Arizona Iced

A hybrid synth, drum sampler and effects plugin for VST3, AU and standalone — and an AI agent can play every knob on it.

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In development. Builds for Windows, macOS and Linux are not out yet.

Listen

Clips from Fold, a track whose lead and riff are Arizona patches, rendered through the real plugin. Loudness-matched.

Fold — the climax The full mix, 18 seconds from the loudest part of the track.
Fold Lead One patch: five oscillators through Ladder II, Comb, band-pass and high-pass filters, per-phrase automation.
Fold Riff The riff patch from the same track.

The instrument

The Arizona Iced editor with the Supersaw Lead preset: two saw oscillators into a mixer, an LP 24 dB filter, a VCA and the output, with a keyboard and scale lock below.
The patch canvas, Supersaw Lead loaded. Rendered from the plugin itself.

The engine

Oscillators

Up to 16 oscillator slots on a modular canvas. Wavetables (saw, square, sine, PWM and more), FM between oscillators, a sub, noise, and key zones so one patch can be a bass below C3 and a pad above it.

Supersaw unison

Up to 16 voices per oscillator. A JP-8000-style detune curve, centre-versus-side mix, linear, alternate or centre-out spread, per-voice drift, and a mono-bass crossover so the low end stays centred.

Filters

State-variable LP/BP/HP/notch, the classic Ladder, and Ladder II: saturating at every stage, run at 2x (4x from C5 up). Plus a tuned Comb and a Formant filter. Cutoff, resonance and drive are smoothed per sample, so a sweep never steps.

Modulation

A mod matrix with tempo-synced LFOs, MSEGs, a step sequencer, a mod envelope on each filter and on FM depth, four macros, velocity to filter envelope, and glide.

Effects

Tape and diode drive with Off/2x/4x oversampling, chorus, phaser, flanger, a three-tap ensemble, OTT-style three-band dynamics, convolution reverb, and a master bus of glue compressor, MIDI-keyed sidechain duck and true-peak limiter.

Drums and samples

A 32-pad drum sampler and a melodic instrument sampler with SFZ import, legato, CC1/CC11 dynamics, sustain pedal and automatic sustain loops.

Measured, not claimed: a driven C6 saw through Ladder II folds back −65 dB of inharmonic energy, against −31 dB through the old Ladder. At full resonance it self-oscillates within 0.2 cents of the cutoff.

Presets

44 factory presets, from synth leads and basses to synthesised orchestral instruments. The newest:

  • Fat Bass Stack Mono sub, supersaw through a driven Ladder II, and a quiet top layer.
  • Reese Two saw stacks beating slowly into a dark, driven Ladder II.
  • Supersaw Lead The JP-8000 recipe: seven voices on the detune curve.
  • Acid Ladder One saw into a screaming Ladder II.
  • Hoover-lite The rave stab: a wide detuned saw stack over a saw an octave down.
  • Fold Lead · Fold Riff Patches built for the track Fold. Heard above.

Get it

Arizona Iced will be pay what you want, including nothing. Downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux are coming soon; there is no store yet, so there is nothing to buy today.