Five plug-ins for macOS,
as VST3 and Audio Unit.
Three of these began life as Cakewalk DXi plug-ins written in Visual C++ 6 between 2003 and 2004, and have been ported to macOS from their own sources rather than reimplemented from their behaviour — the DSP carried over sample for sample except where a deviation is deliberate and written down. Two are new work on the same template.
Each one builds a .vst3 and a .component from a
single CMake project, so there is one set of sources and one DSP behind
both formats.
Universal 2 · Apple Silicon and Intel · signed with a Developer ID and notarised · macOS 10.13 or later
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ForTran
InstrumentAdditive / formant synthesiser
Ten sine partials per voice, each with its own level, phase, invert switch and ADSR, under a sweepable spectral filter with four switchable shapes. Sixteen voices, 145 parameters, and a Moog ladder on the way out.
v1.0.0.1 · 1.9 MB Details & download → -
Project6
Instrument8 Ã 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar
Drag a .wav or a .mid onto a slot, click to arm it, and it comes in when the transport crosses the next grid line. Each pad picks its own division of the bar, a box above each column launches the whole column, and nine output buses carry the mix and eight per-row direct outs.
v1.0.0.1 · 1.9 MB Details & download → -
SpaceDub
EffectFive-tap stereo dub delay with a ladder filter in the feedback path
An eight-second delay line per channel, read at five taps panned by index so repeats spread across the image as they decay. Tap 5 can run through a four-pole Moog-style ladder and back into the line â which is where the dub-siren sweeps come from.
v2.0.0.1 · 2.2 MB Details & download → -
SpyBand
EffectBand vocoder with a 22 Ã 22 patch matrix
Nine, twelve, eighteen or twenty-two bandpass filters on the carrier, an envelope follower on each band of the modulator, and a full matrix between them â so any band can drive any other band, not just its own. The diagonal is an ordinary vocoder; everything off it is why the plug-in exists.
v1.0.0.1 · 1.9 MB Details & download → -
VocalFilter
EffectThree-formant vocal-tract model
Three bandpass resonators per channel in parallel rather than cascaded, so each formant carries its own amplitude. Five vowels in an adult male and an adult female voice, with the frequencies taken from Peterson & Barney's measured means and the levels derived from them.
v1.0.0.1 · 1.7 MB Details & download →
Installing
Every plug-in ships as a single signed, notarised .pkg.
Open it and the installer offers the two formats separately, so you can
take the VST3, the Audio Unit, or both:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/<Name>.vst3/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/<Name>.component
Quit your DAW before installing — a running host holds the old copy
open. Logic rescans Audio Units on its next launch; to force it, quit Logic
and run killall -9 AudioComponentRegistrar.
Formats and hosts
The Audio Unit is Steinberg's AUv2 wrapper around the same VST3 bundle, so
the two cannot drift apart. Both have been run through Steinberg's
validator and Apple's auval. The instruments
appear as aumu and the effects as aufx, all under
the manufacturer code AECo.