Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers

This is not granular. This is all sampler, unison. And so it sounds like things that even granular can’t do. Vara Osiria Belich is this week’s sound design inspiration, with her bonus gestural spell casting with gen-1 Leap Motion. (Remember?)

Free Compactor, limiter/ducker with sidechain, joins Kilohearts freebies

Kliohearts’ software line is a treasure trove of effects. But Kliohearts Essentials alone is an impressive free collection of standalone plug-ins for anyone. You won’t want to sleep on the latest addition, Compactor, a deceptively simple “precision ducking” tool.

Peter Kirn - August 20, 2025

Arturia FX the latest to get the Elisabeth Homeland Ableton Live wrapper treatment, and whoa

Elisabeth Homeland’s wrappers let you use popular effects plug-ins as if they were native Ableton Live device UIs – saving you from opening floating windows. The latest collection is the most ambitious yet, with the skeuomorphic Arturia effect interfaces.

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2023

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