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Transition Instrument

Play a build or a drop with one gesture.

Ride one control from the verse into the drop: filter sweeps, risers, gated repeats, delay throws and tape stops, each coming in where you set it, timed to your bar.

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  • macOS · Windows
  • VST3
  • CLAP
  • 5 machines
Techne Arc: the signal across the top, three surfaces for energy, tone and space, and the position control along the bottom

One move, the whole transition

PULSE

Chops and repeats that speed up as you push, from quarter notes to a blur, with grit building under them and a gap before the drop. Try it on drums and the drum bus.

SWEEP

A filter that throws like a DJ mixer’s, a noise riser under it, a pitch that climbs, or the tape winding down to a stop. Try it on a full mix or a synth loop.

WASH

Delay throws in time with the track and a reverb that swells to fill the gaps, while the stereo opens wide or narrows to the middle. Try it on vocals, leads and pads.

See where each effect comes in

A transition is many small moves at once. Arc draws each one along the same line, so you can see where the reverb starts and drag it somewhere else.

The three surfaces: each effect drawn as a curve along the move, rising where it comes in
Each curve is one effect. Where it starts to rise is where it comes in. An early build: the look is still changing.
On the bar

Press it and the move starts on the next bar or beat, and runs from half a bar to 16 bars at your tempo. Or ride it by hand, or draw it in as automation.

Builds and breakdowns

Start from a factory move for a build, a fill, a breakdown or a drop. Run any move backwards and a build becomes a breakdown.

The low end holds

The kick and bass can skip the effects entirely, and the echoes and reverb dip under each hit, so the beat stays clear.

Out of the way at rest

At the start of the move, Arc passes your track through untouched. Nothing changes until you move it.

Specs

Formats
VST3 · CLAP. AU planned, for Logic Pro.
macOS
12 Monterey or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Windows
10 (64-bit) and 11 · x64
Not yet
AAX — Pro Tools cannot load it.
Timing
Follows your DAW’s tempo and bars. A MIDI note can start it.
Licensing
Activate with your Techne account or your key, on up to five of your machines. No dongle. The demo is the full plugin; until activated, the output goes silent for 5 seconds every minute.
Technical details The gesture, the modules, the timing and the tails.
POSITION

One host parameter: 0 is the sound before the transition, 1 its climax. Every control that moves is a binding on it, a window inside the gesture with a curve and a range. The bindings are the patch, saved with the session.

The rack

Eleven modules in three groups. ENERGY: gate, repeat, drive, gain, motion. TONE: filter (low, high, band, DJ), noise (white, pink, brown), pitch and tape speed. SPACE: tempo-synced delay, reverb, width.

Timing

TRIGGER runs the gesture as a one-shot of ½ to 16 bars, launched NOW, on the BEAT or on the BAR; a MIDI note fires it. SYNC runs it by itself on the host’s grid from the bar line; REVERSE runs it backwards; LOOP restarts it.

The low end

Below LOW, a Butterworth two-pole split sends the low band around the rack, so the kick never enters the reverb. MOTION ducks the wash (what the delay, reverb and noise add) on each detected hit.

Tails

SMART, SPILL or CUT on the way back to zero. Under SMART the delay and reverb ring out; the noise, the repeat and the pitch stop.

At rest

At POSITION 0 every module is its own identity, so the track passes through untouched. MIX 0 returns the input exactly; BYPASS keeps the rack running underneath.

Level

COMP makes up the level a move takes away, capped at +6 dB. SAFE holds a ceiling (−0.3 dB by default) and touches nothing under about −1 dBFS.

TRY IT ON YOUR NEXT DROP

Arc lands early 2027. Leave your email and we’ll tell you the day it’s out.