Sauceware Audio Scorch 2 — Mac download

Generate basslines and leads

The chord-grid MIDI sequencer builds melodies, bass patterns, and lead lines without touching a keyboard. It turns a simple chord progression into a full arrangement on its own instrument track.

Shape the sample engine

Assign LFOs and envelopes to the sound sources from the sampler page. This is where you add movement to a static sample, making it sit tighter in a busy mix.

Dirty up a return bus

Send a clean signal to the effects page and blend in the tape echo, distortion, and chorus. It works as a dedicated colour box when you keep the direct sample level low.

Rosetta rescue for Apple Silicon scan failures

Plugin fails to scan on an Apple Silicon Mac. Open your DAW under Rosetta once for the initial validation. After that the AU or VST3 will appear natively. This is the most frequent hiccup with version 1.0.4.

Preset loader shows empty banks. The content folder landed somewhere unexpected. Look inside /Library/Application Support/Sauceware Audio/Scorch 2/ and point the browser there manually from the gear menu if the installer missed it.

MIDI sequencer plays out of sync. Check that your DAW sends transport to the plugin. The internal sequencer relies on host clock; without it, notes drift after a few bars. A quick toggle of the Sync button in the chord grid fixes the handshake.

Chaos control makes everything too wild. Dial it back to about 12 o'clock and assign it only to one destination—say, filter cutoff or sample start—instead of the default four. A little Chaos goes far on a lead line.

Disk space warning on install. The plugin asks for a full 10 GB during expansion even if the final library is smaller. Clear some breathing room, run the installer, then reclaim the slack afterwards.

Chaos knob tempts, then betrays

Booting Scorch 2 on an M1 MacBook Air, you drop the VST3 onto a fresh instrument track in Logic. The main page loads a clean sine-wave preset. You flick the Chaos knob to two o'clock and immediately pull it back—too much pitch wobble for a tight hi-hat pattern you have in mind.

You open the sampler page, drag a dusty Rhodes sample from the browser into slot A, and assign Envelope 1 to amplitude. A short decay tidies the tail. LFO 2 goes to pan, slow and narrow, so the Rhodes breathes across the stereo field without distracting.

The chord grid catches your eye. You tap in a four-bar progression—Am7, Dm9, G13, Cmaj7—and set the pattern generator to “Bass.” Scorch 2 spits out a syncopated low-end line. You lower the note range by an octave and switch to a round, sub-heavy sample in slot B. It locks against the kick pattern you already had running in the arrangement.

Over on the effects page, you keep the dry signal loud and send only slot A through the tape echo. Feedback at 30 percent, time synced to dotted eighths. The result is a warm, repeating smear behind the Rhodes that never overwhelms the phrase. A touch of the distortion module, gain just above nine o'clock, adds edge to the echo repeats without turning them fizzy. You save the whole setup as a new user preset and drop it onto two other sections of the track, swapping the chord grid each time for variety.

• macOS 10.11 or newer
• Intel and Apple Silicon native support
• 10 GB free disk space
• English interface