CRTE — Granular Instrument for Your Sample Library

New · Granular instrument

The crate is the instrument.

Point CRTE at your sample library. It listens to every file, lays them out by sound, and plays whatever sits under your circle as one instrument — always in tune, always in key.

Intro price$59

Save $61~~$120~~

VST3 · AU · StandaloneMac Intel/Silicon · Windows

500+multisampled one-shots28 instruments

Mapped by sound and playable the moment CRTE opens. Your own library joins them.

10grain types

Ten ways to play the circle, from Botanica’s mutations to Chop’s tempo slices.

18wavetables

Factory tables for the synth layer, plus tables built from the samples under your circle.

24band vocoder

Talk or sing into your mic and the whole library speaks the words back.

9chord keys

Capture any chord onto a single white key. 14 factory sets to start from.

8arp modes

Including PHRASE, which plays a sample’s own melody back at you.

Watch the intro

See CRTE turn a sample library into an instrument.

Meet CRTE

Every sample you own, playable from one keyboard.

You have thousands of melodic one-shots and loops you will never scroll back to. CRTE turns the whole crate into a single instrument: a map of your sounds, a circle you drag across it, and a grain engine that plays what’s under the circle at any pitch you press.

Then it goes further — a wavetable synth built from those same samples, a vocoder you sing through, chords on single keys and an arp that keeps changing its mind.

The CRTE window playing a chord: the sample map with the circle lit, CHARACTER and the grain knobs on the right, the keyboard glowing below.

Hear it

This is what a crate sounds like.

01 / 06 · CRTE on the lead and the padsLead and pads

0:00 / 0:32

From the comments

What producers are saying.

@patrickblot3224

“I just bought it, and frankly, it's an outstanding plugin with a genuinely original concept. It offers an incredible wealth of settings, scales, and combinations, allowing you to create sounds that are virtually impossible to achieve elsewhere. Buy it without hesitation — you won't regret it!”

@CainaanDC

“its like a modern day Fairlight”

@MaxVidal87

“Trying the demo now. This is super dope, really allows for so much texture in even very basic chord progressions… a lot of plugins coming out now but this one is very unique…”

@yeezythabest

“gorgeous plugin”

@AuralBee1

“Demo'ing it, this is really amazingly beautiful and well designed!”

@Tim-again

“That is brilliant. I love this”

@Ronele_music

“Looks great and sounds dope! All for innovative plugins like this.”

@JoseGRendons

“I downloaded the Trial and it is great… Great Job!”

@cokomairena

“that's clever!”

The grain engine · how it works

From a folder of samples to an instrument in four moves.

Click through the steps.

Pool40|144 samplesFollowLockTwo circles

Only the samples under a circle are played. Move a circle and held notes follow it to new sounds.

Chord mode

One finger. A whole chord.

Switch the keyboard to CHORDS and nine white keys each play a full chord — voiced, strummed and played through the grains. Write a progression without knowing a single chord shape, or capture the ones you already play.

The CHORDS strip in CRTE with the Basics / Diatonic Sevenths set in C major: Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7, Fmaj7, G7, Am7, Bm7♭5, Cmaj9 and Dm9, one on each white key from C2, with CAPTURE, ZONE and SAVE SET along the top. — The CHORDS strip in CRTE: each white key from C2 plays the chord above it.

CAPTUREPlay any chord and let go - it lands on the key you armed.

VOICINGSClose, open or drop 2, any inversion, any octave.

STRUMRoll each chord up over as much as 200 ms, sample-accurate.

DICERolls a fresh chord in the set’s key that no other key already plays.

14 SETSFactory progressions in folders, plus every set you save.

INTO THE ARPSwitch on ARP and every chord you trigger is arpeggiated.

Ten grain types

Ten ways to play a crate.

Botanica

One sample a note and never the same one twice - each mutated with velvet, vowel, glass, an octave, reverse, swell or stutter.

CHARACTERSTILLWILD

CRTE's right-hand column: the CHARACTER knob at 40 between FEW and MANY, the GRAIN knobs (size, density, position, motion, scan), VOICE knobs and the AMP envelope. — CHARACTER — one big knob, a different axis for every type.

BREATHEEvery circle swells and shrinks by up to ±60% on a sine, one breath per 1/2 to 8 bars of your host.

BOUNCESends the circle bouncing around the map with its own amount, rate and glide.

