Features
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General
- 16-voice virtual synthesizer designed for various new types of synthesizer plucked sounds and more.
Presets / Folder & Global Section:
- Presets are sorted in Bank Folders with categories of sounds
- Additionally, there is a ‘Quick Browser’, ‘Favorites’, and ‘Star’ system in the bank manager
- Advance Page for editing all available parameters
- ECS (External MIDI Control)
- Help, which opens up the WirePluck PDF manual.
- Bank Manager.
- Clicking on the WirePluck logo takes you to the Back Panel. The Back Panel shows global settings and controls that are infrequently accessed.
- A control menu is available in the upper right corner for global settings.
- Animated Dials with the option to disable.
Layer 1-3 Controls
WirePluck's base is up to 3 Layers, with 4 source types
- Source layer can be 'Wire', 'String', 'FM', or 'Wave' type
- Each source layer has a Pitch Envelope with Decay, Curve, and Amount Control
- Each source layer has a High Pass Filter
- Each source layer has a Volume, Decay, Decay Curve, Keytrack to Decay, Pan, and Volume Control
Wire source
- A new algorithm that generates a sound simular to plucking a wire
- Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control
- Q (resonance) control
- Stereo Separation control
- Wire amount (Envelope amount)
- Decay control
- Velocity to Wire control
- Keyboard tracking to Wire ontrol
- 12dB Low Pass Filter
- Filter Cutoff control, velocity, keytracking control
- Filter Envelope with Decay and Sustain control
String source
- The String source a is a customized Karplus model
- Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control
- Impulse length control
- Impulse volume and shape control
- Length control
- Velocity and keyboard tracking to Length control
- Keyboard tracking to Length control
- Pluck volume control
- Velocity and keyboard tracking to Pluck control
- Keyboard tracking to Pluck control
- Damp control
- Velocity and keyboard tracking to the Damp parameter
- Keyboard tracking to Damp parameter
- Free running feature
- Drift feature
FM source
- Custom FM (PhaseModulation) synthesis source
- 2 Modulating Oscillators with Sinus waveform
- 3rd Audio Oscillator with semi-tuning control
- 2 types of Modulation routing modes of Oscillator 1 and 2 into Oscillator 3
- Pitch Envelope with an Amount, and Decay control for Oscillators 1 and 2
- Volume control for Oscillators 1 and 2
- Volume Decay and Sustain control for Oscillators 1 and 2
- Modulation Volume Velocity control for Oscillators 1 and 2
Wave source
- Virtual analog Oscillator source
- Semi-tuning and fine-tuning control
- Sinus, saw, square, and triangle waveforms
- Symmetry control
- Sinus Sub-Oscillator control
- Filter modes including 26 Filter types, and additionally, Ring and Amp Modulation
- Filter stereo spread contol
- Filter Velocity control
- Filter Keyboard tracking control
- Filter envelope with Amount, Decay, and Sustain controls
LFO 1 + 2 Section
WirePluck has 2 LFOs that generate modulation signals available inside the MOD Matrix section.
- Waveform types: Triangle Up, Triangle Down, Saw Up, Saw Down, Sine Up, Sine Down, Square Up, Square Down, Sample and Hold.
- Modes: Poly, Free, Mono, and Legato
- Speed control with tempo-sync option
Arpeggiator section
WirePluck offers a classic style Arpeggiator with some unique features, like sequencer mode and chord control per step.
- The Arpeggiator has up to 16 steps. Per step, you can set the following values:
Step On/Off
Tie (Tie note)
Slide
Tune
Vel
Chord
Free
Ratcheting - Steps (number of Steps 1-16)
- Loop Modes are On, Off, PingPong
- Speed (for example 2 x tempo or ¼ x tempo)
- Arp Modes:
Up, Down, Up/Down, Random, Ordered, Rev. Ordered, Ordered Up/Down, Ordered Down/Up, Chord, Sequencer, Sequencer Reset - Octave control
- Tie modes: Normal, Special, Toggle 1, Toggle 2
- Lock Mode option
- Swing
- Slide amount
- Vel / Key (Responds to the velocity setting of the step or the keyboard input)
- Host Sync
- Latch
- Key Entry
- Arpeggiator Command Menu
MOD 1-8
In total, 8 modulation slots are available, mainly for the 'Ribbon Controller' or additional modulations.
- 8 modulation slots
- Sources are MIDI and WirePluck parts
- Destinations are WirePluck parameters and FX parameters
- Amount control with positive and negative modulation and a bypass feature by clicking on the slot number
Velocity Split Section
- Velocity Split option for the 3 layers
- Fade In, Start, End, and Fade Out controls
- Graphic control and display
Play Section
In this section, you can control how WirePluck responds to notes played, either Polyphonic, Monophonic, or ARP. The portamento is also set here.
- Play Modes are Poly, Poly MPE, Mono, Mono Hi, Mono Low, Legato, Legato Hi, Legato Lo, and ARP
- Portamention modes, Constant Rate, Constant Time, Held Rate, Held Time
- Portamento Speed
- Pitch Bend Up / Down with a range up to 48 semitones
Chord Section
In this section, you can store up to 4 chord settings and use them dynamically while playing.
- Chord memory with up to 6 notes, including the root key
- 4 Chord memory locations
- Semi tune, Velocity, and Pan settings per chord note
- Various Chord playback modes for the 4 memory slots
- Strumming with temp-sync option
AMP Section
- Volume control
- Velocity to Volume control
- Panning control
Ribbon Controller
Dedicated modulation source with the unique spring-back feature. The Ribbon Controller can be used in BiPolar or Polar mode.
- BiPolar and Polar modes
- Spring Back features include tempo-based settings.
- Quantized return steps settings for the Spring Back feature.
FX Section
WirePluck has 4 FX units – a Distortion, a multi-mode Modulation FX, a Stereo Delay, and a Reverb, which can be organized in whichever path you want via the Path menu.
- Distortion FX with amount and mix control, offering Atan, Bits, Cos, Cross, Fold, Limit, Noise, Octave, Over, Power, Rate, Rectify, Saturate, Square, and Valve distortions.
- Modulation FX section with Chorus, Flanger, Ensemble, Phaser, Wah-Wah, TalkBox, Tremolo, AutoPan, Ring modulator, and Gator.
- Stereo Delay with the unique equal feedback option
- Reverb with the RP-VERB algorithm
- Bypass per FX, or for All FX
- FX path order menu for Modulation FX, Stereo Delay, and Reverb.
Bank Manager
There are four main sections: Presets, Find, Search Category, and Set Category. For each section, the Banks are visible on the right-hand side.
While in the Preset screen in the Bank Manager, you can mark any Preset with a Star if you like the Preset
Back Screen
A click on the WirePluck logo will display the back panel. The back panel contains several global controls that affect all instances of SynFeX.
- GUI size options are 100%, 125%, 150%, and 200%
- Computer Keyboard Up / Down
- External MIDI Control Capture Mode
- MIDI Program / Bank Change
- MIDI Channel
- Global Tuning with .tun files option
- Anti-aliasing Filter settings
