KIYMA

The last phrase, minced. In time with your song. Free, forever · VST3, AU and standalone app on macOS · VST3 on Windows.

“Kıyma” is Turkish for mince. KIYMA listens to the channel it sits on, keeps the last complete block of bars, cuts it into steps and decides, step by step, whether to play the step that belongs there or to jump to another one nearby. The block is always played back in one bar: two bars squeezed into one come out an octave up, half a bar stretched over one an octave down.

Five sweet spots

The switch bank holds five tuned settings: LEAN (no chop, one bar replayed), MINCE (two bars in one), CHUNK (eight big slices), GRISTLE (four bars in one, 32 steps) and BONE (half a bar stretched). Raise a switch and all eight knobs jump to it; turn any of them and the switch drops by itself.

Locked to the bar, no latency

KIYMA follows the tempo, bar position and time signature of the DAW and only reads audio that has already arrived, so it adds no latency. The chop patterns are fixed tables: there is no randomness in the sound, so the same settings on the same song always give the same result, at any buffer size.

The controls

• DENSITY — 0 to 100 %, default 40 %: the chance per step that the step jumps to another one. 0 % plays every step in order.
• REACH — 1 to 16 steps, default 6: how far a jump can go, backwards or forwards.
• PATTERN — 1 to 16, default 1: which fixed chop pattern is used.
• LENGTH — 1/2, 1, 2 or 4 bars, default 2: how much of the past is read, always played back in one bar.
• EDGE · STEPS — EDGE HARD to 10 ms rounds each cut; STEPS 8, 16 or 32 slices the block.
• DRY/WET · OUTPUT — Blend 0 to 100 % (0 % is the input, bit for bit); output −24 to +6 dB.
• Crank — SHUFFLE: adds 0 to 15 to the pattern number, a quick re-roll.

Get it free

The checkout asks for an e-mail address, no card. The download then appears on your account page. Install and open it in your DAW. Nothing to activate.

macOS 11 or later · Windows, 64-bit · VST3 and AU on macOS, VST3 on Windows · Free, no card; the download appears on your Account page

KIYMA manual (PDF)

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