Warmth, drive and grit on one screen, with one OVERALL knob that takes the whole chain from dry to melted.
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Molten is six effect sections in a fixed order, each on a named macro with a trim beside it, and one OVERALL knob that scales every wet amount at once. At zero, you're dry.
It's the heat in the family: Halcyon does air, Parallax does distance, Molten does low-mid weight and grit.
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 — the weight and the grit.
A bipolar filter: lowpass one way, highpass the other.
Chorus, for movement that isn't width.
Tempo-synced delay.
Reverb.
Stereo width.
One knob rides all six wet amounts together — the whole point of the format, and the easiest automation lane you'll draw.
Every factory preset is code, not a captured snapshot, so the bank stays deliberate and consistent across categories.
Black glass knobs, ember-orange arcs, and molten drips hanging off the header.
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 — Molten 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 Molten 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.
Molten ships with 48 factory presets, grouped into 6 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.
No — they're unrelated. Molten Music Technology is a music-technology news and review site. Molten by Award Audio Tools is a multi-FX plugin: saturation, a bipolar filter, chorus, synced delay, reverb and width, all behind one OVERALL knob. If you're after the plugin, you're in the right place.
Heat-treated multi-FX — warmth, drive and grit.
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