Notes from the bench
Releases, development notes and writing about the DSP behind the plugins.
How to Use XY Bass: Depth, Translation, and the Line Between ThemWhat the two axes of XY Bass actually move, how the pitch tracker decides between reinforcing a fundamental and rebuilding it, and which of the 13 presets to start from on a bass, a kick or a mix bus.How to Use XY Reverse Slicer: Slice Length, Texture and the GridHow the two axes of XY Reverse Slicer work, why the slices land on the song timeline instead of on the moment you pressed play, and the settings that turn a vocal into a stutter or a chord into a swell.How to Use XY Space: Distance Is Not a Wet/Dry KnobWhat CLOSE to FAR and SMALL to HUGE actually move in XY Space, why distance is not a wet/dry knob, and how to use it as a send, as an insert and on a drum bus.How to Use XY Transient: Size, Impact and the Cymbals That Usually DuckWhat TIGHT to BIG and SOFT to PUNCHY move in XY Transient, why a five-band linear-phase split stops a tightened kick from pulling the hats down, and which presets to start from on a kick, a bus or a bass.The XY Series: Four Plug-ins, Two Decisions EachXY Bass, XY Space, XY Reverse Slicer and XY Transient are out at 1.0.0. Four plug-ins that put a whole processing chain behind two named axes on a pad. €10 each, €23 together.23Bloom: Bloom Rebuilt, and Renamed23Bloom rebuilds Bloom with crossovers you can place, an Amount per band, level-matched monitoring, and loudness tracking that works. VST3 and AU for Windows, macOS and Linux.How to Use 23Bloom: The Curve, the Bands and the MonitoringWhat every 23Bloom control does — Input, Curve, Effect, Clip, the three-band split, loudness tracking and Response — plus Level Match, Delta and Solo, and which presets to start from.Time Terrarium 0.10: Three Habitats That Leave Pitch AloneTime Terrarium 0.10.0-rc1 adds Slate, Quartz and Loam — three species of echo that hold pitch exactly — a Clean preset group of eight, and a fix for the reversed habitat, whose two channels were detuned against each other.How to Use Time Terrarium: Habitats, the Orb, Migrate and SealHow Time Terrarium works — planting species in the four habitats, placing and orbiting the orb, Migrate, Pattern, Seal, the Space controls and Roll — and which presets to start from.Time Terrarium: Four Kinds of Echo in One GlassTime Terrarium is a delay with four habitats: species of echo including tape, ping-pong, shimmer and reverse, an orb that moves sound between them, orbits, migration, Seal and a preset bank. What it does and how it sounds. Written at the 0.9 launch; 0.10 added three more species.23ArpDelay 0.9.0-rc6: Pitched Taps Use About a Third Less CPU23ArpDelay 0.9.0-rc6 moves the pitch shifter onto a faster transform. Pitched taps use about a third less CPU on Windows and Linux; the sound, presets and licence stay as they were.DE-_1: De- Rebuilt, Now With Mid/Side and Left/RightDE-_1 rebuilds the free De- de-esser, de-mudder and de-boxer with the same sound, Stereo, Mid/Side and Left/Right modes, 68 presets, and a signed macOS installer.How to Use DE-_1: De-Ess, De-Mud, De-Box and the Stereo ModesHow DE-_1's three sections work — Frequency, Threshold, Range and Q — how to use Stereo, Mid/Side and Left/Right, and which presets to start from.How to Use 23ArpDelay: Patterns, Taps and ActivationHow to activate 23ArpDelay with your licence key, and how the pattern builder, the tap graph and the per-tap controls work — with settings to start from.Dualite: Two Chains, Not OneDualite is a dual-chain multi-effect: two independent racks running left/right or mid/side, with 24 effects, four lanes, modulation and 90 presets. What it does and why it exists.How to Use Dualite: Mid/Side, Parallel Lanes and Two ChainsWhat mid/side actually is, when to use it instead of left/right, how to build chains in Dualite, and settings to start from on vocals, drums, bass and the mix bus.23Tape_1: Rebuilt from Scratch, and Why It Is a New Plugin23Tape_1 is a from-scratch rewrite of 23DSP's most-downloaded plugin: what was fixed, what is new, why it installs alongside 0.8.3, and what every build must pass.How to Use 23Tape_1: Every Control ExplainedEvery 23Tape_1 control explained — speed, type, Bias and Drive, Hiss, Wow and Flutter, Head Bump, Age — with starting settings and why they work.23DSP Season 02A new cycle for 23DSP — a rebuilt DSP framework, updates for the most-downloaded plugins, and the whole catalogue staying exactly where it is.