Dynamic Distortion Modulation
Distortion and filters combine with an interactive sound-shaping experience
designed to add movement to your audio.
What can Motion: Harmonic Do?
Transform loops into evolving phrases.
Design expressive filter sweeps.
Distort drum hits with unique character.
Enhance harmonics of 808's, kicks, and basses.
Create morphing textures and atmospheres.
Energize guitar and synth melodies.
Experiment with sound design using your mouse.
Visualise audio with a 3D reactive object.
Motion: Harmonic opens up new frontiers in distortion, filtering and bitcrushing, placing you at the centre of a dynamic and responsive sound-shaping experience. Transforming your audio signal is now an animated, visually-led and creative experience with the innovative and reactive Hexagon controller.
From subtle warming and shaping to intense modulated signal destruction, Motion: Harmonic puts everything you need at your fingertips. Comprehensive parameters for distortion, bitcrushing and filtering take these effects into new creative territory giving you new ways to play with sound.
The Hexagon offers six macro sliders that can be assigned to control any of the onboard effect parameters.
Motion: Harmonic employs this Hexagon controller for intuitive and animated effect modulation. Drag and drop parameters onto the six macro sliders, each assignable for detailed sound shaping. The magnetic cursor creates an interactive experience, making modulation a part of your production.
The Hexagon: Reactive Animation
Improving upon the concept of the traditional XY pad, the hexagon provides new automation possibilities, allowing six macro sliders to be pushed and pulled together by a magnetic field surrounding your mouse cursor.
Cursor movements can be played live, recorded or pre-programmed; and then controlled with extensive timing and playback options.
Perform Your Distortion
Customise your cursor’s magnetic field controlling how you interact with the sliders. Design your desired path around the hexagon by plotting points or record your mouse movements freely.
Take control of your modulation, trim and warp your path’s timing freely to generate endless ideas. You might, for example, choose to record a slow, careful movement with your mouse and then speed it up. Or you may carefully design a complex point-by-point and set it to play very slowly, transforming a static loop into a continually evolving pattern.
Bitcrusher: Flavoursome Degradation
Experience the contemporary, digital degradation that only a bitcrusher can provide.
Bit Depth and Sample Rate: Lower fidelity to emulate the gritty sound of early digital systems.
Dynamic Control: Focus the bitcrushing effect on transients for enhanced dynamics.
Frequency Range Sliders: Isolate the effect to specific frequency bands, leaving the rest of the spectrum untouched.
Mix: Tame the destructive effects and blending the original signal back in.
Distortion: Heat with Feedback
Unleash powerful, controllable distortion with a unique feedback loop for extra depth.
Drive and Tone Controls: Dial in your desired distortion flavor, from smooth to intense.
Character Dial: Smoothly transition between tape, tube, and fuzz sounds.
Dynamic Response: Adjust how the distortion reacts to signal transients.
Feedback Control: Add a resonant feedback loop, with adjustable frequency for different tonal effects.
Filtering: Highlight and Sculpt
When modulated by the Hexagon controller, these high-pass and low-pass filters, with frequency, slope and resonance controls, can provide anything from slow, undulating effects to rhythmic sweeps and chops.
High-Pass & Low-Pass Filters: Adjust frequency, slope, and resonance to shape your sound.
Filter Placement: Choose to apply filters before or after bitcrushing and distortion for varied effects.
Peak Filter: Create peaks or notches for modern audio effects like spectral resonance or phaser sounds.
Peak Control: Adjust the number and frequency of peaks, and morph their position and shape seamlessly.
Features
FX Page (4 effect sections: Bitcrush, Distortion, Peak Filter, LP/HP Filter)
Cursor, Path and Timeline Page
Reactive 3D Visualiser
6 Macro Sliders
Per Slider Parameter Mapping
Per Slider Parameter Min/Max Values
Audio Reactive Envelope
Magnetic Cursor control
Input/Output Gain controls
Safety Limiter toggle
Global Bypass
250 Presets
134 Dual Presets
85 FX & Mapping Presets
31 Path & Cursor Presets
Bitcrush
Bit Depth and Sample Rate reduction controls
Dynamic control
Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
Dry/Wet Mix
Distortion
Drive and Character controls
Dynamic and Tone controls
Feedback Amount, Frequency, On/Off toggle
Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
Dry/Wet Mix
Peak Filter
Peak Number, Gain, Spread and Frequency controls
Q with Adaptive Q toggle
Peak Contrast contrast and Invert toggle
HP/LP Filter
Filter Frequency and Resonance controls
Filter Slope dB/oct controls
Cursor & Hexagon
Attract & Repel modes
Magnet Range & Strength controls
Magnet On/Off Mouse settings
Slider Hold & Release controls
Paths
Record Cursor Mode
Line & Circle Draw modes
Path Drawing Tools:
Select Point/Curve Line
Add Point
Remove Point
Scale/Move Path
Timeline
Forward, Reverse, Pendulum Playback Direction
Loop Path toggle
Timeline Speed graph
Fixed/Free Timeline Duration
Timeline/Recorded Cursor Speed
On, Off, Sync Retrigger modes
DAW Sync or Free Timeline Duration
Time, Multiplier and Offset controls
System Requirements
macOS
macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported)
Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.
Windows
Windows 7 or higher
Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.