A wavetable synthesizer built around one idea: modulation you can touch. Morph band-limited wavetables, warp them into sync, FM and ring-mod territory, then drag an LFO straight onto any knob and watch the sound move — drawable LFOs, live modulation rings and a studio FX rack included.
Tincture is a paid, closed-source SHLabs plugin in active development. Follow SHLabs for the release.
Two wavetable oscillators on a band-limited mip-mapped engine — clean at any pitch, no aliasing. Morph across frames on a live waterfall display, browse the factory bank or drop any Serum-format WAV straight onto it.
Per-oscillator warp multiplies the timbral space of every table: hard sync, bend, PWM, mirror — plus FM and ring modulation from oscillator two. Warp amount is a modulation target like everything else.
Grab an LFO, envelope or macro chip and drop it on any knob — every valid target glows on the way. Coloured rings show depth, live markers show the actual moving values, and a 48-slot matrix keeps the overview.
Four LFOs with a drawable curve editor: click to add points, snap to the grid, bend each segment by dragging it. Tempo-sync them for pumps and gates, or run them free for slow drift.
Up to 16-voice unison per oscillator with detune, blend and stereo spread; sub and coloured noise; dual state-variable filter with drive; poly, mono and legato modes with glide and velocity response.
A seven-stage rack: distortion, chorus, tempo-synced ping-pong delay, a Dattorro plate reverb, EQ, an SSL-style bus compressor and a maximizer on the output — the same engines as the SHLabs mastering plugins.
Tincture is the SHLabs take on the modern wavetable synth — in the spirit of Serum, rebuilt with the lab's obsessions: a band-limited engine that stays clean at any pitch, 2× oversampling around the voice, velocity-aware dynamics and a transparent output stage, with every modulation visible and draggable. Eighteen categorised factory presets get you from sub bass to drifting pads in one click, and a soft-randomizer keeps the ideas coming.
It slots straight into the SHLabs ecosystem: sequence it from Metro 185, conduct it from Tonnetz, and finish it with the same compressor that powers Glue — built in.
A paid, closed-source 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.