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Studies

Hewn

Disturbance Reactor

Part of Studies

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

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Description

Hewn is an experimental processor for uncovering new artifacts and circuit-bent sounds. It modulates your input as if it were being dialed into a transmitter, then runs it through a band-pass filter and a distortion that will warp, bend and hack anything you throw at it.

It works well on drums, guitars and synths, and it doesn't take much to break an input down and splay it in new directions. The modulator is a sine wave that pushes your input's level up and down, and WARBLE can drag its frequency around at random while you play.

Hewn in the Handbook

Signal path

WARBLE wobbles the modulator's frequency, and the modulator, scaled by DRIVE and RANGE, sets the level of your input. The result goes through the SCOOP filter, when it's on, and the SLAMS waveshaper, then BLEND mixes it with your dry input before GAIN.

  1. Warble spline

    WARBLE
    Adds a random, drifting wobble to TUNE. Higher settings pull the modulator's frequency further below where you set it, and more erratically.

  2. Modulator sine

    TUNE
    Sets the base frequency of the modulator, from 50 Hz to 10 kHz. The right channel runs 1% higher, for a slight stereo spread.
    DRIVE
    Sets the amplitude of the modulator. At zero your input passes through unmodulated.

  3. Ring mod

    RANGE
    Sets the modulation index, from 1 to 20. Higher settings multiply the effect of DRIVE for harsher, more broken results.

  4. Scoop band-pass

    SCOOP
    Sets the center frequency of a 200 Hz wide band-pass filter, from 20 Hz to 2 kHz.
    SCOOP ON
    Turns the filter on in the upper half of its travel and bypasses it in the lower half.

  5. Slam waveshaper

    SLAMS
    Sets how hard the signal is driven into a waveshaping distortion. Higher settings push it further into saturation.

  6. Master

    BLEND
    Sets the mix between your dry input and the processed sound.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. The middle is unity.

Try thisTurn SCOOP ON down to hear the full-range signal, then sweep TUNE with RANGE high. The bottom of TUNE gives tremolo-like throbs, and the top end splinters into metallic artifacts.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

Hewn is in Studies Effects, under Modifier.

Standalone

The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, has separate DRY and WET knobs, a bypass button for SCOOP and a JUMBLE button that sets every control at random. In Studies the dry and wet levels are one BLEND knob, the bypass is the SCOOP ON knob, there's no JUMBLE, and we added a GAIN knob for the output level.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Hewn | Disturbance Reactor

Standalone version

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

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows