k2k audio sound-design
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Modal Compas is an abstract interpretation of the Flamenco Compas — those rhythmic cycles built around 12 beats.
It started with a chromatic link: 12 beats in the Flamenco cycle, 12 chromatic notes. Inside the plugin, a physics engine drives marbles that act as “dancers” bouncing inside a circle of accented and non-accented beats. As they collide with bumpers, the plugin generates modal motion and chord progressions. The musical output emerges from physics — not from a step grid.
Piano solo, no effects, just Modal Compas generating the MIDI:
Built with DPF (DISTRHO Plugin Framework). Runs as VST3, CLAP, LV2, and Jack Standalone on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Status: Finished. Available to Patreon supporters ($5+).
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k2k is a node-based spectral audio explorer and polyrhythmic sequencer in one application.
Editor mode — load audio, build processing chains with a visual node graph, and see the results through four scopes: waveform, spectrum, spectrogram, and 3D spectral terrain. Eighteen color modes act as different lenses on the same sound — amplitude, harmonics, transients, phase behavior, formants, and more. What you see, you can extract with nodes, process, morph, and recombine.
Player mode — an 8-track polyrhythmic sequencer where every track runs independently. Different pattern lengths, different time divisions, per-substep parameter control, Euclidean pattern generation. Sounds processed in the Editor flow into the Player’s sample bank.
The two modes connect through a shared workflow: dissect and transform audio in the Editor, perform and compose with it in the Player.
k2k runs standalone on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with a VST bridge for DAW integration (8 audio tracks, bidirectional MIDI/OSC).
Status: Late alpha. Available to Patreon supporters.