Stagecraft Dissarray

[Larry Shelby]

"Disarray" from Stagecraft Software is brand new and FREE for "a couple of weeks" (as of March 27). It's a multi-effects plugin that emulates the control of the old Korg KAOSS pads with a big X/Y controller that works both up/down and radially, and lets you control up to 8 parameters on 4 effects at once. Numerous built-in effects (including some pretty complex ones, like Glitch Machine) and can host third-party plugins as well.

Even if the X/Y stuff doesn't send you, you should grab it while it's free - I'm guessing this will be fairly expensive when it's at normal price, since it includes a dozen of Stagecraft's other effects which regularly run $30-$60 apiece. You can kind of ignore the modulation stuff and just use this as a shell with a bunch of useful effects in it.

I downloaded this and had a play, and it's pretty cool. Fair warning - it caused several crashes, and third-party plugin control doesn't seem to work (this was in Studio One 5 on Windows, for what it's worth). It could also definitely stand to include a manual. But it's a new 1.0 so hopefully it'll get better - and if you register it now you'll get the updates free too!

Note: It's a free download, but you do need to install it and launch it in your DAW to get it registered. The first time you start it, it'll prompt you for an email address and then there's a button to click that says "Free License".

https://www.stagecraftsoftware.com/products/disarray/