$221,574 raised out of $80,000
Overview
Platform
Indiegogo
Backers
3
Start date
Dec 18, 2022
Close date
Dec 19, 2022
Concept

Anyma Omega, polyphonic and multitimbral physical modelling synthesizer musical instrument

Story


 

In 2020/2021, thanks to our contributors, we achieved a succesful campaign for Anyma Phi, the compact desktop monophonic physical modelling synthesizer:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anyma-phi-physical-modelling-synthesizer-by-aodyo#/

Six months later, we delivered it to our contributors.

Since then, we listened to user feedback and worked on a more powerful and full featured instrument. Based on Anyma Phi synth engine, we designed Anyma Omega, a powerful hybrid polyphonic and multitimbral synthesizer. Its physical modelling synthesis engine allows to create new sound universes inspired from the real world, where objects collide, vibrate, and resonate.

Anyma Omega comes in two versions: desktop and keyboard, both including a large display and many controls, with unique sensitive wooden surfaces to feed resonators and enhance expression

Whether you play live or compose music in the studio, design your own sounds or play presets, Anyma Omega will become a flexible and original addition to your setup.

 

 
 
 

 

 

PHYSICAL MODELLING

Anyma Omega blends the classic ingredients of electronic music with physical modelling technology, allowing it to simulate acoustic sound sources, such as strings or reeds, as well as resonating structures, like wood, glass, or metal.

 

POLYPHONY

16-notes polyphony with all the richness of Anyma’s synthesis engine.

 

MULTITIMBRALITY

4 sound parts splitted, layered or even chained.

 

EXPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE

Proven Fatar® velocity sensitive semi-weighted synth action keybed with polyphonic aftertouch for musical and expressive playing. 

Numerous controls to enrich the performance and unique sensitive wooden surfaces (ribbon and touchpad) to feed resonators and enhance expression.

 

EASY EDITION

Easy access to 14 macro parameters controlling the main characteristics of patches.

Tweak every parameter of every module with the large display and controls, unleashing the power of a semi-modular synth at your fingertips. 

Direct access to the various modules thanks to the interactive synthesis path diagram.

 

ALEAGEN

Create aleatory consistent patches, by pushing a single button, based on smart random algorithms.

 

POLYMORPH

Beyond polyphony, the exclusive PolyMorph feature can provide extra width, density and depth to the sound: fine-blend panspread, unison, expression and morphing for every single note.

 

TUNING AND MICROTUNING

With Anyma Omega you can use any scale or tuning to make your sound travel all around the world and the eras.

Explore our multiple microtuning presets. You can also load Scala (.scl) or Anamark(.tun) files in Anyma Omega by converting them to MIDI Tuning standard (MTS) format. In addition to importing and exporting tunings, there are several options that can be used to define and edit tunings directly on the instrument: reference tone adjustment, 12-tone octave scale, tuning table for each note and n-EDO scales.     

 

CONNECTIVITY

With a lot of input and output ports, Anyma Omega easily connects to all the machines, synths and controllers. It is compatible with any standard MIDI controller, including our own electronic wind instrument: Sylphyo. It can also interface with analog and Eurorack modular gears thanks to its CV/Gate I/O.

Plug external audio and use Anyma Omega as a powerful modular FX processor.

 

FREE EDITOR / LIBRARIAN

Free multi-platform editor/librarian inherited from and compatible with Anyma Phi’s sound bank. Organize, archive and share your Anyma patches and performances.
 


 

Based on the Anyma Phi monophonic and monotimbral sound engine, Anyma Omega is polyphonic and multitimbral. Play up to 16 notes simultaneously and combine up to 4 sound parts (individual patches) in a performance. Route audio signal from one part to another to create monstrous patches.

Here is a patch diagram example available for each voice:

 

The powerful semi-modular synth engine of Anyma Omega covers a wide range of synthesis techniques (physical modelling, but also virtual analog, wavetable, FM, etc.) with its large collection of oscillators, FX and modulators. 

 

Anyma Omega offers for each voice:

 

123 different module types are currently available, including 44 sources, 33 FX, and 46 modulators. A detailed list of modules can be found here:

https://downloads.aodyo.com/anyma/Anyma-Omega-module-list.pdf

More modules will be added to broaden the sound palette with new oscillators (new Virtual Analog vintage simulation, Frequency Modulation, Phase Distortion, new and enhanced physical models including brass, electromechanical keys, etc.), new sound processors (comb filter, vocoder, amp simulations, tape delay) and new modulators (new physics inspired modulators, looping and multistage envelope).

 

Where it all started…With her kind permission, many of the available sound sources were inspired by Emilie Gillet’s fantastic work on Mutable Instruments modules. Huge thanks!

 

Anyma Omega Desktop provides an advanced user interface, making the use of an external editor quite unnecessary. We kept the macro parameters matrix of the Anyma Phi, now directly available thanks to the big TFT IPS color display and its 16 encoders.

 

 

Diving deeper in the construction of a patch is also made easier thanks to the numerous shortcuts provided by the patch diagram dedicated interface, allowing direct access to sound generators (OSC), mixers (MIX) and sound modifiers (SFX).

 

 

16 modulators can animate any parameter of a patch, thanks to the 32 advanced mapping slots. Accessing all these modulators and mappings is quick and easy using the illuminated rubber softkeys located on the front panel. 

 

 

The flexible MIDI, CV/Gate and audio I/O help Anyma Omega finding its place in any setup by connecting your external controllers through legacy MIDI DIN and MIDI USB Host connectors.

