Kinotone Ghosts

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Chordal Resonator

Kinotone Ghosts is a 6-voice physical modeling effect and instrument.

Excite high-fidelity strings, tubes, and bars to conjure resonant objects and acoustic environments: a blooming cello, a playful xylophone. From organic realism to spectral fantasy.

Retune the voices to preset chords — including custom chords and microtonal scales. Connect a MIDI keyboard for polyphonic play and the full spectrum of its synthesis engine.

Animate the contact mic and capture gestures with a built-in looper. Transform the resonators with Touch Modes — from a streaming granular processor, to a Bode frequency shifter, to a virtual-analog drum machine.

Ghosts is a compact partner in sympathetic resonance, harmony and rhythm.

Physical Modeling Engine

• 6-voice polyphony
• Excite the resonators with external audio, the built-in contact mic, or MIDI notes
• Flexible, high-fidelity physical models: Strings, Tubes, Bars
• Reharmonize the resonators with 12 preset chords
• Selectable root note and chord voicing

Reverb

• Custom-designed stereo reverb adds spatial character
• Routable pre- or post-resonators — let the space excite the object, or let the object excite the space
• Sustains infinitely

Custom Chords + Microtonal Tuning

• Define a user chord of up to 6 MIDI notes
• MTS SysEx files supported for microtonal and xenharmonic scales
• Save user chords and scales into presets

Contact Microphone

• Strum, tap, scratch the mic — excite the resonators with tactile vibrations
• Toggle the mic on or off with the tap of a button
• Mic is fully disconnected from the audio path when disengaged
• Adjustable mic sensitivity

Polyphonic MIDI instrument

• Retune the resonator voices directly via keyboard control
• Internal exciter turns Ghosts into a playable physical modeling instrument
• Multiple MIDI exciters: pluck, strike, air — or excite the resonators with your input audio
• Create unique exciters with a captured loop

Touch Modes

On-the-fly performance effects to excite and transform the physical models — and a powerful collection of creative tools that stand on their own. All Touch Modes can be placed pre- or post- resonators, and can be synced to MIDI clock:

• Endless Loop
  • A looper with speed and direction controls, capable of infinite overdubs. A perfect companion for the contact mic
  • Record up to 40 seconds at 0.5x, 20 seconds at 1x, or 10 seconds at 2x
• Rhythm Generator
  • Virtual‑analog models of a legendary 1981 drum machine with punchy analog resonator circuits. Resonators exciting resonators!
  • Kick, snare, hi-hat. Real‑time synthesis (no samples)
  • 11 curated patterns plus a 12th Euclidean Random notch that algorithmically generates a fresh pattern each time it’s re-selected
• Terrazzo
  • A streaming granular processor that disassembles sound into colorful fragments and binds them into new forms. Turn anything into a lush texture or bouncy rhythm to excite the resonators
  • 6 read heads spread across the stereo field — some play forward, or reversed, some at normal speed, some an octave up
  • Adjustable grain size and envelope shape (plucky to smooth)
• Shepard Shifter
  • A virtual-analog Bode frequency shifter adds motion and bends perception
  • Up-shift or down-shift the audio spectrum — create endlessly rising or falling spectral peaks that excite different frequencies of the resonators

Presets, MIDI Control, CV

• 6 factory presets
• Save up to 32 presets using MIDI
• USB and TRS MIDI supported
• All parameters are fully controllable via MIDI, CV, or expression
• Smart detection of TRS Type A or Type B connections
• CV control up to 500Hz