Free effect units for the Korg NTS-3 kaoss pad kit. Built for ARM Cortex-M7 at 48kHz. All parameters mappable to any NTS-3 control.
The effects pack is in development. No downloadable NTS-3 pack is available yet.
Live audio pulsar synthesis. Captures incoming audio into a 200ms circular buffer (9600 samples, 16-bit = 19.2KB) and reads it back through the pulsar emission engine. Not a file-based sampler — it grabs whatever audio is flowing through the NTS-3 in real time and regrains it. Hermite interpolation on the buffer reads, four window shapes. ~20KB RAM.
VCV Nebula Tape-Echo ported to the NTS-3 with a 12-bit packed tape buffer — two samples per three bytes, 150,000 samples giving 3.1 seconds at 48kHz. The 12-bit quantization (72dB dynamic range) is actually cleaner than the original RE-201's ~50dB tape path (~8.3 effective bits).
Original NTS-3 effect. Six degradation stages in series modeling the full lifecycle of audio on deteriorating magnetic media: saturation, bit crushing (16-bit to 1-bit), sample rate reduction (48kHz to 2kHz), wow/flutter, dropout simulation, and flutter echo.
The VCV SEM|POLI filter ported to the NTS-3. Full TPT/Cytomic state variable topology with hardware-modeled SEM and Polivoks character modes. All four output types available simultaneously at the module level, routed to mono sum on the NTS-3 output.
The VCV Valves dual 12AX7 model ported to NTS-3. Full physical model retained at 48kHz with 4× oversampling via the Cortex-M7 FPU. Gain staging, coupling behavior, and asymmetric clipping are identical to the VCV version.
The VCV Mi-Go Verb ported to the NTS-3 with one deliberate change: internal delay lines use 12-bit quantization matching pre-v2.0 Parasites Oliverb firmware character. Each recirculation through the feedback loop requantizes the signal — quiet tails dissolve into gritty, textured noise.