and your fav FSU auv3 is...?

waka_x

and your fav FSU auv3 is...?
and why.:)

thank you.

uncledave

Gee. 'Round here, FSU is Florida State University. Could you possibly clarify your interpretation of this TLA (Three-Letter Acronym)?

waka_x

In the context of sound and music, FSU is an informal acronym that stands for:

"F* S*** Up"**

What it means:
FSU refers to extreme, chaotic, and experimental sound processing — often pushing audio into glitchy, distorted, or unpredictable territory. It’s a term commonly used in:

Guitar pedals (e.g. glitch, stutter, loopers, pitch manglers)

Modular synth patches

Digital audio effects or plugins that heavily alter or destroy the original sound

Typical features of "FSU" gear:
Feedback loops

Granular shredding

Bitcrushing, sample rate reduction

Random pitch shifts or time warping

Audio-rate modulation

"Accidents" encouraged — unpredictability is a feature

Example usage:
"That Drolo pedal is total FSU — turn a drum loop into a digital blender."

offbrands

The go-to when I’m not feeling particularly inspired by something I’ve spent a lot of time on, is to throw one of these or a chain of them and find if that can bring some inspiration out of it.

Needless to say, I’ve gotten my fair share of usage with all of these 😉😅

Audiothing / Hainbach - Arguments

Beepstreet - Drambo, Combuster

Apesoft - idensity

Imaginando - GRFX

Bram Bos / Jakob Haq - Solderbox,

Bram Bos / Hainbach - Skulptur

Squishy

Glitchscaper
Fieldscaper
ALL THE SCAPERS!!

jwmmakerofmusic

Turnado, Effectrix, and other recommendations above. Although when I did FSU in Cubasis 3 for "Splat" (my DnB track), I committed to audio and edited everything by hand. 😂

yellow_eyez

Turnado

Philandering_Bastard

BeatCutter

Samu

K-Devices Shaper 2

pedro

A couple more:
Beepstreet combustor
Bram Bos Woot and Hilda as an fx processor

waka_x

mine:

Unfiltered Audio SILO
Dedalus by Amazing Noises

Gavinski

@waka_x said:
mine:

Unfiltered Audio SILO
Dedalus by Amazing Noises

I was just about to write Dedalus, it's a great one for that. In general, for this kind of thing, I'd usually use combos of plugins rather than any particular swiss army knife ones. Bitjuggler is another app that springs to mind. Any number of Audiothing plugins could find their way in to the session too, Arguments would be a good one, as would Wavebox. Maybe Soundsaw, using some external LFOs or combined with an envelope follower. There are just so many options in this category, hehe

waka_x

thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

offbrands

@waka_x said:
mine:

Unfiltered Audio SILO
Dedalus by Amazing Noises

Admittedly haven’t dug far enough into SILO but I hear nothing but good things about it

Also adding Baby Audio’s recent iOS releases

• Humanoid
• BA-1 FX Strip 🤘🏽

Gavinski

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

offbrands

@Gavinski said:

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

I can’t recall if you’re versed in Drambo but there’s a few ways to achieve that

That feedback video sounds dope btw! 🤘🏽

Gavinski

@offbrands said:

@Gavinski said:

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

I can’t recall if you’re versed in Drambo but there’s a few ways to achieve that

That feedback video sounds dope btw! 🤘🏽

I am not well versed in Drambo, maybe some day haha. AUM is the only host app I'm super familiar with. I'm still curious which other hosts can do it tho, so thanks

offbrands

@Gavinski said:

@offbrands said:

@Gavinski said:

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

I can’t recall if you’re versed in Drambo but there’s a few ways to achieve that

That feedback video sounds dope btw! 🤘🏽

I am not well versed in Drambo, maybe some day haha. AUM is the only host app I'm super familiar with. I'm still curious which other hosts can do it tho, so thanks

That video does a really good job at showing all the modules and the LFO being played like an instrument essentially. Really inspiring stuff to me evidently 😅

waka_x

Gavinski:
easy doing feedback also in miRack.
and is somehow a host.

PapaBPoppin

@Gavinski said:

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

Oooo yeah, do a vid about that please! I've been seeing various threads about feedback looping in various ways, but don't know exactly what it is lol

And already having access to the tools to do it (AUM, here) will benefit my understanding from the jump greatly!

(I'm sure there are other vids available explaining it in various ways and explanations, but being able to follow along and actually do it WITH the video helps lock it in for me. I also really dig Gavs style of info presentation)

id_23

You got most of ‘em…!
I echo Dedalus…(Moebius Lab too)
Dustbin, Magma, Dynabit…
& all the granulars!
🚮 🙌

offbrands

@PapaBPoppin said:

@Gavinski said:

@waka_x said:
thanks to all for sharing their ideas.
Gav: yep - one can share a combo/technique too, not only a plug!:)
for sure there are infinite combinations:)

The obvious technique would be to do feedback loops in a host like AUM that allows you to do those. I've been thinking about making a vid on that actually. Out of curiosity - any other iOS hosts allow you to do that kind of feedback routing?

Oooo yeah, do a vid about that please! I've been seeing various threads about feedback looping in various ways, but don't know exactly what it is lol

And already having access to the tools to do it (AUM, here) will benefit my understanding from the jump greatly!

(I'm sure there are other vids available explaining it in various ways and explanations, but being able to follow along and actually do it WITH the video helps lock it in for me. I also really dig Gavs style of info presentation)