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Publisher Description
VST3 / AU Plugin ~ https://www.congburn.co.uk/stacks
"Modeling and digital grunge combine to make a raunchy instrument that behaves like an experimental studio. Stacks is an environment that turns tweaking into song materials. This thing oozes personality." CDM Review ~ https://cdm.link/2024/07/cong-burn-stacks/
Video guide ~ https://youtu.be/dz-p3DN2BXM
iOS demo ~ https://youtu.be/fXK0AQGyjNU
Jamming (no talking) ~ https://youtu.be/0SHzOkmjn3g
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Standalone application & AUV3 plugin for unique synthesis, looping and layering.
In STACKS' self-contained production and performance environment you can create distinctive synth parts from melodies to percussion, which you can loop and layer to build up new tracks.
There are a lot of ways to manipulate the music you make with STACKS but it's designed to be intuitive, encouraging a steady flow from one idea to the next.
As well as its detailed synthesis elements, STACKS has a comprehensive modulation section, a stack of four versatile loopers and granular synthesis options to evolve your recordings in unpredictable new ways.
By continually creating new loops and bouncing them down, you can keep the exploration going for as long as you like - especially useful for improvised live performances.
With built-in processing from delay and reverb to saturation, it's easy to work solely within STACKS and end up with a great sound.
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Version History Introducing the Fold oscillator, new in Stacks v1.3 -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ6ECRKtL5o/
Fold uses two wave shaping algos derived from classic 'west-coast' synthesis techniques of the 1970s.
In a typical subtractive synthesis setup we take a rich waveform (saw/square) and filter it, with Fold we take a simple waveform (here its a sine wave) and we add harmonics by folding / shaping the waveform. Paired with Stacks' Low Pass Gate (another west-coast staple) you can achieve Buchla Bongos , Subotnick Silver Apples & Ciani Concerts. tip- use the built in spring reverb!
Stacks' original waveTABLE oscillator also gets a major upgrade adding 18 new wave banks, giving you smooth, interpolated access to 1,152 new waveforms containing robotic speech, glassy bell tones and 90s microwave pads. Hook up some LFOs and explore!
Under the hood the core signal chain has been upgraded giving you way more headroom and there's significant performance improvements - memory usage is down by 60% letting you use more instances of Stacks simultaneously. 1.3 05/26/2025 - add dedicated looper view, view all 4 expanded loopers simultaneously
- no longer force default looper params when changing looper engine
- fix looper gain when restarting a stopped clip 1.2.3 04/02/2025 v1.2.1
- Fix delay/reverb input level behavior
- Re-enable both instrument/fx AUv3s
v1.2
New:
- Wavetable Osc now has optional anti aliasing for better hi freqs and more detailed FM
- Add an envelope follower modulator, the envelope follower can monitor the synth, or any of the loopers
- Add an Accent Envelope. The accent envelope functions like the regular envelope, but you can set a high/low velocity threshold
- Looper actions (record, overdub etc.) can be quantised from 1/16 to 8 bars, or optionally have no sync at all
- When using the Noise sub oscillator, either Add or Xfade the noise (Xfade reduces wavetable volume)
Fixes and improvements:
- When overdubbing in grain/slice mode, overdubbing starts at the position of the last grain
- Fixed an issue where the delay would ring out in AUM when using Tone
- When viewing the modulation matrix, the type of Multi-Modulator is now displayed (Ripple, Flutter etc.)
- Aux sequencer now initialises with the correct number of steps
- Fixed a crash on Windows when closing the plugin window while using a dropdown
- Chord names appear correctly in AUM
- Handle looping DAW timeline in Studio One
- Enable VST sidechaining in Studio One
- Fix an issue where multi-modulators wouldn't load during preset changes
- Fox envelope polarity issue
- Improve sequencer stage UI
- CPU performance is much improved 1.2.1 02/06/2025 New:
- Wavetable Osc now has optional anti aliasing for better hi freqs and more detailed FM
- Add an envelope follower modulator, the envelope follower can monitor the synth, or any of the loopers
- Add an Accent Envelope. The accent envelope functions like the regular envelope, but you can set a high/low velocity threshold
- Looper actions (record, overdub etc.) can be quantised from 1/16 to 8 bars, or optionally have no sync at all
- When using the Noise sub oscillator, either Add or Xfade the noise (Xfade reduces wavetable volume)
Fixes and improvements:
- When overdubbing in grain/slice mode, overdubbing starts at the position of the last grain
- Fixed an issue where the delay would ring out in AUM when using Tone
- When viewing the modulation matrix, the type of Multi-Modulator is now displayed (Ripple, Flutter etc.)