RECRecord a circle’s path as you drag it, and CRTE loops the motion - stretched to whole beats or bars.

THREE CIRCLESAdd up to three circles. The pool is everything under all of them, so you can blend distant corners of the map.

Beyond the grains

A whole synth workstation, built from your samples.

01 · WAVETABLE SYNTH

Your samples, turned into wavetables.

Switch on SYNTH and CRTE builds a wave field from the samples under your circle — up to eight lanes, 32 frames deep. Drag the puck across it, blend it under the grains, or pick one of 18 factory tables. Save the ones you love.

GLASS
REED
CHOIR
STRINGS
ORGAN
PULSE
AIR
SUB
SHAPES
SYNC
FOLD
FM
VOWEL
DIGITAL
BRASS
HOLLOW
RESO
KEYS

Unison up to 7 voices · detune · warp · sub · noise · glide · drift · MOVE

CRTE's SYNTH page: the Wave Field with four GLASS lanes receding in 32 frames, the wave at the puck below it, and the WAVE, OSC and BODY knobs on the right.

02 · VOCODER

Sing into your sample library.

Open VOICE, talk or sing into your mic, and your words come out of the grains and the synth. 24 bands from 100 Hz to 8 kHz carry the shape of your voice; CRISP rebuilds the s, t, sh and f so every word lands, and FORMANT shifts it ±13 semitones.

The VOICE panel: power, the input scope with its gate line, and the AMOUNT, CLARITY, GATE, CRISP and FORMANT knobs.

The ARP panel: eight orders from UP to PHRASE, rate, octaves, length, gate, swing, sixteen rhythm steps and CHANGE NOTES.

03 · ARP

An arp that keeps writing.

Eight orders, including PHRASE, which plays a sample’s own melody back at you. Sixteen steps of rhythm with rests and accents, swing, gate and up to four octaves — and CHANGE NOTES nudges the sequence along the key every few bars so a held chord never goes stale.

4 bars → 1/32 · straight, triplet, dotted · hold · change notes every 1–8 bars

CRTE's sample map: hundreds of coloured squares, warm on the left to cool on the right, with the circle's squares lit in the middle.

Ready out of the box

28 instruments, 500+ multisampled one-shots. Then your whole library.

CRTE ships with 28 multisampled instruments, more than 500 one-shots, mapped and ready to play. Drop a folder of your own anywhere on the window and it joins the map.

Pick an INSTRUMENT and CRTE favours the samples that suit it, dims the ones that don’t, and sets the knobs to a starting point. Bass and Lead play one voice that glides between notes.

Bass
Keys
Pluck
Pad
Lead
Bells
Texture

Effects & modulation

Seven effects. Two LFOs. Drag them onto anything.

Distortion, Shift, Chorus, Echo, Reverb, Tape and Compress, in any order you drag them. Distortion alone has seven modes — Soft, Tape, Tube, Fold, Crush, SP-12 and Radio — Tape can loop 1, 2 or 4 bars of its own wear, and Compress lifts the quiet and presses the loud in three bands.

Then drop either LFO straight onto any knob: up to twelve routes, each with its own depth ring.

FILTERLow 12/24, band, high 12/24, notch, with drive

LFO 1 + 2Five shapes, free or synced, 12 routes

The EFFECTS panel: Distortion, Shift, Chorus, Echo, Reverb, Tape and Compress in a stack, each with its curve and knobs, and LFO 1 and LFO 2 grips at the top.

For a limited time

Play your whole library as one instrument.

Intro price$59

Save $61~~$120~~

VST3 · AU · StandaloneMac Intel/Silicon · Windows

New · Granular instrument

The crate is the instrument.

Point CRTE at your sample library. It listens to every file, lays them out by sound, and plays whatever sits under your circle as one instrument — always in tune, always in key.

Intro price$59

Save $61~~$120~~

VST3 · AU · StandaloneMac Intel/Silicon · Windows

500+multisampled one-shots28 instruments

Mapped by sound and playable the moment CRTE opens. Your own library joins them.

10grain types

Ten ways to play the circle, from Botanica’s mutations to Chop’s tempo slices.

18wavetables

Factory tables for the synth layer, plus tables built from the samples under your circle.

24band vocoder

Talk or sing into your mic and the whole library speaks the words back.

