mfkne releases Tonebleed and Grainwash free VST3 effects

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mfkne has released Tonebleed and Grainwash, two VST3 effect plugins for macOS and Windows.

Tonebleed Tonebleed is a fuzz that multiplies the signal before it distorts, so the distortion stage saturates a chord instead of a single note.

It has four controls: BLEED stacks drifting unison voices and granular octave copies in front of the fuzz.

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mfkne has released Tonebleed and Grainwash, two VST3 effect plugins for macOS and Windows. Tonebleed Tonebleed is a fuzz that multiplies the signal before it distorts, so the distortion stage saturates a chord instead of a single note. It has four controls: BLEED stacks drifting unison voices and granular octave copies in front of the fuzz.

How it works

AGE pulls the signal over a worn tape transport, with wow, flutter, saturation and head loss.
Wide open, a single note turns into a wall of sound, and at low settings the plugin works as a quiet thickener.
Grainwash Grainwash is a delay and reverb hybrid with a granular octave shimmer that follows the beat.
FUZZ drives them through a two-stage pedal circuit that closes its own tone stack as it opens, so the sound gets darker the harder the control is pushed.
With all four controls at zero the output is the input, delayed by the 52 samples the plugin reports to the host.

What to take from it

The shimmer swells on each subdivision of the host tempo and opens further where the source falls away, so the tail answers the phrase instead of covering it.

Details worth keeping

Both behaviors are built in and need no routing.

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