RESONATOR

The seven rings define the instrument’s tonal architecture. Choosing which rings are open changes the harmonic centre and the weight of the body, from low dark drones to brighter upper-ring shimmer and stacked resonant harmonies.

Movement comes from a shared flywheel rather than an LFO grid, step sequencer, or arpeggiator. The flywheel continuously shapes active rings through pressure, damping, brightness, inertia, and phase, producing rotation, bloom, drift, and energy.

O Resonator can create its own sustained tone or process incoming sound. In effect use, a voice, synth, guitar, drum loop, or field recording can be revoiced through the selected circular string paths and animated by the same rotating body.

The active strings are not played one after another. They combine as a sustained resonant body, allowing the sound to feel harmonic and textural at the same time: stable enough to hold a tone, flexible enough to evolve, and physical enough to respond like an object in motion.

Engine On controls whether O Resonator produces output. Disk On controls rotation and motion physics. Clock Host locks the disk timing to the DAW when available. Speed, Time Mapping, Reset, Phase, Direction, Evolution, Rise, Flywheel, Inertia, Mod Depth, and Period shape the shared motion field.

String activation buttons open or close the seven ring paths. Harmony chooses ring groupings. Note assignment retunes active paths. Pressure, Sustain Feed, String Sustain, Damping, Rub Energy, Bend, Harmonics, Bright Move, Motion Drift, Texture, Body Move, Body Grit, and Input Response shape colour, tension, brightness, sustain, and physical feel.

Coupling Mode chooses Locked, Slip, or Orbital behaviour. String Coupling determines how strongly strings follow the disk. Slip Amount, Radius Bias, Friction, Surface, Pressure Link, Noise Texture, Doppler, Trajectory, Stereo Orbit, Phase Spread, Body Field, Field Strength, Field Damping, and Radiance shape the physical motion layer.

Final EQ provides Low Cut, Low Gain, Mid Freq, Mid Gain, Mid Q, High Gain, and High Cut. Output Guard adds Ceiling, Drive, Release, Isolation, and gain-reduction feedback. Record Output records the final heard output and displays a DAW-style waveform lane.

Turn Engine On, activate at least one ring, start Disk motion, then raise Sustain Feed, Pressure, Mix, and Master until the resonant body blooms. In effect mode, also confirm that audio is entering the plug-in and raise Input Gain.

Disk On controls rotation and motion physics. Disk Off stops slip motion, friction motion, Doppler motion, and rotation-dependent movement. Engine On controls whether O Resonator produces output.

Record Output is for the standalone build. It captures the final heard output after the resonator, body, Final EQ, Output Guard, and Master stages, and displays a real-time waveform lane while recording.

MIDI retunes or fingers active strings. It should not make closed rings audible, trigger hidden notes, or create an arpeggio.