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117 plugins in the catalogue. Also as JSON.

Identified in the catalogue as http://purl.org/stuff/plugin-universe/vendor/danja-ba40c9e0 — a minted identifier rather than a name, so it survives a change of spelling and is what a claim, a description or a logo attaches to.

8-Bit 8asterd

8-Bit 8asterd— danja

Three AY-3-8910 chips under the 8b8 firmware, running unmodified as WebAssembly. Nine voices across three chips, hardware envelopes, a percussion set on channel 10, and the firmware's own vibrato, tremolo, arpeggiator, b

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig instrument

Achord— Danny Ayers

Modern Stradella-style Launchpad chord controller with transport-aware trigger modes.

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Ambo— danja

Stereo ambient processor with rearrangeable time, spectral, tape, shimmer, delay, drive, and feedback modules.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Ants— Danny Ayers

Cellular-automata MIDI generator with pheromone trails.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

ArpGen— danja

Transport-synchronised chord-capture and scale-derived arpeggiator.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

ArpIso— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Basilico— danja

Monophonic bass instrument with upright, electric, dub, acid, and industrial models. Voice block adds a sine harmonic at an integer multiple of the main pitch. Wobble Sub Mix modulates sub level via the LFO. Envelope Sub

free open source MIT VST3 bass instrument

BassGen— danja

Transport-synced monophonic bass generator with persistent patterns, meter-aware

free open source MIT VST3 midi

BassGen

BassGen— danja

Transport synced bass line generator. Scale, genre and subdivision shape a seeded pattern that plays in time with the session and can be steered from a keyboard.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Bassops— danja

Sidechain ducker with harmonic stereo synthesis. A kick-drum or other

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Boost

Boost— danja

A gain stage in C++, the minimal starting point for a WebAssembly Jig: everything in boost.cpp beyond jig_process is ABI wiring, meant to be copied.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect utility

Bubbles— danja

Hybrid subtractive/physical-modelling water sound generator: streams, rivers, ocean waves, bubbles, drips, and rain.

free open source MIT VST3

Cadence— danja

Transport-aware MIDI harmonizer and comping generator.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Cadence

Cadence— danja

Transport synced MIDI harmonizer that learns a chord cycle from what it hears and plays voiced progressions with comping in time with the session.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Cadence— Danny Ayers

Transport-synced MIDI harmonizer that learns one cycle of a monophonic line, infers fitting chords per segment, and emits a voiced progression on subsequent cycles.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Campione— danja

Multi-zone sampler with per-note MIDI mapping, pitch-shift gap fill, zero-crossing loop snap, and crossfade looping.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument

Canticle— danja

Twelve-voice keys, reed, pad, pluck, and glass instrument for melody, counterpoint, and chords.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument

Canticle

Canticle— danja

Twelve-voice polyphonic tonal instrument for the middle of an ensemble: keys, reed, pad, pluck and glass tones for melody, counterpoint and chords.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig instrument

Cascade

Cascade— danja

Schroeder plate reverb with per-mode scaling, damping inside the feedback loop, and a freeze that holds the tail indefinitely.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

ChatGen— Danny Ayers

Text to MIDI CC generator for Chatterbox speech synthesis

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Chatterbox— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Chipper— danja

Stereo bitcrusher with MIDI-CC-controllable bit depth (1–16 bits), sample-rate divisor (1–64×), jitter, dry/wet mix, and output gain.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Chordant— Danny Ayers

Euclidean transport-synced capture/mix effect for rhythmic chord-like layering.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Conductor— danja

Bar-aligned intro/development/break/reprise/coda section generator.

free open source MIT VST3 midi modulation

Convulse— Danny Ayers

Experimental stereo convolver whose FIR kernel is regenerated by an internal waveform synth.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Counterpointer— danja

Learns incoming MIDI and emits a related monophonic counter-melody.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Counterpointer

Counterpointer— danja

Transport synced MIDI processor that learns an incoming cycle and answers it with a monophonic counter-melody, in counterpoint or a descending bass register.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Damiano— danja

Stereo distortion with six modes (soft clip, tanh, fuzz, overdrive, tube, wavefold) and MIDI CC control of drive via Drift.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Dice

Dice— danja

A MIDI probability gate: each note-on passes with the set probability, and a note-off passes if and only if its note-on did. The generator's evolving state is saved with the project, so a restored session gates exactly a

