The voice
Two oscillators, sub and noise
Two independent oscillators — saw, pulse with PWM, triangle or sine — plus a sub an octave or two down and a white-noise source, mixed into one clean signal path.
What it does
The filter
One clean state-variable filter
An Andy-Simper SVF with cutoff, resonance and key-tracking — stable at every setting — with its own dedicated envelope and amount control. Low-pass warmth or biting resonance.
Envelopes & LFO
Shape and movement
A filter ADSR and an amp ADSR for the essentials, plus one LFO — everything you need to make the voice breathe, and none of the clutter.
Mod matrix
A compact modulation matrix
Four assignable slots route Filter Env, Amp Env, LFO, Velocity, Mod Wheel, Key Track or Aftertouch to cutoff, resonance, pitch, PWM, oscillator level, pan and LFO rate.
FX rack
Effects when you want them
A built-in rack — drive, chorus, ping-pong delay and reverb — that bypasses itself completely when off, so a dry Cell stays as cheap as it gets.
Featherweight
Stack it everywhere
Band-limited PolyBLEP oscillators and control-rate modulation keep it clean and almost free — around one percent of a CPU core for eight voices — so you can run one on every track. Thirty presets to start.
One studio, one language
Cell is the featherweight of the SHLabs instrument line — the clean, essential voice beside Tincture's wavetables and Slicery's slices.
A paid, closed-source SHLabs plugin in active development. This page is an early look; pricing and availability will be announced when it ships. Follow SHLabs to hear when it lands.