Reactex
A VST3 that turns your audio into fractals. Load it on any channel and GPU-shader tunnels pulse, zoom, and morph with the sound. Every parameter is automatable in your DAW. Audio passes through untouched.
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Reactex is free and open source. see all releases on GitHub →
features
32 GLSL presets
Deep-zoom Mandelbrot and Burning Ship fractals, raymarched 3D scenes, feedback tunnels, particle fields. Switch or cross-fade between them live.
Full DAW automation
46 parameters, all automatable. Draw curves for zoom, color, distortion, and post-FX like any other plugin parameter.
Two-layer compositing
Blend any two presets with six modes: crossfade, add, screen, multiply, difference, lighten.
Load your own image
Ripple, shatter, or kaleidoscope-tile a picture you load yourself. Animated GIFs play back frame-accurate.
18 post-FX
Trails, bloom, chromatic aberration, datamosh, flame, gummy wobble, JPEG damage, dot-matrix halftone, and more. Stack any of them on any preset.
Real-time audio analysis
FFT band energy, beat detection, and auto-gain keep it locked to whatever's actually playing.