Christian Thompson Releases Robot Butter, available for $4.99.
Shape vocals, guitars, synths, drums, and more with animated modulation, adaptive reverb, tempo-synced motion, and digital texture.
Robot Butter is a creative AUv3 audio effect for compatible hosts on iPhone, iPad, and macOS. It blends animated modulation, adaptive reverb, tempo- aware movement, and digital texture into one fast playable interface.
On iPhone and iPad, Robot Butter also includes a standalone app for direct access to the effect and built-in manual. On macOS, the native app serves as a built-in manual companion while the plug-in runs in compatible AUv3 hosts.
At the core is the Robot engine, where Actuator Viscosity, and Controller create the main motion and character of the signal. That signal then feeds Butter, an adaptive reverb stage designed to intelligently stay musical while responding to the effective movement of the Robot section. The result can move from focused width and pulse to washed ambience strange motion, and unstable experimental color.
The Chipset section extends the sound with a built-in assignable LFO matrix and a post-reverb System Bus reduction stage. Run the LFO freely in Hz or lock it to musical divisions for host-synced movement, there route it to kev Robot or Butter controls for evolving motion. Add System Bus for subtle grain or push it harder for sharper, crushed digital edge.
Robot Butter is designed to stay immediate. The interface aives you direct control over modulation blend, depth, reverb shape, output mix, and motior timing without pushing you into a complicated modulation environment. A built-in user manual inside the standalone app includes overview pages parameter explanations, quick-start quidance glossary entries, MIDI notes, and troubleshooting help, with scrollable section pills that keep longer labels readable. Factory presets and user presets make it easy to jump from polished mix enhancement to stylized movement and aggressive sound design.
Features include:
- AUv3 effect for compatible iPhone, iPad. and macOS hosts
- Robot modulation engine with Actuator, Viscosity Controller, and gain staging
- Butter adaptive reverb with Churn, Emulsion, and Culture controls
- Built-in LFO matrix with free or tempo-synced timing
- Assignable LFO destinations across Robot and Butter parameters
- System Bus sample-rate reduction stage for animated digital texture
- Imaging modes including Mono, Wide, Ping, and Drift when stereo processing is available
- Factory presets covering vocals, guitars, bass, keys synths, drums, utility, and experimental categories
- User preset save, recall, and delete support
- Comprehensive built-in in-app user manual with quick-start, glossary, and troubleshooting sections
- MIDI Learn, Host Learn support, and default CC mappings for hands-on control
- Optional MIDI CC broadcast for compatible host-routing workflows
- Host tempo sync with straight, dotted, and triplet divisions
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