Slate Digital Storch Filter — Mac download

If you have ever used a resonant low-pass to shape a synth line, Storch Filter takes that familiar sweep and pushes it much further. Developed with Scott Storch, it links an adjustable low pass filter to five built-in effects so the cutoff knob drives more than just the frequency curve.

One cutoff sweeps five effects at once

Turn the cutoff and you move through a chain of five effects—modulation, distortion, and spatial treatments among them—each locked to the same two controls. Resonance doesn't just add bite; it shifts the intensity of whatever processors sit in the signal path. The result is a single sweep that can narrow a beat into a telephone-like band, then open into a wide, textured hook without touching another plugin.

Keep the FX Boost slider under 30% while dialing

The FX Boost slider can run away from you. It raises the wet level of every linked effect at once, and a small nudge at high resonance can spike the output fast. Keep the slider below 30% while you dial in the cutoff, then bring it up in small increments.

Another trip-up is the autofilter LFO syncing. The six wave shapes include a random step shape that jumps unpredictably—great for texture, less so for a steady pulse. If the filter seems to ignore your host tempo, check whether the LFO rate is set to a free value instead of a note division. Two taps on the rate knob toggles the sync mode.

Preset browsing also needs a word. Scott Storch's presets are mix-ready but loud. Expect a 3–6 dB jump when loading them. Keep an eye on your channel meter, or insert a gain trim after the plugin in the chain.

Single cutoff with five linked effects vs. dual-filter sequencing

Soundtoys FilterFreak — FilterFreak gives you two independent filter modes with deep analog modelling and a step sequencer. Storch Filter replaces that dual-filter architecture with a single cutoff tied to five effects. The trade-off: FilterFreak offers surgical rhythm programming; Storch Filter offers faster musical movement with fewer moves.

Baby Audio Atoms — Atoms uses a physical modelling engine to generate unpredictable filter behaviour. It excels at organic, evolving textures. Storch Filter is less about randomness and more about performance: the LFO shapes are fixed, and everything responds to the same two knobs. Choose Atoms for sound design, Storch Filter for writing and arranging.

Kilohearts Filter Table — Filter Table lets you draw custom filter curves and modulate them freely. That flexibility comes at the cost of immediacy. Storch Filter doesn't offer custom shapes, but the built-in effect chain means a single sweep does what would take three or four stacked plugins in a Kilohearts setup.

Apple Silicon native build ends GUI stutter during filter sweeps

The 1.0.6 build runs natively on Apple Silicon, which matters for anyone pushing a mix past 80 tracks. Intel-based builds of earlier versions could stutter when the GUI redraws during autofilter sweeps; that friction is gone now. Loading times are shorter, and the plugin inserts without the Rosetta bridge step.

While the release notes for 1.0.6 are minimal, the ARM-native update also tidied the parameter readout in the host automation lanes. Previously, some DAWs displayed raw 0–1 values for the FX Boost slider. Now the readout matches the on-screen percentage, which makes drawing automation cleaner. If you automate filter sweeps with a 0.5 filter start point, the lane values are easier to interpret at a glance.

• New — Build 1.0.6.

• macOS 11 or later
• Apple Silicon