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talk to me goose 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

tuneband-pass centre, 120 hz to 6 khz on a log scale. the heterodyne whistle's pitch tracks it, so sweeping tune sounds like hunting for a station.

driftsets how far the carrier wanders on its slow 1.1 hz sine, moving the band centre with it.

fadesets both the rate (0.05 to 0.4 hz) and the depth of the slow ionospheric fade. it also scales the heterodyne whistle, so with fade fully down the whistle is silent however far off-station you tune.

staticlevel of the between-stations hiss. a squelch ties it to signal strength, so a weak signal lets it through and a strong carrier ducks it. fully down is off.

chaossets how chaotic the q wobble is, from rhythmic pulsing into chaos.

depthhow far the chaotic wobble swings the q, up toward self-oscillation. the filter tap is level-normalised, so this changes the band's width rather than its loudness.

crushcodec crush across two codecs. the lower half of the travel is companded mu-law quantisation, from 12 down to 5 bits; the upper half hands over to ima-adpcm, from about 4 bits down to 2, which gurgles. fully down bypasses it.

decimsample-rate reduction, which adds aliased, metallic grit. it sits before crush, so the aliasing gets quantised too.

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

crush & lo-fi · wam-12 · standalone + cv modulation

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

default factory settings
grainy chip grainy · moving
neat broadcast
wobbling pixel bright · grainy · moving · wide · punchy

§ every control

what each knob does

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

chaotic tuningdepth and chaos wobble the band-pass q, swooping a heterodyne whistle as it tunes.

decimate then crushdecim drops the sample rate before crush quantises the aliasing into codec grit.

between stationsstatic adds a squelched hiss bed that a strong carrier ducks, fade drifts the level.

§ built-in modulation

it modulates itself

Talk To Me Goose 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

Talk To Me Goose is a module from Tangle, the free cable-patchable rack. Buying it here licenses both: this standalone plugin, and talk to me goose 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

talk to me goose

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