totem/ Magma
sound as matter
Original price was: €39.00.€29.00Current price is: €29.00.
Included in the TOTEM BUNDLE – 3 plugins / 1 ritual – Only €89 (was 127€)
Magma is an audio processor that grabs incoming audio and twists its presence throughout time, blends it with its past self, unravels its most recondite shades and controls its weight in space, creating everything in between dark drones, shimmery textures and weird percussive timbres.
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Magma is a little gem for blurring, vaporizing, and mutating samples, loops, and entire tracks.
Magma (like other K-Devices plugins) is one of those little gems of sound design that opens the doors to creativity. From subtle evolutions to drastic transformations, it’s a new discovery every time.
A crucible of searing hot audio exploration,
and a must for experimental audio…
Great stuff!
At the very crossroad between a micro-looper, a granular engine, a sustainer, and a sound warmer, Magma can squash your sounds with reverb-like, big shaking auras, or sprinkle air and make your lines ethereal.
Simply load Magma on your track and give your sounds a new identity.
Go Raw or Keep It Smooth
The RAW switch disables an envelope follower applied to the input by default. Set it ON for a sharpen sound, or OFF for a smooth texture.
Memories and Frozen Time
Choose how much persistent memories should be, and let Magma blend past with present; enable the freeze toggle for an organic infinite sustain.
SPEED
Set the playback speed of memories to harmonize the present with perfect and odd intervals.
Sculpt
Use the intuitive EQ section to boost/cut hi and low frequencies and get the perfect timbre for your texture.
Weight
We included a classic Mid/Side operator; you’ll love how it can sculpt the texture, giving weight or adding air to it!
2 Flavours: dark and light skin
Resizable GUI
In-GUI infos
Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter.
Magma is a sound processor with its very own character. Magic when paired with acoustic sounds, it can transfigure all kind of sources in unexpected ways: it will react differently, according to the input you feed it with. It can either magnify or disintegrate.
Magma can be molten lead, screaming metal, frozen wind.
You will handle Magma with care, paying attention on how each parameter acts, according to different contexts. Magma will carry your sound around unexplored territories.
How it works
Magma continuously records the incoming signal in a short buffer, it then plays back the content by blending different moments in time, creating a texture.
User can set the density and the persistence of the texture, that can sound as a reverb, an infinite sustain, or a sort of spectral shadow.
Several parameters let user sculpt the texture: an EQ section, a Temperature knob (a specifically designed distortion adds a noise-based amplitude modulation on higher values), and a Mid/Side knob to handle its weight in space.
Parameters Description
- Raw – Disable input envelope, sharpen incoming signal
- Memory – Remember audio from the past, blend it with the present
- Freeze – Freeze input, equal to Memory at 100%
- Size – Set buffer’s length, smaller values are dense
- Lo – Cut/boost low frequencies
- Hi – Cut/boost high frequencies
- Rate – Set playhead’s speed, alter pitch
- Mid/Side – Balance Mid/Side, alter stereo image to give weight/air
- Temperature – Apply distortion, higher values add amp modulation
- Wet – Set volume of processed signal
- Dry – Set volume of original signal
totem/ Series
Magma is the first plugin of totem/ series by K-Devices: unconventional audio effects coming in a compact format, easy to use, at a lower, convenient price.
Manual
System Requirements
Audio effect available as VST3 // Audio Unit // AAX
- Any 64 bits DAW compatible with VST3, Audio Unit, or AAX
- MacOS and Windows
| Format | VST, AAX, Audio Unit |
|---|---|
| OS | MacOS, Windows |
| Tool Type | Audio Effect |
10 reviews for Magma
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volpino (verified owner) –
Magma is a little gem for blurring, vaporizing, and mutating samples, loops, and entire tracks.
bcomnes (verified owner) –
Magma is the shizzle, I use the iOS version and it’s my go to tool for this type of effect for all types of sources. Don’t settle for wimpy soft synth output, give it a sonic boost, you won’t be disappointed.
Got value?? Magma iOS has a lot of ways to to “enhance” your sound at a pricepoint that’s unbeatable
stage1music (verified owner) –
Magma has become an unexpected asset in my horror scoring workflow. Its granular drift, subtle pitch smear, and time-based instability work less like a delay and more like an emotional corrosion tool. Paired with cleaner synths like FabFilter One, it helps transform basic sounds into evolving atmospheres full of unease and decay. For anyone working in experimental sound design or cinematic tension, Magma deserves a permanent place in your chain.
juandiegoperal (verified owner) –
Sometimes, as a composer, I wonder if a plugin is doing something that puts me on the wrong side of music creation. With K-Devices plugins, my internal answer has been no. Their tools empower us to experiment and modulate in ways that put us in control. Since discovering them, they’ve become a central part of my creative thinking.
brianwakil12 (verified owner) –
Like all of KDevices’ plugins Magma is a powerful effect processor. Any sound that gets fed into it comes out the other side fundamentally changed. While I’ve learned that it can be everything from subtle to bombastic I’ve been really enjoying the bombastic side of of the plugin. And I’ve yet to find a sound run through Magma that doesn’t open up endless lines of creativity. I’ve been experimenting with it for months now and have yet to feel like I have a handle on its potential.
doctorcton (verified owner) –
This effect tool is unique in that every setting has a place to be used. There will be times where less is more, and when the composition calls for it, “more” is definitely a lot more, since it really throws sound to the wall.
I have yet to unlock all it’s secrets, so i intend on doing just that, and make it it’s own instrument. Those are the plugins I love, because making something from zero input is that frontier that makes the unreal, real.
I look forward to any enhancements and updates that make this plugin even better.
dayjob (verified owner) –
Magma is a bit of a chameleon. sometimes a pitch-shifting reverb, other times a filtered buffer scraping audio against itself to make shaped noise that sort of ghosts the source. the mid/side panner adds yet more flexibility for splintering the output and placing it in the stereo field. add some automation to the parameters and it can really shred the input. excellent sound design tool.
pek_92 (verified owner) –
A crucible of searing hot audio exploration,
and a must for experimental audio…
Great stuff!
Paul Madsen (verified owner) –
I love the magic of this plugin. I don’t fully understand what is happening or fully understand what each element of the UI is doing but that doesn’t matter as tweaking this plugin results in magical outcomes… happy accidents you might say.
This is perfect for adding something unique to a sound, something you could not have imagined yourself, something that will take the listener somewhere they have never been before.
Truly special and magical effect. Love it!
Sébastien JEAN (verified owner) –
Magma (like other K-Devices plugins) is one of those little gems of sound design that opens the doors to creativity. From subtle evolutions to drastic transformations, it’s a new discovery every time.