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Buffer

The write head circling twenty seconds of live buffer.

buffer effect in development

Inertia

A live-buffer time machine. Transporter and beat-repeat engines replay a rolling twenty seconds of whatever you feed it.

in development

One email when it's ready, nothing else.

formats
VST3 · CLAP · AUv3
runs on
macOS · Windows · iPadOS

Inertia is always recording the last twenty seconds, and turns any moment of it into a loop or a stutter.

Transporter listens for transients and fires looping read heads from them. Beat Repeat cuts tempo-synced repeats that can fall in pitch, fade out and sweep their own filter.

Up to six voices run at once, each with its own trigger, loop and filter. The repeats show up as cubes you can edit directly: click to mute one, drag it for pitch or gain.

on the faceplate

10 controls in 3 groups, named as the plugin labels them.

01Engines

Transporterloops fired from detected transients, read from the live buffer
Beat repeattempo-synced repeats on an interval, with offset and chance
Voicestwo to six, each with its own settings
Triggerfree running, from a sidechain, or from MIDI

02Per voice

Looplength range, sync, pitch, direction and crossfade
Repeatgrid, gate, pitch decay and volume decay
Filterlow, band, high or notch, 12 to 36 dB, with its own decay

03Mix and motion

Spreadplaces the voices across the stereo field
Routingmix, insert, or gate the dry signal
MatrixLFOs, step sequencers, envelopes and a follower onto 84 targets
04every control, in the manual→
01

Always listening

A twenty-second stereo buffer keeps rolling, so nothing has to be planned in advance.

02

Repeats you can touch

Each repeat is a cube on the display: mute it, pitch it, reverse it.

03

Six voices deep

Layer loops and stutters from the same moment, each filtered on its own.

the manual

A first draft for now: every control on the faceplate, and how activation works. The full manual comes with the release.

Read the manual
  1. 01overview
  2. 02activation
  3. 03engines
  4. 04per voice
  5. 05mix and motion
  6. 06design notes
  7. 07specifications
  8. 08questions

Twenty seconds you can always go back to.

  • Inertia VST3 and CLAP, macOS and Windows
  • free updates within version 1
in development

One email when it's ready, nothing else.

formats
VST3 · CLAP · AUv3
runs on
macOS · Windows · iPadOS

before you buy

How many computers can I use it on?

Three at a time. Sign in once from the plugin and it checks its licence on that computer without going online again. Deactivating a computer, from the plugin's settings or from your account page, frees its slot.

My studio computer is offline. Can I still activate?

Yes. The plugin shows a machine ID; paste it on your account page and download a licence file for that computer. It counts as one of your three.

Do updates cost anything?

Not within the version you bought. Download them from your account page.

Is the iPad version included?

No, the iPad version is sold separately on the App Store, and Apple handles that licence. A desktop licence covers macOS and Windows.