TAC-BOX
Acid filter effect with neural distortion, step sequencer, and an ACIEED button. You're welcome.
What is TAC-BOX?
TAC-BOX is what happens when you take a classic acid filter, wire it to a neural network distortion engine, give it a step sequencer, add a wavefolder and a feedback circuit, then top it off with an animated fractal UI and a big knob labelled ACIEED.
It’s an effect plugin. Run anything through it and it’ll come out squelchier, angrier, and considerably more acid than it went in.
The filter
Multi-mode resonant filter with the screaming, self-oscillating character of classic acid hardware. Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass — all of them willing to get nasty when you push the resonance.
Neural distortion
Eight distortion models, five trained on real pedal circuits using RTNeural — DS-1, RAT, TS-9, Big Muff, DOD 250. Plus tape, tube, and off (for cowards). SIMD-optimised so your CPU barely notices.
The sequencer
16-step with per-step accent, slide, gate, probability, parameter locks, ratchets, micro-timing, and conditional triggers. It’s not just a filter sequencer — it’s a filter performance sequencer.
Modulation
8-slot modulation matrix with 9 sources and 14 targets. LFOs, envelopes, sequencer — route anything to anything.
Effects
Neural distortion up front, feedback circuit, resonance FM, and multiband processing with a spectrum analyser and sonogram. The FX page is where things get properly unhinged.
The ACIEED knob
One knob. It does everything. Turn it and find out.
Who it’s for
Anyone who misses the 90s. Producers who put acid filter sweeps on everything (guilty). Sound designers who want a creative destruction tool with a Japanese cyberpunk UI and animated fractals. Yes, really.