Chiral

Holographic Synthesizer

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Chiral is an MPE-enabled Max for Live device inspired by the culture and methodology pioneered by early electronic performance instruments.

Vignette
Film Grain
Gemini
Wintermute

All sounds & effects made with Chiral

What still resonates with us today is the search for newness, not replicating acoustic & familiar sounds or to conform to expectations of what a synthesizer should sound like. Through atypical methods of sound-shaping and a vast routing matrix, Chiral embodies a similar unconforming, exploratory attitude and is built to encourage the same in you. At each point along the path, Chiral’s parameters have been tuned to bend beyond & navigate outside of typical synthesis boundaries.

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Featuring
  • Phaseshaping Oscillator
  • Amplitude Modulator
  • ADSR Envelope
  • Variable Slope Generator
  • Contouring Tone Filter
  • Celestial Space Reverb
  • Crunchy Dirt Saturator
  • Polyphonic Jitter Modulator
  • up to 16 voice polyphony
  • with
  • MPE compatibility
  • a vast Modulation Matrix
  • Microtuning
  • & single Cycle Waveform export

Twisted

The core of Chiral operates through the unconventional contortion of a sine wave, known as phaseshaping. Through the built-in three-dimensional oscilloscope, the twisting of your waveform is displayed holographically, reminiscent of a Moebius strip.

MPE Dextrous

Chiral is fully engineered to take advantage of all the expressive and performative possibilities opened up by MPE integration in Ableton Live 11.

Animated

Chiral’s integrated AM section provides a spectrum of modulation from gentle, slow drifting to overlapping, inharmonic tonality. Combined with the harmonic saturation of the Dirt parameter, Chiral can be deeply animated internally from subtle coloration to total destruction.

Vast

Chiral’s matrix makes available vast constellations of modulation, and thanks to MPE, full access to this multi-dimensional control is just waiting for fingertips.

Celestial

Space, Chiral’s dedicated reverb section, can quickly launch your sound from this galaxy into the next through the creation of massive, unearthly resonances.

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Requirements

Chiral is a Max for Live device and requires Ableton Live Suite (or standard with the Max for Live add-on) to use. It is not compatible with any other DAW.

    Minimum:

  • Ableton Live Suite 10.1+
  • macOS 10.11.6, Intel i5, 4GB RAM
  • Windows 7, Intel i5, 4GB RAM

    Recommended:

  • Ableton Live Suite 11+
  • macOS 12+, M1, 8GB RAM
  • Windows 10, Intel i7, 8GB RAM

Chiral is fully compatible with Push 2 & 3 + standalone

The device parameters are fully mapped to the Push interface and all functionality can be controlled from the hardware without needing to interact with your computer.