Dual-Engine Processing
Parallax runs two independent effect engines in parallel — Reality for precision and Dream for atmosphere — giving you instant access to both clarity and character.
Morph-Based Sound Control
A single Morph control lets you continuously blend between engines, allowing smooth transitions, evolving textures, and expressive movement without complex routing.
Linked, Musical Parameters
Smart parameter linking keeps controls working together musically, making complex multi-effect shaping fast, intuitive, and performance-friendly.
'Parallax' Introduction
Space Cowboy with everything you need to know...
Before & After with 'Parallax'
Hear your sound in a new dimension...
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Parallax Full Sample Loop 01
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Parallax Strings Loop
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Parallax Guitar Loop
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What do we have hear?
Where Reality and Dream Converge.
Parallax is a dual-engine multi-effect built to sculpt sound between precision and abstraction. It blends tight, grounded processing with expansive, dream-like transformation — all within a single, unified interface.
The Reality Engine shapes transients, balance, and harmonic structure with clarity and control, while the Dream Engine introduces blur, motion, space, and depth, dissolving sound into evolving textures and atmosphere. At the center, Morph provides a continuous transition between these worlds, allowing sound to evolve organically instead of jumping between static states.
Every control is intelligently linked to preserve musical balance, making Parallax ideal for subtle enhancement, expressive automation, and immersive sound design — where contrast becomes cohesion and motion becomes meaning.
Reality Engine: Exist In The Present
The Reality Engine is built for clarity, impact, and control, shaping sound at its most immediate and physical level. It focuses on transients, balance, and harmonic structure, allowing you to tighten attacks, enhance definition, and sculpt frequency relationships with surgical accuracy. Every adjustment reacts dynamically to the source material, preserving punch while adding controlled movement and texture. Whether you’re sharpening drums, grounding synths, or reinforcing rhythmic detail, the Reality Engine keeps sound focused and present — clean, powerful, and firmly anchored in the mix.
Dream Engine: Exist In A New Dimension
The Dream Engine dissolves sound into space, motion, and atmosphere, transforming rigid signals into evolving textures. By introducing blur, drift, depth, and time-based movement, it allows sound to stretch, smear, and breathe organically. Rather than simply adding effects, the Dream Engine reshapes audio into fluid, expressive layers that feel alive and constantly shifting. From subtle spatial enhancement to deep, otherworldly transformations, it excels at creating dimension, emotion, and immersion — where sound escapes structure and moves freely through time and space.
- Dual Reality and Dream processing engines
- Continuous Morph control between both engines
- Transient-safe processing preserves attack clarity
- Phase-coherent width and spatial expansion
- Organic diffusion and motion without modulation chaos
- Linked parameters for musically balanced control
- Single unified interface, no mode switching
- Low CPU footprint for stacked processing
- Built for cinematic, experimental, and modern mixes
4 Bonus Tools
Exclusive & 100% Royalty Free...
Parallax: MIDI Collection | $19.95 Value
120 MIDI files extracted from 30 complete cinematic compositions, built for modern pop, trap, R&B, and hip-hop with orchestral influence. Expect evolving chord progressions, bass movement, melodic motifs, and rhythmic phrasing designed to feel emotional and deliberate.
Most instruments include 2–4 performance variations, making it easy to build complexity, tension, and progression over time while assigning MIDI to any synth, sampler, or orchestral library.
Parallax: Loop Collection | $19.95 Value
120 high-quality WAV loops pulled directly from the same compositions, preserving their dark, ominous tone — like winning a battle that came at a cost. These are not static loops, but evolving musical phrases suited for cinematic intros, hooks, transitions, and layered sound design.
Designed to blend seamlessly with Parallax’s Reality and Dream engines for cohesive, atmospheric productions.
Parallax: Drum & Perc Collection | $19.95 Value
A hybrid drum and percussion pack built for cinematic trap, R&B, and modern hip-hop. Includes 64 rhythm loops with matching MIDI, balancing impact and restraint — heavy when needed, spacious when it matters.