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Drift— danja

Four-lane transport-synchronised MIDI CC modulator with LFO, sample-and-hold, random-walk, chaos, and envelope-follower modes.

free open source MIT VST3 effect midi modulation

DrumGen— danja

Transport- and meter-aware MIDI drum generator with fills, style modes,

free open source MIT VST3 midi

DrumGen

DrumGen— danja

Transport synced MIDI drum generator. Genre, style mode and resolution shape a seeded pattern that plays in time with the session, with fills on the last bar of the loop and Conductor CC control.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

DrumKit— danja

Stereo synthesised drum instrument and natural sound source for DrumGen and Xoxolo.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument drums

DrumKit

DrumKit— danja

Eleven voice synthesised drum instrument. MIDI notes trigger the voices, the master bus adds crush, drive and room, and per-instrument mutes cut voices immediately.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig instrument drums

Dynamix

Dynamix— danja

Compressor/expander, limiter and clipper/soft distortion in series. A second stereo input on channels 3 and 4 is an external key: when it is connected, the compressor/expander stage reads its level from that instead of t

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

E-Mix— danja

Transport-aware deterministic Euclidean stereo gate.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

E-Mix— Danny Ayers

Euclidean bar-block mixer with transport-synced gating and fades.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Euclidean Gate— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 effect

EuDelay— Danny Ayers

Euclidean rhythm-based delay with tempo-synced taps.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Fathom | Downspout

Fathom | Downspout— Danja

Native VST3 ports and original plugins from the Downspout project.

MIT VST3 instrument

Ferrite

Ferrite— danja

A neural amp model (nam-rs, MIT, ported from and validated against the reference Python and C++ implementations) in series with an impulse response, a cabinet or a room of up to 2.7 seconds, by partitioned FFT convolutio

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Floozy— danja

Selectable 1-8 voice (default 4) hybrid physical/modulation synthesizer for expressive leads, plucks, and synthetic textures. Voice count is a host-automatable parameter; reducing it cuts CPU proportionally.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument

Floozy— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Floozy Dev— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Floozy Poly— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Flues BassGen— Danny Ayers

Monophonic host-synced bassline MIDI generator with genre-biased phrase generation and exact pattern persistence.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Flues Bubbles— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Flues Control— Danny Ayers

MIDI CC controller for flues-synth with 31 programs (0-30) and 9 parameter sliders

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Flues Disyn— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Flues DrumGen— Danny Ayers

Transport-synced polyphonic drum MIDI generator with genre templates, Euclidean variation, and exact pattern persistence.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Flues Drumkit— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Flues Euclid— Danny Ayers

Euclidean/stochastic MIDI rhythm generator for Drumkit. 8-24 step grid locked to host tempo with swing and per-track length.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Flues EuclidMono— Danny Ayers

Two-pattern Euclidean MIDI generator with boolean logic combiner and single-note output.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Flues Gremlin— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

FlueSynthDriver— danja

MIDI CC driver for the Flues physical-model vocal synthesizer. Translates plugin parameters into MIDI CC messages covering the Disyn oscillator algorithm, noise/DC source mix, interface type, formants (F1–F4), vocal mode

free open source MIT VST3 midi modulation

Gater— danja

MIDI-controlled stereo audio switcher that routes input to one of two stereo outputs based on note number parity.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Gremlin— danja

Chaotic glitch instrument with scenes, macros, actions, randomisation, and performance controls.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument

GremlinDriver— danja

Transport-aware MIDI modulation and action sequencer designed to control Gremlin.

free open source MIT VST3 midi modulation

GremlinDriver— Danny Ayers

Tempo-aware modulation source that emits Gremlin-friendly MIDI CC and action notes.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Ground— danja

Long-form transport-synced MIDI bass generator that plans across 8–64 bar forms,

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Ground

Ground— danja

Transport synced long-form bass generator. Form shapes and phrase roles plan a whole section that plays in time with the session, with arc tension and Conductor control including scene-driven role overrides.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Guardian— danja

Output-safety processor with input gain, look-ahead limiting (attack + release), variable-curve clipping (soft to hard), DC removal, true-peak protection, bypass, and latched diagnostics.

free open source MIT VST3 effect utility

Harmonic Atlas— danja

Autonomous voice-led harmony generator with tonal, modal, chromatic-mediant, and neo-Riemannian-inspired movement.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

