Evoke a bewildering variety of polyphonic organ sounds directly from your guitar! Valkure (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, Valkure is a powerful addition to your guitar arsenal.
Valkure is Available Now on the App Store! Compatible with iOS & Apple Silicon.
Unique Organ Tone Generator
The unique organ module achieves guitar-to-organ transformation via proprietary signal processing algorithms, thereby retaining full polyphony. Valkure 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.
Built-In Rotary & Amps
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.
Wide Ranging Parameters
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. Valkure is rounded out by the addition of analog-modeling effects, including tape delay, 3-band Baxandall style EQ, as well as built in compressor.
AUv3 and Pro Features
Besides working as both a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin, Valkure 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.
Valkure Selected Specs
Guitar to Organ Unit
Proprietary realtime DSP that generates organ tones from guitar signal
Full polyphony
No guitar-to-midi: guitar techniques such as vibrato and slides are directly transformed into the organ output
3 unique organ types to choose from: "M" for mellow, "C" for classic, and "T" for transistor
9 drawbars for the principal organ unit
2 drawbars for custom "pedal" tones, for a total of 11 simultaneous registers
Percussion unit with configurable trigger detection, loudness, duration, and CV bypass
Scanner Chorus/Vibrato with 6 modes
Unique Expression control replicates classic tone wheel organs
12 drawbar "presets" for instantly & quietly changing drawbar configurations within a given patch
Input low and high cut for tailoring the sound to a wide variety of pickups
Variable attack with configurable trigger sensitivity for automatically generating swells
Configurable "dwell" to adjust sustain
Adjustable harmonic leakage to replicate tonweheel organ characteristics
Taper, Resonance, Body, and Air parameters to adjust the organ spectral
Dedicated organ and pedal register boost controls for varying the "grit" and "punchiness"
Adjustable CV boost
Rotary Speaker Unit
Rotary unit delivers modulated organ sounds via individually configurable virtual drum and horn speakers
3 unique cabinet types, as well as complete bypass
Chorus/Tremolo switch for varying speaker speed, as well as Brake switch to stop
Adjustable horn/drum balance
Dedicated slow & fast speed, as well as inertia parameters for both horn and drum
Drum is configurable to remain stationary in Chorus or Tremolo modes
Dedicated mic angle selector for each speaker
Additional virtual room microphone with settable room size
Amps & FX
Custom tuned amp unit with 3 unique amp models
Virtual-tube technology for warm, harmonically rich overdriven tones
Adjustable gain with mid-boost switch
Adjustable low cut, BMT, and presence controls
Tape delay emulation with adjustable time and feed, with ability to self-oscillate
3-band modified Baxandall style EQ unit with configurable frequency and boost/cut at each band
Built in dynamic compression unit with settable amount and gain
System, AUv3, MIDI & Extras
AUv3 Instrument Plugin: use multiple instances in your favorite AUv3 host
DAW-friendly fluid layout
iOS and Apple Silicon Mac compatible
Easy MIDI learn, with ability to manually configure each MIDI parameter
Over 75 MIDI parameters
MIDI program changes
Create, save, and share unlimited banks and presets
128 factory presets
Stand alone app also offers audio recording & sharing
Native processing at any standard sample rate up to 96kHz
64-bit internal resolution for top notch numeric precision
