Choose a scale and a chord, and μ-toni plays it one note at a time, climbing and falling through as many octaves as you like. Each note is played by a two-oscillator wavetable synth with its own envelopes. It works out every note as it goes, so you can move any control while it plays.
A normal arpeggiator plays back a list of notes. μ-toni stores no list. It works out each note from the scale, chord, root, octaves and direction as they are right now, so changing any control reshapes the arpeggio on the very next step.
Twelve scales and about thirty-five chords, from simple triads to altered jazz shapes. Inversion re-voices the chord, and you can stack it over one to four octaves. Snap keeps every note strictly in key.
AppergaterDirection runs from always falling, through up-and-down, to always climbing. The shorter sweep skips notes evenly so the timing stays steady. The pattern is the same on every pass. Nothing is random.
DirectionTwo wavetable oscillators plus noise, with FM, phase and ring modulation between them. Sixteen filter types, and amp, filter and pitch envelopes. Legato and glide give you 303-style slides.
SoundEight modulators per layer, smooth or stepped. A stepped modulator on Chord makes a chord progression. One on Root walks the key. A slow one on Direction makes the arpeggio breathe.
ModulationEach layer is its own arpeggiator and synth. Stack them for layered, detuned or interlocking arpeggios over one shared tempo. A new μ-toni starts with one layer.
LayersHold a key and it becomes the root of the arpeggio. Set the trigger to MIDI and the pattern plays only while you hold a key. The same mixer, effects and presets as the rest of the μ-series.
MIDI & mixerSound sections on top, the Appergater in the middle and eight modulators underneath. Every control in the Appergater can be modulated.
Two wavetable oscillators, X-Mod, filter, three envelopes and a per-layer insert effect.
Scale, chord, rate, root, inversion, octaves, direction, gate, glide and an accent pattern.
The shared μ-series mixer: sidechain, three sends and two master inserts.
The name comes from a customer of a music shop where I used to work in Bristol. His name was Tony. No matter how many times he was told that an arpeggiator was called an arpeggiator, an Italian word, Tony always called them “appagators”.
The Settings page carries his often asked question:
Has it got an appagator, is it a powerful tool?
Bless him, he was a bit special. I wonder what became of him.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. macOS is on hold, and Linux is in beta (VST3, CLAP and Standalone).
VST3 and CLAP plug-ins for your DAW, plus a Standalone app that runs on its own.
A DAW that hosts VST3 or CLAP plug-ins (for the plug-in), or just an audio interface or sound card (for the Standalone).
Download μ-toni below, free of charge. It comes with the VST3, CLAP and Standalone for Windows, and a Linux beta.
Pay what you want, through Lemon Squeezy. A licence key is issued even for £0, and it removes the support prompt shown when the app starts. Nothing is limited without one, so download and use it first if you like. The source is open under GPLv3.
Pay what you want