Character & Texture
Your beat is too clean.
Lo-fi isn't a vague vibe — it's bit-depth reduction, vinyl scratches, cassette wear, mains hum, tape wow and flutter, each one a real, separate degradation. GhostInTheMachine gives every one of them its own knob, in one rack.
One-time purchase. No subscription. Or try every feature free for 14 days — no account, no card.
Broken Media, On Demand
Pick your flavor of broken.
Real, shipped controls — not one vague "lo-fi" wash.
Bit crush + rate reduction
Bit-depth reduction down to 4 bits and vintage-sampler rate reduction, with a filter choice that goes from full harsh-artifact chaos to clean vintage crunch. See Lo-Fi →
A whole junk shop of media wear
Vinyl scratches, cassette wear, mains hum at 50 or 60 Hz, disc warp and five noise characters from white to radio static — every degradation is a separate knob.
Tape's magnetic memory
Magnetic saturation with the tape's real magnetic memory (hysteresis), plus wow and flutter linked by a Motion Link control so they move like one physical transport. See Tape →
A modeled Speaker stage
Telephone, AM radio, cassette deck, small speaker — the Speaker stage lives right inside Lo-Fi, no separate cab-sim plugin required.
18 saturation drive types
From Clean Warmth to outright Destroy, plus a Wavefold shape for buzzy, synth-like harmonics — eighteen drive types in one module. See Saturation →
One rack, reorderable
Lo-Fi, Tape and Saturation live in the same reorderable chain as everything else — stack them, reorder them, and dial each degradation independently.
A Whole Machine, Not Just A Squash
Wow, flutter and dropouts that move like one real transport.
Tape models the whole machine: magnetic saturation with real hysteresis, three tape speeds, and a transport that can decay as far as you dare.
- Real magnetic memory (hysteresis) — the actual behavior of tape, not just distortion.
- Motion Link makes wow and flutter move like one real transport.
- Age, dropouts and head tilt (azimuth) take it from mint to found-footage.
Heat & Color
Eighteen drives from warmth to annihilation.
Saturation is the deepest color stage in the rack — tape, tube, console, transformer and diode emulations through soft and hard clipping, fuzz, bit crush and outright Destroy.
- 18 drive algorithms — one module covers warmth to annihilation.
- Dynamic and Memory modes make the drive respond to the playing.
- Multiband drive, feedback and transient ducking for surgical filth.
The Loop
Load. Turn a knob. Broken.
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Drop the module in
Add Lo-Fi, Tape or Saturation anywhere in the reorderable rack.
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Dial the degradation
Bit depth, media wear, transport instability, drive character — each a separate control.
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Or let GhostMode do it
Moods like Vinyl, Tape and Mangle build a full character chain from one knob.
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Bounce it
A beat that sounds like it came off a dusty record, not a clean export.
No Studio Budget Required
Lo-Fi, Tape and Saturation ship with every license.
All three are standard modules in the 38-module rack — no add-on, no separate purchase. GhostMode's offline analysis is free forever too.
- Offline analysis is free forever — no AI, no credits, no account.
- 14-day free trial: every feature unlocked, no account or card needed.
- One-time purchase: no subscription, ever.
14 days. Everything unlocked.
3 AI credits included so you can hear what the AI layer does with your own beat before you decide.
Stop sounding too clean.
Download GhostInTheMachine for macOS and let the ghost rough it up.
No account, no card. 14 days, 3 AI credits. Activates inside the plugin.