Applied Acoustics Systems Releases Chromaphone 2

Ash · Mar 16, 2016

What’s new?

We have brought Chromaphone to a whole new level—it is now an incredibly versatile instrument.

NEW Factory library
The completely renewed factory library has well over 600 production-ready sounds classified for fast and intuitive exploration.

NEW Drumhead resonator
This new model reproduces precisely how a real drumhead vibrates resulting in super realistic and responsive drums and percussions.

NEW Envelope mode
The envelope generator for the noise source is now equipped with an AHD mode for carving precise one-shots.

NEW Noise filter bank
The noise source spectrum can now be tailored with a 10-band filter bank for fine control of the tone.

NEW Low-cut filter
Resonators have been complemented with a low-cut filter to control the clarity of an instrument response.

NEW Arpeggiator
Add motion and give a new perspective to sounds with the new built-in arpeggiator module.

NEW Source mixer
Fine control of the mallet and noise sources to shape the attack and sustain phase of sounds with precision.

NEW Compressor and equalizer
These new additions are perfect to add punch and definition to your sound, letting you cut through any dense mix or stage.

NEW Limiter
The new output limiter protects your ears and monitors during experimentation with the synth’s parameters while providing a maximum of distortion-free dynamics.

NEW Streamlined interface
Redesigned from the ground up, the new interface now divides Chromaphone 2 into three panels: Play presents shortcuts to the performance and effect parameters including bypass switches for quick edits; Edit lets you tweak and create your sound; while FX supplies equalizer, compressor, multi-effect, and reverb processors for a final sheen.

NEW Microtonal tunings via Scala scale files
Chromaphone 2 now supports the Scala scale file format for microtonal music making.

UPDATED Overhauled effects
Reinvigorated and polished, Chromaphone 2’s multi-effect processor features our best sounding chorus, delay, phaser, flanger, distortion, notch filter, wah-wah, auto-wah, and reverb to date!

NEAT Backward compatible with Chromaphone 1 presets
Simply copy your banks from Chromaphone 1 in Chromaphone 2‘s bank folder to convert them.

Melodies, beats, and crazy soundscapes

Chromaphone uses acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and other unique instruments. They get sparked into life by a mallet and a flexible noise generator.

Library

Chromaphone 2 is packed with more than 650 presets from the best sound designers. Instruments span from warm and mellow pitched percussions for melodies to punchy one-shots and kits for rhythm tracks. Twisted, they generate unique textures and soundscapes that will move any film score. Whether real, other-wordly, or with an ethnic touch, Chromaphone will fill your music with rich and organic tones.

Mallets—49 presets

Percussions—72 presets

Kicks—40 presets

Snares—84 presets

Toms—27 presets

Hi-Hats—25 presets

Cymbals—27 presets

Chromakits—25 presets

Chimes and Bells—29 presets

Plucked Strings—34 presets

Basses—33 presets

Keys—26 presets

Strings and Pads—20 presets

Synths—25 presets

Organs and Pipes—11 presets

Soundscapes—41 presets

Effects—33 presets

Arpeggiators—39 presets

Arpeggiated Percussions—34 presets

With more than 650 presets spread into 19 categories, Chromaphone 2 packs everything you need to create all the parts of your productions.

