SlIsTErYx

There are various specialized applications which process audio input, and provide multiple slots to combine sounds into a work of art. If VST hosts are your instruments of choice, then surely enough you might want to use plugins like SlIsTErYx in order to add more variety to live or recording sessions.

Since it’s merely a plugin, you’re skipped of the effort of going through a setup process. However, you still need to have a suitable host on your computer, such as VSTHost. Integration is pretty easy, but you might also want to prepare your sound library, because it can come in handy later on.

You get to work with four independent racks which can be handled in the same way. Trigger buttons helps you turn off those components you don’t use. The only difference between audio racks are the sound files you load. There’s a pretty decent built-in library of WAV files for different beats you can use, but there’s also the possibility to load your own effects.

These are shown by the waveform to make sound tracking, and analysis easier. You can work with the bit graph of each layer to determine how sound is emitted. Moreover, preset configurations allow you to quickly apply several types of effects, but you can save your own presets for later use, with an additional randomization function.

Needless to say that output mostly relies on the sound files you load. Related knobs allow you to adjust the number of beats, slices, steps, cutoff, resonance, attack, decay, and volume. Filters can’t be adjusted, but you can choose from low pass, high pass, band pass, notch, and peaking. Normalization helps reduce excess sound, while temp can increase, or decrease speed.

To sum it up, SllsTErYx extends composition possibilities by adding four independent sound processing banks. The library of preset sounds is decent, but you can load your own effects. Although there aren’t many effects, adjusting tempo, filters, ADSR sliders, as well as the beat graph provides enough variety.