Vorago

Hold the note — Vorago is slow by design

Be patient. Press a key and keep it held. In most presets the first sound takes several seconds to surface, and the drone then keeps swelling for about two and a half minutes before it is fully there (the default envelope's attack runs 155 seconds). Nothing is broken when a note starts in near silence: that slow emergence is the instrument. Three presets open faster — Sudden Chasm in about nine seconds, Growth Ring over one minute, Slow Bloom over two — and every preset keeps moving on its own for as long as the note is held.

For the same reason, audition with long notes or a sustained chord, not with short stabs, and give a preset a minute before judging it.

Features

• Partial cloud — An additive harmonic cloud per voice with richness, tilt, mutation, drift, inharmonicity, stereo spread and spectral gravity
• Noise organism — Four noise slots (direct, filtered wind, granular dust, metallic hiss and more) with their own combs and a wake that answers the colony
• Resonant peaks and feedback ecology — Drifting resonance peaks with octave gravity, and six filtered feedback loops that grind, bloom and sink back
• Sub, smear and events — A sub tone a fifth or two octaves under the drone, spectral smear with decoherence, and an event scheduler that keeps things happening
• Living colony — An agent-based ecosystem whose depth, sync rate and self-affinity drive bloom, resonance, noise, loop and ghost events
• Body and cavern — A morphable acoustic body (glass, strings, metal plate, chamber, ice, wooden hull, cathedral column, cavern wall, glass sphere) into a cavern reverb with darkness, decay, fog, damper, breath and Freeze
• Growth envelopes, bloom, ghosts, life — Minute-long growth attacks, harmonic bloom, reversed ghost fragments of the drone, and slow breathing and tidal life modulators
• Twelve concept macros — Darkness, Age, Density, Movement, Gravity, Entropy, Pressure, Weight, Fog, Life, Depth and Mass, live from the first note
• 42 factory presets — Seven categories, every preset generated from the plugin's own parameter surface and verified to make its named feature audible
• Real-time safe — process() allocates nothing, takes no locks, throws nothing, and does no I/O
• Cross-platform — VST3 (Windows, macOS, Linux) + Audio Unit (macOS), pluginval strictness 5 verified

Factory Presets

42 factory presets ship with the plugin in seven categories, at least three per category. Every preset is generated by a tool that compiles the plugin's own parameter surface, and each one is verified by a long render to make its named feature audible.

• Drones — Held tones that fill, slide, bloom or stand still as one mass
• Abyss — Lightless, sub-heavy depths where the sound sinks and settles
• Caverns — Shafts, naves and columns that sing the drone back from stone
• Organisms — Colonies, spores and growths that wake and feed on the drone
• Machines — Hulls, plates, vents and feedback loops grinding under pressure
• Textures — Wind, grit, smear and ice: the drone as surface and weather
• Ghosts — Fog, dead air and reversed fragments of a drone that is not quite there

Freeze

Freeze (on the Space page) holds the cavern's current field for as long as it is on. Play a note, let the drone bloom, then engage Freeze: the space hangs on what it has, and the voice keeps singing into it. Disengage Freeze to let the cavern decay again. Cathedral Void is built around this gesture.