JigDAW Gain Trim

JigDAW Gain Trim— danja

Converted by bin/jsfx-import.js from examples/jsfx/gain-trim.jsfx, a REAPER JSFX effect, and run under the shared interpreter in plugins/_jsfx-runtime/.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

JigDAW One-Pole Filter

JigDAW One-Pole Filter— danja

Converted by bin/jsfx-import.js from examples/jsfx/one-pole-filter.jsfx, a REAPER JSFX effect, and run under the shared interpreter in plugins/_jsfx-runtime/.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

JigDAW Soft Clipper

JigDAW Soft Clipper— danja

Converted by bin/jsfx-import.js from examples/jsfx/soft-clipper.jsfx, a REAPER JSFX effect, and run under the shared interpreter in plugins/_jsfx-runtime/.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Keyframe

Keyframe— danja

Stretches audio in time and shifts its pitch, independently, by reducing the signal to its local extrema and crossfading between playheads over a span the extrema's own density chooses.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Lifeform— danja

Conway Game of Life sequencer mapping cellular generations to melodic or drum MIDI.

free open source MIT VST3 midi modulation

Lightverb— danja

Minimal stereo reverb using a fixed four-line feedback-delay network. No convolution, FFT, or modulation bank; favours predictable DSP workload over natural room simulation. Suitable as a mix insert (default 20% wet) or

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Lookahead

Lookahead— danja

A switchable lookahead delay for time-aligning parallel paths: direct, or held back by 512 frames. Changing position changes the plugin's latency, which the host compensates.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Loopdelay— danja

Stereo delay and capture looper. Time is freely settable (20–4000 ms) or host BBT-synced from a quarter beat to four bars. Delay mode provides filtered feedback and ping-pong crossfeed; Loop mode captures one length, sna

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Luma— danja

Launchpad-oriented performance generator whose lit cells become bass, chord, melody, and drum agents.

free open source MIT VST3 midi modulation

M-Mix— danja

Transport-aware MIDI gate combining probabilistic transitions with Euclidean blocks.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Magneto

Magneto— danja

Midi-driven internal combustion engine simulator

MIT VST3 instrument

MelGen— danja

Phrase-aware melody generator with contour, question/answer structure, and reactions to incoming context.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

MelGen

MelGen— danja

Transport synced phrase-aware melody generator. Period, contour and answer shape a seeded line that plays in time with the session, follows an incoming line when asked, and answers Conductor CCs.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

Memone— Danny Ayers

Online LSTM time-series predictor with tempo-synced warmup and fully wet output.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

MetaLV— Danny Ayers

LV2 plugin host with MCP control.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

MIDI Filter

MIDI Filter— danja

Steers MIDI between plugins: keeps one channel or all, moves what it keeps to another channel, transposes notes, and passes only the notes inside a range, so two of them split a keyboard between two instruments. A note-o

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig midi

MIDI Flip— Danny Ayers

Reflect MIDI note events around a pivot note.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Midiscribe— danja

Non-destructive MIDI capture utility. Passes all received MIDI events through unchanged while optionally recording them with beat-position timestamps into a rolling ring buffer. When the write trigger fires, captured eve

free open source MIT VST3 utility

Mixgen— danja

Transport-synchronized automatic producer for the Transmission Producer Control Bus. Generates eight repeatable gain lanes (random, quasi-random, or Euclidean) and emits them as MIDI CC 20–27, one CC per channel (ch 1 →

free open source MIT VST3 effect midi modulation

Mnemosyne— danja

Fixed-capacity MIDI phrase memory that captures, recalls, transforms, and recombines motifs in listen, accompany, or autonomous modes.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Moka

Moka— danja

modal synth for struck objects — xylophone, glockenspiel, woodblock, glass bowl, metal sheet, and tube

MIT VST3 instrument

Mop

Mop— danja

Eighteen voice OPL3 FM General MIDI instrument, capped at eight voices by default, based on mop by M. Glargaard. The AdLib Sound Blaster sound of DOS-era games: FM timbres from mop's own bank, a drum kit on channel 10, a

free open source Zlib Jig instrument

Mosaic— danja

Four-slot WAV sampler with deterministic slicing, zero-crossing boundary snapping, pitch variation, reverse probability, stereo spread, and autonomous triggering.

free open source MIT VST3 midi instrument

Oracle— danja

Audio and MIDI listener that extracts bounded musical features and emits mapped CC values plus optional guarded response notes.

