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Manufacturer: CYCLING74 Platform: Hybrid Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.

Pluggo is an extraordinary collection of more than one hundred audio plug-ins that work with sequencers and audio applications that support Audio Units, Steinberg's VST plug-in format, and Digidesign's RTAS plug-in format.  
 
Pluggo has an extraordinary selection of plug-ins. With its range of sound design possibilities, Pluggo is more than just a few effects-it's a real-time interactive audio processing, modulation, and synthesis environment that works right inside your favorite audio application. Effects categories include delays, filters, pitch effects, distortion, granulation, spectral effects, modulators, multi-channel effects, synthesizers, audio routing, reverb and dynamics, and visual display.  
 
Originally just 74 eccentric plug-ins such as the legendary Feedback Network, Tapped Delay, and Swish, Version 3 added over 19 Essential Instruments–tasty and nourishing instrument plug-ins in a variety of flavors for your Audio Units, VST, or RTAS host application. These elegant and immediately effective instruments were created by Eowave, the developers of the iSynth, and make full use of Max4/MSP2 audio programming environment for OS X. You'll find something for every palate, from the characteristically midwestern self-effacement of the Pretty Good Synth, to additive synths, analog-modeling drum and percussion synths, sampling, granular synthesis, FM synthesis, and some lovely waveshaping for that little sonic something extra. You can seamlessly combine these exciting new instruments with Pluggo effects plug-ins and modulator plug-ins for a world of sonic possibilities you'll never exhaust.  
 
As you look over the list of plug-ins at, you might wonder how this abundance of plug-ins is possible. The answer lies in the power of Cycling '74's Max/MSP audio processing system and its plug-in development tools. Pluggo uses a run-time version of Max/MSP. Since all the plug-ins run within the same environment, they can work together behind the back of your sequencer. For example, the PluggoBus system lets plug-ins send up to eight channels of audio to each other, exploding the limitation of one or two outputs per plug-in in audio sequencers. Pluggo also sports a set of Modulators--plug-ins that mess with the parameters of other plug-ins in cool and unusual ways.  
 
Pluggo includes MIDI support when used with Audio Units, VST, and RTAS host applications. Pluggo plug-ins can send and receive MIDI information, and Max/MSP developers can now develop their own MIDI processor plug-ins and virtual MIDI instruments.  
 
Pluggo includes support for host synchronization for Audio Units, VST, and RTAS host applications. Pluggo plug-ins support beat-synchronized parameter changes, sample-accurate tempo sync for a plug-in's modulating LFOs, and tempo-relative settings for plug-in parameters such as delay time. Refer to the table below that shows which features are supported on various Mac OS X host applications.  
 
Develop Your Own Plug-ins:  
 
Pluggo isn't limited to the warehouse full of plug-ins that Cycling74 supplies. If you want to tweak your own plug-ins, you might want to consider Max/MSP, which includes everything you need to develop your own plug-ins. The Pluggo Runtime Installer allows you to give your own plug-ins to everyone, regardless of whether they own Pluggo or not.  
 
Develop Your Own Plug-ins:  
 
Pluggo is more than a collection of over a hundred plug-ins. Since Pluggo is a run-time extension of Cycling '74's Max/MSP, you can use it to create your own powerful plug-ins.  
 
Included Plug-Ins:  
 
Synthesizers:  
- additive heaven  
- analogue drums  
- analogue percussion  
- bassline  
- big ben bell  
- deep bass  
- easy sampler  
- filtered drums  
- flying waves  
- fm 4-op  
- harmonic dreamz  
- Laverne  
- lo-fi drums  
- moving waves  
- pgs-1  
- qsynth  
- quick drums  
- shape synth  
- ShepardTones  
- Sine Bank  
- wavy waves  
- white grains  
- Xmod synth  
 
Delay Effects:  
- Chorus X2  
- Comber  
- Flange-o-tron  
- Generic Effect  
- Jet  
- Long Stereo Delay  
- Space Echo  
- TapNet  
- Tapped Delay  
- Very Long Delay  
 
Filters:  
- Cyclotron  
- Harmonic Filter  
- Moving Filters Multi-Filter  
- Phase Shift  
- Phone Filter  
- Swish  
- Vocoder  
 
Filter/Delay:  
- FilterTaps  
- Mangle Filter  
- PlugLoop  
- Raindrops  
- Resonation  
- Resosweep  
- Sizzle Delays  
 
Pitch Effects:  
- Frequency Shift  
- Speed Shifter  
- Vibrato Cauldron  
- Warble  
- Warpoon  
 
Distortion:  
- Average Injector  
- Degrader  
- Feedback Network  
- Fragulator  
- HF Ring Mod  
- Monstercrunch  
- Noyzckippr  
- PluggoFuzz  
- Ring Modulator  
- Waveshaper  
 
 
Granulation:  
- Granular-to-Go Pendulum  
- Shuffler  
- Slice-n-Dice  
- Squirrel Parade  
- Stutterer  
- Rye  
- Wheat  
 
Spectral Effects:  
- Convolver  
- Spectral Filter  
 
Audio Routing:  
- Center Channel  
- PluggoBus Rcv  
- PluggoBus Send  
 
Multichannel:  
- Audio Rate Pan  
- Nebula  
- OneByEight  
- Stereo Adjuster  
- Stereo Faker  
- Swirl  
- Tremellow  
 
Modulators:  
- Audio2Control  
- Breakpoints  
- Control2Audio  
- Env Follower  
- Key Triggers  
- KnaveStories  
- LFO  
- M2M  
- Mouse Mod  
- Pluglogic  
- Randomizer  
- Step Sequencer  
 
Reverb/Dynamics:  
- Chamberverb  
- Dynamical  
- Rough Reverb  
 
Synchronization:  
- PluggoSync  
 
Visual Display:  
- beatN  
- D-Meter  
- Light Organ  
- Phase Scope

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System Requirements for PLUGGO

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Mac

A Windows machine equipped with a 1 Ghz P3 or better (a 2.0 Ghz P4 or equivalent is recommended). An ASIO-compatible sound card is recommended for optimium audio performance.   A sequencer application that hosts VST or RTAS plug-ins.   Windows XP (Home or Pro)   At least 256 MB of memory, although the exact amount depends on the system version and the host sequencer you're using.   At least 55MB of hard disk space

A Macintosh equipped with a G3 processor running at 500 Mhz or faster is recommended.   A sequencer application that hosts VST, RTAS, or Audio Units plug-ins.   Mac OS X 10.2 or later   At least 256 MB of memory, although the exact amount depends on the system version and the host sequencer you're using.   At least 55MB of hard disk space