Outboard PalmML

Outboard PalmML is a hybrid guitar instrument — 400 real palm-muted multiscale seven-string recordings excite a note-locked Liquid physical-modeling layer, with pickup morphing, true stereo takes, sample-rate vibrato and a fixed guitar-focused effects chain from Graphic EQ to Dark Plate.

What it's for

Outboard PalmML starts with a real attack. Every note inside the recorded range (A1–E3, MIDI 33–52 with C4 = MIDI 60) calls up its own palm-mute recording — pick attack, string noise and pickup color intact. The Liquid engine then uses that recording as an excitation for a note-locked string resonance with sympathetic overtones and a fixed cab voicing: from a short, controlled chug at low settings to a long, singing liquid guitar. At LIQUID zero you have the dry recording back. Notes outside the range stay silent by design; neighboring samples are never repitched.

What's inside

• The sample corpus — 20 chromatic notes, two pickup positions, independent left/right takes and five round robins each: 400 lossless recordings embedded in the plugin, no separate content download. Repeated notes rotate through the takes.
• The Liquid engine — a note-locked dispersive string resonance driven by the real attack, with sympathetic overtones and a fixed cab voicing. Tight ↔ Ring runs from damped staccato to singing StringRing sustain; Whiten tames problematic resonance in the excitation.
• Pickup morphing — bridge and neck were recorded for every note; one control morphs continuously between them, even while you play.
• True stereo — independent left/right takes make the width; a stereo control scales it from mono-solid to wide, mono-compatible throughout.
• Sound section — a resonant four-pole filter, low cut, ADSR envelope, velocity dynamics, Motion, pitch vibrato created by modulating sample playback rate, and a BBD chorus.
• Rig — an eleven-band Graphic EQ with 21 selectable curves on the raw instrument signal, a Presence stage, AntiFizz, and a softclip/safety stage that stays transparent below −1 dBFS.
• FX — a circuit-modeled diode overdrive and a stereo lamp/LDR vibe, followed by the dense, dark plate reverb.
• Six voices — six-voice playback with polyphonic wet-density control that keeps low notes and fast patterns from building up.
• Tuning — Scala/KBM support, MTS-ESP status and a one-click return to 12-TET, plus master tune and A4 reference (415–466 Hz).
• Presets — 112 hand-tuned factory presets in 12 categories, with favorites, an internal browser, your own presets as files, and a personal default that loads in every new instance.

Getting started

1. Load Outboard PalmML on an instrument track and play in the A1–E3 range — palm-mute chugs with real attack, straight away.
2. Bring up LIQUID in the footer to hear the note bloom into a singing, resonant tail.
3. Morph Pickup between bridge and neck on the Sound page, and set the width to taste.
4. Open the preset browser from the header (the name with the arrows) to browse the 112 factory presets by category and star favorites.

For a guided, illustrated tour of every module, see the Outboard PalmML product page.

Manual

• Interface & Liquid footer — header, master strip, Quality, and the always-visible Liquid section.
• Sound page — pickup morph, width, tone filter, Tight ↔ Ring, envelope, dynamics, motion & vibrato, BBD chorus.
• Rig page — 11-band graphic EQ, Presence, Dark Plate, AntiFizz and the Softlim safety.
• FX page — diode overdrive and the stereo vibe.
• Tuning — master tune, A4, Scala/KBM and MTS-ESP.

Plugin formats

VST3 and CLAP for Windows 10 (64-bit) and Windows 11. The interface is a fixed 1200 × 900 window and uses the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Evergreen Runtime. All samples are embedded — no separate content download. A macOS build is on the way.

See also

• Installation
• License and activation
• Contact support