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
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