Vanta runs one shape per note division and turns it into gain. Pick a curve, pick a rate, set DEPTH and MIX — that's the whole plugin, and it's the quickest route to a sidechain-style pump with no sidechain to route.
The curve display carries a neon playhead, so you can see exactly where in the bar the shape is and line it up against the kick in a couple of seconds.
48 shapes in banks — CORE, DRIFT, FRACTURE, ORBIT, VOID and SIGNAL.
13 note divisions. In FREE mode the selector becomes a Hz knob.
SYNC locks the curve's phase to the host timeline; MIDI retriggers it on note-on; FREE runs at its own rate.
How far the curve pulls the gain, and how much of the shaped signal you hear.
Rounds the curve's edges when a hard gate is too abrupt.
Slides the whole shape against the beat.
Locked to the timeline, played from a MIDI clip, or free-running at its own Hz for effects that shouldn't obey the grid.
Neon on true black, with the curve and its playhead as the only thing competing for your attention.
MIDI triggering means the AU registers as a music effect, so in Logic you'll find Vanta under MIDI-controlled effects. The VST3 loads as an ordinary insert.
Original shapes, grouped by character rather than by genre.
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.
Tempo-synced volume shaper — pump, gate, stutter.
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