Testbench: AAS Chromaphone 3

>Physical-modeling instruments recreate the real-world conditions behind how an instrument makes sound. By ‘modeling’ principles of ‘physics’, physical modeling stays away from capturing samples, instead emulating an instrument down to its deepest principles: the movement of a string in the air; the impact of a finger, a plectrum, a mallet.

Applied Acoustics Systems are masters at this, and the new version of their Chromaphone instrument expands on the possibilities of the technique. V3 is something of an ‘object’ simulator, but its real focus is in modeling blocks, membranes and tubes. Mallet instruments, drums and perc sounds are the order of the day…