Gneiss

Heavy, gritty, banded, formed under pressure. A morphing multi-stage filter with colorful chaos. Two pre-filters into a saturating, pressurizing ladder — unpredictable and full of happy accidents. Made for drums, deep bass and textural noise, but it'll morph into pads just as easily, or high-end analog-style sizzle in HP mode. Equal parts FX, instrument and sound-design tool:

• morph pad - blend between whole-patch snapshots on an XY field; freely place points and glide between them live (XY is MIDI-mappable).
• break / chaos engine - wavefolding, bitcrushing, clicks and more folded into the ladder - a playable nonlinear system.
• high-quality ZDF transistor ladder + resonant SVF pre-filters, both stereo-detunable.
• input-gated damping for transient sculpting and taming self-oscillation.
• controls are MIDI-learnable (absolute and relative/modulation modes).
• filter cutoffs playable by MIDI notes — per-stage channel selectors, glide, note-relative shifts.
• coherent patch randomization and mutation.
• custom UI builder — arrange your own control layout.
• up to 8× oversampling.
• lots of presets (try stacking two instances at ~0.5 mix each).

User manual

Installation instructions

{See video at top of page}

https://youtu.be/4XM8Qa08M_Y