Mallets—49 presets

Fairmount Marimba

Markemeer Marimba

Soft Marimba

Airy Marimba

Tricky Marimba

Bouncy Marimba

Live Vibes

Royal Vibe

French Vibe

Kiss & Run Vibe

Rubber Mallet Xylo

Acrylic Mallet Xylo

Gum Balafon

Béné Balafon

Senza 1

Senza 2

Glocky

Short Glock

Child Glock

Glass Glock

Vibraglock

Glock and Bells

Celestian

Nyunga Kalimba

Okeme Kalimba

Crystal Kalimba

Huru Kalimba

Fort Chambly Kalimba

Njari Kalimba

Cheap Kalimba

Steelpan

Glockenstring

Woodworks

Ethniticity

Woodpecker

Clickblocks

French Cancan

Resophone 1

Resophone 2

Electric Wood

Electric Marimba

Electronic Vibes

Multi Marimba

Glass Grains

Glass Breath

Dizzy Marimba

Cannelloni

Haunted Childhood

Vibraflute

Percussions—72 presets

Snappy Percs 1

Snappy Percs 2

Arabian Perc

Brush Tam

Bongo High

Bongo Low 1

Bongo Low 2

Multi-Bongo

Tama Tama

Davul

Ground and Sun

Drum from a Lost Tribe

African Drum

Talking Drum

Clay Drum

Percufun 1

Percufun 2

Percufun 3

Percu Manual 1

Indian Percussion

Tabla Town

Waverly Tabla Low

Waverly Tabla Middle

Waverly Tabla High

Metal Tongue Drum

Timpani

Double 'Brane 1

Double 'Brane 2

Double 'Brane 3

Gypsy Fairy

Mont-Royal 1

Mont-Royal 2

Vinyl Sampled African Percussions

Afro Cajón

Claves

Electro Clave

Woodblocks

Plastiwhaker

Big Kit Cowbell

Pig Bell

Horse Bell

Goat Bell

Duck Bell

Sheep Bell

Cinematic Snare Clap

Grindy Clap

Funk Clap 1

Funk Clap 2

Clap Kameo

Clap 1

Clap 2

Clap 3

Big Kit Hand Clap

Big Kit Finger Snap

Simili-Tambourine

Af Shaker 1

Af Shaker 2

Af Shaker 3

Af Shaker 4

SD's Shaker

Karkabou 1

Karkabou 2

Karkabou 3

Spur Perc

Short Frog

Long Frog

Vibraslap

Western Perc

Tribal Initiation

Frozen Grooves

Rain Pan Drumming

Circo Fantasma

Cinematic Drum 1

Cinematic Drum 2

Kicks—40 presets

OCD Kick 1

OCD Kick 2

OCD Kick 3

OCD Kick 4

OCD Kick 5

OCD Kick 6

Léa's Kick

Clark Kick

Plain Bass Drum

Jazz Kick

Jazz O Kick

Kick Jazzet

Kick Day

Tambour Kick

Kick Medium

Graphic Kick

BC's Tube Kick

Bellows Kick

Tuned Kicker C2

Kick Sloppy

Kick Big

Kick Natural

Kick Short

Kick Low

Kick Skin

Big Kit Beefy Kick

Big Kit Tight Kick

Not So Analog Kick 1

Not So Analog Kick 2

Funk Kick 1

Funk Kick 2

Funk Kick 3

Kick Hop

Dusty 808

Dusty 808 Verb

NuNu 808

Low End Hitter

Sixty-Eight Kick

Soft Analog Kick

Bird Kick

Snares—84 presets

Session Snare 1

Session Snare 2

Session Snare 3

Big Kit Snare

Big Kit Rimshot

Big Kit Electro Snare

Big Kit Electro Rimshot

Expressive Snare 1

Expressive Snare 2

Expressive Snare 3

Camembert Snare 1

Camembert Snare 2

Camembert Snare 3

Camembert Snare 4

Léa's Snare 1

Léa's Snare 2

Léa's Snare 3

Broue Snare

OCD Snare 1

OCD Snare 2

OCD Snare 3

OCD Snare 4

OCD Snare 5

OCD Snare 6

OCD Snare 7

Jam Snare

Funky Snare

Snare Rio

B Jazz Snare

Jazz Mo Snare

Snare Jones

Gold Snare

SM Snare

Woody Snare

Snared Shot

Snare Metal

Dirac Snare

Graphic Snare

Not So Analog Snare 1

Not So Analog Snare 2

Melodic Snare

Snare Ringing

Snare Low

Snare Boomy

Snare Short

Snare Loose

Snare High

Snare Tight

Snare Cut

Snare Bite

Snare Deep

Snare Snappy

Snare Natural

Snare Natural Alt

Snare Natural Ringing

Snare Plate 1

Snare Plate 2

Snare Plate 3

Snare Works

Zombie Snare

Sixty-Eight Snare 1

Sixty-Eight Snare 2

TR Snare

Rimshot Timbre

Rimshot Analog

Rimshot Acoustic

Rimshot Legacy

Impact Rimshot

Rimshot Gate

Rimshot Resonant

Rimshot RnB

Brushed Electro Snare 1

Brushed Electro Snare 2

Brushed Snare 1

Brushed Snare 1 (Hold)

