Kinetic is a modulation multi-effect. Pick a shaper, draw a shape on the canvas, and it runs one cycle per bar, beat or note division — locked to your host, retriggered by MIDI, or fired by transients in the audio itself.
Every shaper can run across three frequency bands with its own shape per band, so you can gate the low end without touching the cymbals, or scrub the highs while the bass stays put.
New modules default to off, so the chain only does what you switch on.
Up to 12 seconds of buffer per band, scrubbed by the shape — stutters, tape stops and rewinds, with short crossfades so the jumps don't click.
Granular doppler shifting at ±2, ±12 or ±24 semitones, with a deliberately vintage cyclic character.
The classic: gating, ducking, tremolo and sidechain-style pumping, straight off the drawn curve.
A flanger with its delay time modulated by the shape.
Bit-depth reduction driven by the shape, over static sample-rate reduction.
White, pink, crackle or hiss, band-limited through its own crossover so it lands only where you want it.
A per-band reverb whose send is gated by the shape — reverb on the off-beats only, if you like.
Per-band compression with auto make-up, as a tool rather than a shape.
A breakpoint editor with undo, 18 categorised wave presets to start from, and eight favourite slots for the shapes you keep coming back to.
An LR4 crossover with allpass correction (flat within 1 dB when summed), per-band shapes and envelopes, and solo that follows your selection.
Host sync, MIDI note-on, or audio transients with Drums/General/Complex detection — plus an external sidechain input.
The window scales to your screen and remembers where you left it.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Across 12 categories — the largest bank in the catalog.
Save your own alongside them — they land in your user folder and survive updates.
Unzip, drop the .component into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the .vst3 into
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3, then rescan in your DAW. It appears under
Award Audio Tools. A step-by-step INSTALL.txt is in the zip.
Motion FX — draw the groove across three bands.
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