Dark Suite VSTs

Nine VSTs, instruments and effects, built with JUCE. Each one is a VST3 for Windows and Linux, and runs in any host that takes VST3 plugins.

No DAW, no problem. Every plugin ships with DarkRunner, one program that plays the whole suite. It finds the Dark plugins you have installed, lists them along the top, and draws the one you pick at the size its panel asks for. Buy a second plugin and it turns up in the same window.

Each one is bought once. A licence is a signed file you keep, not an account and not a subscription, and no plugin ever contacts a server.

The Dark Eight panel The Dark Eight The whole line Eight Dark plugins, one licence file, one payment: Dark707, DarkerBox, DarkLight, DarkMatter2, DarkOperator, … EUR 119.95 View Dark707 panel Dark707 Drum machine Dark Eight Sixteen pads in a four by four grid, each one a synthesised voice, and a thirty two step pattern for every … EUR 19.95 View DarkOperator panel DarkOperator FM synth Dark Eight A four operator FM synth, with eight algorithms, feedback on the operators, and the ranges kept where they … EUR 19.95 View DarkLight panel DarkLight Wavetable synth Dark Eight A wavetable synthesiser after the Fairlight CMI. A sound here is thirty two waves and a sweep through them. … EUR 19.95 View DarkMatter2 panel DarkMatter2 Sampler Dark Eight A sampler. Recordings are laid across the keyboard, each one with a stretch of keys, a root to transpose from, … EUR 19.95 View DarkWave panel DarkWave Wave player Dark Eight A wave player rather than a sampler. One recording goes on the machine and the keys read it back at whatever … EUR 19.95 View DarkOrbit panel DarkOrbit Arpeggiator Dark Eight An arpeggiator with a monophonic synth behind it and a small board of cables between them. Hold a chord and it … EUR 19.95 View DarkerBox panel DarkerBox Multi effect Dark Eight Seven effects in one plugin: EchoBox, Phaser, Ringer, Roaster, Shifter, Sweeper and Widener. Every one of them … EUR 19.95 View DarkSubstrator panel DarkSubstrator Additive synth Dark Eight An additive synth. Every note is sixty four harmonics at levels you draw. Eight drawings, called snapshots, … EUR 19.95 View DarkMath panel DarkMath Live-coded synth An instrument you write. A song is a few lines of code: loops that say which notes to play and when, and … EUR 19.95 View

Somewhere to run them

Every plugin here brings DarkRunner with it, so a DAW is not needed. If you want one anyway, JingleBox2 is mine too, and it is free. A pad launcher for radio, streaming and live work, with a tracker built in that takes VST3 and CLAP plugins. Windows and Linux, x64 and ARM64, so a 64-bit Raspberry Pi runs it as well.

Download JingleBox2

Windows puts up a blue box reading Windows protected your PC the first time you run it. That is SmartScreen. Quietening it means buying a code signing certificate and renewing it every year, which I would rather not pass on. What the box tells you is that the publisher is unrecognised, which is all it means: nothing has been found wrong with the file. Click More info, then Run anyway.