Sketch Audio Fuzz Droid and Galaxy Brain: new Moog Modular-based distortion and outer space combo effects plugins for iOS and macOS.
Let’s stay with creative effects. Sketch Audio has also released two exciting new effects for iOS and macOS. Unlike the latest Caelum Audio release, each purchase includes iOS and macOS versions here.
Sketch Audio Fuzz Droid is a new dirty distortion based on a vintage device, and Galaxy Brain combines two effects in an outer space FX processor.
Sketch Audio Fuzz Droid
Fuzz Droid is a new distortion effect plugin based on the legendary Moog CP3 modular mixer.
It features two modeled circuits: the CP3+, which has a sharp discontinuity for massive harmonics, and the CP-, which has a smooth curve for a less aggressive sound. Three main parameters—drive, headroom, and output level—allow you to control the sound.
Sketch Audio also added some extra twists to Fuzz Droid in the advanced section. You can explore a custom smoothing function to reduce harsh artifacts, an adjustable bias that sets how you hit the asymmetries, and flexible tone-shaping filters. It’s possible to place them pre- or post.
Handy, Fuzz Droid lets you sync user presets across your devices (iOS/macOS). It also offers a clickless global bypass, internal undo/redo, and an option to enable oversampling for even better results.
With the plugin, you can add spice and heat to any clean sound, from soft saturation to destructive, dirty distortions.
Sketch Audio Galaxy Brain
Enough dirty timbres for today. Sketch Audio’s second plugin release, Galaxy Brain, is much softer and more atmospheric. It’s a frequency shifter and delay combo that takes any sound into outer space.
The frequency shifter is based on the original legendary Moog Bode Frequency Shifter with the same range from 5 Hz to 5 kHz. Thanks to its direction mixer slider above the range parameter, you can generate tremolo or ring mod style effects.
Then, the stereo delay module has a classic design and can run freely and in sync. It has creative extras, including tone-shaping filters in the feedback path, continuous ping-pong, LR delay time skew, or wet signal ducking.
The built-in modulation engine, featuring a multi-wave LFO and an 8-step sequencer with multiplier and polarity options, makes things more exciting. You can modulate the frequency shifter with these, giving you wild AM sounds and more. The pity is that you can’t modulate freely the delay effect.
Do you need extra crunch? No problem! Sketch Audio added to Galaxy Brain an optional hardware clipping mode.
Like Sketch Audio Fuzz Droid, it comes with cross-platform user preset sync, undo/redo, oversampling option, and more.
Galaxy Brain can archive many effects, including thick chorus FXs, choppy wild AM sounds, ambient textures, and space-laser results.
First Impression
Two very creative effects for iOS/macOS at affordable prices from Sketch Audio. I like the concept of making the effects a bit more feature-reduced, so they are more hands-on and accessible.
Sketch Audio Fuzz Droid is available for $4,99 USD instead of $9,99. Galaxy Brain is out now for an intro price of $9,99 USD instead of $19,99. Launch pricing runs through February 9, 2025. Each app offers a two-week trial via in-app purchase.
The intro pricing runs through February 9, 2025. Both releases are available for iOS standalone and AUv3 plugin and macOS (native Apple Silicon) as an AUv3, VST, and CLAP plugin. Each purchase includes both the iOS and macOS versions.
More information here: Sketch Audio / AppStore
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