ANCIENT FX
Delay, reverb and glitch effect · VST3 / AU / Standalone
A creative effect for mangling anything you feed it. Shape the echo, reverb, grain and stereo field, then chop it up with the glitch section. Eight presets, four bright and four dark, from the dropdown at the top.
- Intensity: feedback, echo, pitch, reverb, cloud, drift and grain size
- Glitch: stutter, gate, crush and stutter length
- Stereo: width, spread, bounce and auto-pan
- Main: intensity and glitch macros, plus dry/wet mix
How to install
- Unzip the download. You get
AncientFx.vst3.
- Move it to
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/.
- If macOS blocks it, run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/AncientFx.vst3 in Terminal.
- Rescan plugins in your DAW.
ANCIENT GLITCH
Glitch drum sampler · VST3 / AU / Standalone
Put a sample on each of 16 pads, play them from MIDI, and glitch them. Stutter a slice, crush the bits, reverse it, or let chaos detune every hit.
- 16 pads: one sample per MIDI key, C1 to D#2, with overlapping hits
- Stutter: repeat a slice of the sample, with a start point and repeat count
- Crush and reverse: bit-depth reduction, sample-rate reduction and reverse playback
- Chaos: random pitch detune on every hit, up to an octave
- Nine presets from Stutter Kick to Bitrot
How to install
- Unzip the download. You get
Ancient Glitch.vst3.
- Move it to
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/.
- If macOS blocks it, run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Ancient Glitch.vst3" in Terminal.
- Rescan plugins in your DAW.
Heads up: both plugins are macOS builds for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later), and they are not notarized by Apple. That's why macOS may ask you to allow them, and why the quarantine step above exists. Windows and Intel Mac builds aren't available yet.