Strangelight Audio

Modal Resonator

Rings as a struck string, bar, plate, or tube when you excite it.

Model

Selects the resonant mode pattern used to model the body material.

String, Bar, Plate, and Tube use different mode spacing, so each rings with a different colour.

String Uses harmonic modes characteristic of a stretched string.

Bar Uses inharmonic modes characteristic of a struck bar.

Plate Uses dense two-dimensional modes characteristic of a plate.

Tube Uses resonances characteristic of an open acoustic tube.

Frequency

Sets the fundamental frequency of the resonant body.

Higher values raise the perceived pitch of the ringing body.

Decay

Sets how long the resonant modes take to decay.

Higher values let the body ring for longer after the excitation stops.

Damping

Reduces high-frequency sustain as damping increases.

Higher values make the upper modes fade sooner, darkening the decay.

Brightness

Controls the strength of higher resonant modes.

Higher values make the attack and ringing tone brighter.

Inharmonicity

Moves upper resonances away from whole-number harmonics. Higher settings make the body more bell-like or metallic.

Higher values make upper resonances less harmonic and more bell-like or metallic.

Mix

Blends the dry input with the resonated signal.

At 0% you hear the excitation alone; at 100% you hear only the resonant body.

Level

Sets the output level of the resonated signal.

Higher values raise the wet resonator level.