Brushed Snare 2

Brushed Snare 3

Brush and Clap

Tambour Snare

King of Snare 1

King of Snare 2

King of Snare 3

King of Snare 4

Big Kit Side Stick

Toms—27 presets

Clark Tom High 1

Clark Tom Middle 1

Clark Tom Low 1

Clark Tom High 2

Clark Tom Middle 2

Clark Tom Low 2

Léa's High Tom

Léa's Middle Tom

Léa's Low Tom

High Tom Jazz

Med Tom Jazz

Low Tom Jazz

High Tom Trax

Med Tom Trax

Low Tom Trax

High Tom Round

Med Tom Round

Low Tom Round

High Tom Natural

Med Tom Natural

Low Tom Natural

Big Kit High Tom

Big Kit Mid Tom

Big Kit Floor Tom

Not So Analog Tom

Tom Tribe

Cinematic Tom

Hi-Hats—25 presets

Hi-Hat Trick 1

Hi-Hat Trick 2

Hi-Hat Trick 3

Hi-Hat Trick 4

Hi-Hat Trick 5

Hi-Hat Trick 6

Hi-Hat Trick 7

Hi-Hat Trick 8

Hi-Hat Trick 9

Big Kit Closed Hi-Hat

Big Kit Open Hi-Hat

Big Kit Open Hi-Hat (Gated)

Big Kit Pedal Hi-Hat

Big Kit Splashable Hi-Hat

Sharp Hi-Hat

Hi-Hat Basic

Hi-Hat Trax 1

Hi-Hat Trax 2

Hi-Hat Trax 3

Hi-Hat Foot

Hi-Hat Natural 1

Hi-Hat Natural 2

Chick'n'sizzle Hats

Middle Hi-Hat (Gated)

1940 Hi-Hat (Gated)

Cymbals—27 presets

Big Kit Crash 1

Big Kit Crash 2

Big Kit Crash 3

Big Kit Splash

Big Kit Ride

Big Kit Ride (Velo Bell)

Short Ride

Rigid Ride

Dirty Ride

Small Gong Ride

Medium Gong Ride

Large Gong Ride

Cymbatic 1

Cymbatic 2

Cymbatic 3

Cymbatic 4

Cymbatic 4 Dark

Cymbatic 4 Hollow

Cymbatic 5

Cymbatic 6

Cymbatic 6 Bright

Big Kit Chinese Cymbal

Chinese Cymbal

Gongy Plate

Tiger Gong

Bright Gong

Ringing Metal Plates

Chromakits—25 presets

Snare Kit

Destructo Kit

Clap Kit Four

Clap Kit Two

Heavy Duty Kit 1

Heavy Duty Kit 2

Electroacoustic Kit 1

Electroacoustic Kit 2

Electroacoustic Kit 3

Electroacoustic Kit 4

Snare Plate Kit

Analog Kit 1

Analog Kit 2

Street Corner Kit

Street Corner Kit (Gated)

Electrotubular Kit

Ceramic Pan Kit

Manual Percu Kit

Huge Hall Kit

Tonal Kit

Mangled Menu Kit

Marimba Kit

Backyard Kit

Bendy Kit

Cystom Tom Kit

Chimes and Bells—29 presets

Home Alone

Smooth Carillon

Barbell

Amimba

Metallica

Glasses

Chimophone

Chorused Glock

Vapourous Beam

Clockworks

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Glass Automaton

Calling Sticks

Beux Dreamer

Mr Beam

Bell Clusters

Chorused Plates

Carriage Clock

Take Me to Church

Chromatic Bells

Hand Bells

Platubular Bells

Metalworks 1

Metalworks 2

Particles of Tranquility

Ballerina Twirl

Auto Chimes (Glissando)

