When two Waveforms Collide
Anything Can Happen
WaveBlender is a sonic playground where two audio signals meet through 22 blend modes, from classic vocoders and ring modulation to spectral splicing, probabilistic gating, and scrub-style time-mangling. A 16-step modulator sweeps the blend in time with the host, and every parameter is automatable.
Twisted • Broken • Beautiful
WaveBlender is built for experimental and creative sound design. Feed it sound sources you would not normally pair, and it can be glitchy, trippy, harsh and aggressive, but also playful, beautiful and subtle, depending on the mode and settings you use. Bin interleave, scrub, step-modulated morphing, and probabilistic switching produce textures that sit between rhythm and chaos. Vocoders, amplitude follow, and gentle morphs produce smooth, musical results. The same plugin that makes brutal ring-mod overtones makes a vocoded pad two dials later.
Features
22 Blend Modes
Five families of blend modes covering Spectral, Modulation, Dynamics, Stochastic, and Math operations. Classic, FFT, and Distorted Vocoders, Frequency Splice, Spectral Gate, Phase Swap, Bin Interleave, FM, AM, Ring Modulation, Sidechain Duck, Amplitude Follow, Probabilistic, Scrub, plus eight Math ops. Each mode has its own dials, designed to push the sound somewhere surprising while still leaving a useful musical zone in the middle of each range.
16-Step Modulator
A built-in 16-step modulator adds movement and groove in sync with the host transport. It generates musically convincing sequences quickly, then lets you tweak from there. Length and division controls dial in anything from gentle drift to rapid stutter.
Three Randomize Buttons
Fast variations, happy accidents, and a one-button "everything new" roll for whole-instrument-style exploration. Randomize the current mode's dials, the modulator pattern, or the entire patch. Every randomized parameter remains fully editable, so you can keep what works and tweak the rest.
Morph Macro
A single dial that crossfades between Audio 1, the FX result, and Audio 2. Perfect for parameter automation and live performance: go from dry source to twisted blend to second source in one continuous gesture.
Fully Automatable
Every dial, switch, and modulator step is automatable from the host. Drive the Morph macro from an envelope for smooth transitions, sequence mode changes for arrangement-level shifts, drift mode-specific dials across a section to keep textures evolving.
All 22 Blend Modes
Spectral
- Classic Vocoder
- FFT Vocoder
- Distorted Vocoder
- Frequency Splice
- Spectral Gate
- Phase Swap
- Bin Interleave
Modulation
- Frequency Modulation
- Amplitude Modulation
- Ring Modulation
Dynamics
- Sidechain Duck
- Amplitude Follow
Stochastic & Time
- Probabilistic
- Scrub
Math
- Min
- Max
- Add
- Subtract
- Absolute Difference
- Divide
- Sign Multiply
- XOR
Each mode and dial is documented in detail in the full manual.
Requirements
- iPad with iPadOS 14 or later
- An AUv3 host that supports two audio inputs, for example AUM
Get WaveBlender
Available now on the App Store for iPad.