Transwarp Development Project

The μ-series.Instruments for electronic music.

We build sequencing synths and sequencers that sit happily in your DAW and come into their own on stage. Every μ-series app is made to be played live: swap a rhythm without stopping the music, lock the screen for performance, and tie the whole rig together with a free sync hub and mixer.

μ-clid MIDI, μ-toni MIDI and μ-link are freeware. The rest, including μ-tronic, are pay what you want, from £0, with £20 suggested (£25 for μ-tronic and μ-tilate). Nothing is ever limited, and the source is open (GPLv3).

Made for live performance Pay what you want · from £0 VST3 & CLAP & Standalone Windows
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μ-series — live animation
Made for performance

Instruments for playing,
on stage and in the studio.

A DAW session is for building. A gig is for playing. We make sequencers and synths that work in the studio and, more to the point, hold up live, where you can't stop to fix things.

Swap without stopping

Change a rhythm, a pattern or a whole preset while the music plays. The new one takes over at the end of the loop, so the groove never stumbles. Choose whether a swap lands on the master loop or on each layer's own loop. MIDI Program Change works too.

Available now

Performance mode

Build a list of up to eight presets, then lock the screen for the gig with one button. A step indicator shows the switches you have queued, and holding the button for a second takes you back out. In the standalone apps.

Available now

Tap tempo

Tap the beat in the transport bar to set the tempo, or let the standalone follow an external MIDI clock. No digging through menus while the room waits.

Available now

A shared sync hub and mixer

Run several apps side by side and let μ-link keep them on one clock, sum them to one output and mix them on stage, with scenes that switch presets across the rig in one click.

Available now · Freeware

Clip launching, per layer

Each layer will hold a bank of stored states that you launch like clips, so every layer has its variations ready to go and you can play the arrangement by hand.

In development

Launchpad control

Play the family from a Novation Launchpad X: pads for layers and clips, buttons to step through presets, and lights that show what is playing. The controller layer is built and we are mapping it to the apps.

In development

In development means we are building it now and it is not in the current download yet.

The μ-series

Nine products. One family.

Download any of them and use it as long as you like. Nothing is locked and there is no time limit. The engines are different. The workflow is the same.

Euclidean rhythm sequencer
Pay what you want

μ-clid

Drive samples from Euclidean rhythms. Three independent layers per track combine through boolean logic into patterns that are hard to programme by hand.

8 tracks · VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
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Wavetable drone sequencer
Pay what you want

μ-tant

A dual-oscillator wavetable drone with FM and ring modulation, shaped by a gate sequencer. Per-step gate, filter and pitch across up to 16 bars.

8 voices · VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
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Generative arpeggiator
Pay what you want

μ-toni

Pick a scale and a chord and it plays the notes through a two-oscillator wavetable synth. Every control can be modulated, so the arpeggio never has to stand still.

Mono synth · VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
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Groove sequencer
Pay what you want

μ-on

A hands-on groove box. Build a beat on a 16-step grid with kick, bass, drums and chords, add a techno rumble, and let the bass duck from the kick.

7 engines · VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
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Loop slicer
Pay what you want

μ-tilate

Load a loop and it is cut into slices on the transients. Rearrange the slices on a timeline, change their pitch, or match the loop to your tempo.

8 layers · VST3 · CLAP · Standalone
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Performance rig
Pay what you want

μ-tronic

Sixteen slots, each holding a layer from the other apps. Play them together with one mixer, three buses and scenes that change the whole rig at once.

Standalone only · Windows
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Euclidean MIDI effect
Freeware

μ-clid MIDI

One Euclidean rhythm that sends MIDI notes to any instrument in your DAW. Freeware, with no support prompt and nothing to unlock. It shares rhythm presets with μ-clid.

MIDI effect · VST3 · CLAP
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Arpeggiator MIDI effect
Freeware

μ-toni MIDI

The μ-toni arpeggiator as a MIDI effect. Hold keys and it plays scale and chord notes as MIDI to any synth in your DAW. Freeware, with no support prompt. Coming with the next release.

MIDI effect · VST3 · CLAP
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Sync hub and performance mixer
Freeware

μ-link

Connect your μ-series apps into one rig. μ-link sums their audio to one output, keeps them on one sample-accurate clock and mixes them live, with scenes.

Desktop app · Windows
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Pay what you want

Pay what you want. Start at £0.

If one of them earns a place in your music, pay what you want and help me keep building them. Thank you, Andy.

  • Nothing is limited. All features, all the time.
  • Pay what you want. From £0, suggested £20 (£25 for μ-tronic and μ-tilate), in GBP, through Lemon Squeezy. You get a licence key even for £0.
  • A key removes the support prompt. Copies without a key show a polite prompt when the app starts, once per session. "Maybe later" hides it for that session, and it comes back next time.
  • Open source. The source is GPLv3 on GitHub.
  • μ-clid MIDI, μ-toni MIDI and μ-link are freeware, with no support prompt and no key at all.
Get μ-clid Get μ-tant Get μ-toni Get μ-on Get μ-tilate Get μ-tronic All downloads ↓

All prices in GBP. Windows only for now. macOS is on hold.

Shared Architecture

One architecture.
Every instrument.

Every μ-series instrument shares the same mixer and modulation architecture. Whatever the sound engine, the same modulation and mixing system sits underneath.

Each track has eight MSEG or stepped-sequence modulators that can drive almost any parameter. All tracks flow into one mixer with three send effects and two master insert slots.

A track is one layer: a rhythm in μ-clid, a pattern in μ-tant, an arpeggiator in μ-toni. μ-clid, μ-tant, μ-toni, μ-on and μ-tilate have up to eight tracks or layers. μ-tronic has sixteen.

8×
Tracks per app (16 in μ-tronic)
8×
Modulators per track
3×
Send effects
2×
Master insert slots

Live Sequencer Swap

Change a rhythm, pattern or voice while you play, by hand or with MIDI Program Change. The new one starts at the end of the loop.

Sidechain on Every Channel

Every mixer channel has its own sidechain input. Duck any channel from any other, or from an external host signal. A μ-clid kick can pump a μ-tant drone pad, for example.

Individual Outputs

Send each track to its own DAW output for parallel processing, hardware effects or mixing outside the plug-in.

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