Wind Chimes

Large Bell

Plucked Strings—34 presets

Beauty in Numbers

Electric Contemplation

Sleepless Nights

Double-String Flange

Bell Guitar

Purple Nights

Chorused Driven

Lead GT

Howling Electric

Electric Acoustic

Pizzy

Harp Tube

Sweet Harmonics

Soft Harp

Fifth Harp

Chromatronics

Mystic Space

Fall Arpeggios

Tension

Koto Ancestor

Sun Ghanelja

Moon Ghanelja

Star Ghanelja

Eastern Strings

Two Tars

Saburau

Natural Bamako

Dulcimator

Inverted Dulcimer

Whole Tone Dulcimer from Space

Hammered Cymbalom

Plucked Cymbalom

Wah Wah Cymbalom

Another World

Basses—33 presets

Slappy

Woody E. Bass 1

Woody E. Bass 2

Woody E. Bass 3

Friday

Godsend

Bold Bass

Boa Bass 1

Boa Bass 2

Plump Bass

Elliptic Bass

Hard Lacquer Bass

Bin Bass

Soft 4 String

Tube Bass

Euro

Dark Bass

Ladybird Bass

Ze Funky Bass

Comando Bass

Velo-Slap Bass

Flanging Bass

Growling B

'Brane Bass Dark

'Brane Bass Bright

Mouthy

Moody Slap Bass

Electronic Bass

UFO Bass

Chifty Tuby Bass

Welcome to the House

Trance @ NAMM

Vacationer Pluck

Keys—26 presets

Ultranet Full

Ultranet Full Body

Ultranet Full Funk

Ultranet Full Short

Ultranet Mellow

Ultranet Mellow Not

Ultranet Bright

Ultranet Bright Octaver

Ultranet Bass Snap

Ultranet Bright Funk

Chromafunk

Insidious

Bright Thingy

So Very Funky

Ah Clav

Dry D6

Smooth Electric

Lounge Piano

The Darker Side of EP

Phased EP

Smooth Bepiano

The Heaven

Agonizing EP

Toy Percussion

Toy Piano

Celesta

Strings and Pads—20 presets

Frozen in Time

Wutherings

Materializing

Scintillator Strings

Growling Chroma

Guitar Pad

Strat Pad

Bathtub Pad

Uberstreich

Interesting Hollow Effect

Mellowtron

'Tron Strings

'Tron Octave Strings

Sautillé 1

Sautillé 2

Tremmy Lemmy Pad

Bowed

Ensemble 1

Ensemble 2

Decaying Ensemble

Synths—25 presets

Vintage Tubes 1

Vintage Tubes 2

Sample & Hold & Noise

Nirvana

Chiff Delay

Bouncy Chiff

Timber

Tube Love

Tranzy Pluck

Club Tubes

Polyester

Winter's Bone

Is It a Saw?

Magical Tubes

Harmonix Lead

Harmonix Lead Crushed

Ambient Pizz

Membrains

Plucked Tube

DMU Pluck

Foreign Shores

Belly Pluck

SID Gamer Lead

Chord 1

Chord 2

Organs and Pipes—11 presets

Flute 8' + 4'

