Ring5

Based on Mutable Instruments’ Rings eurorack module. Ring5 modal resonator is a faithful port of Emilie Gillet’s original source code, rehoused as a reason-native Rack Extension that feels at home next to stock devices.

Ten resonator models span sympathetic strings, modal bodies and rung metal.

Play it as a stand-alone instrument, or patch audio into its inputs to use Ring5 as an effect.

Sound engine

• Faithful Rings DSP. A native Reason port of Mutable Instruments Rings, using the same DSP and the same controls.

• Ten resonator models. Three classic Rings models (Modal, Sympathetic, Inharmonic), three hidden modes (FM Voice, Quantized, Reverb String), and four “Disastrous Peace” string-synth modes (Syn Formant, Syn Chorus, Syn Ensemble, Syn Reverb).

• Four shaping knobs. Structure, Brightness, Damping and Position.

• Click-free model switching. Moving between a resonator model and a string-synth model fades out and back in.

Performance

• Plays from MIDI. Each note sets the pitch and strums a new voice.

• Automatic chord strumming. Play a chord and Ring5 strums it, releasing the notes a few milliseconds apart, one per voice.

• Pitch bend. A BEND wheel follows the keyboard’s pitch wheel. RANGE sets the bend from 0 to 24 semitones.

• Mod wheel. A MOD wheel follows the keyboard’s mod wheel. MOD DEST routes it to Freq, Structure, Brightness, Damping, Position or FM, and a bipolar amount knob sets depth and direction.

Modulation

• AD envelope. Retriggered by every note-on and shared by all voices. Attack runs from 1 ms to 2 s and Decay from 2 ms to 8 s, and a new note restarts from the current level, so fast playing doesn’t click.

• LFO. Sine, Triangle, Saw, Square and Random. Tempo sync. Locks the LFO to Reason’s transport. RETRIG restarts the cycle on each note when the LFO runs free.

In/Out and CV

• Use it as an effect. Stereo AUDIO IN, summed to mono, replaces the built-in exciter. Sharp transients in the incoming audio strum new voices.

• Built-in exciter. When nothing is patched into AUDIO IN, every strum fires a filtered pulse or a noise burst, depending on the model.

• Note CV and gate inputs. V/OCT overrides the MIDI pitch, and STRUM takes a gate.

• Five modulation CV inputs. FM, Structure, Brightness, Damping and Position, each with a standard Reason trim knob.

• Four CV outputs. Two LFO outputs, an inverted LFO output, and an envelope output.

• ODD / EVEN stereo outputs. With one voice they carry two complementary parts of the sound. With more voices they split odd- and even-numbered voices.