Tributary
Drag one sound in, get eight out. Tributary splits any sample into a family of processed variants - like one stream branching into tributaries - each playable on its own white key from C3 to C4. Build a kit from a single sample, or mine it for happy accidents.
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- FormatsVST3 · AU
- PlatformsmacOS · Windows
- TypeInstrument · MIDI
- Best forKit building · variation · happy accidents
One sound in.
Eight ways out.
Warm pitches down and saturates. Bright lifts and airs out. Heavy crushes deep and massive. Airy blooms slow and ethereal. Reverse plays it backwards into reverb. Crushed grinds bits and distortion. Chopped slices and shuffles. Stretched smears time and detunes. Play them, sequence them, layer them - your loaded sound saves with the project.
Eight variants, one source
Warm, Bright, Heavy, Airy, Reverse, Crushed, Chopped, Stretched - a whole related family from a single drag-and-drop.
Real processing underneath
Pitch shift, time stretch, filters, saturation, bitcrush, compression, shimmer reverb and slice shuffle - per variant.
Kit-builder workflow
Drag in a kick, a vocal, a stab - play the family from MIDI and turn one sample into a playable instrument.
Goes well with.
The free 8-sound texture instrument - the perfect free counterpart to Tributary.
A pitch-tracked sub generator - a new octave-down sub under anything tonal.
A dedicated kick synth - click, body, sub and foundation in four tunable layers.