Gālana · effects box

Synth filters, set loose.

Twelve filters of our own design, a Movement section, chorus and delay. Run the three stages in any of six orders. For when a sound needs to move.

Gālana Field Radio skin rendered in 3D

Field Radio skin · 3D render

What it does

Filters with room to move.

Cutoff, Resonance, Drive and Output chicken-head knobs
The CRT showing the Comb + response

Twelve filter types

Drive, Bite, Comb +, Comb −, Formant, Twin, Wave, Fold, Square, Crush, Ladder and Cascade. Drive, Bite, Twin and Wave offer eight modes: LP, HP and BP at 12 and 24 dB, Notch and All-pass. Bite builds its 24 dB modes from two stacked state-variable stages.

12 types · 8 modes

Movement

An envelope, an LFO and a follower move the cutoff. The LFO runs from a 1/16 note to 2 bars, or free from 0.02 to 20 Hz, in seven shapes including Steps, Glide and S&H. Movement can follow the input or a sidechain.

Envelope · LFO · follower

Comb ±

Crossfade from a feedforward to a feedback comb, with a soft ceiling in the feedback loop.

FF → FB · soft ceiling

Chorus and delay

Chorus has four styles: Classic, Wide, Slow and Fast. The delay is set in note lengths, with feedback, tone and ping-pong.

4 chorus styles · ping-pong

Six stage orders

Filter, Chorus and Delay can run in any of six orders, picked from a list. Oversampling on the filter can be Off, 2x, 4x or 8x.

6 orders · oversampling
Listen

Hear it, dry and through Gālana.

Press play, then switch between Dry and Gālana. Both are matched in loudness, so you hear the change, not the volume.

Measurements

Measured, not described.

Each plot is measured offline from the plugin at 48 kHz. Settings are listed under each one.

Skins

Pick a finish.

Every skin, captured from the plugin itself. Pick one to see it.

Gālana editor, Console skin

Want to try Gālana?

Trial coming soon

VST3 · Windows 64-bit