Polyverse

About Polyverse

Polyverse develops creative audio effect plugins built for sound design and electronic music production. The company was founded by Assaf Dar Sagol, Aviram Souhami, and Erez Eisen, who serves as Chief of Innovation. Eisen is half of the Israeli psytrance duo Infected Mushroom, and that collaboration shapes the company's approach to extreme sound manipulation. Polyverse is known for Manipulator, a formant and pitch-shifting plugin featured in the Grammy Museum's Sonic Playground exhibit, and Gatekeeper, a drawable volume-gating tool. Their catalog includes modular filters, modal resonators, and reverb plugins designed for producers who need to push sounds beyond conventional processing.

Pitch and Formant Manipulation

Manipulator is Polyverse's flagship vocal and timbre processor. It combines pitch shifting, formant control, and harmonic manipulation in real time. You can draw custom pitch curves, shift formants independently of pitch, and create robotic or alien vocal textures. The plugin works on any audio source, not just vocals. Producers use it for creating harmonies, designing synthetic voices, and mangling synth leads. The interface is visual and immediate, with no menu diving.

Modular and Modal Filtering

Filterverse and Supermodal represent two approaches to filtering. Filterverse is a modular filter environment where you patch together filter types, distortion, and modulation sources. It includes 12 filter algorithms and a flexible routing matrix. Supermodal is a modal resonator that turns any audio into a tuned, ringing instrument. It analyzes incoming audio and applies up to 2048 resonant bands, creating metallic, bell-like tones or organic textures. Both plugins suit experimental sound design and rhythmic filtering in electronic music.

Rhythmic Gating and Reverb

Gatekeeper lets you draw volume envelopes by hand. You sketch the shape of the gate directly on the waveform, creating rhythmic stutters, tremolo effects, or precise volume automation. The interface is fast and visual. Comet is a reverb plugin with a pitch-shifting tail. The reverb can be tuned to musical intervals, adding harmonic movement to decays. It includes modulation and filtering controls for shaping the reverb character. I Wish is a pitch-freezing reverb that captures and sustains incoming audio, creating pad-like textures and ambient drones.

Shop Polyverse at Blackout Audio

Polyverse plugins are designed for producers working in electronic music, sound design, and experimental production. Manipulator and Gatekeeper are studio tools for vocal processing and rhythmic effects. Free shipping on orders over $199 across Canada. Browse the full Polyverse catalog online and contact the team with questions about plugin formats or system requirements.