HydroSwarm

HydroSwarm fuses four powerful DSP systems into a single motion-driven instrument. A dual multimode filter with ADAA saturation shapes your signal through five filter modes — sculpting harmonics with antialiased precision. A varispeed flanger-delay inspired by tape drift and clock manipulation creates delay textures that breathe.

Every control visualizes its parameter. Rotary knobs animate with scrolling waveforms, spinning spirals, and morphing geometries. Sliders are 3D wireframe shapes — cylinders, prisms, vortexes — rotating continuously, deforming as values change. This isn't decoration. It's feedback. Built for producers who think architecturally about sound.

Dual Morphing SVF -

Two independent multimode filters — one per stereo channel — each driven by its own LFO, sweeping through five filter modes in real time.

HydroSwarm's filter section runs a true dual-core topology: Filter A processes the left channel, Filter B processes the right. Each filter is a State Variable Filter (SVF) with ADAA saturation, morphing continuously between five modes. Set different rates and waveforms per channel to create evolving stereo motion — or match them for synchronized sweeps.

Varispeed Flanger/Delay -

A dual stereo delay inspired by tape drift and clock manipulation — part echo, part flanger, part something entirely new.

The delay engine combines a classic varispeed tape delay with a modulated flanger in one unified system. Independent left/right delay times with optional tempo sync, stereo ping-pong routing, and a flutter modulator that introduces tape-like pitch instability. The feedback path includes tone shaping and soft-clipping saturation for analog warmth.

Algorithmic Shimmer Reverb -

An 8-line Feedback Delay Network with pitch-shifted shimmer — spaces that evolve beyond the room.

Built on a Valhalla-style FDN-8 (Feedback Delay Network with 8 delay lines and a Hadamard mixing matrix), HydroSwarm's reverb goes beyond traditional room simulation. A CloudSeed-inspired pre-diffuser smears transients before they enter the network. The shimmer engine uses a granular pitch shifter (+12 semitones) fed back into the network, creating endlessly rising harmonic cascades.

8-Band Parametric + Per-Band LFOs -

A full 8-band parametric equalizer where every band has its own independent LFO — frequency and gain modulated independently across the spectrum.

HydroSwarm's EQ is a studio-grade 8-band parametric equalizer with a live spectrum analyzer. Each band offers six filter types and can be individually enabled. What makes it unique: every band has its own LFO with five waveform shapes, independently modulating that band's frequency position and gain amount. The result is a living, breathing EQ that creates spectral motion impossible with static equalization.