PolyFace: Your Personalized Control Panel for Music Creation
In today’s world, flexibility and ease of control are extremely important in music creation. Musicians, producers, and sound engineers are constantly looking for ways to optimize their workflow, making it more intuitive and efficient. In this context, the ability to create your own, customized control panel for specific tasks becomes invaluable.
This is where PolyFace from Acousmodules comes in – a unique VST plugin that transforms your computer into a fully customizable virtual MIDI control panel. Forget the limitations of standard interfaces! PolyFace gives you the freedom to create exactly the controller you need right now, for any instrument or effect in your DAW.
Unlimited Customization Options
PolyFace offers an impressive number of controllers available for your use – as many as 24 elements, each of which you can customize individually. This is not just a set of standard sliders; you have the ability to choose from several types of control elements, adapting them to the specifics of the parameters you want to control.
- Vertical or horizontal sliders: Ideal for precise control over a range of values, such as volume, panning, filter cutoff frequency, or effect depth. You choose the orientation for maximum convenience.
- Buttons (with two positions): Perfect for switching states – turning effects on/off, activating functions, changing presets, or any binary parameters.
- Rotary controls (knobs): Imitate physical knobs on hardware, providing a familiar and intuitive way to control parameters often found in synthesizers or virtual amplifiers.
- XY joysticks: Open the door for more complex and expressive control. With a single joystick, you can simultaneously control two parameters, creating interesting effects, such as controlling both the frequency and resonance of a filter, or the mix and feedback of a delay effect.
Memory, Inertia, and Convenience
In addition to the variety of controller types, PolyFace has several unique features that increase its value as a control tool:
- Value memory: Each controller can store its last value. This allows you to use different “looks” of the panel as a kind of “memories” or instant presets during performance or recording. You can quickly switch between different states without losing previous settings.
- Inertia parameter: You can set the inertia parameter for each pair of controllers. This adds realism and smoothness to movements, imitating physical controllers or creating interesting automation effects, where the value does not change immediately, but “reaches” the desired point.
- Simple MIDI assignment: Assigning controllers to MIDI CC messages is made as simple as possible. You can easily select the desired MIDI controller number in the range from 0 to 127 for each control element. This ensures compatibility with the vast majority of MIDI-controlled instruments and effects.
- Labels for controllers: To avoid getting lost among the many settings, PolyFace allows you to add text labels to each controller. This helps you quickly identify which element is responsible for what, making your own control panel clear and organized.
Patches for Saving Settings
PolyFace is equipped with a patch system that allows you to save and instantly recall up to 128 different configurations of your control panel. You can create unique control schemes for each synthesizer in your collection, for a specific effects chain, or for different sections of your musical work. This saves time and allows you to quickly switch between different working scenarios.
Overall, PolyFace from Acousmodules is a powerful and extremely flexible tool for any musician who wants to have full control over their virtual studio equipment. Its intuitive interface combined with deep customization capabilities makes the process of interacting with plugins more direct and creative. Create your perfect control panel and take your music production to the next level!
