Hagai Davidoff has introduced Spectdrum, an audio effect for Mac & Windows that can take any sustained sound and turn it into a rhythmic groove.

Spectdrum works by splitting the incoming audio into four spectral bands, and opens and closes each band in time, driven by its own independent step sequencer of 1 to 32 steps. You can lock the sequences to a grid, or let them run polyrhythmically.

The plugin also provides drawable volume, filter, pan and pitch envelopes, per-band reverb and delay sends, and a master effects section.

Features:

• Four spectral bands consisting of Sub, Low-Mid, High-Mid and Air
• Each band has its own frequency range, filter, pitch, stereo width and drive controls
• Each band has an independent rhythmic sequencer
• Sequencer patterns can contain 1 to 32 steps
• Independent pattern lengths allow polyrhythmic sequences between bands
• Per-step velocity, accents and swing controls
• Patterns respond to MIDI
• MIDI Learn allows hardware controls to be assigned to plugin parameters
• Eight stored patterns can be selected from a MIDI keyboard
• Drawable per-band volume envelopes
• Drawable per-band filter envelopes
• Drawable per-band pan envelopes
• Drawable per-band pitch envelopes
• Per-band reverb sends
• Per-band delay sends
• Master filter section
• Master distortion section
• Master EQ
• Master maximizer
• Follows the host project’s tempo
• Internal BPM setting for creating polyrhythms against the host session

Pricing & Availability:

Spectdrum is available now for Windows and macOS as a VST3 plugin, with AU support on macOS. The introductory price is US $69 (normally $99).