Polyphonic.
The straight read.
Every loaded slot fires at once, each voice independently randomized — rich, stacked, full-bodied. Your samples as a living chord.
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The interface.
audiotoad · VST3 · sample randomizer & blender
Drop a sample. Grow a living texture.
Drop in samples, pick a pathway. Bufonidae turns ordinary audio into evolving, living textures — every knob sets a per-voice randomization range, a chord-aware tonality engine keeps it musical, and The Bog drowns it as deep as you dare.
Listen
Same source, four ways. Press play — every clip is one sample fed through Bufonidae.
Four pathways
One well of samples, four pathways. Each one reshapes your audio in a completely different way.
The straight read.
Every loaded slot fires at once, each voice independently randomized — rich, stacked, full-bodied. Your samples as a living chord.
Crown one, scatter the rest.
Crown one slot the lead — it plays your key dead-on while the flock fires fully randomized around it, per note or per chord.
Grow it, then let it wander.
Slots enter one at a time across a ramp you set — seconds, bars, or sample-length — in random, slot, or hand-built order. Then the texture keeps evolving on its own: playhead jumps, pan drift, shimmer.
A thousand tiny lights.
Grains 20–500 ms long blink in and out, 3–40 per second — free-running, or synced to your DAW from 8 bars down to 1/64, straight, dotted, or triplet.
Randomize · Blend
Drag up to ten samples into the well — WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg, MP3 and more. Bufonidae detects each one's root to the cent (or mark it RAW and drums play exactly as recorded), trims with click-free fades, and re-rolls pitch, pan, level, envelope and echo per voice. Hit the dice for a brand-new texture — Ctrl+Z if the toad overreaches.
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PITCH · PAN · VOL · ATK · DEC · REL · DLY · FBK · REV · TRN · BASS. Every knob sets a per-voice randomization range, not a fixed value — turn one up and every voice rolls its own.
Atonal, Tonal, or MIDI. Pick a root and one of twelve chords — GLIDE bends sustaining voices into every new change, and the keys you hold re-shape the chord live.
A murky plate reverb on the whole output — SIZE runs from a small pond to an endless swamp, and DRIFT adds slow, autonomous motion so the texture never sits still.
OUT meters with peak hold and a clip light — plus a living, audio-reactive organism in the pond that grows, drifts, and goes dormant with your playing.
Workflow
Dice-roll new textures with undo, A/B two states, and record takes inside the plugin — then drag them straight into your DAW. Save and recall your own presets; a factory bank lands later as a free update.
In motion
The pond is a living, audio-reactive organism — here it is, moving.
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Specs
Get it
Bufonidae — US$29.99. One-time purchase, instant download, free updates.
Buy Bufonidae — US$29.99VST3 · Windows 10 / 11 · royalty-free