9chord keys

Capture any chord onto a single white key. 14 factory sets to start from.

8arp modes

Including PHRASE, which plays a sample’s own melody back at you.

Watch the intro

See CRTE turn a sample library into an instrument.

Meet CRTE

Every sample you own, playable from one keyboard.

Then it goes further — a wavetable synth built from those same samples, a vocoder you sing through, chords on single keys and an arp that keeps changing its mind.

Hear it

This is what a crate sounds like.

01 / 06 · CRTE on the lead and the padsLead and pads

0:00 / 0:32

From the comments

What producers are saying.

@patrickblot3224

“I just bought it, and frankly, it's an outstanding plugin with a genuinely original concept. It offers an incredible wealth of settings, scales, and combinations, allowing you to create sounds that are virtually impossible to achieve elsewhere. Buy it without hesitation — you won't regret it!”

@CainaanDC

“its like a modern day Fairlight”

@MaxVidal87

“Trying the demo now. This is super dope, really allows for so much texture in even very basic chord progressions… a lot of plugins coming out now but this one is very unique…”

@yeezythabest

“gorgeous plugin”

@AuralBee1

“Demo'ing it, this is really amazingly beautiful and well designed!”

@Tim-again

“That is brilliant. I love this”

@Ronele_music

“Looks great and sounds dope! All for innovative plugins like this.”

@JoseGRendons

“I downloaded the Trial and it is great… Great Job!”

@cokomairena

“that's clever!”

The grain engine · how it works

From a folder of samples to an instrument in four moves.

Click through the steps.

Pool40|144 samplesFollowLockTwo circles

Only the samples under a circle are played. Move a circle and held notes follow it to new sounds.

Chord mode

One finger. A whole chord.

CAPTUREPlay any chord and let go - it lands on the key you armed.

VOICINGSClose, open or drop 2, any inversion, any octave.

STRUMRoll each chord up over as much as 200 ms, sample-accurate.

DICERolls a fresh chord in the set’s key that no other key already plays.

14 SETSFactory progressions in folders, plus every set you save.

INTO THE ARPSwitch on ARP and every chord you trigger is arpeggiated.

Ten grain types

Ten ways to play a crate.

Botanica

One sample a note and never the same one twice - each mutated with velvet, vowel, glass, an octave, reverse, swell or stutter.

CHARACTERSTILLWILD

BREATHEEvery circle swells and shrinks by up to ±60% on a sine, one breath per 1/2 to 8 bars of your host.

BOUNCESends the circle bouncing around the map with its own amount, rate and glide.

RECRecord a circle’s path as you drag it, and CRTE loops the motion - stretched to whole beats or bars.

THREE CIRCLESAdd up to three circles. The pool is everything under all of them, so you can blend distant corners of the map.

Beyond the grains

A whole synth workstation, built from your samples.

01 · WAVETABLE SYNTH

Your samples, turned into wavetables.

GLASS
REED
CHOIR
STRINGS
ORGAN
PULSE
AIR
SUB
SHAPES
SYNC
FOLD
FM
VOWEL
DIGITAL
BRASS
HOLLOW
RESO
KEYS

Unison up to 7 voices · detune · warp · sub · noise · glide · drift · MOVE

02 · VOCODER

Sing into your sample library.

03 · ARP

An arp that keeps writing.

4 bars → 1/32 · straight, triplet, dotted · hold · change notes every 1–8 bars

Ready out of the box

28 instruments, 500+ multisampled one-shots. Then your whole library.

CRTE ships with 28 multisampled instruments, more than 500 one-shots, mapped and ready to play. Drop a folder of your own anywhere on the window and it joins the map.

Pick an INSTRUMENT and CRTE favours the samples that suit it, dims the ones that don’t, and sets the knobs to a starting point. Bass and Lead play one voice that glides between notes.

Bass
Keys
Pluck
Pad
Lead
Bells
Texture

Effects & modulation

Seven effects. Two LFOs. Drag them onto anything.

Then drop either LFO straight onto any knob: up to twelve routes, each with its own depth ring.

FILTERLow 12/24, band, high 12/24, notch, with drive

LFO 1 + 2Five shapes, free or synced, 12 routes

For a limited time

Play your whole library as one instrument.

Intro price$59

Save $61~~$120~~

VST3 · AU · StandaloneMac Intel/Silicon · Windows