Nucleus

Nucleus is a lightweight audio plugin developed specifically for helping you work with an eight voice polyphonic synthesizer. The audio plugin comes packed with one stereo SoundFont player, one multimode filter (LP, HP, BP), one graphic mod-envelope up to eight stages, ring modulator, chorus effect, two LFOs (which can be synced via BPM hosts), modulation matrix, as well as MIDI learning capabilities.

In order to make use of Nucleus’s features and deploy it on all Windows versions out there, you need to have a VST host like energyXT or VSTHost installed on the target computer.

Nucleus boasts a clean feature lineup. A help manual is not embedded in the package to read more about the audio tweaking parameters so you need to experiment a little bit with the dedicated options in order to learn how to make the most out of the audio plugin’s capabilities.

The audio plugin offers you the possibility to alter the two LFOs by choosing between different waveform shapes (e.g. Sine, Saw, Square, Triangle) from a drop-down list, altering the beat and mode parameters, as well as making changes to the delay, steps, and speed.

What’s more, you are allowed to set up the ring modulator by tweaking the pitch, octave, and semi-octave, fine-tune the ring modulator, enable or disable the chorus effect, as well as set the rate of the chorus. When it comes to working with the one graphic mod-envelope, you can change the stage, gate mode, stage curve, sustain, and time parameters, and loop from a certain point.

Other notable audio tweaking parameters worth being mentioned enable you to adjust the cutoff, resonance, and drive, pick the number of stages, choose between different filters (LP, HP, BP), change the spread, as well as modify attack, delay, sustain, release, global time, speed, and glide options.

Tests have pointed out that Nucleus delivers very good output results. It remains light on system resources so the overall performance of the PC is not hampered.

To sum things up, Nucleus proves to be a handy audio plugin that comes bundled with several options for helping you enhance the sound. It can be tweaked by less experienced users and professionals alike.