Plate

The Plate is a thin, flat sheet, with the bright, dense metallic ring of a struck sheet of steel. Like every Resonator, it takes Springs, Exciters, and Mics anywhere on its surface, and its pitch follows the played note. Its contact points are placed across its width with Contact: U and across its height with Contact: V, each from 0 at one edge to 1 at the other.

Its Frequency, decay, Material, Tension, Curvature, Mode EQ, and other shared properties are documented on the Resonator page.

Plate Properties#

• Aspect: The Plate's width over its height, which sets its overtone series. The Plate keeps the same area whatever its shape. At an Aspect of about 1.41 (the square root of 2), its first three modes sit at exactly 1 : 2 : 3, like the tuned tone field of a hand pan, and Curvature makes them bloom into each other after a strike.