Musical Entropy builds free audio effects for people who make music, with virtual analog modelling, creative processing, and interfaces that try to teach you something while you use them.
Spaceship Delay and The Great Escape have just been updated, and a new freeware plug-in for the Korg Logue platform is available.
Turn a single note into a living soundscape.
A freeware shimmer reverb built around an analog BBD chip delay emulation, where ethereal pitch-shifted tails meet dark, grainy analog repeats that slowly dissolve into the mix. Push it further and it becomes an instrument of its own: an infinite drone and texture generator for ambient beds, cinematic tension and evolving sound design.
Univibe-style phasing for your Korg hardware.
A phaser for the Korg Logue platform (NTS-1, NTS-3, Minilogue XD, microKORG 2, Drumlogue...), inspired by the Univibe circuits of the 1960s. That coloured, slightly unstable phaser sound you hear in dub, vintage soul and psychedelic textures.
A tremolo that follows your playing.
A dynamic tremolo made in collaboration with Thrilltone, modelling their all-analog pedal. An envelope detector changes the speed and depth of the effect as you play, so the effect stops being mechanical and becomes expressive.
Modern and vintage delays, plus everything around them.
Post effects, analog modelling synth filters, a spring reverb, ducking and attack dynamics processing, a freeze/looper mode, modulation, a lot of presets, and tutorials embedded right in the plug-in.
Fourteen pedals that were never meant to sound polite.
A compilation of virtual analog guitar pedal simulations, built for electric guitars and amp sims but interesting anywhere. The focus was never on classic effects — these are the weird, strange, ugly and different ones.
A cure for the blank page.
An application built to stimulate the creativity of composers. Influenced by Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies and by songwriting techniques from books such as Nicholas Dobson's Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, it hands you random, more or less abstract advice to get moving again.