RipplerX is a physical modeling synthesizer – for Linux, Mac & Windows – that the developer says is capable of sounds similar to AAS Chromaphone and Ableton Collision.
Features:
- Cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and macOS.
- Dual resonators with serial and parallel coupling.
- 9 Models of acoustic resonators: String, Beam, Squared, Membrane, Drumhead, Plate, Marimba, Open tube and Closed tube.
- Inharmocity, Tone, Ratio and Material sliders to shape the timbre.
- Noise and mallet generators.
- Up to 64 partials per resonator.
- Built with JUCE.
Availability:
RipplerX is available as a free download via Github.
nice work!
I’ve been loving Chromaphone for several years and this thing looks like a borderline rip of the GUI, right down to the A & B layers. Its odd to see a Behringer-like move in software, but its free and the creator recommends Chromaphone if you want a fuller synth. I won’t get all butt-hurt over it; its a decent sort of tease.
If you haven’t tried physical modeling, this would be a great entry. Check out AAS. PM now feels as important as analog & other methods. The string sounds are especially wild. When it isn’t focusing there, it often acts like part of a layered D-50-type sound.
you’re overeacting dave; it bears as much resemblance to chromaphone as any physical modeling tools does; they all use the same terms and controls. and they all have the capacity to sound similar. it’s digital, there’s no magic analog pixie dust here.
luckily, we can ignore all that because we have the source code and can do what we like to make it our own.
thank you TiagoLr! i will be happily looking at your code for use in my own personal projects!
Thanks! It kinda is a rip-off, the challenge was to make a synth sounding as good as Chromaphone, fell short just on the serial coupling, may be able to figure it out in time.
You have got to be joking. A glance at KVR or Plug In Boutique shows the vast majority or VST instruments and effects are (often poor) rip offs and/or emulations of other software and even more so hardware.
examples?????????
I’m definitely going to try this.
I have the Plonk eurorack module from Intellijel that was made in collaboration with AAS and I really like it.
However , sometimes I can’t be bothered with the whole eurorack patching thing.
This might be just what I’m looking for.
Will download it and try it out over the weekend.
Butt-hurt?
DOES IT WORK ON MAC SONOMA? HELLO? IS ANYONE AWAKE?
Chromaphone came out in 2011, and by the looks of it RipplerX is even simpler than that initial version… nice and simple; AAS hardly has a patent on “synth with two [oscillators]”…
I’m honestly just surprised it’s not based on Mutable Instruments algos as most other physmod is these days.
I like the algos in Surge for this.
After I downloaded the Mac version, I found the VST3 in a folder on my desktop. I assumed that it belongs in the VST3 folder in the “Liberary/Audio/Plugins path. So I dragged the VST3 file into that folder. For a brief second or so, a dialog box appeared on the screen saying that RipplerX must be downloaded before it can be installed.
What the heck …? ? ?
From the Cambridge dictionary:
Butthurt: offended and upset, especially in a way that is silly or unreasonable.
Its a small hazard of Internet bulletin boarding.
Cool to see. Physical Modelling is great but you need more sophistication if you want to truly emulate acoustic instruments. But if it’s open source we can all go have a play. First thing I’d add is more waveforms for the mallet. Then modes on interaction between the mallet and the feedback from the resonator.