 

 

You can also play Anyma Omega Desktop directly, using the various playing modes of the percussive built-in ribbon touch controller (notes with quantized or continuous pitch, single or multiple CC parameter control, etc.).

 

Anyma Omega Keyboard provides a standalone solution thanks to its proven 49 keys Fatar® semi-weighted polyphonic aftertouch keyboard.

The wooden surface ribbon controller available on the Desktop version has been extended to match the keyboard size. 

Beside the usual pitch and modulation wheels, we also designed a 3D sensitive touchpad with audio sensing to explore new expressive dimensions. 

4 additional potentiometer control knobs are available for realtime performance on the Keyboard version.

 

  • Hybrid 16 notes polyphonic synthesizer
  • 4 parts multitimbral
  • Flexible audio routing between parts and external audio I/O
  • Dual stereo audio output: 4x 1/4” mono line jack outputs
  • Dual stereo audio input: 4x 1/4” mono line jack inputs
  • Dual stereo headphones output: 2x 1/4” stereo headphones jack output (front and rear sockets)
  • MPE support
  • MIDI inputs and outputs via USB and DIN ports (USB device for computer/DAW connexion, USB host for external USB-MIDI controller, legacy MIDI DIN In/Out/Thru)
  • Built-in CV/Gate interface (8 CV or Gate outputs, 4 CV or Gate inputs)
  • Memory: 1000 individual user patches, 200 performances, 16 user microtonal scales
  • Arpeggiator (on each part): 15 modes with gate, swing, repeat and distance settings 
  • Sequencer (on each part): 32 steps sequencer on each part (with or without key transpose), 128 notes polyphonic sequencer, realtime motion sequencer, ratchet, swing and probability settings
  • Chorder/strummer: 16 chord memory location directly available to trig or strum on the fly
  • Powerful digital semi-modular synthesizer engine:
    • 3 oscillator slots
    • 5 FX slots (including filters, resonators, …) + 1 reverb
    • 2 audio buses for mixing and FX assignation
    • 16 modulator slots, including DAHDSR envelope generators, LFOs, curves, sequencers, interpolators, slew limiters, physical modelled modulators, etc.
    • 32 mapping slots (virtual patch cords), each allowing to control any synth parameter (including another mapping) using a modulator or a controller input, with scaling, curves and a sidechain input.
  • Built-in 100-250V AC power supply

Synthesizer engine (module list):
https://downloads.aodyo.com/anyma/Anyma-Omega-module-list.pdf

Panel overview:
https://downloads.aodyo.com/anyma/anyma-omega-overview.pdf
 

Anyma Omega is designed and made in France.

 

Anyma familly comparison chart:

 

 

*Technical specifications are subject to change in order to improve reliability, function, or design.
 


 

Every Anyma item will be shipped using DHL Express insured shipping. Price depends on your location and the perk chosen.
 

 

Soundcloud examples are available by clicking on the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/aodyo/sets/anyma-omega-additional-sound

More example on Soundcloud by following the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/aodyo/sets/anyma-omega-sound-examples
 

 


 

 

Hello, we are Aodyo Instruments!

 

We’re a team of 5 people based in Lille, in the north of France, all committed to bring musicians new possibilities to give life to their sound.

Seven years ago, we created an electronic wind instrument inspired by acoustic woodwinds, Sylphyo, which offers new and exciting ways to play synth sounds.

Two years ago, we decided that it was time for synths too to take a hint from the real world, and launched Anyma Phi, a compact physical modelling synthesizer.

For our next project, we further expand the Anyma range. We’re very excited to announce Anyma Omega, a powerfull way to add original, reactive and acoustically-inspired sounds to the toolbox of keyboard players, beatmakers and sound designers.

Join our social media and forum to spread the news and discuss with others.

Thank you so much for your support!

Musically,

The Aodyo team,

Laurent, Ludovic, Romain, Jonathan and Matthias

www.aodyo.com
 

 

Risks & Challenges

We have been making electronic musical instruments in a professional capacity since 2015. Our partners in Europe have been working in the industry for years before us. And together, we are confident in our ability to deliver a product of the best quality possible to fulfill our commitment to our customers.

As you can see in the videos, our prototypes are already functional and the multi part polyphonic sound engine has undergone thorough testing. We still need to polish Anyma Omega to make them ready for musicians, and we need your help to fund the final software development and production phase.

We’re thrilled to include you in the process with us: as we did for our previous Anyma Phi campaign, you’ll get to know all the news, good or bad, regarding the progress of the project.

The COVID-19 pandemic context and electronic component shortage have impact on every project in the musical instrument industry. But due in part to our commitment to local manufacturing, we are likely to be able to mitigate a lot of the issues associated with manufacturing in other countries during such times, as we did with the Anyma Phi project. However, there are still risks associated with the current pandemic and general economic context, which include delayed production as well as shipping.

Long-lasting design

Our instruments are designed and built for the long-term. In addition, we will continue to offer lifetime support and updates to our instruments, as our track record proves with our instruments, which still receives software updates even for the first models.

Reusability and recyclability

We try to reduce our impact on the planet as much as possible by using as little plastic as possible in our packaging, and make our gift and shipping boxes from recycled/recyclable cardboard when possible.

Environmentally friendly factories

Every instrument we make is manufactured locally in France with respect for local labor laws. We believe in producing locally, which gives us both greater control over the production as well as a decreased environmental footprint. We also assemble and test all instruments by hand in our workshop located in France.

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