Big Pipes

The Circus Is in Town

Old Rusty

Organ Attack

Insane in the Membrane

North Wind Organ

Steelpan-Organ Hybrid

'Tron Flute

Aerophone

Machu Flute

Soundscapes—41 presets

Carpetry

Eery

Esoteric

Ethereal Sweep

Grain Pad

Outer Reaches

Chroma Realms

Fractal Pad

Horror Harp

Underground Wind

The Deep

Scary Movie

Solar Spring

Storm Cloud

Bathing Pools

Cami Night

Stretching Glass

Uncertainty

Raining Tubes

Rosin Pipeworks

Blow Holes

Leakage

Rattler

Battles of Dreamworld

Particle Romance

Light Saber

Digeridrone

Heavy Drone

Low Drone

Mysterio

Scratch 'n Sniff

Scrapers from the Deep

Dark Insight

Mallet in a Metal Bowl

Chime-o-matic

Ringing Beam

Deep Well

Chorused Plates

Meditative Crash

Stockhausen Mallet

Width

Effects—33 presets

Submariner

Shallow Halo

Baudelaire

DBZ Drama

Gong of Doom

Hollow Plates

Ultimate Motor Sound

Safari

Water Filled Pan

Falling Gongs

Falling Metal Percussion

Wander Lust

Harmonic Phasing

Flanged Plates

Strange Little Things

Crackle OK

Windy 1

Windy 2

Brass Cup

Canteen

Ever

Stairway

Waterbirds

Birds Eye View

Warfare

Cosmic E Flat

School's Out

Horror Phone

Water Blocks

Cave Explorers

Rocket Science

Chuck's Toy Piano

Cinematic Four

Arpeggiators—39 presets

Magical Bell Arp

Floating On Waves Arp

Aquarius Arp

Harpy Arpy

AK Analog Arp

Nost Mallet Arp

Slightly Analog Arp

Cinematic Guitar Player

Scene

I Would Go to That Party

Noce Psy Trance Bass

Psy 5ths

Tropical Highlights

Song Patch

Reports of Vice City

Octave Magician

Haas Chords

Funky Guitar

Trance Master

Dance of Ghosts

Vortex of Bells

Start the Funk

Meditational Bells

Enchanted Forest

Deep Space Marimba

Dream Tube

Tri Marimba

Boingo Oingo

Airy Dance

Sunny Vibe

Spook Xylo

Castle Stairs

Wild Thoughts

80's Dance

Carl Sagan

A New World

Glass Onion

Skyboarding

Exploring Caves

Arpeggiated Percussions—34 presets

Disturbing

Weather

Plate Grooves

Tech Crystals

Auto Conga

Extreme Six

LFO Pandeiro

House or Not

Cinematic Drums 1

Cinematic Drums 2

Cool Tech Song

Jam on Dishes

Hi-Hat Comp

House of Bells

This Is Just Crazy

Substantial

Melodic Snare

16th Enhancer

Mental Journey

Spicy Glitch

Scratchy Beat

Jazz Cymbal

Varigroove

Tech Hit Beat

Water Conga Beat

Sultan Is Here

A New Bongo

High Bongo

Dizzy Yet?

Crazy Combos

Singing Drums

Mystery Drum

Perolatedfun

Airy Trip Perc

One-shot revolution
One-shots are no longer limited to the velocity dimension. Chromaphone uses the entire keyboard range to modulate volume, mallet noise and stiffness, noise filter frequency and density, hit position, and coupling to open a whole world of expressive sounds—and that in a totally stepless fashion.

Creative drum kits
Chromaphone ships with ready-made creative kit patches where each note provides a new sound slightly different from the previous one. Over the entire keyboard range the sound morphs from bass drum to snare to hi-hat. Discover a mixture of electronic and acoustic qualities intertwined to form highly playable, addictive, and always fresh drum sounds.

Performance

Chromaphone 2 ships with premium performance features: unison, vibrato, and a complete set of MIDI features. And for even more action, Chromaphone provides a user programmable pattern arpeggiator and shortcuts to the high quality effects.

Playful

Direct access to FX shortcuts, performance settings, and the arpeggiator.

Performance
Chromaphone 2 will match your playing style or musical context with ease thanks to the tap tempo and sync to host clock options; up-to-4-voice unison; and the flexible vibrato.

