Noir Plugins  ·  Instrument 001

Invention

A polyphonic synthesizer that plays with you. It discovers, it misbehaves, and it never forgets what you just played.

AU  ·  VST3  ·  macOS

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Price announced when the store opens

Designed for accidents.
Built to capture them.

The signature

Catch the Hit

LISTENING

Invention never stops listening. A continuous buffer holds the last minute of everything coming out of the instrument: every take, every slip, every accident.

The moment something magic happens, hit CATCH. The last bars are lifted retroactively, aligned to the grid or to the first transient, and written as a loop-ready WAV. Drag it straight into your DAW.

And the riff comes with it: drag the pattern out as MIDI and play the same idea with any sound you own.

The CAPTURE page: capture buffer waveform, CATCH THE HIT button, threshold and post gain

Hear it

Chords in, ideas out

Before is the chord MIDI, played on a plain key. After is the idea Invention made from it. Both are at the same tempo and loudness-matched, so you can switch while it plays.

Alien

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Anthem

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Dark Trap

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Drama Mercury

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Godkilla

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Hansel Washington

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Psych Haze

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Rewind Me

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Snake Bite

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Turner

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Urgent

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Walker

4 bars · 120 BPM · .wav + .mid

Up close

Machined, not rendered

Close-up of the CATCH THE HIT button between its status LEDs
The Catch Button
Close-up of the CHAIN macro knob, which works the pedals
Chain · Works the Pedals
Close-up of the SURPRISE button, which rerolls everything
Surprise · Reroll Everything
The pedal rail: twenty stompbox modules in a row
Twenty pedals. One rail.

The instrument

Four ways in

The SOUND page: three oscillators, eight waveforms, filter section

Sound

Three oscillators, eight characters

From bright buzz to glassy bell to a vowel "aah", each wave is a character, not a table. Stack them with unison, bend them with FM, ring and fold, and shape it all through a smooth analog-style filter.

Invent

The discovery engine

An arpeggiator that composes: bloom voicings, strum direction, humanize, Euclidean pulses and a pattern grid you draw by hand. When it finds something, you don't transcribe it. You catch it.

The INVENT page: discovery engine, pattern and accent grids, bloom and strum controls
The CHAIN page: a pedalboard of stompbox effects: ring, gate, delay

Chain

A milled pedalboard

Twenty stompboxes on one board: tape, scratch, pump, glitch, rotator. Tap to add, drag to reorder, and every pedal ships with its own curated starting points.

Chaos

Accidents, by invitation

One knob invites trouble: note drops, octave jumps, spikes and ratchets, scattered over a live probability field. Turn it up until it surprises you. The buffer is already recording.

The CHAOS page: accident engine, chance field, Euclid pulses


144Presets
20FX Modules
8Waveforms
64sCapture Buffer
AU·VST3macOS

The launch note

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One mail when Invention opens for sale, and a short note when something worth hearing ships. Nothing else. No newsletter, no drip, no partners.

Price
Announced at launch
Trial
14 days, full instrument
License
2 machines
Updates
Free through 1.x
Formats
AU · VST3 · macOS

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