User's Manual

12 Architecture of Chromaphone 3
Figure 2: Signal flow of Chromaphone. Resonators in coupling mode.
2.2 Multimbral Architecture
Chromaphone 3 is a multitimbral synthesizer which can play two different timbres simultaneously
either in layered or split keyboard mode. The general architecture of the synthesizer is shown
in Figure 3 and consists of a MIDI routing module, two independent Chromaphone engines in
parallel, a mixer, and a multi effects module.
Figure 3: Multitimbral architecture of Chromaphone 3.
2.3 Interface
The top part of the interface is called the Utility section and is shown in Figure 4. This section of
the interface is always visible and will be described in more details in Chapter 7.