weaver audio releases tangle, a free modular effects rack that lives inside the daw

76 hand-built audio modules and a full cv and logic system, patched by hand or by one press of randomize. Every audio module also ships as its own plugin, for US$25 one-off or US$9 a month for all of them.

NAARM/MELBOURNE, Australia · 23 October 2026 · Weaver Audio today released Tangle, a modular effects rack that runs as a VST3, Audio Unit and AAX plugin inside the DAW. The rack is a free download. It comes with 6 audio modules and the whole cv and logic system, and every other module in its catalogue of 76 is available by the month or one at a time.

Tangle starts as an empty rack. Modules are added from a menu and patched with cables, from any jack to any other, the way a hardware rack is patched. Every knob on every module is also a patch point: a cable on it makes it move, driven by an LFO, an envelope follower, a clock, a quantizer or the audio itself. A randomize button builds a complete patch in one press, choosing the modules, the cables and the knob positions, and every roll is kept, so the patch before it is never lost.

"I wanted a rack I could afford to fill," said David Weaver, who built Tangle alone. "The sound of a modular comes from the patching, not from any one module, so the rack had to be free and the patching had to be the whole point. The modules are where the money is, and each one is priced like a pedal."

Every audio module in Tangle is the same code as a standalone plugin of the same name. One licence unlocks a module in both places. The modules are sold three ways, all stated on the page: US$25 each as a perpetual licence, US$9 a month for all-access to every module, or Tangle Complete, every module outright for US$399. Each paid module has a 14-day free trial as its own plugin, and every purchase carries a 30-day refund.

The catalogue of 76 audio modules is organised in 13 families: compressor & dynamics · delay & echo · filter · fuzz & distortion · generative voice · granular · lo-fi & bitcrusher · phaser, flanger & comb · pitch & frequency shifter · resonator & physical model · reverb · spatial & motion · spectral. Each module has its own faceplate, drawn for it, in a paper-and-ink design that runs through the plugin, the website and the company's marketing. The plugin ships with a light paper theme and a dark ink theme.

Weaver Audio sells direct from its website. There is no iLok, no dongle and no reseller. Licences are perpetual, work offline between a licence check every three months or so, and the company's terms commit it to publishing a release that needs no licence server before that server is ever retired.

Tangle and the modules run on macOS 11 or later, native on Apple Silicon and Intel, and on 64-bit Windows 10 or later, in any DAW that loads VST3, Audio Units or AAX.

Tangle is available now at https://weaveraudio.com/tangle.html. The modules are at https://weaveraudio.com/store.html.

about weaver audio

Weaver Audio Pty Ltd is an independent audio-software company in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, founded and run by David Weaver, a sound programmer who has worked in game audio for studios including Blizzard, Epic Games, Respawn, Firaxis, PlaySide and Big Ant. It makes Tangle, a free modular effects rack for the DAW, and re-issues each of its 76 hand-built audio modules as its own plugin. weaveraudio.com

press contact

David Weaver · david@weaveraudio.com

Images, logos and the fact sheet: https://weaveraudio.com/press.html
