Plinky 12 Chords is an expressive polyphonic touch synthesiser, built around exploring harmonies intuitively and improvising melodies on the fly. Designed in collaboration with mmalex, it is a member of the Plinky 12 family of instruments and puts its characteristic fragile, melancholic sound at the touch of your fingertips.
- 12 voice polyphony, split between 6 chord and 6 melody voices
- 13 Palettes with 45 chords each, to explore, mix, match and shape your composition
- 4 polyphonic melody surfaces that dynamically adjust to match the harmonies:
- Free play on the chromatic surface, guided by highlights for chord and scale notes
- Improvise with on-scale notes on the scale surface
- Arpeggiate through a palette of chords on the chordnotes surface
- Explore a whole surface of suggested harmonies on the related chords surface
- Polyphonic arp with 32 x 16 step patterns that you can edit on the fly
- Circle of fifths transposition
- Built-in sequencer with 128 steps to sequence the shape of your chords
- Individual track length, modulo, probability, pattern generator, Stolperbeats shuffle
- Plinky 12 synth engine, polytimbral with different sounds for Bass, Treble and Melody
- XY modulation for morphing between synth sounds
- FX section with Tape delay and Reverb with Shimmer
- Process sounds through the effects from the external audio in
- MIDI Routing to control external synths with Plinky 12