Arpeggiator
Ready, willing, and able, Chromaphone 2’s arpeggiator offers various syncing resolutions, playing algorithms, and rhythmic patterns that will spruce up any chord progressions into percolating melodies or pulsing sequences.

Edition

Modeling based synthesis gives you access to all source and resonator parameters. Customize instruments to perfectly fit your project or follow your inspiration and build entirely new ones for really creative and innovative sound design.

Mix and match

Chromaphone is an atelier for musicians and producers. At the turn of a few knobs, become an instrument maker, shaping metal, carving wood, and stretching skins. Craft and play expressive and responsive instruments that have a real-life presence.

Resonate
Instruments are created by combining acoustic resonators. A wooden bar makes a xylophone, turned metallic it becomes a glockenspiel. Adding a tube transforms it into a vibraphone or marimba. Plates shape up in bells and cymbals. A drumhead combined with a cylinder becomes a bass drum, snare, conga or bongo. Mix and match strings, plates, drumheads, membranes, beams, bars, and tubes to reproduce real-life instruments or create original ones.

Perfect couples
Chromaphone is the first synthesizer that takes into account the effect of coupling between resonators. Bringing together acoustic objects, for exemple the string and soundboard at the bridge of a guitar, changes the way each of them vibrates. A proprietary technology models precisely how objects interact and exchange energy thereby capturing key acoustic behaviours of musical instruments and resulting in sounds that have a real-life presence.

The perfect stroke
Shape the attack with the Mallet module which provides the triggering impact. Use the Amplitude and Stiffness controls to craft different type of sticks, mallets, and beaters, and the Noise parameter to bring texture to the hit. All can be modulated by keyboard velocity and pitch to provide great playing dynamics.

Get noisy
Sustain is provided by a flexible noise source. An envelope generator and filters provide tailored excitation to complement impacts from the mallet. A density parameter controls the rate at which noise samples interact with the resonators from random individual particule-like hits to a fully continuous flow. Loud or quiet, bursting or evolving, dense or porous, broadband or filtered, this noise source is the key to unusual and creative effects.

Effects

The Effects panel wraps up Chromaphone 2 as an all-inclusive package with awesome polishing tools.

Bare naked—All suited up

You’ll love the pure raw sound of Chromaphone 2, but the built-in effects will bring it to so many places that you’ll enjoy having them on hand.

And you have a chock-full of them to choose from: compressor, equalizer, delay, distortion, phaser, chorus, flanger, wah wah and notch filters, and reverb.

WINDOWS · MAC OS X · 32-/64-bit
VST · AU · RTAS · AAX Native · STANDALONE

Chromaphone 2 is compatible with nearly all DAWs.

Mac minimum system requirements*

Mac OS X 10.7 or later

Intel Core processor or later

512 MB of RAM

70 MB of free hard drive space

PC minimum system requirements*

Windows 7 32‑/64‑bit or later

Intel Core or equivalent processor

512 MB of RAM

70 MB of free hard drive space

*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Sonar, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).

Neat features

Standalone operation for quick jams and experimentations

Real-time control over any parameters via your MIDI controller knobs, faders, and switches

MIDI clock, tap, and host tempo synchronization for effects and modulations

Relaxed editing with unlimited undo/redo capability

The benefits of physical modeling

Sound manipulation at the source core

Presets load in a flash

Super smooth dynamics—no velocity layers!

Small memory footprint—less than 256 MB of RAM per instance

Installs in less than a minute—less than 44 MB on disk

Manual PDF

Try Chromaphone 2 now for free
Fully functional. Less than 44.0 MB to download. Seconds to install.

Windows Installer

Mac OS X Installer

CHROMAPHONE 2 SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PROMOTION
For a limited time only, Chromaphone 2 is at the special introductory price of $149 (reg.$199)
and includes the brand new Synbiosis sound bank by Daniel Stawczyk for free.
Ends Monday, April 11, 2016.

Upgrade for Chromaphone 1 users: $29 (reg.$39)

More details: Applied Acoustics System

Last edited: Mar 16, 2016

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