Cycling '74 Releases Pluggo

Shuffler repositions beats of audio within a bar of real audio. (Click for a larger image)

Swish, lets you draw filters and modulation curves. (Click for a larger image)

Cycling '74 today announced release of Pluggo, a collection of 74 VST plug-ins that also allows signal processing patches created with MSP to work as plug-ins. The effects included with Pluggo are primarily aimed at musicians and sound designers seeking new ways to process and synthesize sound. They include: synchronization, delay effects, filters, filter/delay combinations, pitch effects, distortion, granular synthesis, spectral modification, visual display, meta-plug-ins and audio routing, sampling and synthesis, dynamics and reverb, sound localization /panning, and parameter modulators

MSP is a set of DSP extensions to the MAX graphical programming environment. MSP consists of over 75 objects that synthesize, process, analyze and delay audio signals in realtime on a Power PC Mac OS computer. Steinberg's VST Plug-in format is supported on the Macintosh platform by popular sequencing environments such as Cubase VST, Vision, and Logic Audio.

Pluggo will be included with MSP and sold as an inexpensive standalone product (US $74). Cycling 74 will also introduce the pluggo-the-month, a web site (www.cycling74.com/pluggo) where new effects patches will be made available to Pluggo and MSP users at regular intervals.

An application capable of hosting VST plug-ins is required for Pluggo. MAX 3.5 is required to create and edit MSP applications and is available from Opcode Systems at www.opcode.com. MAX and MSP are available in a bundle direct from Cycling'74 for US $495.

Availability: Pluggo and MSP can be downloaded at the Cycling '74 web site at www.cycling74.com. Users transform the trial version into a fully-functional copy by purchasing an authorization code online for US$74 (Pluggo) and US$295 (MSP).