Aodyo Instruments shared this video preview of Anyma V, a powerful hybrid physical modelling virtual instrument for Linux, macOS & Windows.
Anyma V uses physical modelling technology to simulate acoustic sound sources like strings and reeds, as well as resonating structures such as wood, glass, and metal.
It’s also the virtual counterpart to their Anyma Phi hardware synthesizer. Anyma V shares the same sound engine and patch format, enabling seamless patch creation and transfer between both instruments. But, unlike its hardware sibling, Anyma V offers polyphonic capabilities and unlimited instances in your DAW.
The video demo features Anyma V, controlled using the Anyma Omega prototype keyboard.
Pricing and Availability:
Anyma V is available now with an intro price of €79.00 (normally € 159.00).
I like this world, having played Chromaphone for several years. Anyma V seems to have its own take on it, but the principles remain the same. Nothing else sounds like it, so you need at least one PM synth. That goes double if you want to explore MPE. Listen to their site demos and you’ll get it straight away.
I like Chromaphone and was expecting the same here but this is light years beyond it in terms flexibility and options.
Really recommend this one, one of the most interesting synths I’ve played with in a while.
To be honest, except for the first patch’s complex shifting overtones on a plucked string model, none of the other patches seem beyond the capabilities of even an analog synth with a LFO (capable of being routed to VCO, VCA amd VDF independently) and a ring modulator.
In particular, that “rubberband bass” patch could be easily confused with a DX-7.
Not having personally tried the software, I can’t be sure whether it’s just that this software produces sounds that are similiar to an analog synth with the aformentioned featrues, or whether it’s this demo’s fault for deliberately choosing “weird analog synth sounding patches” as sound demos.
I was expecting to hear things like the realisttc reproduction of strking metal objects, bowing vibrarating strings, the fuman inflections of a person blowing into a wind cclumn, etc. And this demo didn’t deliver.
Grabbed this a few nights ago, playing it with a NuRad.
The factory bank is pretty awful. Fortunately, Mark Steiner just finished doing a huge patch bank for the hardware version, and spent the last week converting everything to work with the VST. His sounds are fantastic, and have rocketed this one up my list to be on par with Respiro and the Davidson plugins.
If you’re a wind synth player and are planning to get this, budget in $90 for Mark’s patch bank.
$90 for the patch pack or is it $11 on top of the $79? The standard presets that come with this plugin are truly awful.
O Omega, where art thou?
same here. hope it still develops.
Since the software was initially developed for themselves, to test parts of the hardware, I am sure they’re still at it. Same with the Loom, which is a standalone version of the ribbon on their synths. Being too reliant on certain components being available seems to have made this quite the headache for the developers.
I am confident that it’s coming. Enough toys to play with in the meantime!
Looks like it would be easy to program. I’d like to hear more audio demos.
Instead of a fixed waveform or sample, you’re triggering an algorithm. It took me a while to grasp the feel factor. Rapid key strikes may not fully retrigger the model, so you get lesser energy behaviors that are part of the organic subtleties. You get that before MPE gets figured in, too.
I agree with ldb about Steiner’s sound set. With a couple like that, you can reverse-engineer things until the light dawns. It was a red-letter day when I worked my way to a handpan with a layered attack that spoke up properly. PM is the ideal partner for analog & digital.
I ran out and rented the instrument when it first arrived, and all the hype is true. Friends, the future is friendly, and the future is the Expressive E Osmose.
I am, however, holding on to my Yamaha EX-5 while I save some money.
EX5 is a great synth. i have the R. the Anyma is a great sounding instrument.