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flanger turnout 2 vst3 / au / aax

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randomize

lfo → a knob · smooth cyclic sweep

the actual plugin layout: module · mod selector · cv source · history strip, in one window. click a row to switch; hover to hold

depthwhere the notch comb sits - slides every notch up the spectrum, two notch spacings across the knob. it is a position, not a depth - the sweep applied to it is motion.

sprdnotch spacing. fully down packs 256 notches across the band; fully up leaves two.

tiltthe axis the comb is drawn along. dead centre spaces the notches evenly in hz, like a flanger; above it they bend toward even-per-octave and crowd the bass, below it they crowd the treble. off centre the sweep chirps. not an eq tilt.

motionsweep excursion applied to depth, up to +/-3 notch spacings. at the rise and fall positions of shape it is the scroll speed instead. the waveform is shape and the speed is rate.

ratelfo speed when free-running (sync = 0)

synclock lfo to internal clock: free / 1-1 / 1-2 / 1-4 / 1-8 / 1-16

shapesweep shape: sine / triangle / square / sample-and-hold / woggle / rise / fall. woggle hands the sweep to a chaos source - it never repeats, never turns around on a schedule, and the two channels wander apart. rise and fall do not oscillate at all: the comb scrolls one way for ever. rate still sets how fast it moves.

regencomb feedback (bipolar; 0.5 = a plain comb). above centre the passbands sharpen into resonant peaks; below it the notches narrow to slits with flat shoulders between them.

stagescomb resolution. fully up, every frequency gets its own gain; turn it down and the comb snaps to a staircase of as few as six steps, so whole bands pulse as the sweep passes through them.

drivesaturation after the comb, so the peaks regen raises scream instead of just getting loud (0 = clean)

mixdry / wet. the notches are carved into the wet itself, so 100% is the full effect. the wet runs about 43 ms behind the dry, so part-way settings double.

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flanger turnout 2

dispersive spectral phaser

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vst3 · au · aax · macos 11+ · windows 10+ · no ilok · in the rack and standalone

§ what it does

dispersive spectral phaser

A phaser carved directly into the spectrum instead of built from a handful of filter stages. Up to 256 notches, every one cut all the way to silence, laid out along an axis you can bend - evenly spaced like a flanger, even-per-octave like a phaser, or crowded into the treble - so a sweep chirps across the spectrum in spacings no conventional phaser can produce.

REGEN runs in either polarity: one way sharpens the comb into resonant peaks, the other narrows the notches to slits, and DRIVE saturates the result. Sweep it with the LFO, lock it to the clock, hand it to a chaotic source that never repeats, or let it scroll upward or downward for ever. STAGES snaps the comb to a staircase, so whole bands pulse as the sweep passes through them.

It runs the same DSP as the module in Tangle; nothing is cut down for the standalone version. One licence covers both: this plugin, and the same module unlocked inside the rack.

§ every control

what each knob does

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

dispersionstages sets how many all-pass poles stack up to 16, and sprd fans their spacing from a tight pile-up to a broad sweep.

motionmotion sweeps the notch cluster; rate and sync set the speed, shape the waveform.

resonanceregen feeds the chain back on itself and drive saturates that loop for singing, near self-oscillating tones.

voicingdepth places the notch cluster, tilt steers the brightness, mix blends dry against the notched sum.

§ built-in modulation

it modulates itself

Flanger Turnout 2 ships with the full CV/logic modulation section every Tangle standalone carries. Pick a modulator, drag a patch cable onto any knob, and that control moves on its own, no DAW automation required.

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.

memoryA loop of random voltages that repeats until you let it mutate, one step at a time.

driftSix related voltages from two particles moving through a shared field: they drift together, not separately.

§ 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

Flanger Turnout 2 is a module from Tangle, the free cable-patchable rack. It is free either way: it is in the rack from the moment you install it, and it installs as this standalone plugin at the same time.

Download the installer and both are there — nothing to sign in to, nothing to enter.

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