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Spek

A character saturator with two harmonic voicings, pre- and post-shaping, and oversampling.

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VST3 / AU / CLAP · macOS / Windows

Spek editor

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How to build a dual-filter trance supersaw in Pigments thumbnail

22 Aug 26Dual-filter supersawSingle-filter supersaws lose the pluck when you open them. Two engines, two filters, two FX chains.

Vibe Coding a Plugin: What AI Can Build, and What It Can’t thumbnail

8 Jul 26What AI can (and can’t) buildI recently made a decision on a plugin I’m building that I thought worth surfacing as an example, one that shows exactly where issues arise when vibe coding a plugin. A prompt wouldn’t have made it for me and trying to one shot a task without understanding would have most likely missed it completely.

How to Build Layered Ambient Pads in One Bitwig Sampler thumbnail

27 Jun 26Layered pads in one samplerThe usual way to build a big ambient pad is to stack instruments. A pad synth here, a texture layer there, a vocal sample underneath, maybe a field recording for grit, each on its own track with its own effects. It works, but it gets heavy fast, and it ties your sound to a fixed