PolySWAM

PolySWAM by Audio Modeling is a polyphonic physically modeled orchestral instrument for composers, producers, and live keyboard players. Combining SWAM physical modeling, intelligent voice allocation, and real-time expressive control, it lets you sketch orchestral ideas on a single DAW track, perform acoustic ensembles from your MIDI controller, and layer responsive phrasing and dynamics with your existing sample libraries.

Play Expressive Orchestral Ensembles in Real Time

Choose a preset and start playing. Develop chord progressions, melodic lines, and ensemble textures with acoustic sounds that respond to your performance. Move between sustains, legato phrases, staccatos, and dynamic swells through your touch and continuous controllers, without stopping to select articulation keyswitches.

Developed with Emanuele Ruffinengo, Latin GRAMMY Award-winning producer, arranger, and music technology expert, PolySWAM brings SWAM's expressive physical modeling to a dedicated polyphonic instrument.

PolySWAM Highlights

• Physical modeling without sample streaming: Sound responds continuously to your performance without recorded loops or fixed velocity layers.
• Multiple articulations within one preset: Move between quiet sustains, staccatos, legatos, and swells through touch, velocity, and expression control.
• Intelligent Voice Allocation: Incoming notes are distributed among virtual players across keyboard registers in real time.
• Ambiente, Stage Placement, and Scenes: Shape the ensemble's acoustic space and positioning. Recall rooms, placement, EQ, and macro profiles without reloading the engine.
• Macro Controls and Action Buttons: Adjust bow pressure, brightness, and fullness, and engage techniques such as con sordino, pizzicato, and tremolo.

Inside PolySWAM

What PolySWAM Is and What It Isn't

PolySWAM and SWAM: Different Tools for Different Parts of the Workflow

PolySWAM complements SWAM Solo instruments and SWAM String Sections. Use it to capture an orchestral idea quickly or perform an ensemble with both hands. Its centralized voice management makes that immediacy possible.

For exposed solo lines, independent contrapuntal writing, and detailed control over each part, SWAM Solo instruments and monophonic SWAM String Sections remain the appropriate tools. Sketch with PolySWAM, then develop individual parts where the arrangement calls for finer control.

For Studio and Stage

Film, TV, Game, and Media Composers

Write harmonic structures and explore orchestral colors on one track while the idea is fresh. PolySWAM's performance-driven articulations help you hear phrasing and movement as you compose, without managing a large template or keyswitch layout.

It also works as a complementary layer for sampled orchestral parts. Keep the character of your existing libraries while adding modeled attacks, fluid legato, and continuous dynamic swells.

Live Performers and Stage Keyboardists

Play string ensembles, funk horns, and other acoustic groups from a single preset. Shape phrases with an expression pedal, breath controller, or mapped Macro Controls, moving between sustained lines and accented passages as you perform.

With no sample streaming, PolySWAM avoids the disk-loading demands of large sample libraries. Its physical modeling engines run in real time, so a modern, high-performance computer is recommended.

Accessibility

Audio Modeling designs SWAM instruments with accessibility for blind and visually impaired musicians in mind, supporting a workflow that lets players focus on making music.