- Aux sequencer now initialises with the correct number of steps
- Fixed a crash on Windows when closing the plugin window while using a dropdown
- Chord names appear correctly in AUM
- Handle looping DAW timeline in Studio One
- Enable VST sidechaining in Studio One
- Fix an issue where multi-modulators wouldn't load during preset changes
- Fox envelope polarity issue
- Improve sequencer stage UI
- CPU performance is much improved 1.2 01/24/2025 stacks v1.1.1 update
new features:
- in iOS AUv3, stacks can be used as both an effect and an instrument, record from any source directly into the loopers!
- added multi output modulator Wobble, for wubwubwubs (pair with new notch filter!)
- added notch filter & saturator to the reduce module
- added audio input processor, with 3 band EQ and compression
- added sequencer modifiers tab controlling: MIDI velocity, MIDI note length, MIDI velocity is also a modulation source
- added sequencer time bending, applies a curve to the timing of your trigs for bouncing ball effects
- random amount and lag to mod sequencer
- dotted and triplet timing for sequencer
- added optional 4 voice unison when using MIDI from host/keyboard
- new animations / widgets
changes:
- in reel mode, when overdubbing, record at correct pitch
- when switching between granular/reel loop engines, override with default settings
- remove limiter section, add main output vol adjust
- major optimizations and bug fixing 1.1.1 12/01/2024 Fixes:
- fix bluetooth audio on iOS
- add import preset button on iOS
- setup preset sharing space (check discord)
- on iOS, share presets between AUv3 and standalone
- don't show reload previous project when running as AUV3
- 3 new themes, accessed via project page 1.0.3 09/18/2024 v1.0 release!
added during early access:
- ableton link for standalone app
- add tape emulator to reel mode
- route audio from synth/input as well as loopers to individual audio tracks
- import samples into the loopers (drag and drop desktop, filechooser iOS)
- add musical scales to quantiser
- much more! 1.0.1 09/12/2024 0.1.0 07/19/2024
About Stacks - Granular Looper
The company that develops Stacks - Granular Looper is John Howes. The latest version released by its developer is 1.3.
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version 1.3
posted on 2026-10-17
Version History Introducing the Fold oscillator, new in Stacks v1.3 -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ6ECRKtL5o/
Fold uses two wave shaping algos derived from classic 'west-coast' synthesis techniques of the 1970s.
In a typical subtractive synthesis setup we take a rich waveform (saw/square) and filter it, with Fold we take a simple waveform (here its a sine wave) and we add harmonics by folding / shaping the waveform. Paired with Stacks' Low Pass Gate (another west-coast staple) you can achieve Buchla Bongos , Subotnick Silver Apples & Ciani Concerts. tip- use the built in spring reverb!
Stacks' original waveTABLE oscillator also gets a major upgrade adding 18 new wave banks, giving you smooth, interpolated access to 1,152 new waveforms containing robotic speech, glassy bell tones and 90s microwave pads. Hook up some LFOs and explore!
Under the hood the core signal chain has been upgraded giving you way more headroom and there's significant performance improvements - memory usage is down by 60% letting you use more instances of Stacks simultaneously. 1.3 05/26/2025 - add dedicated looper view, view all 4 expanded loopers simultaneously
- no longer force default looper params when changing looper engine
- fix looper gain when restarting a stopped clip 1.2.3 04/02/2025 v1.2.1
- Fix delay/reverb input level behavior
- Re-enable both instrument/fx AUv3s
v1.2
New:
- Wavetable Osc now has optional anti aliasing for better hi freqs and more detailed FM
- Add an envelope follower modulator, the envelope follower can monitor the synth, or any of the loopers
- Add an Accent Envelope. The accent envelope functions like the regular envelope, but you can set a high/low velocity threshold
- Looper actions (record, overdub etc.) can be quantised from 1/16 to 8 bars, or optionally have no sync at all
- When using the Noise sub oscillator, either Add or Xfade the noise (Xfade reduces wavetable volume)
Fixes and improvements:
- When overdubbing in grain/slice mode, overdubbing starts at the position of the last grain
- Fixed an issue where the delay would ring out in AUM when using Tone
- When viewing the modulation matrix, the type of Multi-Modulator is now displayed (Ripple, Flutter etc.)
- Aux sequencer now initialises with the correct number of steps
- Fixed a crash on Windows when closing the plugin window while using a dropdown
- Chord names appear correctly in AUM
- Handle looping DAW timeline in Studio One
- Enable VST sidechaining in Studio One
- Fix an issue where multi-modulators wouldn't load during preset changes
- Fox envelope polarity issue
- Improve sequencer stage UI
- CPU performance is much improved 1.2.1 02/06/2025 New:
- Wavetable Osc now has optional anti aliasing for better hi freqs and more detailed FM
- Add an envelope follower modulator, the envelope follower can monitor the synth, or any of the loopers
- Add an Accent Envelope. The accent envelope functions like the regular envelope, but you can set a high/low velocity threshold
- Looper actions (record, overdub etc.) can be quantised from 1/16 to 8 bars, or optionally have no sync at all
- When using the Noise sub oscillator, either Add or Xfade the noise (Xfade reduces wavetable volume)
Fixes and improvements:
- When overdubbing in grain/slice mode, overdubbing starts at the position of the last grain
- Fixed an issue where the delay would ring out in AUM when using Tone
- When viewing the modulation matrix, the type of Multi-Modulator is now displayed (Ripple, Flutter etc.)