Variation-ready patterns make it easy to adapt grooves across verses, drops, and breakdowns.
Moonwave: $20 Gift Card
Included as a thank-you bonus, the Moonwave $20 Gift Card gives you instant credit toward any future Moonwave FX product or expansion. Use it to explore new plugins, grab fresh sound packs, or expand your creative toolkit even further. $10 minimum purchase after discount, no product or deal restrictions — clean, simple value you can apply anytime. It’s 1 way of giving you more power to shape your sound.
Compatibility & System Requirements
Compatible with all major DAWs except Pro-Tools. No AAX format provided at this time.
OS Version:
Windows 10+
Mac Mojoave 10.14+
Software Size:
~450MB
Includes VST3 & AU Versions
Reviews
Product Reviews
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Anonymous
Love the design, easy and straight forward to use. getting amazing sounds out of this at the moment! the UI is intuative ad love the visuals
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Jon C.
I have been looking for a flexible dual effect module for a while. After purchasing Moonwave FX's Aries and getting good results with that, I took a chance with Parallax. This is the real deal. A flexible, easy to use, powerful multi FX. I will be using this beastie a lot. Thank you, Aaron and the Moonwave FX team!
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Christian O.
I've just started using Parallax as a morphing tool for a 10-minute rhythm. It's very easy to use and works great throughout the entire piece with an evolving and constantly changing sound. Really happy with the results. btw, nice gui
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BARRY GRAY Gray
ALL THE PLUGINS ARE FIRE!!
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Gabriel
Gutes Plugin mit wenig Presets
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Richie
Amazing
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Jim
A fun FX for coloring designed sounds.
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Tomas Adolfsson
Very nice! Easy to use and sounds really good
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Ana
Love it! 🩷
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Steven
I like this plugin more than the others I have. It is m favorite. The size is rather large, and the sound can use some improvement, but it's stable and can be used when its desired.
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Cristian
Es bueno, me gusta para texturas y ambientes
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Anonymous
Interesting plugin that can make some pretty neat sounds.
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Ryan Springer
Very cool. Plenty of knobs to tweak!
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Lorenzo
My favourite Multi-FX plugin, can do A LOT of interesting stuff, from etheric drive to layered modulations of delay / reverb with lush or eerie texture. One of a kind, useful for many genres, and great interface, get it!
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Dipanjan O.
This Plugin is insane for multi-FX blending. I'm mostly use this on atmospheric pad and little backend glow effect.
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Aaron O.
I LOVE THIS PLUGIN!
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Chad
Decent plugin, not very many presets
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arduinofart cheesetoastie (Redeemed Order)
sophisticated GUI, warm enticing sounds
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Shaun
Nicely designed and well executed multi effects plugin.
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Khalid A.
Amazing plug-in
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Peter
Has potential for ambient soundscapes. I wish there was a manual to explain the controls.
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Anonymous
Cool GUI, cool effects but a bit CPU heavy.
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Killer
This plugin sparks the creativity in a quick and compelling way, which always makes time spent in the DAW seem like less of an effort and more of an enjoyable experience.
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DJ Kush (Redeemed Order)
Great work
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eli s. (Redeemed Order)
not bad maybe there could be more customization on the plugin
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BRIANT O.
I really like it. More people should know about it!!!!!
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Anonymous
I love how dreamy it makes my synths sound. More unpredictable than Wavestation, similar to Karma.
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Nick Rivera (Redeemed Order)
Parallax delivers an easy to use soundesign and movement tool. There are truly an infinite number of possible variations using the random tool, but the strength is its sound processing capability. Tiny footprint with a small amount of presets and dynamic filtering choices makes this a great entry level to for young engineers looking ideas and quick mock up.
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Daniel
Very nice
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Anonymous
amazing thx v much
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Sheldon Tam (Redeemed Order)
The effects are great. I especially like the atmospheric sounds that I can create with it.
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Carlos Gipson (Redeemed Order)
Parallax has proven itself! Simple UI, visually pleasing and beyond expected performance. Well done!
