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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:
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5 star plugin. I dont get why all plugins dont have a morph matrix like this. BEST plugin on KVR for various reasons.
The destructive potential of this plugin is immense. This plugin made my day and destroyed my eardrums.
It also destroys FL Studio's performance when opening specifically Parrot (also from DC2026) and no other plugin, which is a weird issue but both plugins work without problems otherwise.
Rated as my #3 plugin for DC2026.
Response from 1eqinfinity from Hvoya Audio on July 9th, 2026
Hey! Thanks for rating. Can you provide technical details on your setup please? Which OS and which FL versions are you using? Also, are you open to testing the fix?
Thanks,
Gene.
One of the craziest distortions ive ever used!!! Amazing for specifically vocal processing!!!
Good for both crazy distorted punk vocals and vocals sounding like they're coming out of a radio mic or perhaps a megaphone
And!! can be used for weird crunch bass effects on vocals as well
Only complaint is that sometimes moving the morph around too fast causes it to do a full on dc offset thing but thats fine.
Response from 1eqinfinity from Hvoya Audio on July 10th, 2026
Thank you for your review. The funniest thing is that I've payed extra attention to DC at some point, but it is quite possible that there are some cases where it can still appear. If you don't mind sharing a morph preset and a sample you're using it with, I'll look into that. Just PM me :).
Tracktion Waveform 13 & Reaper = not loading.
Have disabled apple security for the VST3 & componant files = no help.
Pluginval diag for VST3 (same for componant):
Started validating: /Users/msb/- VSTPlugs/Gneiss.vst3
Random seed: 0x54a27f5
Validation started
Strictness level: 5
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Starting tests in: pluginval / Scan for plugins located in: /Users/msb/- VSTPlugs/Gneiss.vst3...
Num plugins found: 0
!!! Test 1 failed: No types found. This usually means the plugin binary is missing or damaged, an incompatible format or that it is an AU that isn't found by macOS so can't be created.
FAILED!! 1 test failed, out of a total of 1
FAILURE
*** FAILED.
Tracktion Waveform 13 & Reaper = not loading.
Have disabled apple security for the VST3 & componant files = no help.
Pluginval diag for VST3 (same for componant):
Started validating: /Users/msb/- VSTPlugs/Gneiss.vst3
Random seed: 0x54a27f5
Validation started
Strictness level: 5
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Starting tests in: pluginval / Scan for plugins located in: /Users/msb/- VSTPlugs/Gneiss.vst3...
Num plugins found: 0
!!! Test 1 failed: No types found. This usually means the plugin binary is missing or damaged, an incompatible format or that it is an AU that isn't found by macOS so can't be created.
FAILED!! 1 test failed, out of a total of 1
FAILURE
*** FAILED.
Sorry, forgot to say: Macbook / Intel / Monterey.
Hi! That's expected, macOS 11 was no supported. I've updated the build, check out v1.0.5.
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