AAS Chromaphone 3 acoustic object synthesizer VST AU AAX

§ Resonators—the heart of object synthesis §

Chromaphone 3 proudly showcases eight physically modeled acoustic resonators. Mix and match strings, plates, drumheads, membranes, beams, bars, and tubes to reproduce real-life instruments or create original ones. At the turn of a few knobs, become an instrument maker, shaping metal, carving wood, and stretching skins.

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State-of-the-art signature sounds

Chromaphone 3 ships with a completely new factory library of 421 signature sounds. The collection propels our favorite instrument into the future of modern productions with a delightful naturalness.
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Top sound designers

The entire Chromaphone 3 factory library features exclusive signature sounds from nine a-list members of the craft: Michel Basque, Sean Divine, Christian Halten, Jerry Kovarsky, Christian Laffitte, Niall McCallum, Adam Pietruszko, Daniel Stawczyk, and Venus Theory.
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Remastered Chromaphone 2 library

The Chromaphone 2 library gets back totally revitalized. Remastered, each an every sounds bring forward a consistent gain-stage, unity-gain effects, better dynamics, and compelling real-time sound transformation assignments that take advantage of Chromaphone 3’s latest features. That’s an extra 670 solid sounds in your hands.
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Synthesizer sound categories

Chromaphone 3 shows high proficiency by covering 34 sound categories—arpeggios, basses, bells, brass, chimes, choirs, claps, clavs, cymbals, effects, formants, guitars, hi-hats, impacts, keys, kicks, layers, leads, noises, organs, pads, percussions, plucks, reeds, rhythmics, sequences, snares, splits, strings, sweeps, textures, and toms.

Michel Basque

Michel Basque

Michel Basque is a Canadian artist, music composer and sound designer since the beginning of the 80’s, going from lead singer and composer for an underground rock music band to film and TV music composer and multimedia electronic music composer. In 2007, he joined Sonarte, a sample based sound design company, and as such is collaborating as sound designer with Ableton to their flagship DAW, Live, creating packs and some of the main sound banks for Live. He is around AAS since 2019 as sound designer as well.
Sean Divine

Sean Divine

Sean Divine is a multifaceted artist based in North Carolina known for his work as a producer, mix engineer, and educator in the audio community. From his college years, Sean gained an international following, releasing his instrumental catalog online. He has gone on to produce and engineer for chart-topping recording artists, with major placements in film, radio, and television. You can find many of his signature sounds included in the AAS factory libraries.
Christian Halten

Christian Halten

Christian likes to compose music in his studio in Berlin. Looking back he was one of those enthusiastic children of the Lego age. His talent for creation in form and color was complemented by a passion for film and music. A little later, after his studies in film music and sound design he worked with Henning Lohner, Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer in Los Angeles, diving into the whole wave, crest and trough of film music. Back in Germany Christian contributed scores to award-winning cinematic movies like “Double Take” and “Highflyers” and also additional music to “Cahier Africain”, which was honoured with the Lola “Best Documentary” Award.
Jerry Kovarsky

Jerry Kovarsky

For more than 30 years, music industry veteran JERRY KOVARSKY has worked as brand manager, product manager, marketing director, product developer, and product demonstrator for Korg, Ensoniq, and Casio. An accomplished keyboardist, synthesist, and author of Keyboard for Dummies, Jerry passionately advocates for making music with keyboards. After studying at the University of Miami and graduating from William Peterson College with a BA in Jazz Studies, an opportunity to demonstrate early portable keyboards sidetracked his professional aspirations. More recently, Jerry writes about technology and keyboard musicianship for numerous outlets. He likes living at the intersection of technology and art and has returned to his musical roots, performing, recording, and teaching on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Christian Laffitte

Christian Laffitte

Christian Laffitte is a French musician and sound designer based in south of France. He has been developing sounds for Dream, Arturia, Zoom, Applied Acoustics Systems, M-Audio, Avid to name a few. He also composed music for Sony video games trailers and music for french TV channels and radio stations. As a keyboard player with a great interest in synthesis and new technologies, Christian Laffitte has put all his passion of music and sounds in creating Wejaam: a free music sequencer for smartphones and tablets
Niall McCallum

Niall McCallum

Niall McCallum is the co-founder of ModeAudio—a small but passionately dedicated team of sound designers and music lovers based in the UK, specializing in music loops, samples, and bespoke preset design for some of the world’s best-loved music technology. Niall and his team's credits include a wide selection of drum and percussion samples that comes pre-packaged with FL Studio, and custom sound design for Native Instruments, Bitwig, Intua, and many others.
Adam Pietruszko

Adam Pietruszko

Adam Pietruszko is a sound designer and audio engineer from Poland. Even though he specializes in cinematic and avant-garde sound design, his expertise also covers genres ranging from electronica, experimental music, techno, IDM, Synthwave, EDM, and many others. Adam also teaches at the Academy of Audio Engineering and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He provides lectures on sound synthesis, acoustics, electroacoustics, digital audio theory, as well as electronic music and FX production.
Daniel Stawczyk

Daniel Stawczyk

Poland-based Daniel Stawczyk aka Status is a sound designer collaborating with numerous software instrument developers and has released over 30 nicely received sound sets. Let alone hundreds of presets for factory sound banks released along with the premieres of several instruments worldwide.
Venus Theory

Venus Theory

Working out of a remote home studio in rural Central Illinois, Cameron (aka Venus Theory) is a musician, sound designer, content creator, and coffee enthusiast. On his official YouTube channel, he teaches music production and sound design spanning a variety of genres. Cameron predominantly creates ambient music featuring soaring, expansive atmospheres, but also works in many styles as a producer and sound designer spanning from LoFi to Trap to Neurofunk and beyond.