COLLAGE documentation

COLLAGE is a live glitch-processing instrument: audio runs forward through a reorderable rack of five stations while an always-on control plane moves their controls. There is no capture step and nothing to arm. These pages describe COLLAGE 0.1.0.

01 Getting started with COLLAGE What COLLAGE does, install on macOS and Windows, the window band by band, a ten-minute tour and the concepts in plain words. Start here. Read → 02 COLLAGE tutorials Seven hands-on sessions with real presets: one macro, the rack order, the input steering GRANULAR, the four macros, scenes, the VECTOR path and split lanes. Read → 03 COLLAGE technical guide The signal path, what each station does, the control plane, routing, determinism, latency, state and compatibility, formats and requirements. Read → 04 COLLAGE glossary of functions Every surface and control, every gesture, every parameter with its host name, and every control source. The reference to keep open. Read →

Current build

COLLAGE 0.1.0 · 336 factory presets.

PlatformFormatsRequiresInstaller
macOS Audio Unit, VST3, standalone app macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel (universal) COLLAGE-0.1.0.pkg — signed and notarized by Apple
Windows VST3, standalone app 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 COLLAGE-0.1.0-Windows-x64.exe — not yet publisher-signed

Quick orientation

  • Five stations, one direction. SPECTRAL, GRANULAR, MANGLE, TIME and PLEAT, in the order the cards show. Click a card to focus it, press PWR to power it, drag it to reorder the rack.
  • The apron is the focused station. Its group ladder seats two or three knobs at a time; the four amber macros play the whole rack.
  • Drag a chip onto a knob. The LFOs, the envelopes and the vector axes route by drag; the ROUTES inspector edits depth, range and combine mode.
  • A fresh insert is a patch. INIT loads on insert; the LIBRARY holds 336 factory presets and yours, as .clgpreset files.

Support

Questions and feedback: support@e8audiolabs.com. Include your DAW and its version, your operating system, the sample rate and buffer size, the plug-in format, the preset and what you did just before. A project that reproduces the problem is the most useful thing you can send.