Applied Acoustic Systems Chromaphone 3 is a captivating creative percussion synth plugin where you become the sonic scientist to create and experiment with traditional to otherworldly percussion sounds – either from scratch or using some of the included 1000+ presets.
This versatile instrument provides a delightful mixture of real-life presence and distinctive timbres that can’t be found anywhere else and there's tons of features, including an arpeggiator section, to tweak, enhance and add movement to your sound. What's more, because Chromaphone 3 uses physical instrument modeling instead of samples, this plug-in has a tiny footprint and makes all changes in real time.
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.
Highlights
- 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
System Requirements
PC
- Windows 7 32/64bit or later
- Intel Core or equivalent processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 70 MB of free hard drive space
Mac
- Mac OS X 10.7 or later
- Intel Core processor or later
- 512 MB of RAM
- 70 MB of free hard drive space
