KEYS

Controls

• ModelTine EP / Reed EP / FM EP / Music Box / Celesta / Glockenspiel / Vibraphone / Marimba / Kalimba — The instrument: Tine EP, Reed EP and FM EP (electric pianos), Music Box, Celesta, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Marimba or Kalimba, each with its own overtones, decay and strike.
• Tone0 to 100% — How hard the strike is (0 to 100%): more FM brightness, stronger overtones and a brighter mallet click towards the top; 50% is the model's natural tone.
• Bell0 to 100% — The level of the model's inharmonic partials (0 to 100%, 50% is natural): the tine's bell, the ring of the bars, the shimmer of the music box tooth.
• Decay10 to 400% — Scales every decay time of the model (10 to 400%); higher keys always ring shorter, as on the real instruments.
• Release10 to 3000 ms — How fast a note dies away when its key comes up (10 ms to 3 s, to -60 dB); the sustain pedal holds the notes until it is lifted.
• Velocity0 to 100% — How much the key velocity changes the level and the brightness (0% plays every note the same).
• Tremolo Rate0.5 to 12 Hz — The speed of the tremolo or autopan (0.5 to 12 Hz).
• Tremolo Depth0 to 100% — The depth of the tremolo (0 to 100%); 0 turns it off.
• Tremolo ModeMono / Stereo — Mono pulses the level; Stereo pans the sound from side to side, like the classic suitcase electric piano.
• Drive0 to 100% — The overdrive of the preamp (0 to 100%), from a little bark to a growl; 0 is clean.
• Chorus0 to 100% — The amount of the built-in stereo chorus (0 to 100%).
• Volume−24 to +12 dB — The output level (-24 to +12 dB).

Best uses

• Classic tine electric piano with stereo autopan for soul, R&B and neo-soul
• Barking reed piano with drive and tremolo for rock and funk
• Glassy FM piano with chorus for ballads and pop
• Music box, celesta and glockenspiel for lullabies, film and winter themes
• Vibraphone, marimba and kalimba for jazz, lo-fi and world grooves

Properties

An instrument: MIDI in, stereo out, no samples, 16 voices (the same key struck again takes a new voice and releases the old one; a 17th key takes the oldest voice, released ones first, after a 2 ms fade). Each key is a two-operator FM tone whose index falls after the strike, with a fast and a slow decay, plus up to three modal partials (damped resonators at the model's overtone ratios) and a short mallet noise; higher keys decay faster. Keys start with a 0.2 to 1.5 ms ramp and fade over Release; the sustain pedal (CC 64) holds them, all notes off (CC 123/120) releases every key. The voices are spread a little by pitch, then pass the drive (a soft clipper), the tremolo (level or autopan) and a stereo chorus. Sample-accurate and the same in the JSFX, the GFX version and the VST3/CLAP.

Formats

• JSFXJSFX for REAPER, with REAPER's own sliders
• GFXJSFX GFX for REAPER, with its own interface
• VST3VST3 for any DAW
• CLAPCLAP for any DAW

Factory presets

Stereo Tine · Bright Tine · Mellow Tine · Reed Bark · Soft Reed · FM Ballad EP · FM Glass EP · Music Box · Celesta · Dream Bells · Glockenspiel · Vibes Motor · Soft Vibes · Marimba · Kalimba