HVRZ

The running plugin -- every area is detailed below.

MORPH at 0 -- deep detuned reese territory. The unison stack, sub and drift are doing the work.

MORPH at 1 -- the mentasm/hoover end: phase-distorted saw hollow wave, vowel notch pair, chorus baked into the target.

Anything between is a genuine hybrid -- automate MORPH or link an LFO to it for evolving basslines.

UNISON stacks up to 7 oscillators with DETUNE cents and per-osc DRIFT -- the classic wide reese wobble. U SPRD pans the stack, U CURVE shapes the detune distribution.

GRIT decimates + bit-quantizes like an old sampler; GROWL FM + the VOWEL notch pair give the mentasm its talking, formant edge.

CHORD fans one note out to MIN7/MIN9/MAJ7/SUS4/OCT -- one finger plays the whole rave stab.

MORPH (0..1) -- 0 = pure reese bass, 1 = mentasm/hoover. Blends curated target settings on top of your own values -- automate it for evolving bass.

UNISON (1..7) -- oscillators in the stack. 7 is the classic wide reese.

DETUNE -- cents spread between the unison oscillators.

DRIFT -- per-oscillator random pitch wobble depth (incommensurate sines, never loops).

DRIFT RT -- speed of the per-osc drift.

SPREAD -- stereo spread of the stack (alternating L/R panning per osc).

WAVE -- plain polyBLEP saw to phase-distorted saw (the hollow mentasm wave).

PULSEW -- pulse width when WAVE leans toward pulse.

PWM AMT -- pulse-width modulation depth.

PWM RT -- PWM LFO rate.

OCTAVE (-2..+2) -- coarse octave shift.

SEMITONE (-12..+12) -- coarse tuning.

FINE -- cents-level detune.

PHASE -- oscillator start phase at note-on.

U SPRD -- stereo spread of the unison voices.

U CURVE -- detune distribution curve: even cents vs. clustered near unison.

SUB -- sub-oscillator level.

SUB OCT -- sub octave: -1 or -2.

SUB SQ -- blends the sub from sine toward square for a harder foundation.

SUB TUNE (+-50c) -- sub detune; slight beating against the stack.

SUB DEC -- sub-osc decay, so the bottom end can duck out of sustained notes.

NOISE -- noise layer level.

NOISE DEC -- noise decay time.

NOISE TONE -- lowpass on the noise layer.

GRIT -- decimation (sample-rate crush), S950-style digital edge.

GRIT DEC -- grit decay: crush the attack, clean up the tail.

GRIT BITS -- bit-depth reduction amount.

GROWL FM -- self-FM growl amount; the talking mentasm character.

FM DEC -- decay of the growl after note-on.

FM KEY -- growl key tracking.

FM TONE -- lowpass on the growl sidechain.

VOWEL -- centre frequency of the dual-notch formant pair.

VOWEL RT -- formant sweep rate.

VOW DEP -- notch depth.

VOW MIX -- how much of the vowel pair is in the signal.

FLT TYPE -- OFF / LP12 / LP24 / BP / NOTCH / HP.

CUTOFF (20--20k, skewed) -- filter cutoff.

RESO -- resonance.

DRIVE -- pre-filter saturation.

ENV AMT (+-48) -- filter envelope depth, bipolar.

F ATT -- filter envelope attack.

F DEC -- filter envelope decay.

F SUS -- filter envelope sustain level.

F REL -- filter envelope release.

KEYTRK -- filter key tracking.

ATTACK -- amp attack.

DECAY -- amp decay.

SUSTAIN -- amp sustain level.

RELEASE -- amp release.

HOLD -- hold time between attack and decay.

VOICING -- POLY (8 voices) / MONO (legato) / UNISON (all voices stacked on one note).

CHORD -- one finger fans out a voicing: OFF / MIN7 / MIN9 / MAJ7 / SUS4 / OCT.

GLIDE -- portamento time (mono voicings).

VIB (0..100) -- vibrato depth in cents.

VIB RT -- vibrato rate.

TREM -- tremolo depth.

TREM RT -- tremolo rate.

PAN -- auto-pan depth.

PAN RT -- auto-pan rate.

PITCH ENV -- note-on pitch offset that sweeps back to tune (kick-drum thump).

PITCH DEC -- pitch-envelope decay time.

VEL FLT -- velocity to filter envelope.

VEL FM -- velocity to growl FM.

V PITCH -- velocity to pitch envelope.

V DETUNE -- velocity to detune.

V CUTOFF -- velocity to cutoff.

V SUB -- velocity to sub level.

V NOISE -- velocity to noise level.

V GRIT -- velocity to grit.

AT VIB -- aftertouch to vibrato.

AT CUTOFF -- aftertouch to filter cutoff.

KT ROOT -- key-track root note: the note where tracking is neutral.

CHORUS -- built-in chorus mix (part of the mentasm target, so MORPH leans on it).

CH RT -- chorus LFO rate.

CH DEP -- chorus depth.

BEND -- pitch-bend range.

WIDTH -- output stereo width.

SAT -- soft-clip drive.

LEVEL -- synth bus level.

MASTER -- final output trim.

Hit RND -- the whole engine, filter, mod and FX chain are re-rolled at once.

Every RND lands in the preset list as an rnd-* entry -- the list is your history. Double-click to recall, R renames a keeper, X deletes, SAVE names the current patch.

Each slot: power, RDM (randomize its params), reorder, remove. ADD opens the effect browser.

RND CHAIN builds a random chain, RND FX picks the effects, RND PRM re-rolls the loaded ones -- all recorded as rnd-* history.

Arm an LFO's LINK, then click a knob -- MORPH, CUTOFF, DETUNE, FX params... the knob's mod ring shows the LFO live.

I/O gain, post-filter, 3-band EQ, compressor and limiter sit after the FX chain. The ? button opens this manual.

THEME cycles the palette; AUD drops a phrase of bass notes so you can hear the patch instantly.

VU meter -- stereo output level with peak hold, sitting under the visualizer. It mirrors what leaves the plugin after the master chain -- keep peaks out of the red.

I/O panel -- GAIN input trim and VOLUME master out bracket the post chain: multimode MODE / CUTOFF / RESO filter, LOW / MID / HIGH EQ, comp THRESH / RATIO / KNEE and limiter THRESH / RELEASE. The preset browser below has search, SAVE, theme cycling and ? (this manual).

FX rack -- serial effect slots on the summed output. + ADD opens the effect menu, CLEAR empties the chain, ^ / v reorders slots; each slot has BYPASS, RDM (random params) and X. Rack randomizers: RND CHAIN builds a fresh chain, RND FX appends one effect, RND PRM re-rolls every slot's parameters.