matrix and of course our cool 'Ribbon Controller'.

Last but not least, we have added a bank manager, including many great presets by Rob himself and other sound designers.

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Features

General:

• 16-voice virtual synthesizer designed for various new types of synthesizer plucked sounds and more.

Presets / Folder & Global Section:

• Presets are sorted in Bank Folders with categories of sounds.
• Additionally, there is a 'Quick Browser', 'Favorites', and 'Star' system in the bank manager.
• Advance Page for editing all available parameters.
• ECS (External MIDI Control).
• Help, which opens up the WirePluck PDF manual.
• Bank Manager.
• Clicking on the WirePluck logo takes you to the Back Panel. The Back Panel shows global settings and controls that are infrequently accessed.
• A control menu is available in the upper right corner for global settings.
• Animated Dials with the option to disable.

Layer 1-3 Controls
WirePluck's base is up to 3 Layers, with 4 source types:

• Source layer can be 'Wire', 'String', 'FM', or 'Wave' type.
• Each source layer has a Pitch Envelope with Decay, Curve, and Amount Control.
• Each source layer has a High Pass Filter.
• Each source layer has a Volume, Decay, Decay Curve, Keytrack to Decay, Pan, and Volume Control.

Wire source:

• A new algorithm that generates a sound simular to plucking a wire.
• Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control.
• Q (resonance) control.
• Stereo Separation control.
• Wire amount (Envelope amount).
• Decay control.
• Velocity to Wire control.
• Keyboard tracking to Wire ontrol.
• 12dB Low Pass Filter.
• Filter Cutoff control, velocity, keytracking control.
• Filter Envelope with Decay and Sustain control.

String source:

• The String source a is a customized Karplus model.
• Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control.
• Impulse length control.
• Impulse volume and shape control.
• Length control.
• Velocity and keyboard tracking to Length control.
• Keyboard tracking to Length control.
• Pluck volume control.
• Velocity and keyboard tracking to Pluck control.
• Keyboard tracking to Pluck control.
• Damp control.
• Velocity and keyboard tracking to the Damp parameter.
• Keyboard tracking to Damp parameter.
• Free running feature.
• Drift feature.

FM source:

• Custom FM (PhaseModulation) synthesis source.
• 2 Modulating Oscillators with Sinus waveform.
• 3rd Audio Oscillator with semi-tuning control.
• 2 types of Modulation routing modes of Oscillator 1 and 2 into Oscillator 3.
• Pitch Envelope with an Amount, and Decay control for Oscillators 1 and 2.
• Volume control for Oscillators 1 and 2.
• Volume Decay and Sustain control for Oscillators 1 and 2.
• Modulation Volume Velocity control for Oscillators 1 and 2.

Wave source:

• Virtual analog Oscillator source.
• Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control.
• Sinus, saw, square, and triangle waveforms.
• Symmetry control.
• Sinus Sub-Oscillator control.
• Filter modes including 26 Filter types, and additionally, Ring and Amp Modulation.
• Filter stereo spread contol.
• Filter Velocity control.
• Filter Keyboard tracking control.
• Filter envelope with Amount, Decay, and Sustain controls.

LFO 1 + 2 Section
WirePluck has 2 LFOs that generate modulation signals available inside the MOD Matrix section:

• Waveform types: Triangle Up, Triangle Down, Saw Up, Saw Down, Sine Up, Sine Down, Square Up, Square Down, Sample and Hold.
• Modes: Poly, Free, Mono, and Legato.
• Speed control with tempo-sync option.

Arpeggiator section
WirePluck offers a classic style Arpeggiator with some unique features, like sequencer mode and chord control per step:

• The Arpeggiator has up to 16 steps. Per step, you can set the following values:
  Step On/Off
  Tie (Tie note)
  Slide
  Tune
  Vel
  Chord
  Free
  Ratcheting.
• Steps (number of Steps 1-16).
• Loop Modes are On, Off, PingPong.
• Speed (for example 2 x tempo or ¼ x tempo).
• Arp Modes:
  Up, Down, Up/Down, Random, Ordered, Rev. Ordered, Ordered Up/Down, Ordered Down/Up, Chord, Sequencer, Sequencer Reset.
• Octave control.
• Tie modes: Normal, Special, Toggle 1, Toggle 2.
• Lock Mode option.
• Swing.
• Slide amount.
• Vel / Key (Responds to the velocity setting of the step or the keyboard input).
• Host Sync.
• Latch.
• Key Entry.
• Arpeggiator Command Menu.

MOD 1-8
In total, 8 modulation slots are available, mainly for the 'Ribbon Controller' or additional modulations:

• 8 modulation slots.
• Sources are MIDI and WirePluck parts.
• Destinations are WirePluck parameters and FX parameters.
• Amount control with positive and negative modulation and a bypass feature by clicking on the slot number.

Velocity Split Section:

• Velocity Split option for the 3 layers.
• Fade In, Start, End, and Fade Out controls.
• Graphic control and display.

Play Section
In this section, you can control how WirePluck responds to notes played, either Polyphonic, Monophonic, or ARP. The portamento is also set here:

• Play Modes are Poly, Poly MPE, Mono, Mono Hi, Mono Low, Legato, Legato Hi, Legato Lo, and ARP.
• Portamention modes, Constant Rate, Constant Time, Held Rate, Held Time.
• Portamento Speed.
• Pitch Bend Up / Down with a range up to 48 semitones.

Chord Section
In this section, you can store up to 4 chord settings and use them dynamically while playing:

• Chord memory with up to 6 notes, including the root key.
• 4 Chord memory locations.
• Semi tune, Velocity, and Pan settings per chord note.
• Various Chord playback modes for the 4 memory slots.
• Strumming with temp-sync option.

AMP Section:

• Volume control.
• Velocity to Volume control.
• Panning control.

Ribbon Controller
Dedicated modulation source with the unique spring-back feature. The Ribbon Controller can be used in BiPolar or Polar mode:

• BiPolar and Polar modes.
• Spring Back features include tempo-based settings.
• Quantized return steps settings for the Spring Back feature.

FX Section
WirePluck has 4 FX units – a Distortion, a multi-mode Modulation FX, a Stereo Delay, and a Reverb, which can be organized in whichever path you want via the Path menu:

• Distortion FX with amount and mix control, offering Atan, Bits, Cos, Cross, Fold, Limit, Noise, Octave, Over, Power, Rate, Rectify, Saturate, Square, and Valve distortions.
• Modulation FX section with Chorus, Flanger, Ensemble, Phaser, Wah-Wah, TalkBox, Tremolo, AutoPan, Ring modulator, and Gator.
• Stereo Delay with the unique equal feedback option.
• Reverb with the RP-VERB algorithm.
• Bypass per FX, or for All FX.
• FX path order menu for Modulation FX, Stereo Delay, and Reverb.

Bank Manager
There are four main sections: Presets, Find, Search Category, and Set Category. For each section, the Banks are visible on the right-hand side.
While in the Preset screen in the Bank Manager, you can mark any Preset with a Star if you like the Preset.

Back Screen
A click on the WirePluck logo will display the back panel. The back panel contains several global controls that affect all instances of SynFeX:

• GUI size options are 100%, 125%, 150%, and 200%.
• Computer Keyboard Up / Down.
• External MIDI Control Capture Mode.
• MIDI Program / Bank Change.
• MIDI Channel.
• Global Tuning with .tun files option.
• Anti-aliasing Filter settings.