Eight spectral processors.
One chain.

Every ordering sounds different. Pick your processors, arrange them however you want, and hear what happens. An FFT effects rack for transforming sounds into something entirely new.

AU · VST3   macOS + Windows   NO iLOK
SPECTRAfx running the TENDRILS preset: the ember waterfall visualizer beside a four-slot rack with SHIFT, EXTRACT, PRISM and SHAPE loaded

Hear it in action.

VocalONE PRESS OF RANDOM
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Vocal chopONE PRESS OF RANDOM
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SynthPRESET — ROARER
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SynthPRESET — HEATER
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SynthPRESET — ISOLATOR
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Designed for exploration.

Eight processors, up to eight slots, any order. Each one is effective alone. The unique results come from combining them.

SHAPE

Nine spectral curves, bell to flatten. An EQ that thinks in bins, not bands.

GATE

A noise gate for every frequency bin: whatever dips below the threshold goes dark.

SMEAR

Stretches sound through time. Blur a single hit into a wash that stays in key.

SHIFT

Phase-locked pitch shifting with the formants held in place. Clean at octaves.

HARM

Locks the spectrum to a harmonic grid. A tunable wall of resonance.

EXTRACT

Strips a sound down to its few dominant harmonics. The melody stays; the texture vanishes.

DRIVE

Saturation applied inside the spectrum, oversampled so it never aliases.

PRISM

Spectral unison. Detuned copies of the signal, refracted across frequency.

Randomize. Happy accidents, on demand.

One button, three modes. Each produces a different kind of randomness, from barely-there adjustments to full chain rebuilds.

Subtle.

Just a dip. Short chains, gentle algorithms, conservative parameters. Something changed. You might need to A/B to hear it.

Musical.

Dive in. Rebuilds from scratch with style. Algorithms chosen to work together, parameters pushed toward musical values. Reliably interesting.

Chaos.

The deep end. Any processor. Any parameter. Any setting. All bets are off.

Questions, answered.

What does it run on?
macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10 or 11, in any 64-bit DAW that supports AU or VST3. Tested in Ableton Live, Logic Pro and FL Studio.
How much is it?
$39. One purchase covers two machines, runs offline after activation, and includes every 1.x update.
What's the catch with the free demo?
There isn't one hiding. It's the entire plugin, and it goes silent for 1.5 seconds every 30 seconds until a license key is entered. That's it.
Does it need an internet connection?
Once, to activate after purchase. After that it runs fully offline, forever.
iLok?
No.
Windows says it “protected your PC.”
That’s SmartScreen, which flags any new software until enough people have installed it. The installer is signed: click More info, check that the publisher reads Noah Byers, then choose Run anyway.
Something's not working.
Email support@arknetaudio.com — you'll get a person, and problems get fixed in updates you already own.