COGG (Effects Plugin VST/AU)
A downloadable plugin for Windows and macOS
Turn EVERY sound into something industrial.
From the metallic sea arises COGG by Plasmatic. It's a FREE effects plugin (VST3/AU) that transforms your audio with a chain of metallic processing: granular pitch layering, harmonic distortion, and a convolution reverb built from synthetic metal plate impulse responses.
Simply turn up the Grind knob and watch the cog spin faster to begin metallizing your sound. Or, if you prefer more control over your sound, adjust the other knobs to perfect and fine tune the metallic mayhem!
Every knob:
- Grind: the central macro. Dial up the intensity and watch the cog spin faster as your sound gets crushed and driven harder.
- Impact: metallic attack shaping. High impact gives you a sharp, distorted hit at the front of every note that decays into something calmer
- Metal: convolution reverb using a synthetic metal plate IR for resonant space
- Grit: harmonic exciter that folds odder harmonics into your signal for some industrial texture
- Up & Down: layer pitch-shifted voices above and below your dry signal
- Mix: strength of the plugin over the sound
Watch real-time corrosion as you drop Cogg on a synth pad, bass, lead, even a banjo! Put it on a drum loop and hear the crush. Run your vocals through it and obtain screamo-style metal vocals.
This was made with a rotating gear UI and a live CRT oscilloscope display. Looks as good as it sounds.
Free. No accounts required. Just download and destroy!
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Install instructions
If you're downloading the Mac VST3 file:
- Unzip the file
- Drag cogg.vst3 to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
- If an error occurs, run the quarantine removal command in Terminal, which is (without quotes): "xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Cogg.vst3"
- Use the tool to rescan plugins in your DAW
If you're downloading the Windows VST3 file:
- Unzip the file
- Drag cogg.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\
- Use the tool to rescan plugins in your DAW
If you're downloading the Mac AU file:
- Unzip the file
- Drag cogg.vst3 to ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
- If an error occurs, run the quarantine removal command in Terminal, which is (without quotes): "xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Cogg.component"
- Use the tool to rescan plugins in your DAW
Note: sometimes there is an error that fails to tell if COGG is an effect or synth plugin in FL Studio (depends on Mac version), so you can set it to Effect in the plugin scan menu by double clicking on Cogg and applying changes.
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the cogg windows file seems to be for mac, tried putting it into fl and didnt show up
you gotta add it to your vst3 collection and mark it as an effect
lmk if it works