VST Bundle

Crisp

This plugin adds a bright crispy top end to low bass sounds. The effect was inspired by Polarity’s Fake Distortion video.

Crossover

This plugin is as boring as it sounds. It cleanly splits the signal into two to five bands using a variety of algorithms. Those bands are then sent to auxiliary outputs so they can be accessed and processed individually. Meant as an alternative to Bitwig’s Multiband FX devices but with cleaner crossovers and a linear-phase option.

In Bitwig Studio you’ll want to click on the ‘Show plug-in multi-out chain selector’ button and then on ‘Add missing chains’ to access the chains. The main output will not output any audio. To save time, you can save this setup as the default preset by right clicking on the device. Any new Crossover instances will then already have the additional output chains set up. You can also download this preset, load it, and then set it as your default preset for Crossover.

Diopser

You were expecting Disperser¹, but it was me, Diopser!

Diopser lets you rotate the phase of a signal around a specific frequency without affecting its spectral content. This effect can be used to emphasize transients and other parts of a sound that in a way that isn’t possible with regular equalizers or dynamics processors, especially when applied to low pitched or wide band sounds. More extreme settings will make everything sound like a cartoon laser beam, or a psytrance kickdrum.

Loudness War Winner

This plugin does what it says on the tin. Have you ever wanted to show off your dominance by winning the loudness war? Neither have I. Dissatisfaction guaranteed.

Loudness War Winner may cause side effects such as headache, nausea, diarrhea, loss of balance, loss of sight, loss of hearing, loss of other senses, loss of common sense, heart palpitations, heart arrhythmia, heart attack, other Demi Lovato songs, rashes, acne, boils, simmers, chronic earwax, acute belly button lint, athlete’s foot, tennis elbow, couch potato butt, depression, anxiety, Scientology, multiple sclerosis, single sclerosis, divorced sclerosis, it’s complicated sclerosis, paralysis, hyperactivity, TikTokism, time travel, sudden clarity and awareness of your surroundings and situation, pneumonia, juvenile diabetes, hysterical pregnancy, existential dread, and enlarged earlobes. Ask your doctor if Loudness War Winner is right for you.

Puberty Simulator

This patent pending One Weird Plugin simulates the male voice change during puberty! If it was not already obvious from that sentence, this plugin is a joke, but it might actually be useful (or at least interesting) in some situations. This plugin pitches the signal down an octave, but it also has the side effect of causing things to sound like a cracking voice or to make them sound slightly out of tune.

Safety Limiter

This plugin is a simple tool to prevent ear damage. As soon as there is a peak above 0 dBFS or the specified threshold, the plugin will cut over to playing SOS in Morse code, gradually fading out again when the input returns back to safe levels. The same thing happens if the input contains infinite or NaN values. Made for personal use during plugin development and intense sound design sessions, but maybe you’ll find it useful too!

Why not use a regular brickwall peak limiter?
The downside of doing that is that you may end up mixing or doing sound design into that limiter without realizing it. And at that point, you’ll probably need to either redo part of the process. So this plugin simply gives you a very non-subtle heads up instead of altering the sound.

Soft Vacuum (Airwindows port)

This is a straightforward port of Airwindows’ Hard Vacuum plugin with parameter smoothing and up to 16x linear-phase oversampling, because I liked the distortion and just wished it had oversampling. All credit goes to Chris from Airwindows. I just wanted to share this in case anyone else finds it useful.

Spectral Compressor

Have you ever wondered what a 16384 band OTT would sound like? Neither have I. Spectral Compressor can squash anything into pink noise, apply simultaneous upwards and downwards compressor to dynamically match the sidechain signal’s spectrum and morph one sound into another, and lots more.

Buffr Glitch

Like the sound of a CD player skipping? Well, do I have the plugin for you. This plugin is essentially a MIDI triggered buffer repeat plugin. When you play a note, the plugin will sample the period corresponding to that note’s frequency and use that as a single waveform cycle. This can end up sounding like an in-tune glitch when used sparingly, or like a weird synthesizer when used less subtly.