PLINKY 12 CHORDS REPLACEMENT PANEL

This is a replacement panel only — a Plinky 12 unit is required. Swap it onto your Plinky 12 to turn it into the Chords instrument.

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.

Some of its features include:

• 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