Bright, airy and upward — 96 presets deep, with an octave-up shimmer that blooms through the delay and the reverb.
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Halcyon is the preset-first one. Seven sections sit under a single UTOPIA macro, and the fastest way to use it is to open the browser, arrow down the bank until something lands, then ride the centre knob.
Each section has a small trim beside it, so “more of that” is one move and “shape it” is the second. UTOPIA at zero is bit-transparent.
Two presets, each played dry and then swept in, so you can hear what it does rather than watch knobs move. The actual plugin window — not a mock-up, not a slideshow.
Saturation, with an AIR trim on the saturated path.
One bipolar knob — lowpass one way, highpass the other — with an EDGE trim.
Ensemble chorus, with a RATE trim.
A two-head varispeed octave-up shifter with its own damped regeneration loop, sitting upstream of the delay and the reverb so the octaves bloom through both.
Tempo-synced delay, with TIME and FEED trims.
Reverb, with a SIZE trim.
Stereo width, on a horizontal slider.
Placed before the delay and reverb rather than after them, so an octave-up tail gets echoed and roomed instead of pasted on top.
Category rail with counts, a search box, and rows that load the instant you select them — so arrow keys audition the entire bank.
Thirteen of the 96 presets engage a single section. A bank where everything runs four modules at once just sounds like one preset played 96 times.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Save your own alongside them — they land in your user folder and survive updates.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Then rescan in your DAW and it appears
under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Yes — Halcyon installs as a VST3 on both Mac and Windows. On Mac you also get an Audio Unit (AU) and a Standalone app in the same download. There is no VST2 build and no AAX build, so Halcyon does not load in Pro Tools.
Anything that hosts VST3 or Audio Units — Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig, GarageBand and Luna are all covered. Logic and GarageBand use the AU; the rest use the VST3. There's also a Standalone app on Mac if you just want to plug in and play without opening a DAW.
Both. The Mac build is a Universal binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1 through M4) and Intel, on macOS 10.15 or newer, and it's Developer-ID signed and notarised by Apple, so there's no Gatekeeper warning. The Windows build is 64-bit VST3 for Windows 10 or newer. One purchase covers both — the zip contains the Mac and Windows builds together.
Halcyon ships with 96 factory presets, grouped into 8 categories. You can save your own alongside them, and they travel with the project the same way any other plugin state does.
No. $39 a one-off purchase with no subscription, no iLok and no dongle — you download it straight after checkout, updates are free, and the licence covers the computers you own. Whatever you make with it is entirely yours.
On Mac, unzip and drop the .component into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. On Windows, copy the .vst3 into C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3. Rescan in your DAW and it appears under Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
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