A modal resonator for the modular rack, adapted from Emilie Gillet's open-source Rings. Strike it with its own exciter or feed it audio, and it rings like a struck string, a bar or a bell, with every aspect of the resonance under patchable control. It is an independent adaptation with the original panel's artwork, credited in its attribution notice.
The idea
A modal resonator models an object by its modes: the set of frequencies it rings at and how long each one lasts. Rings excites that set of modes, with a short burst from its internal exciter or with whatever audio you send in, and lets them ring. This version offers the original modal model, with one, two or four voices so that new notes can ring over the tails of old ones.
Inputs and outputs
- IN is audio excitation. Leave it unpatched to use the internal exciter; patch it and the resonator rings only from what you send.
- STRUM plays a note on each rising edge. Without it, Rings strums on its own when it hears a new onset or a pitch change.
- ODD and EVEN are two separate pickups on the resonator. Patch only one and it carries both mixed together; patch both to keep them apart, for example left and right.
