As this week's Free Plug-in, we are featuring EON-Arp from Modalics, a fully featured arpeggiator plugin for instruments which don’t have an arpeggiator and for DAWs which don’t have MIDI effects.
What Is EON-Arp?
EON-Arp is an arpeggiator plugin. It can be used with its basic, built-in synth but it can (and should) be used with your virtual instrument of choice. It offers all the control you might wish for and importantly supports keyswitching so a melodic pattern can be transposed up and down from the keyboard.
It’s particularly useful for Pro Tools users as, unlike many DAWs, Pro Tools doesn’t have any MIDI plugins. Some DAWs have this functionality built in.
It was our colleague Eli Krantzberg who alerted us to this plugin and having tried it I have to say I found it ‘just unpredictable enough’ in use. What I mean by that is that I found I didn’t always get what I was expecting, which is exactly what I found using arpeggiators and pattern sequencers on analogue synths in the pre-DAW days. The beauty of the TB303 was that you often didn’t get what you expected. I spent many hours with a 303 getting inspiring, unexpected results and that’s why I used it!
How To Use With Pro Tools
We tested it in Pro Tools and the way to use it with a VI is to run your MIDI controller into EON-Arp and to route the MIDI input of a second instrument track hosting your VI to the MIDI out of EON Arp, having switched off the internal synth in EON Arp first.
How Do I Get This Plug-in?
Go to the Modalics website using the button below
Sign up for free account. Verify your account with 6 digit code sent to the email address you used to sign up. Make $0 purchase of EON Arp. Checkout. Download link and licence details are sent to email you provided. Drag the licence file to plugin on first use to authorise.
EON-Arp is availble for Mac and PC on Intel and Apple Silicon as AAX,VST, VST3, AU, Standalone and AU-MIDIFX. No iLok required.
Julian Rodgers is Editor of Production Expert. He has a background in live sound and has been a Pro Tools user since 2001. He lives by the sea in West Cornwall where he plays piano, bass and guitar equally badly and is an avid collector of microphones and opinions about all things audio.