Modus

Cutting-edge physical modelling

Modus is a virtual world of conceptual instruments, modelled with cutting edge physical behaviours and acoustic properties. Modus uses Physical Audio's latest research in collision modelling to connect acoustic elements together. Strings, plates, springs and rattles collide to generate tones that resonate and react together. These elements are combined in different ways to create three types of instruments.

With Connected Strings each voice has up to four connected strings which can be plucked or act as resonators. The strings are connected by either rattles that give collision effects as the strings vibrate, or nonlinear springs. Physical parameters control the decay, mass and harmonic content along with individual semitone and fine tuning controls. The second mode is Strings connected to a Plate. This model has two strings connected to a plate using nonlinear connections that can either be rattles or springs. These strings are retuned on-the-fly to give 6 octaves of monophonic or duophonic sound. The plate acts as a soundboard with variable decay, mass and fundamental frequency. These, along with the connection controls, can all be changed in real-time.

Finally there are driven plates. A driver signal is used to excite the top plate, which is connected to the bottom plate with two nonlinear connections. This driver can  be a polyphonic sawtooth or sine wave, or a multi-striking hit for percussive effects, or sidechained audio. There is also an option to use a single plate connected to ground.

Features

• Physical models of strings, plates, springs and rattles with 3 customisable configurations.
• Multi-strike or Sidechain audio as plate driver options.
• 2 x LFOs to modulated real-time parameters.
• Multi-FX with EQ, VCF, Drive, Delay and Reverb.
• MPE support.
• MTS-ESP micro tuning support.
• Fully resizable UI.