Puremagnetik受电声乐器的启发，推出了Arktinaut合成器插件，这款合成器可以合成模拟电声乐器音色。
Puremagnetik每个月都会推出一款新插件，每一款插件都专注于实验性的声音设计。这次推出的Arktinaut合成器比较特殊，灵感来源于古老的声音和特殊材料，例如古筝、木石、玻璃和水晶等，适合用来制作拨弦、弓弦、木槌等音色。
Arktinaut不是采样合成，而是采用简化版的Karplus Strong算法来合成音色，还有一个环形调制器，可以进一步对音色进行高级调制。
Arktinaut有一个Moog阶梯式低通滤波器和一个模拟琴弦松动的固定倍增延迟器，你可以选择金属、木材或弹性谐振器来塑造音色，选择Mallet可以给音色添加一点电颤琴或马林巴琴的音头。
Arktinaut和Puremagnetik其他插件一样，界面的设计非常紧凑和直观，没有子菜单，参数很少，非常适合手动控制。
插件格式为AU和VST。
File size: 36.5 MB
Arkinaut is a fictitious electroacoustic instrument, inspired by ancient sounds and materials (zither, wood stone, glass and crystal), while employing modern synthesis techniques. It excels at producing timbres ranging from plucked and bowed strings to mallets and more. It was designed to create percussive and bowed articulations combined with idiophone transients and synthesizer modulations.
With an array of controls to set resonator type, transient characteristics, timbre tone and vibrational material, Arkinaut lets you sculpt a vibrating string instrument tailored to your taste. Choose from “Metal”, “Wood” or “Elastic” resonators and use the “Mallet” to add struck bar transients such as those found in a vibraphone or marimba.
Arkinaut’s internal workings employ Karplus-Strong algorithms fed into a soft overdrive. An optional ring modulator provides augmented and chaotic tone design that can create a wide palette of timbres. The final stage of the signal passes through a Moog-style low pass filter and a fixed delay “doubling” module that simulates string loosening.
