BowedThing

The experimental musician has a new tool at hand: a two-bowed-winding-plate instrument for extensive metal ringing madness.

Violin Pizz

The Violin Pizz is a simple patch. The secret is in the excitation sample for loading in the Player module: it's a short knock on a violin body. So the String module is fed with some frequencies of a real violin.

Stringed FM

Stringed FM uses four one-mode string modules as modulators for the carrier oscillator plus feedback - with remarkable results. You can create lots of weird and spooky timbres: from pure electronic to almost acoustic sounds.

Mouth Harp

The mouth harp is a simple instrument found in many cultures as Jew's Harp, GewGaw, Jeu and many others.

Celesta

Invented by August Mustel in 1886, the Celesta looks like an upright piano, but has metal bars instead of strings. It has a high pitched and gentle sound with a rather short decay. It resembles the sound of a Glockenspiel...

FOF Instruments

The word FOF is an abbreviation of Fonction d'Onde Formantique (Formant Wave Function). It is in fact a special case of amplitude modulation, where a stream of short grains (pulse train) excite a damped sinewave. This process causes a formant region. The FOF method can be used to create the human voice, but also for musical instruments. This patch uses a VCO (pulse) that feeds a string with only 4 modes, so nearly a damped sine wave, with a very short decay. The result is a violin/cello timbre and some others. But as the demo let you hear, you can also use the grains as a separate musical or effect element.

Tibetan Bells II

Tibetan Bells II features a sound that is hard to describe. We could say that the sound has a 'moving', irregular decay.

Tenor Sax

One of the most interesting aspect of the Tenor Sax patch is the non-linear behaviour of the bowed resonator. It's extremely sensitive on how hard you press a key. It can cause effects as growling, multphonics and overblowing.

Rave

This pack contains 17 instruments revolving around rave music.

Dub

This pack contains 14 Dub-style instruments.

Electronica

This pack contains 15 instruments exploring the Electronica genre.

Goa

This pack contains 13 instruments concentrating on the Goa style.

Trance

This pack contains 18 instruments focusing on the Trance genre.

Box Modeler

The Box Modeler is a speaker cabinet simulator. A bank of filters provides cutoff frequency and resonance controls to shape the response of the virtual speaker. The Tassman's output stage delay and reverb add a sense of space and dimension to the effect.

monoFilter

The monoFilter is an envelope and synced-LFO controlled 4-pole resonant lowpass filter. This simple arrangement yields creative results on drum loops, guitar and bass. The envelope is triggered from the input signal detection circuit or via a MIDI signal.

Octaver

The Octaver is a synth-like pure-square signal generator. The synthesized signals provided by the Octaver are based on the incoming audio signal - the first signal is at the same pitch and the second is one octave lower. The signals can then be shaped with the two 4-pole resonant lowpass filters. This is a really nasty effect - abuse with care :)

Panner

The Panner is a simple pan pot, but controlled with a CV sequencer and synced-LFO. This effect works great on mono material - Give new life to those mono drum loops!

Phaser

This is the classic Tassman phaser effect patched for real time use.

Sync Tremolo

This effect is a tempo-synced variable wave form and stereo width tremolo effect. A new classic!

Tremolo

This is the classic Tassman tremolo effect patched for real time use.

Tube Booster II

The Tube Booster II is a ten band tubular processor and echo generator. It was originally found in earlier versions of Tassman as an offline sound file processor - This new incarnation can be used in real time in your favorite host application. Each tube's length corresponds to a resonant frequency. Truly unique!

Vintage EQ

The Vintage EQ is inspired by the Pultec equalizers. Like its predecessors Vintage EQ features discrete frequency selection as well as boost and attenuation controls for each of the five frequency bands. The capability of boosting and attenuating the same frequency creates a really musical effect.

8Bit-Matrix

Ready? This one is nasty. First, this effect is an 8-bit converter.The matrix part is that any of the input bits can be re-asigned to any output bits. Input bits are represented by the vertical axis, and output bits by the horizontal axis. Crunch, squeak and digital noise! Special thanks to Kassen for the 8-bit converters!

8Bit-Switch

This effect is the little brother of the 8Bit-Matrix. It's an 8-bit processor with on/off switches on each bit. By default the signal is reduced to 8-bit but it's really easy to use any combination of bits. Hello crunchy drums :)

Flanger

This is the classic Tassman flanger effect patched for real time use.

Rate Reducer

With this effect, the signal gets re-sampled by a Sample & Hold module clock at a user-defined sample rate. There is a resonant low-pass filter before and after the re-sampling to put emphasis on particular frequencies. This device is great to emulate early digital synths.

Rectifier

This distortion effect takes the negative part of the signal and multiplies it by a factor ranging from -1 to 1. With the rectifying factor at 1, the signal is unchanged; at 0, the signal is half-rectified and the negative part of the signal is gone; at -1, the signal is full-rectified, effectively doubling its frequency. The included rectifier sub-patch also works great on modulation signals.

Ring Modulator

This device multiplies the audio signal with a modulated sine-wave generator. The effect is somewhat dissonant as the multiplication creates additional non-harmonic frequency components. If two sine-wave signals were to be multiplied, say Sine-A (400Hz) and Sine-B (600Hz), the resulting signal would have a 200Hz and 1000Hz components.

Stereo Chorus

This is the classic Tassman stereo chorus effect patched for real time use.