Two weeks of marathon patching sessions, and I've almost reached the mountain peak.

Six of the nine major plugins I'm readying for commercial release are in beta form, with the final three simply waiting for a good interface make-over and some depersonalization tweaks... meaning that I know what "gritch" means as sonic description, as I built the patch, but it's not sufficiently explanatory for someone unfamiliar with my madness.

The last three plugins should join the beta party this week. After that, it's a simple matter of separating out smaller components from the major nine, like the pitch extraction filter from daevl.triptych, a single channel of unstable pitch shifting from daevl.threep, the envelope followed and filtered white noise channel from daevl.noise. The completed collection will probably weigh in at around 20 plugins.

These are not your clockwork engineer's audio effects. I'm as excited to release these as I was to build them. The original Max/MSP patches came into being to make it easier for me to create organic mayhem and outside-the-mainstream audio for my own music. Placing them into the world is like releasing any other creation to live a life independent of my immediate person: it extends my art, creating bridges between myself and others communicating via sound, then crossing over to those listening to the sound these others will create.