Valkure Guitar Organ
iOS Universel / Musique
Evoke a bewildering variety of polyphonic organ sounds directly from your guitar! Valkurë (pronounced VAL-KUR-EE) transforms your raw strings into a big, multi-timbral instrument in realtime, and without resorting to guitar-to-MIDI trickery. Preserve the crucial dynamics of your playing --such as vibrato, bends, and slides-- while maintaining thorough control over the final sound. Complete with a full range of organ parameters, extensive options, built-in rotary speaker emulation, virtual tube amplifier, and analog inspired effects, Valkurë is a powerful addition to your guitar arsenal.
The unique organ module achieves guitar-to-organ transformation via proprietary signal processing algorithms, thereby retaining full polyphony. Valkurë offers three different organ models that vary from mellow to aggressive. The main tone generator features nine registers (drawbars) that allow you to dial in overtones in a five octave range — much like a tonewheel organ. In addition, two special “pedal” registers provide harmonically rich bass and sub bass tones that can work alone or in combination with the principal organ tones.
A built-in percussion generator inspired by “B” and “C” series organs is triggered by pick attack, and features switches for percussion length, level, as well as harmonic. Additional preferences allow you to modify these, as well as specify the sensitivity of the trigger detector. The Chorus/Vibrato unit is modeled after the famed scanner circuit, and features six modes.
The rotary speaker module offers three unique cabinets to choose from. Each cabinet features individually configurable virtual horn and drum drivers. The rotary unit provides many options, including micing angle, inertia, slow/fast speeds, additional room microphone, and more. The built-in amplifier is designed to complement the rotary speaker, and offers three different amp models that feature our newest tube emulation technology, as well as a full range of tonal controls.
The settings panel contains a wide variety of parameters for fine tuning the organ. These include variable attack to obtain an auto-generated volume “swell” effect, as well as thorough control over the organ’s timbre and dynamics via Taper, Resonance, Body, Air, and Leakage parameters. Dedicated variable Boost controls for organ and pedal modules help add fullness and sizzle to the basic tones. Valkurë is rounded out by the addition of analog-modeling effects, including tape delay, 3-band Baxandall style EQ, as well as built in compressor.
Besides working as both a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin, Valkurë is also compatible with Apple Silicon Macs. It comes packaged with many professional features, including convenient MIDI learn for over 75 parameters, a powerful preset management system, 128 factory presets, and more.
Organ Unit,
• Proprietary realtime DSP w/ full polyphony
• 3 unique organ types
• 9 drawbars in the principal unit
• 2 drawbars in the pedal unit.
• Percussion module
• Scanner C/V
• Custom Expression control
• 12 drawbar “presets" for instantly & quietly changing drawbar configurations
• Variable attack w/ trigger sensitivity for auto generating “swells”
• Configurable dwell/sustain
• Adjustable harmonic leakage
• Taper, Resonance, Body, and Air parameters
• Dedicated boost controls for varying the “grit”
• Adjustable CV boost
Rotary, Amp, FX,
• 3 unique cabinet types
• Chorus/Tremolo switch
• Brake switch
• Horn/drum balance
• Dedicated slow & fast speed, inertia parameters
• Dedicated mic angle selector
• Room microphone w/ settable size
• 3 unique amp models w/ Virtual-Tube technology
• Warm, harmonically rich overdriven tones
• Virtual tape delay
• 3-band modified Baxandall style EQ
• Dynamic compressor
AUv3, MIDI & More
• AUv3
• Compatible with iOS and Apple Silicon Macs
• 128 factory presets w/ many organ tones & other unique sounds
• MIDI learn for 75+ parameters
• Standalone includes a “tapedeck” for quickly recording, looping and sharing
