Wake

Wake isn't a shaper — it's a transient-triggered swell instrument. It detects every transient in your audio and, for each one, generates a swell that rises into the hit and resolves exactly on it (a pre-echo, via look-ahead).

In Spectral mode the swell is resynthesized from the hit's own spectrum and can bloom into a chord — octave, fifth, power, major, minor, octave stack — so a kick blooms into a tonal sub-riser and a vocal hit into a harmonized swell rising into the word. A Color control sweeps the swell from dark to bright into the transient. There's also a reverse-reverb swell mode, a drawable Volume Shape fired per hit (ducks, pumps, tremolo, stutters), per-onset dynamics that scale each effect to the hit's loudness and brightness, multiband targeting, and an onset-activity visualizer.

Because Wake generates new, pitched material from each hit rather than reshaping existing audio, it does things grid- or audio-triggered shapers structurally can't. A mix-time tool — look-ahead latency is reported to the host for transparent delay compensation.