Tape, a bowed pad, a deep room and chrome modulation — one macro takes you from dry to far away.
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Parallax is about distance. Four modules in a fixed order, each doing one job well, and a single PARALLAX macro that scales all four wet paths together — so the whole voyage is one gesture, and one automation lane.
At macro zero it's bit-transparent. Each module also has a hard bypass, so you can run it as just a tape stage, or just the reverb, without fighting the rest of the chain.
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.
Input gain → low cut → DUSK → HALO → NEBULA → CHROME → high cut → safety clip → output.
Cassette tape — asymmetric saturation, compression, a wow & flutter mod-delay and top-end roll-off.
A bowed pad drawn out of your own signal: auto-swell VCA, ensemble chorus and a swept formant.
An eight-line Householder FDN reverb with four input allpasses, gently normalised in-loop saturation and decay-dependent damping — big without turning bright or brittle.
Chorus and flanger together, offset 90° left to right so the movement reads as width.
PARALLAX scales every module's wet amount at once. Automate the one control and the entire chain lifts with it.
Switch any of the four out entirely — the plugin never insists on the full chain to be useful.
A sunset gradient, a perspective grid horizon, chrome wordmark, and the macro rendered as a slatted sun.
The same take, before and after. Hit play, then flip between the raw signal and the plugin doing its thing — no reload, no gap.
Spread across the sources you'd actually reach for it on.
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 — Parallax 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 Parallax 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.
Parallax 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.
Space-voyage multi-FX — tape, pad, reverb & chorus.
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