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Pete Ardron (Redeemed Order)
Pretty much unusable because of very noticeable latency
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Aaron
Es muy buen plugin, si que vale la pena
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stefanus
Really: oen of a kind! make every sound liquid, smoother then smooth.
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Erik
What an incredible, intuitive and beautifully different effects processor. I’m not easy to impress. Yet, I am stunned….
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Raynald Masse (Redeemed Order)
Very Very original FX, and it's not a brainer purchase
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Anonymous
Great!
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J
It's convenient having all these effects, much as I got it bundled for cheap. But full price is not competitive enough.
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John Fredregill (Redeemed Order)
Man this thing is fun! Really great on drums !
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ROSS MC GOVERN (Redeemed Order)
Very cool plugin with huge sound design potential.
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Jon Davidson (Redeemed Order)
Great plugin to shape
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George Banks (Redeemed Order)
fantastic plug-in
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Paul
Super vst...
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Jean Amancio Gonzales Rodrigues (Redeemed Order)
Excelente plugin
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Brian Melson (Redeemed Order)
No problem in purchasing and downloading. Easy and didn't take long.
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christopher algarin (Redeemed Order)
Parallax is honestly a really cool plugin if you like messing around with sound but still want things to stay clean and controlled. I like how the Reality Engine tightens everything up and keeps your transients punchy and focused, and then the Dream Engine can just melt the sound into this wide, atmospheric texture without it turning into total mud. The Morph knob is probably my favorite part because you can smoothly blend between tight and trippy instead of just switching modes. It feels musical and easy to experiment with, whether you’re shaping drums, synths, or just trying to make something sound bigger and more immersive without overcomplicating your mix.
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pierre takahashi (Redeemed Order)
good! but too heavy for my pore cpu...
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Etienne Martinelli (Redeemed Order)
A very creative plugin.
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Andrzej Natkaniec (Redeemed Order)
Ok
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(Redeemed Order)
Really great for creating some motion and tansition
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P Nithish (Redeemed Order)
Good Quality Effect Plugin
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Ana
I love it!
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G C (Redeemed Order)
The interface is a bit basic.
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Tiến Dũng Nguyễn (Redeemed Order)
Plugin of Moonwave FX always healthy for my old CPU
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Cuauhtemoc Escoto (Redeemed Order)
Great inspiring tool, love the fast and simple way to get textures and adjust as needed.
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Joseph O'Donnell (Redeemed Order)
Unfortunately it spiked my CPU too much in Studio One 7, so I had to remove it. It sounded interesting, but I could not try it out long enough to tell how useful it could be.
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Dávid
a very creative plugin!
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Adnan
Perfectt
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Anonymous
The effects and the ability to morph are pretty nice but there is one big downside for me. You can't really work with stereo sources. It will all be mixed down to mono and only widened articficially after the fact by using the depth controls. I wish they would change this in future updates!
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derick Chow (Redeemed Order)
Cannot install and activate automatically when changing computer
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Mátrai Péter (Redeemed Order)
It's very flexible, I especially experiment with the unexpected effects of randomness.
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Bud Victor (Redeemed Order)
It is a great plugin!
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Andre Marc (Redeemed Order)
superb effects suite!
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Augusta robinson (Redeemed Order)
Great
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Ali Es (Redeemed Order)
great tlool
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Anonymous
Great Plugin.... Just Get It
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matt
Works great
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david
Fantastic execution of a great idea!
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Robert Maitland (Redeemed Order)
Moonwave Parallax is a masterclass in workflow-driven sound design, replacing complex effect chains with a single, highly musical Morph knob. It excels at "liquefying" rigid samples into evolving textures while maintaining the ability to snap back to transient-heavy clarity instantly. For producers in Reaper, its potential is unlocked via audio-rate modulation, making it an essential tool for creating dynamic, "breathing" transitions and cinematic depth.
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roey
very good
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Luca
Beautiful multi-fx!
