Kaleidoscopes

Super-suite of colorful modulation effects

Give Your Tracks Color and Movement
with Creative Modulation Effects

Kaleidoscopes combines classic modulation pedals—phaser, flanger, tremolo, and chorus—into a multi-FX playground. Create new production effects by combining the plugin’s two modulation engines. Use dynamic triggering to have the effects react to your live playing in real time.

Chop synth rhythms with tremolos. Change mod rates with guitar strums. Trigger sweeps from drums. Creatively combine effects in series or parallel—and add Kaleidoscopes’ ever-changing shapes and colors to your tracks.

2 independent modulation engines, series or parallel
Flanger, phaser, chorus, and tremolo effects per mod engine
Smart triggering reacts to your playing in real time
Select modulation source: input, sidechain, diverse waveshapes
Extend the effects with 5 analog tonal characters
Speed, Resonance, Width, Depth, Mix per modulation engine

Watch It in Action

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What Top Pros Are Saying

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Creative Modulation Playground
with Dynamic Triggering

Analog-Style Modulation Crafted from Classic Effects
Kaleidoscopes faithfully captures the glorious sound of flanging, chorusing, phasing, and tremolo, based on musician-favorite analog units, guitar pedals, and vintage tape FX—a “best of” collection of colorful analog-style modulation effects.
“Cascade” Your Sounds: Extra Ear Candy
Each of Kaleidoscopes’ two independent effects engines includes the full roster of 4 effects. “Cascade” the engines in series for deep, evolving sounds, or run parallel paths for ultra-wide stereo effects and imaging.