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TRANSIT
A super creative multi-effect plugin created with Baby Audio. Designed to make your song transitions both better-sounding and easier to create, all of Transit’s effect parameters can be linked to a global macro control, allowing you to create complex sonic changes with a single knob movement. While everything under the hood can be tweaked with precision, there are also over 300 presets included that can give you immediate, polished results. It’s also not just for transitions—Transit shines as rhythmic modulation that can be subtle or extreme, and its highly configurable randomization system allows you to spontaneously find new sounds and moods. All of this leads to more engaging, less static mixes.
Flip Sampler
Flip is a sample-based mobile music studio for iOS and Android, designed for a fast and intuitive work flow. Import your own samples, or record sounds directly with your device's microphone or a connected interface. As soon as you record a sound, it’s available to be played on drum pads as well as being mapped across a keyboard. Sounds can be subtly shaped or entirely transformed using the built-in effects and easy-to-use editing tools.
HARDWARE
GHOST MODULE
A stereo effects processor in Eurorack format. There are three blocks of effects—a filter, a distortion, and a delay into a reverb—whose order can be re-routed with the push of a button. Despite its compact 16hp size, a huge amount of sound shaping is possible given an easy-to-use (and clearly labelled!) shift button system that opens up a secondary related control for almost every knob. Additional features include an input gain and tone stage with VCA, and end-of-chain compressor, a sidechain ducker whose envelope can be adjusted as well as having an output for use elsewhere in your system, and at the output stage, another VCA and a master volume control with an additional flavor of distortion when pushed.
GHOST PEDAL
Highly requested and released one year after the Eurorack version of Ghost, this pedal contains the same re-routable effects blocks but adds two new reverb modes and three new possible effects orders. The compressor and sidechain features of the module version have been replaced with a cab simulator and dry/wet control, and instead of the CV control typical of modular synths we implemented what we believe to be the most usable modulation and expression pedal system of any pedal out there. The built-in LFO or a connected expression pedal can be easily assigned to any parameter—even simultaneously, and including shift parameters—opening up worlds of sonic possibilities that are much more finicky to set up with other configurations of pedals.
CANDYCORD HALOS
Light-up patch cables, designed in collaboration with MyVolts, for visualizing control voltages as you work with modular or semi-modular synths, or any controllers or sequencers that send signals like triggers, gates, and clocks. The LEDs show the strength of a signal via brightness and polarity via color. Candycord Halos are finished with high grade materials, including gold-plated connectors for a lossless connection. They come in a range of pastel colors, with lengths from 15 centimetres to 6 meters. Variations include straight or curly cables, and straight or right-angled connectors.