Motion: Harmonic

Dynamic Distortion Modulation

Motion: Harmonic opens up new frontiers in distortion, filtering and bitcrushing, placing you at the centre of a dynamic and responsive sound-shaping experience.

Transforming your audio signal is now an animated, and creative experience with the innovative and reactive Hexagon controller.

From subtle warming and shaping to intense modulated signal destruction, Motion: Harmonic puts everything you need at your fingertips. Comprehensive parameters for distortion, bitcrushing and filtering take these effects into new creative territory giving you new ways to play with sound. 

What can Motion: Harmonic do?

• Transform loops into evolving phrases.
• Design expressive filter sweeps.
• Distort drum hits with unique character.
• Enhance harmonics of 808's, kicks, and basses.
• Create morphing textures and atmospheres.
• Energise guitar and synth melodies.
• Add movement and rhythm to pads.
• Experiment with sound design using your mouse.
• Visualise audio with a 3D reactive object.

The Hexagon offers six macro sliders that can be assigned to control any of the onboard effect parameters.

Motion: Harmonic employs the Hexagon controller for intuitive and animated effect modulation. Drag and drop parameters onto the six macro sliders, each assignable for detailed sound shaping. The magnetic cursor creates an interactive experience, making modulation a part of your production.

The Hexagon: Reactive Animation

Improving upon the concept of the traditional XY pad, the hexagon provides new automation possibilities, allowing six macro sliders to be pushed and pulled together by a magnetic field surrounding your mouse cursor.

Cursor movements can be played live, recorded or pre-programmed; and then controlled with extensive timing and playback options.

Perform Your Distortion

Customise your cursor’s magnetic field controlling how you interact with the sliders.

Design your desired path around the hexagon by plotting points or record your mouse movements freely.

Take control of the modulation and trim and warp your path’s timing freely to generate endless ideas. You might, for example, choose to record a slow, careful movement with your mouse and then speed it up. Or you may carefully design a complex point-by-point and set it to play very slowly, transforming a static loop into a continually evolving pattern.
 

Bitcrusher: Flavoursome Degradation

Experience the contemporary, digital degradation that only a bitcrusher can provide.

• Bit Depth and Sample Rate: Lower fidelity to emulate the gritty sound of early digital systems.
• Dynamic Control: Focus the bitcrushing effect on transients for enhanced dynamics.
• Frequency Range Sliders (Lo and Hi): Isolate the effect to specific frequency bands, leaving the rest of the spectrum untouched.
• Mix: Tame the destructive effects and blending the original signal back in.

Distortion: Heat with Feedback

Unleash powerful, controllable distortion with a unique feedback loop for extra depth.

• Drive and Tone Controls: Dial in your desired distortion flavor, from smooth to intense.
• Character Dial: Smoothly transition between tape, tube, and fuzz sounds.
• Dynamic Response: Adjust how the distortion reacts to signal transients.
• Feedback Control: Add a resonant feedback loop, with adjustable frequency for different tonal effects.

Toggle the distortion and bitcrushing visualisers to reveal your settings' real-time effects on the wet signal and compare the output to your dry signal.

Filtering: Highlight and Sculpt

When modulated by Motion: Harmonic’s Hexagon controller, these high-pass and low-pass filters, with frequency, slope and resonance controls, can provide anything from distortion-calming and slow, undulating effects to rhythmic sweeps and chops. The filter effects can be placed before or after the Bitcrushing and Distortion modules.

• High-Pass & Low-Pass Filters: Adjust frequency, slope, and resonance to shape your sound.
• Filter Placement: Choose to apply filters before or after bitcrushing and distortion for varied effects.
• Peak Filter: Create peaks or notches for modern audio effects like spectral resonance or phaser sounds.
• Peak Control: Adjust the number and frequency of peaks, and morph their position and shape seamlessly.

Features

• FX Page (4 effect sections: Bitcrush, Distortion, Peak Filter, LP/HP Filter)
• Cursor, Path and Timeline Page
• Reactive 3D Visualiser
• 6 Macro Sliders
  • Per Slider Parameter Mapping
  • Per Slider Parameter Min/Max Values
  • Audio Reactive Envelope
• Magnetic Cursor control
• Input/Output Gain controls
• Safety Limiter toggle
• Global Bypass
• Step-by-step interactive tutorial
• 250 Presets
  • 134 Dual Presets
  • 85 FX & Mapping Presets
  • 31 Path & Cursor Presets

Bitcrush

• Bit Depth and Sample Rate reduction controls
• Dynamic control
• Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
• Dry/Wet Mix

Distortion

• Drive and Character controls
• Dynamic and Tone controls
• Feedback Amount, Frequency, On/Off toggle
• Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
• Dry/Wet Mix

Peak Filter

• Peak Number, Gain, Spread and Frequency controls
• Q with Adaptive Q toggle
• Peak Contrast contrast and Invert toggle

HP/LP Filter

• Filter Frequency and Resonance controls
• Filter Slope dB/oct controls

Cursor & Hexagon

• Attract & Repel modes
• Magnet Range & Strength controls
• Magnet On/Off Mouse settings
• Slider Hold & Release controls

Paths

• Record Cursor Mode
• Line & Circle Draw modes
• Path Drawing Tools:
  • Select Point/Curve Line
  • Add Point
  • Remove Point
  • Scale/Move Path

Timeline

• Forward, Reverse, Pendulum Playback Direction
• Loop Path toggle
• Timeline Speed graph
• Fixed/Free Timeline Duration
• Timeline/Recorded Cursor Speed
• On, Off, Sync Retrigger modes
• DAW Sync or Free Timeline Duration
• Time, Multiplier and Offset controls

Watch Motion: Harmonic in Action

Version Comparison

System Requirements

macOS

• macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported).
• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
• DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.

Windows

• Windows 7 or higher
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.

Note: When accessing this software via a Rent to Own plan or the Beatport Studio membership, it's installed and run through the Beatport Access portal. An internet connection is required every 3 days to validate your license.