Anukari: 3D Physics Synthesizer and Effects Processor

Anukari's instruments are built from masses, anchors and springs placed in a 3D world. You excite them with one of five sources: mallets for directional impacts, plectrums for plucked and released tones, bows for sustained, flute-like harmonic tones, oscillators with ADSR envelopes, or external and internal audio signals that can be gated by MIDI.

Directional virtual microphones pick up the result, each with a built-in compressor. Modulating their rotation gives Leslie-style effects, and routing microphones back into the physics system through modulatable delay lines creates feedback loops.

Because the simulation is the sound source, results can range from subtle organic textures to large, evolving systems built from hundreds of objects.

Modulation is deep. LFOs run from 0.01 Hz up to 20 kHz, which reaches audio-rate FM territory, and LFOs can modulate other LFOs. MIDI-triggered envelopes, envelope followers and every MIDI control source, including velocity, pitch bend, CC, pressure and aftertouch, can drive nearly any parameter. DAW automation can be mapped as well.

The visual modulation matrix draws connections as lines in 3D space. You drag from a modulator to a target, and every routing stays visible in the scene. Full MPE support and MTS-ESP microtuning are included.

For multichannel work, Anukari handles up to 50 inputs and 50 outputs, so each microphone can go to its own DAW bus or feed an ambisonic dome.