Two oscillators and a dedicated sub, a four pole ladder filter, a wobble locked to your host, five drive shapes and a four slot effects rack. Set up for UK bassline, speed garage and bass house from the first note.
The same two note phrase through every prefab, rendered straight out of the plug-in with nothing added afterwards.
What is in it
Osc A and osc B share one unison bank, so voices, detune and width widen them together. Osc B has coarse and fine tuning for a Reese, and the FM knob folds it into osc A for growl. The sub always sits an octave below the note you played.
Four poles, solved without a unit delay in the feedback path, so it stays stable all the way to self oscillation. Tap mixing gives a 24 dB and a 12 dB low pass, a band pass and a high pass out of the same structure, with drive into the saturating stage.
Pick a division and it follows the tempo, or switch sync off for a free running rate. Depth sweeps the cutoff three octaves either side of where you set it, and the mod wheel adds on top, so one patch can be played rather than automated.
Warm and grit for weight, fold for the metallic Reese timbre, crush for bits and sample rate, fuzz for hard clipping. Tone and mix sit next to them, and a soft limiter after the stage stops anything turning into a raw digital clip.
Any slot can be a chorus, phaser, delay, reverb, compressor, EQ or sidechain ducker, in any order. Each one gets three knobs that relabel themselves to suit the effect you picked.
Eight note polyphony when you want chords, mono with retrigger when you want punch, and legato with glide for slides. A glide of 50 to 150 ms in legato is where the bassline slide lives.
Under the lid
The DSP is all first party C++ against the VST3 SDK. Band limited oscillators keep the top end clean, the envelopes have an analogue flavoured curve rather than straight lines, and the audio thread never allocates. Clicks on the on screen keyboard travel to the engine through a lock free ring buffer, the way a host would send a note.
Factory prefabs
They show up in the header menu and in your host's own preset list, because they are registered as a VST3 program list.
Specification
| Type | Bass instrument, VST3 |
|---|---|
| Platform | Windows 10 or later, 64 bit |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Polyphony | 8 voices, or mono and legato |
| Oscillators | Two, plus a dedicated sub and a noise source |
| Filter | Four pole ladder, LP 24, LP 12, BP 12 and HP 12 |
| Effects | Four slots: chorus, phaser, delay, reverb, compressor, EQ, sidechain |
| Factory prefabs | 16, also exposed as a VST3 program list |
| Editor | Vector drawn, with a playable three octave keyboard |
| Built against | VST3 SDK 3.8.1 |
Before you buy
Any host that loads 64 bit VST3 plug-ins on Windows, which covers Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig, Reaper, Cubase and Studio One among others.
Not yet. Version 1.0 is Windows only.
The audio on this page is rendered straight out of the plug-in and covers every factory prefab, so you can hear exactly what it does before you spend anything. There is no trial build yet.
VST3 only for now. The engine is kept separate from the plug-in wrapper, so other formats are possible later without a rewrite.
Copy the .vst3 folder into your VST3 directory and rescan in your host. The support page has the exact path and a checklist if your host does not see it.
One payment, no subscription. Download after checkout and it is yours.
Windows, VST3, 64 bit. Version 1.0.