- Developer: Minuit
- Version: 1.2.0
- Format: VST3, AU
- File Size: 99 MB
- System Requirements: Windows 10/11 (64-bit), macOS 12.0 or later
- Editor’s Note: Solstice is developed by a small, talented indie team at Minuit Audio. While some users may explore the plugin through other means, we strongly encourage supporting the developers if you can — your purchase helps them keep improving the plugin, providing updates, and creating more unique instruments. They also offer a 50% education discount for students and educators, making it more accessible.
Solstice makes any sample into a unique, playable map, revealing hidden textures within your sounds. Made with ambient, experimental, and aleatoric music in mind, but versatile enough for any genre.
3 ways to navigate
Solstice generates a unique map for each sample, clustering frames by timbre similarity. Click anywhere to play, drag to morph between timbres, or let it drift into patterns you didn’t know were there.
Factory presets + artist packs
Solstice comes with 60 factory samples and 65 presets, categorized and tagged. Filter by mode, style, or favorites.
Import your own samples
Arguably the most fun part of Solstice is bringing in your own samples to generate unique maps. Solstice processes and organises all frames of the sample into a multi-dimensional latent space, before projecting it back in 2D. Similar timbres cluster into dense regions of small cells, while larger cells correspond to unique sounds in the sample – exposing underlying patterns in the sound.
In-depth control
Spectral controls
5 parameters for a curated manipulation of phase and partials. Add movement, control noise, and tune harmonic content with texture, tilt, flutter, stretch and bloom.
Cascading reverb
The reverb self-oscillates by design. Pushing up decay and tone creates cascading feedback, lowering the tone will darken the sound.
Quality repitching
No-artifact frequency-domain pitch shifting, over 8 octaves. Choose between crisp for high quality shifting, or lofi for more texture.
Powered by spectral synthesis
Unlike granular synthesis, which loops tiny slices of the waveform, Solstice freezes the actual frequency content of each moment. Moving between points will morph these frozen spectra smoothly.
