Module families
Each family is a coherent design programme. Click through for details, screenshots, install instructions, and source.
Statistics & emergence as patchable CV
Real statistical, social, and stochastic processes turned into control voltage — sampling distributions, the bootstrap, agent-based cascades, epidemics, reaction-diffusion. Quirky, generative patch material with genuinely correct math underneath. (Teaching stats? That's the Empiria web app.)
Soviet machines meet the West Coast
Eight sound-design modules with a deliberate Eastern-bloc analog character, shaped by the West Coast tradition of complex oscillators and function generators: drum voices, oscillators, a master clock, a plate reverb, and generative sequencers. Built for fun and for getting weird.
Generative systems, made visible
Emergent systems you watch evolve on screen and patch as CV. Colony is a cellular-automaton grid; Turing is a probabilistic shift-register sequencer with a built-in quantizer. Set them running, nudge them, and take the patterns as pitch, gates, and modulation.
Rhythmic delay & gate effects
Four tempo-synced effects: a rhythmic amplitude gate, a stereo ping-pong delay, a multi-tap pattern delay, and a crossfader. Lock them to your clock for movement in time and across the stereo field. Free to download and use.
Tone, space, and time
A transistor-ladder filter (Helix), a stereo color repeater (Halo), a character delay with reverb (Skywave), and an eight-stage step sequencer (Metro185).
Plugins
The SHLabs DAW branch — a growing family of VST3 / AU plugins and standalone apps, all in active development. Paid releases; follow along for availability.
Multi-LFO modulation rack
Draw modulation on a curve editor and lock it to the beat — four curve-LFOs over volume, pan and filter, with multiband routing and MIDI out. The first SHLabs VST.
Audio-reactive video synth
Listens to your track and renders beat-locked visuals you can throw fullscreen onto a second screen — five morphing fields, a feedback FX pipeline, host & Link sync.
Slice instrument
Chop a loop into playable slices across the keyboard, shape each hit, and grab the keepers to your library — the chop-and-play workflow, distilled. ReCycle × Serato Sample.
MIDI step sequencer
A deep eight-step sequencer in the RYK M-185 / System 100m lineage, reimagined for the DAW — ratchets, 34 scales, gate modes, play directions, MIDI-learn and pattern save.
Mastering bus compressor
The SSL-style glue that holds a mix together — stepped controls, program-dependent release, sidechain high-pass, Mid/Side and a parallel mix, with a big gain-reduction meter.
Mastering equaliser
A draggable curve over a live spectrum — up to 24 bands, eight filter types, 6–96 dB/oct slopes and per-band Left/Right or Mid/Side. Surgical or musical.
MIDI harmony conductor
A Sinfonion-style brain: master key and scale, an interactive Tonnetz lattice, three quantizers, a voiced chord generator, arp, bass, drone and a progression sequencer — driving your synths.
Wavetable synthesizer
A standalone synth with drag-and-drop modulation: band-limited morphing wavetables, warp with FM and ring mod, drawable LFOs, a 48-slot matrix and a studio FX rack with plate reverb, bus compressor and maximizer.
