Anima: Sampler Instrument by Sequins for Field Recordings

Anima's core is eight resonant harmonic filters, each with its own gain, pan, mute and solo. Shaping these filters changes which partials of a recording sound, turning texture into a held, pitched voice.

The material selector sets how those harmonics are arranged. String, Membrane, Bar, Plate and Bell use harmonic ratios based on acoustic physics. The three Noise materials shape noise in a vocoder-like way, so clicks and taps can come out as hats, shakers and breaths.

The Life knob makes each harmonic drift independently, from slow, tape-like wow to fast flutter, so held chords move and wander rather than sitting still.

Live capture records audio straight from your DAW into the sample buffer, so you can work without bouncing files. Transient snap marks detected attacks on the waveform and moves the loop start to the nearest hit.

MPE support adds scale-aware per-note pitch bend that stays on the correct semitone, with pressure controlling amplitude. The plugin includes 72 scale modes, from Major and minor to Hijaz, Pelog, Darbari and Ethiopian Tezeta, with per-slot transposition by scale degree.

Tuning options cover concert pitch from A=400 to 480 Hz, including 432, 415 (Baroque) and 444 presets. Polyphony is configurable at 1, 4, 8, 12 or 16 voices.