dr. pitza vst3 / au / aax

randomize

no rolls

amount 100%

1 curve → a knob · a shape you draw, looping

the actual plugin layout: module · randomize · two modulator slots · history strip, in one window. click a tab to switch a slot; hover to hold

shiftfrequency shift. centre is no shift; below it chirps everything down, out to about 2 khz fully down, and above it chirps it up, out to about 210 hz fully up.

echosets the echo feedback (up to about 78%) and the delay length (8 to about 29 ms) together. each repeat is shifted again, so the tail climbs or falls.

driveanalogue-style saturation, after the echo and before the crusher. it is biased slightly off centre, so it adds even harmonics.

crushone sweep from clean through bit reduction, 16 bits down to about 8. above about 70% of its travel, sample-rate reduction comes in on top.

tonelow-pass after the crusher, 300 hz to about 3.6 khz. it tames the quantiser and aliasing fizz and sets the overall brightness.

mixdry/wet balance. fully down is dry only; fully up is the effect alone.

crush & lo-fi · wam-111 · standalone + cv modulation

dr. pitza frequency-shift echo crush

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vst3 · au · aax · macos 11+ · windows 10+ · no ilok · unlocks in the tangle rack too

dry · the kookaburra on its own
default factory settings
chalky floppy grainy · punchy
bright fax bright · grainy
tender scanline warm · punchy
glassy telegram bright
steady cassette dark · still · punchy

§ every control

what each knob does

Six controls, no menus. Here they are on the panel itself.

shiftFrequency shift. Centre is no shift; below it chirps everything down, out to about 2 kHz fully down, and above it chirps it up, out to about 210 Hz fully up.

echoSets the echo feedback (up to about 78%) and the delay length (8 to about 29 ms) together. Each repeat is shifted again, so the tail climbs or falls.

driveAnalogue-style saturation, after the echo and before the crusher. It is biased slightly off centre, so it adds even harmonics.

crushOne sweep from clean through bit reduction, 16 bits down to about 8. Above about 70% of its travel, sample-rate reduction comes in on top.

toneLow-pass after the crusher, 300 Hz to about 3.6 kHz. It tames the quantiser and aliasing fizz and sets the overall brightness.

mixDry/wet balance. Fully down is dry only; fully up is the effect alone.

§ built-in modulation

it modulates itself

Dr. Pitza ships with the full CV/logic modulation section every Tangle standalone carries. Two slots, each running one of six modulators: pick one from a slot's tabs, drag a patch cable onto any knob, and that control moves on its own, no DAW automation required. Both slots can run the same kind, each its own copy, and slot 2 can be switched off.

lfoSmooth cyclic movement: sine, triangle, square, sample & hold, or a shape you draw.

curveA looping contour you draw by hand: smooth, spiked or stepped.

noiseStepped, smoothed or slewed randomness for texture and wander.

transientListens for hits, then fires a trigger plus an envelope on every transient it hears.

env followTracks how loud you are playing and turns that into a control voltage.

timingSpreads hits as evenly as possible across a bar, so rhythms land musically instead of bunched.

§ always recording

it keeps what you just played

A rolling capture strip runs beneath the panel, always recording the plugin's output. No transport, nothing to arm. Played something great while you were just tweaking? Click-drag across the history waveform to select it, then drag the slice straight into your DAW timeline.

ARM flips it to ring-capture for hands-free takes.

§ one purchase, two plugins

it unlocks in tangle too

Dr. Pitza is a module from Tangle, the free cable-patchable rack. Buying it here licenses both: this standalone plugin, and dr. pitza unlocked inside the rack, where you can patch it into any other module you own. There is no second purchase and no upgrade path; the rack itself costs nothing.

Sign in once in the rack and your licences follow your account: a module bought this morning appears at the next licence check, on every machine you install on.

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§ the box

dr. pitza

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