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@poetix poetix released this 24 Aug 12:48
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vxn-1b-0.0.1
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First release of VXN1b — a sibling of VXN1, not a version of it. Same sound
engine; an entirely different modulation surface.

VXN1's fixed Pitch Mod / PWM Mod / Filter Mod / Mod Wheel / Pitch Wheel panels
are replaced by a 16-slot mod matrix per layer. Each slot is a
source → destination pair with a depth, a curve (linear, exponential,
logarithmic, bipolar), and a secondary scale source acting as a per-route VCA.

  • Sources — Env 1/2, LFO 1/2, velocity, key, mod wheel, pitch wheel,
    aftertouch, per-note random, stack spread.
  • Destinations — pitch, cross-mod sweep, cross-mod amount, PWM (both
    oscillators or each alone), cutoff, resonance, HPF cutoff, amp, pan,
    Env 1/2 time scale, Env 1/2 sustain, LFO 1 rate.

A patch is two independent layers, each with its own matrix, playing
together or split. The DSP is VXN1's vxn-dsp crate used directly rather than
copy-adapted, so it is the same code: 2 oscillators + sub + noise, hard-sync /
PM / ring cross-modulation, a 4-pole ZDF ladder with switchable HPF, two ADSRs,
two LFOs, and the chorus / phaser / delay / reverb / dynamics chain.

VXN1b installs alongside VXN1 under its own plugin id (labs.vulpus.vxn1b);
neither reads the other's presets.

Downloads

Platform CLAP VST3
macOS (universal, arm64 + x86_64) VXN1b-macOS-universal.clap.zip VXN1b-macOS-universal.vst3.zip
Windows (x64) VXN1b-windows-x64.clap VXN1b-windows-x64.vst3.zip

Unzip and drop into your plug-in folder:

  • macOS CLAP — ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/
  • macOS VST3 — ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
  • Windows CLAP — %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\CLAP\
  • Windows VST3 — %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\VST3\

The macOS builds are unsigned and unnotarised; Gatekeeper will need the usual
right-click → Open, or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine on the bundle.

Notes

  • Documentation: README
    and the full parameter reference
    (181 host parameters: 73 per layer × 2, plus 35 globals).
  • VXN1b versions independently of the shared 0.x line that VXN1 and VXN2 ride,
    and tags vxn-1b-<version>.
  • clap-validator is clean on the macOS bundle (18 passed, 0 failed; the 3
    skips are the optional preset-discovery draft factory). It does flag
    scan-time above its 100 ms budget on a cold first load — VXN1 does the same,
    and it warms to well under budget on subsequent scans.
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