Pick tone from fingers, fingers tone from pick — free. AAX / AU / VST3 / LV2 for macOS, Windows and Linux.
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Sometimes a bassist needs a different feel without fumbling for a pick, or when the fingers are feeling stiff. Picking Fingers voices a signal to sound like it was played the preferred way.
Measured with multiple bassists, amps, inputs and players the differences became precision minimum-phase voicing filters, level-matched through the low end so switching voice changes the character of the note, never the weight of the low end. The feel comes with the tone: pick treble rings on through the note, while fingers put their brightness into the attack thump — ATTACK applies that measured per-note character, BITE adds a gritty chunk on the front of each note only, VOICE to choose preference. Zero latency: safe for tracking. Mono or stereo.
From the same workshop as Box of Bass — and the same effect also exists as a Darkglass Anagram block.
This repository hosts releases only — the plugin's source is developed privately. The released binaries are free to download and use, including on commercial productions. See each release's notes for what's new, and boxofrules.com/privacy for the honest answer to "does it phone home?" (anonymous usage counts, clearly-labelled opt-out checkbox in the plugin's SYS panel).
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