Puremagnetik has announced its Arkinaut | Plucked Resonator synth instrument plugin is free this weekend (reg. price $20).
Arkinaut is a fictitious electroacoustic instrument, inspired by ancient sounds and materials (zither, wood stone, glass, and crystal), while employing modern synthesis techniques. It excels at producing timbres ranging from plucked and bowed strings to mallets. It was designed to create percussive and bowed articulations combined with idiophone transients and synthesizer modulations.
With an array of controls to set resonator type, transient characteristics, timbre tone, and vibrational material, Arkinaut lets you sculpt a vibrating string instrument tailored to your taste. Choose from “Metal”, “Wood” or “Elastic” resonators and use the “Mallet” to add struck bar transients such as those found in a vibraphone or marimba.
Arkinaut’s internal workings employ Karplus-Strong algorithms fed into a soft overdrive. An optional ring modulator provides an augmented and chaotic tone design that can create a wide palette of timbres. The final stage of the signal passes through a Moog-style low pass filter and a fixed delay “doubling” module that simulates string loosening.
Arkinaut | Plucked Resonator is free this weekend only (promo ends Sunday, October 15th, 2023).
More information and download: Puremagnetik
