- Product: shft
- Developer: Sample Roll
- Type: Gated Multi-FX
- Version: 1.1.3
- Format: VST3
- Requirements: Windows 10 or later
shft is a tempo-synced rhythmic gate — a trance-gate — grown into a full gated multi-FX. A 16-step sequencer chops your audio with a morphable per-step shape, resonant filter and per-step beat-repeat (forward, reverse or granular). Then a built-in chain — gated reverb, frequency-shifter echo, OTT multiband and heat — plus a lane-based mod matrix turn pads, chords, vocals or drums into a moving, evolving part.
A grid where each step is a tiny envelope — swell, pluck, pulse. String them together and any sound turns rhythmic, perfectly in time.
Sixteen steps, endless feel
A host-locked step grid chops your audio in time. Each step is its own little shape — not just a dot — so you sculpt rhythm and dynamics in a single move. Click to toggle, drag to morph, drag sideways to ratchet.
Six shapes, endless morph
The gate envelope morphs continuously through swell, pluck, pulse, ramp and triangle — no stepping in between. Each step holds its own shape, so every hit can breathe a little differently.
Chop, reverse, granulate
Arm any step’s repeat bar and it stutters in place — blue for tight forward rolls, red for reverse backspin fills, green for a granular cloud that smears the grain into texture. Dial pitch, scatter and grain size across the board, then add chaos for glitches that never land the same way twice.
A finishing chain, built in
Straight after the gate: a gated plate reverb with pitch-shift shimmer, a tempo-synced ping-pong delay that flips into a frequency-shifter echo, a compressor that swaps to 3-band OTT-style multiband, and heat saturation with ten drive models. Everything you need to print the sound without leaving the plugin.
Modulation, in lanes
Four tempo-synced LFOs feed a lane-based mod matrix that routes any source to almost anything — filter, FX, pitch, auto-pan, chaos, even one LFO bending another’s rate. Mod rings on every knob show exactly what’s moving, live, so the patch evolves on its own.
More than a gate
Resonant filter
A multimode LP / BP / HP filter opens on every hit and can self-oscillate — plucky, vocal, alive.
Grit & drive
Push resonance into saturation for anything from a gentle warmth to a snarling, broken edge.
Swing & feel
Straight, triplet, or dotted — then push the pocket with swing for a human groove.
Granular
Freeze a step into a granular cloud — pitch, scatter and grain size reshape one slice into shimmering texture or a wall of grit.
Chaos
One knob of generative glitch that re-rolls every step, so fills, stutters and drop-outs never land the same way twice.
Snapshots & random
Eight instant snapshots and a one-click randomizer for happy accidents on demand.