Puremagnetik have released Chordophonic Devices, available at the intro price of $12.00, increasing to $100.00 after the promotion. The offer ends February 2nd.
Chordophonic Devices brings together five of Puremagnetik’s innovative plucked and strummed instruments, each offering a unique take on electroacoustic expression. Whether it’s physically modeled plucks, stochastic strumming, or vintage Omnichord textures, Chordophonic Devices unlocks a world of harmonic and percussive possibilities.
Use Omiharp to craft lush electronic strums, Voga to generate evolving plucked phrases, or let Arkinaut transport you to a world of resonant, ancient timbres. Dial in Ultrakord for retro-inspired Omnichord textures, or explore the minimalist charm of Harpitron’s Tronichord emulation. No matter which path you take, Chordophonic Devices offers an expressive plectrum trove for composers and sound designers alike.
Omiharp
Omiharp is an electronic strumming instrument inspired by the legendary 1981 Suzuki Omnichord, capable of playing enchanting sounds across a spectrum of timbres.
Going beyond the original Omnichord, Omiharp uses an advanced physically-modeled plucking voice with a series of timbre controls. This voice is then arpeggiated through a tremolo and delay circuit. Puremagnetik has extended this functionality to include various strum and finger picking patterns. You can choose from the classic up and down patterns but also choose up and down, thumb first, “mirror” and random strumming modes.
Formats: (VST2, VST3, Audio Units)
Voga
Voga is a Karplus-Strong reso-pluck synthesizer that can create new musical phrases on its own. It will generate variable yet musical strumming patterns based on just a few settings. Voga can create anything from plucked melodic phrases to ambient guitar arpeggios.
Formats: (VST2, VST3, Audio Units)
Arkinaut
Arkinaut is a fictitious electroacoustic instrument, inspired by ancient sounds and materials (zither, wood stone, glass and crystal), while employing modern synthesis techniques. It excels at producing timbres ranging from plucked and bowed strings to mallets and more. It was designed to create percussive and bowed articulations combined with idiophone transients and synthesizer modulations.
With an array of controls to set resonator type, transient characteristics, timbre tone and vibrational material, Arkinaut lets you sculpt a vibrating string instrument tailored to your taste. Choose from “Metal”, “Wood” or “Elastic” resonators and use the “Mallet” to add struck bar transients such as those found in a vibraphone or marimba.
Arkinaut’s internal workings employ Karplus-Strong algorithms fed into a soft overdrive. An optional ring modulator provides augmented and chaotic tone design that can create a wide palette of timbres. The final stage of the signal passes through a Moog-style low pass filter and a fixed delay “doubling” module that simulates string loosening.
Formats: (VST2, VST3, Audio Units)
Ultrakord
Ultrakord is an electronic instrument inspired by the extraordinary sounds & strumming interface of the Suzuki Omnichord. It has been reverse engineered as an Ableton Live Pack, Kontakt & Logic Instrument.
An Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords. The most basic method of playing the instrument is to press the chord buttons and swipe the touch plate with a finger or guitar pick in imitation of strumming a stringed instrument.
Puremagnetik has taken the Omnichord concept to a new level, building a sophisticated adaptation of a truly classic instrument.
To emulate bi-directional strumming, Ultrakord has the Harpomatik instruments with key down and release strum samples. Seven One-Finger-Chords are mapped across seven octaves to make them all available in every key.
Ultrakord includes all of the accompaniment sounds for programming your own patterns. Drums, percussion, bass, guitar and organ are all built into the RhythmSection instruments. The same seven octave layout is used to make all One-Finger-Chords available for the guitar and organ tones. In addition, Ultrakord includes 30 new patterns using the RhythmSection instruments just to get you started.
Three melodic tones have been multi-sampled to allow for more expressive playing. This includes the individual tones as well as several Triplex instruments.
Ultrakord includes three Strumplex Instrument Racks which emulate the electronic strumming of the Omnichord. The Auto Kord function gives you One-Finger-Play chords mapped across seven octaves. Or shut off the Auto Kord macro and play whatever chords you choose (with all your fingers). Either way, you can use the Auto Strum feature to choose from several strumming patterns.
Formats: Sample-instrument (Ableton Live Pack, Kontakt, Logic)
Harpitron
Harpitron brings the beautifully simple sounds of the 1981 Suzuki Tronichord into the 21st century. As a precursor to the later, larger Omnichord (see Puremagnetik’s Ultrakord) the Tronichord employed a circle of fifths style layout for simple harmonic navigation and musical playability.
Puremagnetik has now resurrected this classic synthesizer and reverse engineered it for Ableton Live, Kontakt & Logic. It includes automated strumming features, grid and chromatic layouts for Ableton Push or a traditional keyboard and intricately programed articulation controls.
Minimum Requirements – Ableton Live 9.7, Kontakt 5, Logic X
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