Your Spice Rack Has a Suspiciously Large Engage Button.
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Some people add a pinch of thyme. You bought a plugin and dumped it on the drum bus.
Hold the big Engage button and the audio drops to half speed, a third, a quarter or three quarters, with the pitch following the speed like a tape deck. Let go and it speeds back up. This is what happens when the seasoning instructions just say "trust me."
The audio stays slowed for as long as you hold Engage. A tasteful sprinkle for a transition. The entire spice rack for a breakdown. Engage is an automatable parameter, so you can season live or draw the whole incident into your DAW. No tiny jar. No clogged shaker lid. No celebrity chef leaning over your shoulder asking whether you've tasted the snare.
Hold it for a very long time and it resyncs itself at 12 seconds to keep things running properly. Even we put a lid on it eventually. With nothing engaged, the audio passes through untouched. Sometimes the track already has enough thyme. Allegedly.
Season Irresponsibly.
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The Spice Rack
The audio stays slowed for as long as you hold Engage, timed by Slow Time on the way down and Return Time on the way back, sprinkle it gradually or administer the thyme all at once. Curve picks Linear or Exponential, two ways to tip the jar, neither requiring a televised explanation of your creative journey.
Land On, Recover, Output and Color
Land On times the speed up so full speed arrives exactly on a 1/4, 1/2 or 1 bar grid line, using the host's own bar and time signature. Recover decides how you get back there: Snap crossfades back to the live signal in about 30 ms, Nudge runs 10 percent fast until it catches up. Put the thyme down quickly or hustle back to the beat.
Watch It Work
Two speed meters show the playback speed of the left and right channels. Slow Time and Return Time readouts show seconds or note values, and a stereo VU reads the output. You can see exactly what your generous application of thyme is doing. The judges may look concerned. The meters remain professional.
Season Like Nobody's Scoring You
Hold Engage through the drop and the whole mix sits at half speed, heavy and slow. Let go with Land On set to a bar line and the music returns exactly on the beat. That's your signature thyme move. Practice it until an imaginary television chef folds their arms and demands a rematch.
Choose quarter speed when the breakdown needs enough thyme to trigger a stock check. Choose three quarters for a lighter sprinkle. Pick Snap for a quick crossfade back to live, or Nudge for a brief catch-up. Season the drums. Season the bass. Season the whole mix. Somewhere, a panel of imaginary judges is saying "the thyme is a little forward," and you're reaching for the jar again.
Ten factory presets, A/B comparison and your own saves live on the preset bar. Compare a restrained sprinkle with the version where you sneezed into the jar. The Power switch turns the panel dark and passes the audio through untouched, and the window resizes from the corner. Finally, a spice rack that fits on your screen.
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VST3 (64-bit) - Windows, macOS, Linux
AU (64-bit) - macOS only
Windows 10 / 11
macOS 11 Big Sur or later (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Linux - Ubuntu 22.04+ or equivalent
Any VST3-compatible host: Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Nuendo, and more
AU (macOS): Logic Pro, GarageBand, MainStage
None. With nothing engaged the audio passes through untouched.
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Current version: 1.0.0
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Tested on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 40. Requires one system library for license verification:
sudo apt install libsodium23 # Ubuntu / Debian sudo dnf install libsodium # Fedora / RHEL sudo pacman -S libsodium # Arch
VST3 only. Confirmed working in REAPER and Bitwig.
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