TRIO
At a Glance
| Type | Effect |
|---|---|
| Category | Multi-Effect |
| Platform | WiN |
| DAW | Any |
TRIO by Thenatan Audio is a lofi multi-effects plugin that processes 15 hand-coded effects simultaneously in one fixed, musically ordered chain. Rather than picking one effect at a time, you get bitcrush, wow and flutter, vinyl noise, warmth, space stutter, chorus, dust, filter LFO, ping-pong tape saturation, tilt EQ, glue, tape wow and width all running together in a single window. Three pages—Dream, Glitch and Master—change what you see, not what you hear. Each effect has its own mix knob and true bypass that stops the processing node to save CPU. Vinyl hiss, crackle and granular dust are gated by an envelope follower on your audio, swelling as you play and fading on a long tail. A Juno-style bucket-brigade chorus adds warm, bandlimited modulation. It suits producers of lofi hip-hop, ambient, chillhop and experimental electronic music who want dusty, characterful loops and mixes without stacking plugins or routing sends.