# Lingua Sacra: Synth & Arpeggiator. Press INVOKE.

Lingua Sacra is a psytrance synth and arpeggiator plug-in in sacred scales from Sacred Audio, coming soon for macOS (VST3, AU and Standalone). A psytrance synth in the scales of four sacred languages: Cuneiform, Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic. Press INVOKE and the arp plays, locked to your tempo.

- Status: coming soon
- Category: Instruments

## Key features

- 28 scales: Nippur lyre modes, eight ragas, six prayer modes, seven maqamat
- 32 arp patterns at 1/8 to 1/32, locked to your tempo
- Word to Melody: Gematria, Abjad, Katapayadi or Sexagesimal
- Lyre of Ur, sitar and tanpura, shofar and cantor, oud and ney
- Three seals modulate any knob with rhythms drawn from geometry
- Drag the arp out as a MIDI clip

Rooted in Cuneiform, branching into Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic. Each tongue brings its scales, its voice and its letters.

Press INVOKE and the arp plays, locked to the bar. Hold a key and it follows. Type a word or a mantra and its letter values become the melody.

## Features

- **The Tree of Tongues.** Drag one puck between the four traditions and the voicing morphs between them.
- **Seals as modulators.** Star polygons, the Platonic solids and the Merkaba pulse at every point and every crossing. Drop a seal onto any knob.
- **ORACLE.** One button rolls a new idea inside the tradition you are in.

## How it's built

### Where do the scales come from?

The Nippur modes are the seven-note modes reconstructed from Old Babylonian lyre-tuning texts, alongside an Ur pentatonic and a Hurrian hexatonic. Sanskrit brings ragas and thaats, Hebrew the Jewish prayer modes (shteygers), and Arabic the maqamat.

### What about quarter tones?

Lingua Sacra plays in 12-tone equal temperament. Maqamat with quarter tones, such as Rast, Saba and Bayati, use their standard 12-tone approximations, so everything stays in tune with the rest of your track.

### How does a word become a melody?

Gematria, Abjad, Katapayadi or Babylonian sexagesimal give each letter a number, and the numbers become steps in the scale. שלום (shalom), for example, is 376.

### Where does the groove come from?

The seals pulse where their lines truly cross. A pentagram's crossings divide each edge in the golden ratio, so the pulses fall long, short, long. The sound engine is a plucked Karplus-Strong string with six sympathetic strings, a six-mode body, jawari buzz and a reed.

## 64 factory presets

- **Cuneiform:** Enki's Lyre, Ziggurat Steps, Lyre of Ur, Seven Gates, Hurrian Hymn, Sumerian Stargate
- **Sanskrit:** Om Tanpura Arp, Bhairav Dawn, Yaman Ascent, Malkauns Midnight, Kundalini Rise, Mantra Machine
- **Hebrew:** Aleph Fire, Ahava Rabbah, Shofar Blast, Merkavah Ride, Ein Sof, Burning Bush
- **Arabic:** Hijaz Snake, Nahawand Night, Saba Sorrow, Whirling Dervish, Abjad Code, Andalusian Stars

## Details

| | |
|---|---|
| Formats | VST3, AU, Standalone |
| Type | Instrument (synth and arpeggiator) |
| macOS | macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel |
| Release | Coming soon |

## Questions

### What is Lingua Sacra?

Lingua Sacra is a psytrance synth and arpeggiator plug-in in sacred scales from Sacred Audio, coming soon for macOS (VST3, AU and Standalone). A psytrance synth in the scales of four sacred languages: Cuneiform, Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic. Press INVOKE and the arp plays, locked to your tempo.

### When is Lingua Sacra released?

Lingua Sacra is in development. Create a free account and tick the news box, and we'll e-mail you the day it opens, with a free trial.

### Will Lingua Sacra run on Windows?

The first release is for macOS 11 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Windows versions are planned.