free open source MIT VST3 effect midi modulation

Orbit— danja

Transport-aware stereo motion effect with seeded orbit, pendulum, random-walk, and figure-eight trajectories.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Orchid— danja

Transport-aware voiced freeze effect using autocorrelation capture and grid-synchronised loop holds. Captured pitch is optionally quantised to one of 20 built-in scales. A retrigger threshold re-arms capture when input e

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Outsider Client— Danny Ayers

Outsider prototype client: stereo endpoint with persisted session identity, live localhost control transport, status outputs, and offline demo modes.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

P-Mix— danja

Transport-aware probabilistic stereo gate that creates evolving switching and rhythmic dropouts. Inputs 1-2: main stereo. Inputs 3-4: sidechain for Oppose.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

P-Mix— Danny Ayers

Probabilistic mixer that applies gain changes at bar boundaries.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

PadSeq— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Parameq

Parameq— danja

Six-band stereo parametric equalizer in C++: peak, low and high shelf, low and high pass, band pass and notch shapes per band, each with its own enable, frequency, gain and Q.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

PaunchLad— danja

Launchpad dub performance effect with echo throws, splashes, sirens, hits, dropouts, chops, and freezes.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Polymeter— danja

Four-lane Euclidean MIDI generator with independent coprime lengths, rotations, probabilities, ratchets, accents, and phase drift.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Pulse

Pulse— danja

Eight voice subtractive synthesiser with saw, square and triangle oscillators, a one-pole lowpass and an attack-release envelope.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig instrument

Quadrangle— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Quantico— Danny Ayers

Quantizes MIDI notes to a selected key and scale.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Quefrency

Quefrency— danja

Separates its input through the cepstrum into a formant envelope and a harmonic structure, shifts and reshapes each independently, and multiplies them back together.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Resonance Garden— danja

Eight-voice damped resonator bank that turns stereo input into pitched material using MIDI tuning or an internal scale.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Rift— danja

Transport-locked live/sample buffer disruptor for chop, stutter, reverse, skip, smear, and pitch-slip actions.

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Shifty— Danny Ayers

Transport-synchronised audio pitch-shift pattern effect scaffold.

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Sidecar— danja

MIDI phrase player with deterministic local generation and optional localhost coordinator mode.

free open source MIT VST3 midi

Skream— danja

Stereo distortion using an SVF filter and ADAA2-antialiased tanh feedback loop, ported from the Scream LV2 plugin. Controls: input gain, cutoff, scream (HP feedback), resonance, mix, output gain, and harmonic-locking tra

free open source MIT VST3 effect

Slimmer— Danny Ayers

Monophonic MIDI filter with selectable note selection strategies.

free open source MIT LV2 utility

Speculate— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 effect

Squelch

Squelch— danja

A resonant lowpass filter whose cutoff an envelope follower pushes up on every note, for the acid bass sweep. Put it after a synth: each note opens the filter and Decay sets how fast it closes. Plain JavaScript, no WebAs

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Stomp rack

Stomp rack— danja

A boost into a tremolo into a plate reverb, as one plugin: Drive, Tremolo depth and Reverb mix are all it exposes. The rack is built from three published Jigs by reference, and is the worked example of a composite plugin

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Stove Synth— Danny Ayers

free open source MIT LV2 instrument

Syrinx— danja

Polyphonic avian vocal synthesizer using Mindlin-Laje ODE models with ten bird presets: Wren, Thrush, Warbler, Finch, Robin, Nightjar, Pigeon, Hummingbird, Starling, and Custom.

free open source MIT VST3 instrument

T-Mix— danja

Eight-input mono-strip mixer with level, pan, mute, solo, metering, and stereo master output.

free open source MIT VST3 utility mixing

ToneWorm— danja

Transport-synchronized MIDI generator.

free open source MIT VST3

Tremolo

Tremolo— danja

Amplitude modulation by a sine LFO. Its whole signal path is JavaScript: no WebAssembly module, the worked example for a plugin whose processing does not need one.

free open source Apache-2.0 Jig effect

Tuney VST— danja

Text-to-music instrument and MIDI generator with configurable alphabets, scales, and microtonal tunings.

free open source MIT VST3 midi instrument

Valis

Valis— danja

Virtual Analog LLM Integrated System

Promoted MIT VST3 synth

Xoxolo— danja

Explicit x0x-style drum sequencer with 11 DrumKit-oriented lanes and patterns up to 32 steps.

free open source MIT VST3 midi