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ExpressionGate 1.2.1

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@Staiola Staiola released this 15 Aug 19:39
expressiongate-v1.2.1
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A free macOS audio plugin by Staiola Studio.

You control it by how loud you play. Quiet playing gives you one set of effects, playing harder gives you another, and digging in gives you a third. You set the three volume levels yourself and pick what each one does, so the sound changes without you touching a pedal.

Each level runs the same six effects in order: Amp, Fuzz, Pitch, Chorus, Echo and Verb. Stack mode adds effects as you cross more levels, Switch mode plays only the highest one you have reached.

What changed since 1.0.1

  • The Amp stage no longer allocates or prewarms on the audio thread, which is the kind of thing that causes clicks and dropouts under load
  • Fixed an installer bug that could place the Audio Unit inside the Standalone app instead of the plug-ins folder
  • Opens with nothing powered and the thresholds near the meter floor, so a fresh instance is quiet and you build up from there
  • The amp and reverb dropdowns are captioned and wider, so you can read what is loaded
  • The minimum macOS version is now set and checked as part of the release build

Same plugin identity as 1.0.1, so this upgrades in place. No need to remove the previous version first.

Install

Open the .pkg and follow the installer. It installs ExpressionGate.component to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and the standalone app to /Applications. Restart your host so it rescans plugins.

Requires: macOS 11 or newer. Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple.

Project page: https://jesperh.cv/apps/expressiongate.html

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