StyloPoly

Included formats

- Decent Sampler

Release notes

Version 1.1 (2024-02-17)

• Improved crossfades for loop points.

Version 1.0 (2024-01-08)

• First version released

Description

A Dubreq Stylophone S-1 with some added features

User Interface

Overview

The user interface offers precise control over every aspect of the instrument and effects.

Explore parameters to refine your sound, including control over the audio mixer, envelope, pitch modulation with LFOs, high pass and low pass filters, velocity/dynamics, speaker simulator and the immersive effects of echo and reverb.

Keyboard

Controls for the keyboard settings

• Mono / Poly
  • Mono: Plays only one note at the time, like the original Stylophone
  • Poly: Plays multiple notes at the time
• Static / Dynamic
  • Determines whether the velocity should affect the volume of the samples

Envelope

Controls for the envelope settings

Shape your sound precisely with the Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release parameters. Whether you desire a punchy, staccato tone or a smooth, lingering ambiance, the ADSR envelope allows you to tailor the dynamics to your liking.

• Attack: Attack time of the amplitude envelope for the three voices
• Decay: Decay time of the amplitude envelope for the three voices
• Sustain: Sustain level of the amplitude envelope for the three voices
• Release: Release time of the amplitude envelope for the three voices

Samples volume

Mixer

Mixer controls

The original Stylophone only lets you select one voice at a time, but with StyloPoly you can blend between all the three voices at the same time.

• Low: The sound of the Stylophone with the voice selector in position 1
• Middle: The sound of the Stylophone with the voice selector in position 2
• High: The sound of the Stylophone with the voice selector in position 3

Noise

Noise controls

• Attack: Pops and crackles when the stylus hits the "keyboard"
• Release: Pops and crackles when the stylus releases from the "keyboard"

Vibrato

Controls for the vibrato settings

The depth and rate knobs enable you to modulate the pitch of the sound with the desired depth and rate using a Low-Frequency Oscillator (LFO). With both controls in middle position you have approximately the same vibrato as the original Stylophone.

• Depth: Adjust the depth to introduce subtle or pronounced variations in pitch
• Rate: Determines the speed at which the modulation occurs

Output

Controls for the output settings

• Line out: The direct sound of the line output
• Speaker: The sound of the internal speaker miced with a Shure SM57

High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter

Controls for the high pass filter

Controls for the low pass filter

StyloPoly has a high pass filter and a low pass filter. The high pass filter ranges from 20 Hz to 2000 Hz and the low pass filter ranges from 200 Hz to 22000 Hz.

• Off / On: Turns on or off the filter
• Frequency: Cutoff frequency for the filter
• Resonance: Amount of resonance at cutoff frequency

Effects

These effects are achieved using carefully crafted impulse responses. The echo effect employs a Fulltone Tube Tape Echo recorded twice for stereo, while the reverb effect draws from a Chase Bliss Audio & Meris CXM 1978 reverb pedal with a room setting.

Echo

Controls for the tape echo impulse response

Select from two distinctive echo options: the short echo, delivering a classic slapback effect, and the long echo, characterized by a slower decay and numerous repeats.

• Off / On: Turns the echo on and off
• Short / Long: Switches between a short slapback echo and a long echo with slow repeats and high feedback
• Mix: Mix between direct signal and echo signal

Reverb

Controls for the room reverb impulse response

You'll also find two reverb effects: the short reverb, evoking the intimacy of a small room, and the long reverb, enveloping your sound in the vastness of a spacious environment.

• Off / On: Turns the reverb on and off
• Short / Long: Switches between a short/small room reverb and a long/big room reverb
• Mix: Mix between direct signal and reverb signal

Preset

Controls for the preset select

Some presets are true to the original Stylophone and some presets take advantage of the additional features of StyloPoly. The presets only affects the controls already available from the GUI. They are not meant to sound like a real piano, harpsichord, clavinet, etc. The preset names are more of a way to describe the timbre.