Macros & MIDI controlled sound variations with the Chromaphone 3 acoustic object synthesizer plug-in

TUTORIAL: Chromaphone 3 now boasts four performance macros per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls. Each and every sound features modulation, timbre, envelope, and effect morphing assignments that can be played in real-time for enhanced expressivity and sonic dimension.

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Description
RESOUNDING HITS
Chromaphone strikes in full dynamics with acoustic sharpness and precision.

Chromaphone 3 is a two-voice synthesizer based on eight physically modeled acoustic resonators. This versatile instrument provides a delightful mixture of real-life presence and distinctive timbres that can’t be found anywhere else. Chromaphone 3 ships with 1000+ presets taking full advantage of its state-of-the-art acoustic object synthesis.

Key Features
- Two-part multitimbral, stacked or split
- Top-notch analog modules and clever synth architecture
- Four performance macros per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls
- Factory library comprising more than a 1000 sounds by top sound designers
- Expansion packs

WHAT'S NEW?
We have streamlined Chromaphone and brought it to a whole new level.

- NEW Home view
With macros mapped to key sound characteristics—modulation, timbre, envelope, and effect—the Home view presents a distraction free and laidback browsing and tweaking experience.

- NEW Two-Voice Multitimbral
Chromaphone 3 combines two independent timbres—stacked or split—to create performance-friendly, texture-full, and spacious sounds that are sure to make a good impression.

- NEW Factory Library​
Chromaphone 3 ships with a completely new factory library of 420 sounds created by top sound designers. Michel Basque, Christian Halten, Jerry Kovarsky, Christian Laffitte, Niall McCallum, Adam Pietruszko, Daniel Stawczyk, Sean Divine, and Venus Theory form an incredible team that made the most of the latest Chromaphone 3 features. It’s with great pride that we present these new signature sounds.

- REMASTERED Chromaphone 2 Library
A long and fastidious process of fine-tuning went down in the AAS quarters. Each and every sound of the legacy Chromaphone 2 library went under the eyes of the AAS team members. They now boast a consistent gain-stage, unity-gain effects, better dynamics, and compelling real-time sound transformation assignments to take advantage of the new features of Chromaphone 3. That’s an extra 676 solid sounds in your hands.

- NEW Browser
With Packs, Sounds, Categories, and Creators views, Chromaphone 3’s brand-new browser offers an efficient way to home in on the sounds you’re looking for.

- NEW Macros
Chromaphone 3 now boasts four performance macros per layer that respond to user-defined MIDI controls. Each and every sound features modulation, timbre, envelope, and effect morphing assignments that can be played in real time for enhanced expressivity and sonic dimension.

- IMPROVED Microtonal tunings via Scala scale files
Chromaphone 3 now supports the Scala scale file format as well as reference note frequency tuning for microtonal music making.

- NEAT Compatible with Chromaphone 2 sounds
Simply copy Chromaphone 2 banks in Chromaphone 3’s packs folder to convert them.

- EXPANDED Multi-Effects Module
Chromaphone 3’s multi-effects module now sports reverb, equalizer, compressor, tremolo, and guitar amplifier processors for even more completeness. Furthermore, the five effect slots can be re-arranged in any order.

Chromaphone 3 and AAS Player are compatible with nearly all DAWs.

AAS—Applied Acoustics Systems

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[francescocarosone]

I'm so glad about this in v3, you mapped the whole library with these macros! A physically modelled synth is inherently a more difficult beast to learn than an analog synth: the Home window with these 4 macros is really a bridge between the user and all the knobs in the synth page; we can now play with the presets, adapt them easily to the song context and mainly learn which parameters the macros are affecting in the synth page, so that we may understand the synth better and build our own sounds.
Yet, I also believed these macros to be realtime controllers: I noticed that this is true only sometimes, since the realtime computation of 4x4x2 parameters makes my CPU struggle, although it's a P7-9700- not that bad. I fear that doubling layers has put a computational effort to this synth and it's a pity since we would like to use it as all other synths, with pitch bend, portamento, adapting envelope, increasing effects during a held note. I will improve my CPU, meanwhile you please think of optimizing the CPU consume!

[TemmeSikkema]

People at AAS. Thank you for this GREAT update. The bitimbrality is great, as are these macros. In fact, the entire Ui looks so good. My favorite PM synth by a landslide

[cnsdne]

Why does MIDI input only cover half of a macro knob's travel? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing?