CORROSION

Physical-modelling instrument · VST3 · CLAP · free

Strike, bow and grind virtual metal.

Corrosion models how metal objects ring. Each MIDI note sets a pipe, plate, cable or spring vibrating with one of 16 physical exciters, from a felt mallet to a bow or a jet of air. Then drive, a resonant body, space and a diode limiter shape the sound.

Nothing to install to try it: the browser version runs the same engine and editor as the plugin.

The Corrosion editor: exciter, resonator and processing columns above a piano strip, in dark steel with yellow accents.

What's inside

16 × 9

Exciters and objects

Sixteen ways to set metal in motion (mallets, drumsticks, bows, chains, grinding, jets, hum, snaps) on nine objects, from a pipe to an I-beam, a taut cable or an industrial cog.

Kit

A pad on every key

Kit mode gives each key its own sound, tuning and level. Build a drum kit from scratch, or start from one of the ten factory kits.

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Factory presets

Basses, leads, chords, drones, percussion and drum kits, plus an experimental bank that pairs every exciter with every object.

Rust

Wear it down

Rust, Damage, Heat and Sludge age the object; Corrosion, Violence, Mass and Brightness macros move many controls at once.

Hear it

Five factory presets, rendered by the plugin itself. Every control has its own examples in the guide.

Requirements

Formats
VST3 and CLAP plugin
Systems
Windows, macOS and Linux
Browser
A current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari; MIDI keyboards work where the browser supports Web MIDI
Price
Free and open source