The complete multi-effect engine for sound designers. Fourteen processing modules, real-time parameter automation and total creative control.
What is Machine?
Your effects laboratory
🎛️ Machine is Ferment's signal processing core. It's where sound gets shaped. Fourteen modular stages, 92 parameters and millisecond-precision control. For sound designers, producers and performers who refuse to compromise on expression.
Unlike preset-only effects plugins, Machine exposes every knob. EQ, saturation, dynamics, modulation, spatial effects -- all tuneable to the granularity of professional audio equipment.
🎛️ 92 Parameters
Fourteen modules, each with granular control. Shape tone, time, space and character with precision. No hidden layers.
⚡ Very Low Latency
Real-time processing designed for live performance. Adjust parameters without delay. Feedback? Instant.
🔗 Modulation Everything
LFO, envelope follower and expression map to any parameter. Create evolving, dynamic effects chains.
💾 Parameter Morphing
Morph smoothly between presets or manually blend parameter states. No clicks, no pops. Seamless transitions.
Signal chain
Inside the chain
Audio flows through 14 modules in sequence. Enable what you need — bypass the rest.
🎻 Your instrument ↓
Set input gain and trim. A DC blocker removes offset automatically. The high-pass and low-pass filters let you clean up the signal before it enters the processing chain.
A 3-band EQ with a twist: set a focus frequency and all three bands (low shelf, parametric mid, high shelf) shift together. Prepare your signal — cut mud, boost presence or tame harshness before it hits the effects.
From subtle warmth to aggressive distortion. Four curve types — soft clip, hard clip, fold and wrap — with input-dependent drive, power supply sag simulation, asymmetry, knee and feedback. Each curve has a distinct harmonic character.
Professional lookahead compressor with threshold, ratio, attack, release and auto-makeup gain. Sidechain HPF at 80 Hz prevents low-end pumping. Adaptive gain smoothing eliminates artifacts under heavy compression. A soft peak limiter catches residual overshoots.
Two independent LFOs with parametric curve shape, skew, smoothing, tempo sync and phase offset. An envelope follower tracks input dynamics. Route any source to any destination through the 4-slot mod matrix — tremolo, vibrato, auto-filter, rhythmic gating and more.
Up to 8 independent voices with per-voice EQ variation, stereo spread, detuning and randomized onset delay. Not just pitch wobble — each voice gets a slightly different tonal character, creating the impression of multiple distinct instruments playing together.
Sub-octave and octave-up with independent mix controls. Uses SOLA time-stretching for clean pitch tracking. YIN pitch detection with octave-doubling correction handles instruments with weak fundamentals — like upright bass and fretless bass.
Free-running or tempo-synced delay with 15 musical divisions. Adjustable time, feedback, tone filtering and stereo spread. From tight slap-back to ambient wash with long feedback trails.
Freeverb-based reverb with size, decay, damping, pre-delay and mix. Stereo width control from mono to wide. Pan and mid/side processing for placing your sound in a three-dimensional space.
Two parameters that shape how your instrument feels. Body controls low-mid fullness, Tone adjusts high-frequency presence. Subtle but powerful — changes the character of the sound, not just the frequency balance.
Seven fixed bands — Sub, Low, Low-Mid, Mid, Hi-Mid, Presence, Air — for precise final tone shaping after all processing. A different EQ type than Pre-EQ: where Pre-EQ uses a focus-based 3-band approach, Post-EQ gives you direct control over seven frequency regions to polish the finished sound.
Threshold, attack, release and hold controls. Cuts signal below the threshold for clean silence between notes. Placed at the end of the chain to catch any noise introduced by the processing modules.
↓ 🔊 Your sound
Deep dive
70+ effect configurations
Every module, every parameter. A complete reference for building your sound from scratch.
