13x Lotus
Retro color multi-FXVintage character, from warm to wrecked.
Warmth, dust, wobble and grit — the whole vintage palette on one bloom.
The whole vintage palette, on one bloom.
Lotus is a retro-colour engine. Eight character modules — saturation, vinyl dust, wow-and-flutter, bit-crush, pump, chop, space and wear — arranged as a living lotus bloom around one COLOR macro. Drag a petal to dial its flavour and steer the whole vibe from the core. Warm a vocal, dirty a drum loop, or run a sterile synth through the wringer until it sounds like it came off a worn-out tape.
The whole bloom is live at launch: sixty voicings across eight modules, from clean tape to a damaged cassette. HEAT alone runs eight drive circuits — Tape to Fuzz to Drum Bus — with a BIAS control for even harmonics, transient-aware DYNAMICS, a PUNCH GUARD that pins your hits to the dry signal, and RMS auto-gain so drive changes colour, not level. SLICE chops on a 16-step sequencer, DRIFT and PULSE lock to your host tempo, and DECAY wears the whole thing down like an old tape.
Here's the trick most colour boxes miss: pile on character and the low end turns to mud. Lotus splits the sub out with a phase-coherent Linkwitz-Riley crossover before any colour lands, so you can saturate, crush and wobble the whole track while the bass stays tight, clean and club-ready. Vintage on top, solid underneath.
The whole vintage palette — on one screen.
Eight shades of vintage.
The whole retro-colour palette on one living canvas — saturation, dust, wobble, crush and space, each a petal you drag to taste. Double-click to toggle, and steer the whole vibe from the central COLOR orb. It plays like an instrument, not a chain.
Warm, or wrecked.
The saturation heart: eight drive circuits from Tape to Fuzz to Drum Bus, a BIAS knob for even harmonics, transient-aware DYNAMICS and a PUNCH GUARD that keeps hits punchy — oversampled up to 4×, with RMS auto-gain so the level stays honest either way.
Dust, drift and crush.
Vinyl crackle and tape hiss, wow-and-flutter that makes pitch breathe, bit-crush and downsampling for digital grit, a beat-locked chopper, reverb and tape-wear decay. The texture that gives a clean recording a past — all eight modules, live at launch.
- DUSTNoise · Texture
- DRIFTWobble · Motion
- HEATSaturation
- CRUSHDigital degrade
- PULSEPump · Sidechain
- SLICEChop · Stutter
- BLOOMSpace · Reverb
- DECAYWear · Damage
Wreck the top. Keep the sub.
A phase-coherent Linkwitz-Riley crossover pulls your low end out before any colour lands, so the sub stays clean — and optionally mono — while character hits everything above it. Smash the vibe on the full track without turning the bass to mud.
Everything inside 13x Lotus.
- The retro palette
- Eight character modules — 60 voicings, all live
- Dust · drift · heat · crush · pulse · slice · bloom · decay
- Drag-to-dial petals · double-click to toggle
- SLICE: 16-step chopper, host-synced with swing
- HEAT — the saturation heart
- Tape · Tube · Console · Transistor · Diode · Fuzz · Soft-Clip · Drum Bus
- BIAS even harmonics · transient-aware DYNAMICS · PUNCH GUARD
- Tone tilt & RMS auto-gain · up to 4× oversampling (Eco / HQ)
- From subtle glue to full break-up
- The club-tuned edge
- Phase-coherent Linkwitz-Riley crossover protects the low end
- Sub-protect at 80 / 100 / 120 / 150 Hz · bass-mono
- Kick-protect keeps transients punchy
- Motion · Dirt · Groove · Space macros + dry/wet & real A/B
- Included, foreverLifetime updates
- Every future update included — new features, new content, fixes
- No subscription — you get it once, it keeps growing
- No upgrade fees, no version-2 tax
- Yours for life, in every copy
Where 13x Lotus earns its place.
Lo-fi & hip-hop
Tape hiss, wobble and crush turn a clean loop into something that sounds sampled off a dusty record.
Vocals
A little tape warmth up front — or drive, dust and drift for a gritty, characterful lead that sits in the track.
Drums & bus
Grit and glue the whole kit while the club-tuned crossover keeps the kick's sub tight and clean.
Synths & sound design
Run a sterile digital synth through saturation, drift and bit-crush until it feels played, not programmed.
13x Lotus
Retro color multi-FX
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone
- System
- Windows first · macOS follows
- Engine
- 8 modules · 60 voicings · 90+ params
- Oversampling
- up to 4× · HQ
10 factory presets.
Runs where you work.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) at launch
- macOS
- 11+ · Apple Silicon & Intel (universal) — follows shortly
- CPU
- Modern x86-64 or Apple Silicon
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM minimum
- Plug-in host
- Any VST3 or AU DAW · runs Standalone
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone — 64-bit only
- Oversampling
- Eco (1×) · HQ (up to 4×)
- Sample rates
- 44.1 – 192 kHz
- Validation
- pluginval strictness 10 · Apple auval · 190+ automated tests
- Delivery
- Instant download · works offline · no dongle
What's included at launch?
Everything. All eight colour modules — dust, drift, heat, crush, pulse, slice, bloom and decay — with 60 voicings, 10 fully-voiced factory presets, macros, real A/B and the club-tuned crossover. No module drip-feed: the bloom ships complete, and lifetime updates are included at the founder price.
Which formats and systems does Lotus support?
VST3 and Standalone on Windows 10/11 (64-bit) at launch; the macOS build — VST3, AU and Standalone as a universal binary — follows shortly after. Every build is validated with pluginval at strictness 10 (plus Apple's auval on macOS) and backed by 190+ automated tests.
Is Lotus just for the low end?
No — Lotus colours the whole signal: saturation, vinyl dust, wow-and-flutter, bit-crush, pump and chop across the full range, on any source. The club-tuned crossover is the bonus — it keeps your sub clean while you add character everywhere else.
Do the tempo features work without a DAW?
Yes. DRIFT, PULSE and SLICE lock to your host's tempo and transport; without a host they free-run at 120 BPM, so the Standalone grooves too.
They’re built to sit together.
One warm↔cold interface language across the whole rack. Add a piece, or take the Complete Collection.
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