After Later AudioQuarks Modal Synthesizer

After Later Audio Quarks

Quarks from After Later Audio is a compact version of the Mutable Instruments Elements module, a modal synthesizer that excels in creating bells, gongs, strings, and wind sounds. This classic module is free from menu diving and switches to let you focus on the panel itself: what you see is what you get when patching with the Quarks. A full voice, the Contour knob allows you to adjust the envelope shape and with the built in reverb, you can simply patch in a gate and CV to start getting going with a field of chimes. After Later Audio's Quarks is a great medium size between the full size original and micro-sized clones.

Quarks Features

• Three generators with mixer: bowing noise, blowing noise, percussive impulses
• Envelope contour for bowing and blowing
• Bowing noise generator: particle-like scratching noise with 2-pole low-pass filter
• Blowing noise generator: granular pitched noise with wavetable-like scanning between various tone colors
• Percussive impulse generator: interpolates through a collection of impulsive excitations – including sampled sticks, brushes and hammers, and models of damped mallets, plectrums, or bouncy particles. 2-pole low-pass filter and pitch control
• Internally uses 64 zero-delay feedback state variable filters
• Coarse, fine and FM frequency controls
• Geometry: Interpolates through a collection of structures, including plates, strings, tubes, bowls
• Brightness. Specifies the character of the material the resonating structure is made of – from wood to glass, from nylon to steel
• Damping. Adds damping to the sound – simulates a "wet" material or the muting of the vibrations
• Position. Specifies at which point the structure is excited
• Space. Creates an increasingly rich stereo output by capturing the sound at two different points of the structure, and then adds more space through algorithmic reverberation
• All exciter and resonator parameters have a dedicated CV input with attenuverter
• 1V/Oct input for controlling main resonator frequency
• FM input
• Gate input
• Strength input, for amplitude control of the exciter section
• Pre- and post- exciter envelope external audio inputs
• Stereo audio output, with adjustable width/reverberation. It is also possible to output the raw exciter signal on one channel, and the raw resonator signal on the other