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Hey everyone. I’m a solo dev, and I’ve just released a pair of VST3/AU plugins: a host called Inter::State, and a cross-track controller called Inter::State Bridge.
I spent the last three years building this because, for me at least, the DAW workflow for complex chains is a headache. Building a parallel vocal chain or an active multiband split usually means messy DAW projects with aux tracks and parallel tracks all over the place, a hundred plugin windows everywhere, and jumping through hoops trying to monitor/analyze/gainstage/A-B everything. And if you try to use a physical MIDI controller to tweak the plugins on your vocal channel, trying to tweak those on the parallel channel or even worse the guitar channel at the same time means crazy workflow-killing setups and routing... or an expensive walled garden developer-specific hardware that only works with their software.
Inter::State is my answer to a Plugin Host aimed to take the pain out of all of the above. Inter::State Bridge is my way of giving hands-on control over it all.
Inter::State allows you to build an entire parallel, serial, multiband structure—or any mix and match of the above—and treat it as a single playable, A-B-able, gain-stageable entity with analytics at every input and output stage.
The main thing is what happens when you load a plugin. Every VST3 or AU you load into a slot gets automatically wrapped with native Peak/LUFS/RMS auto-gain matching/volume riding, phase control, a beat-synced oscilloscope, and a spectrum analyzer. I also added a wrapper to force up to 16x oversampling on legacy plugins. You can basically diagnose and gain-stage an entire parallel chain without ever opening a single third-party GUI.
It has a deep macro and modulation system, but to solve that MIDI controller situation, I built the Inter::State Bridge companion plugin. Put it on one track and point your hardware controller at it. It uses a custom loopback network to route your MIDI to every Inter::State instance in your project. You can automate its global bridge lanes, or pass direct MIDI straight to your hosted plugins via mapped macros. You can tweak a delay on your vocal and a filter on your drum bus simultaneously, without the DAW ever cutting your controller's focus.
A fully unrestricted 14-day trial is up on the site here: https://www.ravinedsp.com (https://www.ravinedsp.com)
I'm a solo dev/one-man company. I hope this isnt just coming across as marketing nonsense but Im not entirely sure how to present such a dense bit of software to the world without everyone falling asleep after the first few lines (as they apparently did on my YouTube videos). Anyway, would love for feedback from anyone running the trial version.
Craig
Ravine DSP