
THE DREAM
by Sonic CascadeIndie
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Free analog character plugin lifted from Dream Decay: tape saturation, bit/sample-rate reduction and pitch flutter in three reorderable stages, so drive-into-derez sounds nothing like derez-into-drive. AU, VST3 and AAX for Windows and macOS.
About THE DREAM
THE DREAM is the analog-character section pulled out of Sonic Cascade's DREAM DECAY and given away on its own. It stacks three stages, pitch flutter and analog artifacts, tape saturation, and bit and sample-rate reduction, onto whatever runs through it, for pushing a clean source toward worn and degraded.
The three stages can be reordered, and the plugin treats each order as its own distinct sound: driving into the bit-reduction stage behaves nothing like running it the other way. There is no preset browsing beyond that signal-flow choice, which keeps the interface down to the controls that actually change the character.
Sonic Cascade built it as a standalone taste of the larger DREAM DECAY plugin, so producers who want more control over the same degradation engine have somewhere to go next.
Specs
| Formats | VST3AUAAX |
|---|---|
| Platforms | Windows,macOS |
| Released | |
| Developer | Sonic Cascade |
| Open source |
Image: Sonic Cascade
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