PLUGINS · APPS · TOOLS FOR MAKING MUSIC
RatHound
Built by Craig Cowden
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RatHound Music
Tracks and experiments made with these tools — straight from the studio.
Apps & Tools
iPHONE APP · ROOM ACOUSTICS
SonarRoom
SonarRoom uses LiDAR and your speakers to scan a room, play test tones, and build a full 3D acoustic map — sweet spots, problem areas, and exactly what to fix. Same impulse-response techniques the pros use, from your iPhone.
FREE BROWSER TOOL · DRUM MIDI
Drum Farm
Drum Farm builds complete, multi-section drum arrangements — not one-bar loops. Pick a genre and style, shape the groove, and download standard MIDI you can drop straight into any DAW. Free and runs in the browser, nothing to install.
INTERACTIVE MAP · GENRE FAMILY TREE
The Modern Music Map
Hundreds of genres laid out as one living family tree, wired together by glowing edges that trace influence. Zoom in, follow a lineage from its roots to today, and hit play on any node to actually hear it — reggae to dancehall, disco to techno, blues to metal, it's all connected.
iPHONE APP · GENERATIVE MUSIC
SynthSense
SynthSense turns your camera's view into continuously evolving generative music. The colors, light, texture, and motion in a scene play a living ambient score — digital synesthesia, running entirely on your device in real time.
iOS & ANDROID · MUSIC MIXING
PsiLoops
PsiLoops is a music-mixing app that works like a digital soundboard. Stack up to 24 melody loops in real time, drop in drum beats and one-shot effects, sweep filters, record your own vocals, then save and share the result. 1,000+ loops across genres, and always ad-free.
The Plugins
👑 BEST VALUE · ALL 10 PAID PLUGINS · ONE PRICE
RatKing
All ten paid RatHound plugins in one bundle — plus every plugin we release in the future, at no extra cost. Buy it once and the whole weird rack is yours forever, including the parts that don't exist yet.
Dub Delay · Audio Effect
DeepDub
AU · VST3 · macOS & Windows
DeepDub is a dub delay with Tape, BBD, and Digital modes, plus filtered feedback, saturation, ducking, and freeze. Use it for quick slapback or let it bloom into a whole texture.
808 Bass Synth · Instrument
EightOhEight
AU · VST3 · macOS & Windows
EightOhEight is a simple 808 bass synth built around one main knob. Keep it clean and deep, or push it into saturated, aggressive low end without digging through menus.
Lo-Fi / Glitch · Audio Effect
Computerizer
AU · VST3 · macOS & Windows
Computerizer gives you fifteen digital-flavored effects in one simple plugin — and you can stack up to three at once. Choose your flavors, turn Amount, and go from light lo-fi texture to chopped-up robotic glitch.
Drum Sampler · Instrument
RatDrum
AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
RatDrum is a 10-pad drum sampler built for fast variation. Point it at your sample folders, shuffle one pad or the whole kit, and keep the beat moving.
Physical Modeling · Instrument
RatSound
AU · VST3 · macOS & Windows
RatSound gives you strings, brass, woodwinds, keys, plucks, mallets, and voice from physical-modeling synthesis. No huge downloads, no sample folders, full MPE expression.
Horn Section · Instrument
BrassKnuckles
AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
BrassKnuckles is a sampled horn section instrument — trumpet, trombone, french horn, and tuba — with an ensemble engine, falls and rises, a sub layer, and an FX chain built for horn material.
Dubstep Bass Synth · Instrument
Subverter
AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
Subverter is a bass synth built around rhythmic filter movement. Reese oscillators, a clean sub, drawable LFO step patterns, and a mod matrix — everything aimed at wubs, throbs, and growls.
MIDI Generator · Instrument
RatMIDI
AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
RatMIDI generates drum grooves, melodies, harmony, and basslines from genre recipes and real music-theory rules, previews them in the plugin, then lets you drag each part out as a MIDI file — including individual drum tracks or the full kit.
Vocal Chopper · Audio Effect
The Choppa
AU · VST3 · macOS & Windows
The Choppa turns any vocal into a playable chop instrument. It finds the slice points for you, then your MIDI clip gates and re-pitches the vocal in real time.
Transition FX · Audio Effect
RatRiser
AU · VST3 · Standalone · macOS & Windows
RatRiser builds risers, downlifters, and impacts from a single automatable Rise knob — it generates the sweep and works over your track at the same time, and stays bit-transparent at rest.
Vocal Synth · Instrument
Vocalizer
AU · VST3 · macOS
Vocalizer turns typed text and MIDI notes into a sung vocal render. It is more robot hook / talkbox / autotune texture than realistic singer, and it is free.