K-Devices Fauve is a fascinating FX processor for macOS, Windows, and now iOS that takes sonic fragments into unusual fields.
Granular, glitch, or stutter effects allow you to transform audio into fragments in real time, generating a variety of sounds. Granular synthesis, in particular, will enable you to create textures quickly.
In April, K-Devices released Fauve, an FX processor that generates fragments and processes them in a different, fascinating way. Now, you can also get Fauve for iOS.
K-Devices Fauve
Fauve is a new, very unique FX processor with a fascinating signal path in their Totem plugin lineup. First, K-Devices Fauve analyzes and breaks incoming sound into small bits known as fragments in real-time. The developers describe them as collections.
The engine plays them back, but not always faithfully and precisely as the previous one. There’s always an organic life within, giving you proper playback and creative failures.
It acts like a human memory. You remember many things, but there are also some that you don’t know, either entirely or only in fragments.
The Fauve user can creatively intervene in this process by shaping the playback of fragments with various sampling and slicing parameters: disorder, repeat, freeze, and playhead rate.
Memory Transformation
Also in the middle section is the exciting Absence parameter that brings in an organic or even a weird behavior to the processor by mangling the amplitude. Turn it to the left to assign a random value to each fragment for more organic, unpredictable results.
You can also go the other way around. Turn to the right and introduce audio drops to fragments. It adds uncertainty and generates more wild results.
Just as interesting is the significant Mirage parameter that blurs Fauve’s reality with its dream. It goes beyond what a traditional dry/wet mix is. Further, you can set the balance and stereo field, plus control the amplitude for both source and processed sound.
Also onboard is a lock parameter function that preserves key parameter values while browsing presets. Super handy if you like to have the same amount of wet signal in every preset.
The results that Fauve delivers cannot be compared to classic granular processors. K-Devices say:
Fauve can be a harsh distortion, a gentle shadow, a paroxysmal dance between reality and dream, and much more. It can slightly scramble your sound, completely strip it of its original meaning, or introduce subtle, almost imperceptible variations to make it richer, yet always organic.
First Impression
There are tons of effects plugins on the market. A chorus, a delay, a reverb… Often, the concepts are repeated; only the packaging is different. Fauve is different and demonstrates that it’s still possible to craft utterly unique processors that inspire and also astonish with their results.
If you’re looking to explore a sound laboratory, tackle new and unfamiliar ingredients, and create original soundscapes, you have come to the right place.
K-Devices Fauve is available now for 49€ and runs as a VST3, AU, and AAX plugin on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows. The iOS version with AUv3 support is available now for an introductory price of $4,99 (40% OFF).
To celebrate the iOS release, all other K-Devices apps are also on sale.
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