Primary Chassis // Host Shell

Your plugins. Contorted.

CONTORTA wraps around any VST3 or AU and gives it everything your DAW never could — granular randomization, living drift, and modulation that reaches every parameter. While your automation lanes keep working.

THE_PROBLEM

Most plugins don't have a randomize button. The ones that do give you a grenade: one click, every knob, no survivors. And unless you're willing to switch DAWs, nothing on earth lets you modulate any parameter of any plugin.

CONTORTA fixes all three. It's not an effect. It's a host with bad intentions.

DEVELOPMENT_STATUS

Host shell, 64 proxy lanes, two-way sync, gesture relay and the automatable trigger are running. The modulation rack and drift engine are in build — see the roadmap below.

NOTIFY_ME_AT_LAUNCH

RUNNING_NOW

HOST ANYTHING

Drop any VST3 or AU inside CONTORTA — synth, compressor, that weird freeware flanger from 2009. Its parameters become CONTORTA's parameters. All of them, up for grabs. Audio and MIDI pass straight through the hosted plugin, its latency is forwarded to the DAW, and CONTORTA adds nothing of its own.

RANDOMIZE LIKE YOU MEAN IT

This is not a randomize button. It's a randomize system. Lock what's sacred, dial in probability and amount, and roll the dice on exactly the chaos you ordered — and nothing you didn't.

  • · Per-parameter locks — hold the knobs that matter exactly where you put them.
  • · Probability and amount — from a subtle re-seasoning to a full teardown.
  • · Per-knob ranges — let the filter roam, keep the output gain on a leash. Engine-side today; the range editor lands with the UI pass.
A DICE ROLL YOU CAN SEQUENCE

CONTORTA's randomize trigger is itself an automatable parameter. Draw it into your arrangement. Fire it every bar, every drop, every time the vocal stops. Your patch becomes a living thing that re-invents itself on the grid.

AUTOMATION THAT SURVIVES

The dirty secret of every plugin host: once your plugin lives inside it, your DAW's automation goes blind. CONTORTA's proxy lanes stay fully automatable and recordable — and when you grab a knob on the hosted plugin's own UI, CONTORTA relays the touch so your DAW writes the automation. The lanes are stable and permanent: swap the hosted plugin and your lanes stay put. Nothing about your workflow breaks. It just bends.

ROADMAP // IN_BUILD

DRIFT[IN_BUILD]

Perfect is dead. Give any plugin the slow wander of hot circuitry: WALK, LORENZ and WOBBLE modes will nudge your unlocked parameters in small, musical steps — mutation instead of demolition. Your static presets start breathing.

THE MOD RACK[IN_BUILD]

LFO. CHAOS. FOLLOW. STEPS. Stack any source on any parameter of whatever you've loaded, fan one LFO across a dozen destinations, and give a fifteen-year-old plugin a modulation system it never dreamed of.

HOW_IT_WORKS

01
LOAD

Open CONTORTA on a track, load any plugin inside it.

02
SHAPE

Set ranges, lock the sacred knobs, pick your chaos.

03
ROLL

Hit RANDOMIZE. Or automate it and let the song do it.

FREQUENTLY_ASKED

  • Does it work with any plugin?Anything VST3 or AU that exposes automatable parameters — which is nearly everything.
  • Will my DAW still see my automation?Yes. That's the whole point. CONTORTA's parameter lanes are stable and permanent; swap the hosted plugin and your lanes stay put.
  • Is randomize just chaos?Only if you ask for it. Ranges, locks, probability and amount mean "randomize" can be anything from a subtle re-seasoning to a full teardown.
  • Does it change my audio path?CONTORTA passes audio and MIDI straight through the hosted plugin, forwards its latency to the DAW, and adds nothing of its own.

TECHNICAL_SPECIFICATIONS

  • TypeModulation and randomization host wrapper
  • Proxy Lanes64 automatable proxy lanes, stable across plugin swaps
  • HostsVST3 & AU plugins, audio and MIDI passed through
  • SyncTwo-way parameter sync with gesture relay, so host-UI moves are written by the DAW
  • LatencyHosted plugin's latency forwarded to the DAW; CONTORTA adds none
  • Session RecallFull recall including the hosted plugin's own state
  • FormatsVST3 · AU, macOS Apple Silicon native [Windows to follow]