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robert Lyman (Redeemed Order)
its a fun plugin bit particularly good for ambient music but also to grab snippets you can use in any genera
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Gabriele
Very good
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did dutoit (Redeemed Order)
nice at this time
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John
+
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Ege Duman (Redeemed Order)
I don’t know why, or is it just me or I can’t get it anywhere near to sound good.
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匿名
Fantastic!!
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匿名
This is a very interesting plugin.
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Davey Duke (Redeemed Order)
An adventure.
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Neri
An excellent plugin!!! One of the best ways to create textures, stereo widening, and more. Thanks, Moonwave, for this! 🙂
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Remi
A very interesting effect, so far I've used it to add colour and texture to a stab, adds a lot of dimension. Looking forward to exploring it further.
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Jason
Great plugin very unique
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Dan
Great product, it helped me a lot with my last project!
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cristian jimenez (Redeemed Order)
Excellent plugins I love it. Thank you moonwave
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Jay Zero (Redeemed Order)
Very useful Plugin. I use it very often in the last time.
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Anonymous
This is an amazing effect plugin for Psy & Ambient kind of music. I don't recommend setting the plugin at 100% wet though as it makes the overall sound very thin (or maybe I didn't spend enough time with it yet), but it sounds great at lower settings. It adds just that little bit of extra sauce and you can get pretty creative with it, especially if you add other moonwave plugins like Warper to the chain of effects. //ShamanDelic
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Akon Miller 🍒 (Redeemed Order)
Easy to get... Easy to load... And easy to use.... Beautiful UI as well... 🙂
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Javier
Great effects, sounds amazing. So cinematic with plenty of controls.
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Arash
A quick way to transform your i instruments into ethereal dreamscapes. Menu diving not required.
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St
I think it's a great plugin that can be used when you want to apply an effective effect but also want to emphasize the individuality of the original sound.
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Anonymous
great plugin. but i would like it more if it had normal hall and reverb parameters to morph into
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Mico Vånerholm (Redeemed Order)
The plugin is user friendly and effective but I would have given a higher rating if the cpu load wasn’t this huge. So maybe work on that a bit.
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Marek
Świetna , inspirujące
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Anonymous
One of the most notable features of Parallax is the Morph Control, which facilitates the continuous evolution of sound, providing an organic quality to productions. The interface is intuitive, making it accessible even for beginners.
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Sandro Biondo (Redeemed Order)
nice and useful
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Thomas
Parallax is an ok effect. Hard to dial in to get a good sound. Presets are ok and sound similar. Heavy on cpu usage of 20-25%.
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Anonymous
Nice
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Joao O.
Sounds great.
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Wesley
Very cool plugin for effecting sounds and super easy to use
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Karna Karki (Redeemed Order)
I like it
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Keith
Beautiful sounding plugin. Very nice to use on any sound source. I am having a lot of fun exploring this in depth
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Francisco Ogalde (Redeemed Order)
It’s incredible the results you can achieve with Parallax. However, the plugin’s CPU usage seems higher than normal to me, making it difficult to use in large projects.
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Anonymous
interesting effects
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Yu Na (Redeemed Order)
I'm interested in this plugin, for drums or some Vocaloids.
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Colin Mayes (Redeemed Order)
Can’t wait to check this out so glad I’ve got it
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ソウマ キタコウジ (Redeemed Order)
nice
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(Redeemed Order)
A nice tool to transform a sound into something fresh
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Francesco
It’s great! It gives so many creative possibilities!
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James
This is an awesome plugin! I like how you don’t always know what it’s doing so it encourages creativity and trying new things.
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Hans Noort aka Compatibles2
Parallax by Moonwave FX is an incredible plugin, which adds new undiscovered musical 'colors' to instruments and compositions.
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Nathan
Got it for free, but the wet signal has a VERY noticeable latency that it becomes unuseable sadly. If the wet signal had not such an anoying delay, it would have been usefull
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Robert Frederick
Really allows me to dial in a lot of changes to the original sound which gives great options
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