- Aux sequencer now initialises with the correct number of steps
- Fixed a crash on Windows when closing the plugin window while using a dropdown
- Chord names appear correctly in AUM
- Handle looping DAW timeline in Studio One
- Enable VST sidechaining in Studio One
- Fix an issue where multi-modulators wouldn't load during preset changes
- Fox envelope polarity issue
- Improve sequencer stage UI
- CPU performance is much improved 1.2 01/24/2025 stacks v1.1.1 update
new features:
- in iOS AUv3, stacks can be used as both an effect and an instrument, record from any source directly into the loopers!
- added multi output modulator Wobble, for wubwubwubs (pair with new notch filter!)
- added notch filter & saturator to the reduce module
- added audio input processor, with 3 band EQ and compression
- added sequencer modifiers tab controlling: MIDI velocity, MIDI note length, MIDI velocity is also a modulation source
- added sequencer time bending, applies a curve to the timing of your trigs for bouncing ball effects
- random amount and lag to mod sequencer
- dotted and triplet timing for sequencer
- added optional 4 voice unison when using MIDI from host/keyboard
- new animations / widgets
changes:
- in reel mode, when overdubbing, record at correct pitch
- when switching between granular/reel loop engines, override with default settings
- remove limiter section, add main output vol adjust
- major optimizations and bug fixing 1.1.1 12/01/2024 Fixes:
- fix bluetooth audio on iOS
- add import preset button on iOS
- setup preset sharing space (check discord)
- on iOS, share presets between AUv3 and standalone
- don't show reload previous project when running as AUV3
- 3 new themes, accessed via project page 1.0.3 09/18/2024 v1.0 release!
added during early access:
- ableton link for standalone app
- add tape emulator to reel mode
- route audio from synth/input as well as loopers to individual audio tracks
- import samples into the loopers (drag and drop desktop, filechooser iOS)
- add musical scales to quantiser
- much more! 1.0.1 09/12/2024 0.1.0 07/19/2024
version 1.3
posted on 2025-05-26
May 26, 2025
Version 1.3
Introducing the Fold oscillator, new in Stacks v1.3 -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ6ECRKtL5o/
Fold uses two wave shaping algos derived from classic 'west-coast' synthesis techniques of the 1970s.
In a typical subtractive synthesis setup we take a rich waveform (saw/square) and filter it, with Fold we take a simple waveform (here its a sine wave) and we add harmonics by folding / shaping the waveform. Paired with Stacks' Low Pass Gate (another west-coast staple) you can achieve Buchla Bongos , Subotnick Silver Apples & Ciani Concerts. tip- use the built in spring reverb!
Stacks' original waveTABLE oscillator also gets a major upgrade adding 18 new wave banks, giving you smooth, interpolated access to 1,152 new waveforms containing robotic speech, glassy bell tones and 90s microwave pads. Hook up some LFOs and explore!
Under the hood the core signal chain has been upgraded giving you way more headroom and there's significant performance improvements - memory usage is down by 60% letting you use more instances of Stacks simultaneously.
version 1.3
posted on 2025-05-26
Introducing the Fold oscillator, new in Stacks v1.3 -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ6ECRKtL5o/
Fold uses two wave shaping algos derived from classic 'west-coast' synthesis techniques of the 1970s.
In a typical subtractive synthesis setup we take a rich waveform (saw/square) and filter it, with Fold we take a simple waveform (here its a sine wave) and we add harmonics by folding / shaping the waveform. Paired with Stacks' Low Pass Gate (another west-coast staple) you can achieve Buchla Bongos , Subotnick Silver Apples & Ciani Concerts. tip- use the built in spring reverb!
Stacks' original waveTABLE oscillator also gets a major upgrade adding 18 new wave banks, giving you smooth, interpolated access to 1,152 new waveforms containing robotic speech, glassy bell tones and 90s microwave pads. Hook up some LFOs and explore!
Under the hood the core signal chain has been upgraded giving you way more headroom and there's significant performance improvements - memory usage is down by 60% letting you use more instances of Stacks simultaneously.
version 1.2.3
posted on 2025-04-02
Apr 2, 2025
Version 1.2.3
- add dedicated looper view, view all 4 expanded loopers simultaneously
- no longer force default looper params when changing looper engine
- fix looper gain when restarting a stopped clip
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