Effects console · by Greenlit Audio
Understory
Four effect modules, twenty-eight effects, and one knob each for the thing that matters. A character console for anything you run through it.
On iPad? The Understory iPad beta is open on TestFlight.
Four modules
Twenty-eight effects, in the order you choose
Each module holds seven effects and shows three knobs: the one that defines the effect, AMOUNT, and a third that changes with the model. Drag the cards to reorder the chain — any of the twenty-four orders, in series.
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Grit
Saturation, from a warm push to a starved circuit.
- Drive
- Gloss
- Fuzz
- Growl
- Swell
- Octave
- Starve
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Sway
Movement: doubling, pitch and rotary motion.
- Doubler
- Vibrato
- Phase 12
- Tremolo
- Pitch
- Rotary
- Chorus
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Glow
Time: delays, reverbs, and the things between them.
- Echo
- Worn
- Space
- Scatter
- Reverse
- Spring
- Gate
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Grain
Texture and sculpting, from a tilt filter to a worn record.
- Filter
- Press
- Tape
- Motor
- Static
- Vinyl
- Crush
Gesture
Record a move. Loop it.
Press record, turn any knobs you like, press stop. Understory plays the movement back as a loop — a slow filter sweep, a tremolo that breathes, a drive that leans in on every bar — and keeps playing it while you go on shaping everything else. One gesture per preset, saved with it.
Everything else you'd expect
Twelve factory presets across WARMTH, DRIVE, MOTION, SPACE and LO-FI to start from. A dice that rerolls the whole console with one-step undo. A/B compare. Per-module bypass and volume. Tooltips that say what a knob does in this model, not in general. And a scene that responds to what you're doing, because a plugin you look at for an hour should be a place worth looking at.
Inside Sylvaris too
Twenty-seven of these effects are also reachable inside Sylvaris — the Grit models in GNARLS, Echo and Worn in DELAY, Space, Spring and Gate in REVERB, and fifteen more on the UNDERSTORY card. Understory is the same DSP as its own plugin, for the rest of your session.
Specs
What ships
- Formats
- Audio Unit, VST3, and a standalone app; an iPad app is in TestFlight beta
- System
- macOS 10.15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel in one build
- Status
- Private macOS beta; the iPad beta is open on TestFlight. Leave your email above and we'll tell you when it ships.
- Price
- Announced at launch.