What it is:
- Three-layer engine — SUB sine, MID sine+noise, band-passed click TOP, summed in parallel with a 909-style clap voice
- Five-voice distortion palette (Sat Clip, Sat Diode, Sat Tape, Transformer drive, auto Master warmth) — each structurally different rather than five flavours of tanh
- Master bus: RMS comp → transformer drive → brickwall limiter → auto tube warmth
- Tilt / low-shelf / variable-Q notch master EQ
- 16-step pattern sequencer, host-synced or internal transport
- One-shot WAV/AIFF bounce, deterministic, off the audio thread
- In-plugin MIDI Learn (right-click any knob, BPM, or PLAY) with auto-detected CC encoding — covers BeatStep, BCR2000, FaderFox, Pioneer, X-Touch out of the box
- Sample-accurate MIDI NoteOn dispatch under JACK and DAW hosts
What's missing: AU (nih-plug framework doesn't ship it, so Logic Pro can't load Niner — Reaper, Bitwig, Live, Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Renoise, and Ardour on Mac all work via VST3 or CLAP). Polyphony — it's a kick drum.
Links:
- Listen first (10 one-shots bounced from the plugin): https://hyperfocusdsp.github.io/niner/
- Plugin page: https://hyperfocusdsp.com/plugins/niner
- Source: https://github.com/hyperfocusdsp/niner
- KVR product page: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/niner- ... rfocus-dsp
— Vlad / Hyperfocus DSP