DOPPELGÄNGER
Load sound. Move dot. Print magic.
Sound that moves with you.
One dot drives the whole instrument. Push it and audio approaches, flies past, recedes. Anchor it instead, and pull away for a spring like snapback. Real doppler pitch, proximity and air, computed at audio rate.
Four voices.
One motion.
Layers A, B, C and D each load their own sound, yet share the same flight. Stack a drone under a texture and steer everything together. Or simply crossfade between them with a single gesture.
Choose how each layer reads.
PLAY
A varispeed sampler with regions, fades and playback direction.
SCAN
A dual-axis wavescanner sweeping prepared spectral frames in real time.
GRAIN
Thirty grain spawner on a sample-accurate scheduler.
NOISE
A sample-free color morph from brown to blue, with comb and resonance.
Modulation with physics.
Eight sources: four LFOs, an envelope follower, MIDI, MASS gravity engine and a live Lorenz attractor. Drag any of them onto 40+ destinations.
Impacts, on tap.
Generate endless combinations of clicks, impacts, hits and explosions with a single tap. Then add an algorithmic hall with a shimmer field for extra sparkle.
Performed, not programmed.
Draw a motion path and replay it with your own timing. Loop, slow down or reverse it. Gate it all from a MIDI keyboard.
Built like an instrument,
measured like an engine.
Engine
- PLAYBACK
- 4 layers, 4 playback modes, 1 shared motion
- MODES
- Per-layer: Sampler, Scanner, Granular, Noise OSC
- MODULATION
- 8 sources, 45+ destinations, 24 XY assignments, pull and angular velocity
- GESTURES
- Doppler, Blend, Draw, Slingshot, Tap Impact
Library
- SAMPLES
- WAV / AIFF / FLAC · 44.1–96 kHz · mono / stereo
- PRESETS
- Portable XML library, samples included
- EFFECTS
- Air, Dispersion, EQ, Tube Distortion, Delay, Reverb + Shimmer
- MIDI
- Per-layer channels, velocity curves
Format
- PLUG-IN
- CLAP / VST3 / AU
- PLATFORM
- macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel); Windows x64 (VST3 / CLAP beta)
- HOSTS
- All major DAWs (Ableton Live, Bitwig, Cubase, FL Studio, Logic, Reaper, etc.)
- DSP
- C++/JUCE, realtime-safe, self-healing
* Private beta · v0.9.8. Features and compatibility may change.
BETA ACCESS
Version 1 is closing in. macOS, Apple Silicon first. Windows TBA.
DOPPELGÄNGER · BY MARK HELDER
Mark Helder is the artist and developer alias of Mark Koltunov.