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Taska faceplate in Studies
Studies

Taska

Modulation Control Board

Part of Studies

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The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

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Description

Taska is a modulation control board that goes from subtle overdriven shimmers to wildly animated textures. At its heart are a musical distortion circuit, a band-pass filter and two modulators that move the level of your input, one slow like a tremolo and one faster like a ring modulator.

You set how much of each you want and how hard they hit the drive, so the same few knobs can animate your input gently or mold it into something new. A reverb at the end puts the result in a space, from a dark, muffled room to a bright one.

Taska in the Handbook

Signal path

Your input is multiplied by the tremolo and the ring modulator together, then driven into saturation and narrowed by the band-pass filter. MODMIX sets that against your clean input, the reverb is added on top, and BLEND mixes the result with your dry input before GAIN.

  1. Tremolo

    FAZE
    Sets the depth of a slow sine wave that multiplies your input, so its level pulses and vibrates.
    FAZE RATE
    Sets the speed of FAZE, from 0.1 to 10 Hz.

  2. Ring modulator

    MOD FREQ
    Sets the ring modulator's frequency, from 1 to 200 Hz. Low settings throb, and higher settings add metallic sidebands.
    MOD SCALE
    Sets how much ring modulation you get. It adds to FAZE, and the two go into the drive together.

  3. Edge drive

    EDGE
    Sets how hard the modulated signal is driven into saturation.

  4. Band-pass

    SECTION
    Sets the center frequency of the band-pass filter, from 16 Hz to 8 kHz.
    POINT
    Sets the width of the filter, from 100 Hz to 4 kHz. Narrow settings give a focused, nasal band, and wide settings keep more of the drive.

  5. Mod mix

    MODMIX
    Balances the modulated, driven and filtered signal against your clean input, before the reverb.

  6. Space reverb

    SPACE
    Sets how much of the MODMIX output goes into the reverb. The reverb is added on top, so the direct sound stays at the same level.
    TRAIL
    Sets the size and decay of the reverb.
    ROOM
    Sets the reverb's damping, from 100 Hz for a dark, muffled space to 7 kHz for a bright one.

  7. Master

    BLEND
    Sets the mix between your dry input and Taska's output. It starts fully wet, which is how the standalone Taska sounds.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. The middle is unity.

Try thisStart with MOD SCALE at zero and FAZE up at a slow FAZE RATE for a pulsing tremolo. Then bring MOD SCALE in, with MOD FREQ low for a throb or higher for a metallic edge.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

Taska is in Studies Effects, under Modifier.

When it goes quiet

The modulated path is your input multiplied by FAZE and MOD SCALE, so with both at zero it falls silent and you hear only the clean side of MODMIX. Keep at least one of them up.

Standalone

The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, calls MODMIX MOD MIX. In Studies we added BLEND and GAIN knobs.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Taska | Modulation Control Board

Standalone version

The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows