Cardinals is sound designer and composer Simon Stockhausen's presentation of dualism in various realms. You'll find dark and light, tonal and atonal, serenity and anxiety, and Eastern and Western influences scattered across its Achromatic and Chromatic Percussion. Other categories include "Danger Zone", Keys, Synths, Strings, Pads, Textures, and Soundscapes. Each of the 109 presets creates its own enclosed universe, inviting many hours of exploration.

Who is Simon Stockhausen?

Simon Stockhausen got in touch with music at the age of five and never looked back. With his father's impressive musical works as patrimony, he explored a remarkable chunk of the entire music gamut. The last four decades saw many collaborations and projects that he carried out wearing the hats of performer, composer, arranger, and sound designer.

The 109 presets of Cardinals

Achromatic Percussion

Micro Rimba
Split Worlds
Percussive Synth
Metal Microcussion
Stick Percussion
Tube Percussion
Gloomy Bells
Micro Metal
Metallic Thing
Rattle Drum
Strange Splitter
Beaten Tube
Log Drummer
Oak Percussion
Doom Drum (org)
Doom Drum (var)
Someone at the door
Frankenbell
Wood Cluster

Danger Zone

Metal Breeze
Rising Alien
Alien Random Syncer
Jupiter Swamp
Howling Scape
Something coming
Ominousness
Breathing Bell
Syncopath
Ominous Riser
Unstable Landing
Metal Brain
Synced Meth (org) - microtonal
Synced Meth (var) - chromatic
Mabuse's Labratory
Alarm Alarm!

Keys Synths and Strings

Gentle Boy
Tine Whistler
Christmas Synth (org)
Christmas Synth (var)
Flutish Tines (org)
Flutish Tines uncoupled (var)
Soft Chime Keys
Mellow Mallets
Emperor's Palace
Asian Thing
Koto Me
Plucked Beauty
Strat Harp Pad
Medieval Pluck
Tube Drops
Paradise Fifth
Express yourself!
Funk Mallet
Stinger Synth
Wood Bass (org)
Wood Bass (var)
Release Tubes
Chroma Wurli
Dirty Wah Wah Wurli
Fat Tubebass

Pad Synths

Lonely Shepard
Crystal Stabpad
Melancholic Cembalo Synth
Vox Humana
Gongswell Pad
Asian Stringtube Pad
Mysterious Girl
Garden Eden
Bell Pad
Space Organ (org)
Space Organ (var)
Mellow Tines Pad
Eden Glass Pad
New Age Delight
PsychaDelica

Textures and Scapes

New Planet
Seaside Drone
Grainy Stranger
Frozen Timp
Over Lord
Raining Mallets
Metal Stranger
Squarehead
Windspiel 1
Windspiel 2
ÜberDrone
Machine Room
Chemtrails
Mercury
Particles
Atmospheric Rider (org)
Atmospheric Rider (var)
Tchernobells
Pluto Meditation

Strings & Pads

Airy Strings
Overload Strings
Crinkle Cut 5ths
Grunge Strings
Cyclotron Strings
Whisper Of Rosin
Camshaft Strings
String Swirl
Sawing The Grand
Delicata
Bowed Handbells
Breath Of Life
Tremulando

WORKS TWO WAYS

Cardinals was created with the Chromaphone 3 acoustic object synthesizer. You can obviously play and edit the sounds in Chromaphone 3, but you can also access and play them via the free AAS Player included with your Cardinals purchase.

AAS Player—included with purchase

Distraction-free playing experience
More than an hundred free extra presets via Swatches

Chromaphone 3—sold separately

Sound manipulation at the source core
Starting point for new sound design ideas

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WINDOWS · MACOS · 64-BIT
VST2 · VST3 · AU · AAX NATIVE · NKS · STANDALONE

Chromaphone 3 and AAS Player are compatible with nearly all DAWs.

Ableton

Live

Apple

GarageBand

Apple

Logic Pro

Apple

MainStage

Avid

Pro Tools

Bitwig

Bitwig Studio

BandLab

Cakewalk

Cockos

Reaper

Image-Line

FL Studio

MOTU

Digital Performer

Native Instruments

Komplete Kontrol

Native Instruments

Maschine

Presonus

Studio One

Reason Studios

Reason

Steinberg

Cubase

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Mac minimum system requirements*

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1 processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

PC minimum system requirements*

Windows 10 64‑bit or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).