There are plugins that polish. Plugins that enhance. Plugins that conform.
And then there’s maniFold Σ — a chaotic micro-looper from the twisted minds at Strange Audio DSP, built not for the faint of heart, but for those chasing the strange, the scattered, and the sublime.
This is not your usual delay. Not your clean-cut looper. This is controlled randomness, spatial diffusion, and time warping — packed into a deceptively small interface and released into your DAW like a glitchy beast.
Fragment the Present, Bend the Future
At its core, maniFold Σ is an 8-head micro-looper, with each head sampling a rolling 5-second buffer of live audio. But don’t expect a predictable loop machine. These heads wander, shifting in position, length, pan, and pitch — up to ±12 semitones — all in real time.
It’s like eight tiny tape machines, all drunk, all beautiful, all singing in different directions.
You can freeze the buffer, lock it in time, and sculpt it like clay. Suddenly, that mundane vocal snippet or dull guitar chord becomes the ghost of a texture, a dream of what it used to be.
The Delay Cluster That Thinks It’s a Reverb
And then comes the rabbit hole: 32 delay lines.
But these aren’t ordinary delays. They’re all-pass filtered, giving them a slippery, phasey sheen. A single slider — delaySpread — stretches or compresses the timing across all 32 lines. The result? Ethereal diffusion. A smudge of time.
Still not weird enough?
Hit the Recirculation. Feedback enters the system, and the whole thing starts to breathe, pulse, grow. You’re no longer hearing a delay. You’re hearing a living, swirling reverb monster.
Who Needs This?
- Sound designers sculpting strange ambiences
- Producers crafting alien textures
- Artists looking for accidents worth keeping
- Anyone bored of “normal” plugins
maniFold Σ doesn’t hold your hand. It warps what you know, stretches what you hear, and spits back sonic mutations that feel like art in motion.
And yes—it’s completely free.
Strange Audio DSP maniFold Σ is a glitchy, loopy, delay-driven wonder machine that loops your audio through eight unpredictable heads, melts it with 32 delays, and feeds it into itself for haunting, evolving textures. A sound designer’s playground, a producer’s wild card — and one of the most fascinating free plugins out there.
🔗 Download it here:
👉 https://store.strange-audio.com/l/znwrm?layout=profile
