Entity map: Deep Trip

Deep Trip, the maker

Deep Trip is an independent maker of audio plugins for Mac. It builds instruments, not utilities: no compressors, no equalizers, no emulations of classic hardware. Every release starts from material nobody planned to be musical and turns it into something playable, runs entirely on the musician’s own machine, and needs no account or cloud service.

What Deep Trip is

An independent maker of audio plugins for Mac.

What it builds

Instruments that do something unusual, not another take on a compressor, EQ or subtractive synth.

Who it is for

Producers who would rather start from something strange than from a preset.

Platform

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. Each instrument runs as a standalone app without a DAW, or as VST3 / Audio Unit inside a compatible DAW.

Catalogue

Four plugins, out now: Bardo (endless techno generator), Deep Trip Visions (music-reactive visualizer), Phason (physical-modelling synthesizer) and Rattle (physical drum machine). Each has a free 7-day trial download. The Deep Trip Bundle puts all four under one key: $69 at launch, then $129.

Where

deept.rip: download the free trials and buy the keys there.

Behind it

Pattern Void, an independent digital product studio.

Instruments

Four plugins, all out now. Each has its own page on deept.rip with a free download for Mac and a 7-day free trial. A Bardo key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.

• Deep Trip Bardo (https://deept.rip/bardo) — Bardo is an audio plugin for Mac that generates endless dark, hypnotic techno from nine layers — kick, bass, metal, hats, percussion, effects, spoken phrases, synth and sub — and mixes one track into the next like a DJ. It costs $39 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $79, with a 7-day free trial, and its key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions. Price: $39 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $79.
• Deep Trip Visions (https://deept.rip/visions) — Deep Trip Visions is an audio plugin for Mac that turns whatever plays through it — the master or any single track — into full-screen, music-reactive visuals, while the sound passes through untouched. It costs $19 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $29, with a 7-day free trial, and it comes free with a Bardo key. Price: $19 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $29 — or free with Bardo.
• Deep Trip Phason (https://deept.rip/phason) — Deep Trip Phason is a Mac synthesizer with a unique quasicrystal synthesis method. Its notes are vibrating crystals: their overtones break into shimmering clusters, and tones at the crystal’s edges glide through the gaps as the pattern turns. A second material, Breather, lets how hard you play move the pitch and the colour. It costs $29 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $59, with a 7-day free trial. Price: $29 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $59.
• Deep Trip Rattle (https://deept.rip/rattle) — Deep Trip Rattle is a Mac drum machine with a unique bead-chain synthesis method. Its drums are chains of beads: squeezed beads ring like tuned drums, loose ones clatter, and harder hits run faster and higher. It plays 790 grooves in 50 families built from real drummer patterns and can play every bar anew. It costs $24 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $39, with a 7-day free trial. Price: $24 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $39.

Visualizers

Deep Trip Visions ships 27 audio-reactive visual worlds, and Bardo has visualizers built in. Every one is driven by the musical parts it hears, not by a generic level meter, and any of them can fill the screen.

Fractal kaleidoscope

mandala, infinite zoom, crystal fractal flight

Living face

3D head, facial muscles on the tracks

Aurora storm

folded magnetic veils, luminous filaments, deep ice observatory

Chrome metaballs

liquid drum waves, bass-driven fusion, flowing interference silver

Circuit corridor

flight, circuit board, neon

Cymatic membrane

sculpted standing waves, persistent mineral grains, sculpted interference

Datamosh glitch

rgb split, broken signal, shifting shapes

Dividing cells

living colonies, membrane fusion, migrating nuclei, organic currents

Fractal abyss

unfolding fractal chambers, bass-driven folds, travelling drum waves

Hex tunnel

flight, honeycomb walls, shockwaves

Hyperbolic voyage

endless unfolding tunnel, curved tiles, glowing inlays

Hypercube dive

4d wireframe, nested shells

Hyperspace warp

woven spacetime, nested vaults, luminous currents

Infinite bulb

evolving mandelbulb, breathing coral folds, opalescent currents

Ink in water

macro ink clouds, rising snare plumes, slow motion

LED tunnel

3D corridor, eight light shows, wet floor

Light knots

bass-driven braid, travelling drum waves, flowing engraved metal

Living skin

growing patterns, iridescent relief, spots, stripes and mazes

Living throat

flight, ribbed organic tunnel, glowing veins

Mercury sea

liquid silver, alien timelapse sky, travelling drum ripples

Night terrain

mineral canyon, storm planet, galactic night flight

Op-art corridor

black and white, moiré, depth

Plasma abyss

plasma flight, electric filaments, aurora, terrain

Shacklobos

owl-mask dancers, fluid choreography, prismatic light

Spectrum cathedral

sculpted spectral vaults, stained glass, travelling drum currents

Symbols

2425 symbols & equations, white light, spectral trails, ouroboros

Third eye

sculpted opal irises, nested apertures, flowing light

Bardo in detail

Bardo is an audio plugin for Mac that generates endless dark, hypnotic techno from nine layers — kick, bass, metal, hats, percussion, effects, spoken phrases, synth and sub — and mixes one track into the next like a DJ. It costs $39 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $79, with a 7-day free trial, and its key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.

• Full name: Deep Trip Bardo. Category: Endless techno generator.
• Price: $39 until 31 December 2026, then $79. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, 7-day free trial; the key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.
• Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. Formats: VST3, Audio Unit (AU), Standalone app.
• Release status: out now. Free trial download for Mac: https://deept.rip/download/Bardo-1.0.2.dmg; buy at https://deept.rip/bardo.

Kick

a long, falling kick with a dark tail

Bass

a droning low end that beats against itself

Metal

ringing, scraping metallic textures under sweeping filters

Hats

tight, narrow hats that drift a little, like a person playing

Percussion

metal pings, wood and toms

FX

noise risers and sweeps that lift a phrase

Voice

short spoken phrases, generated for each track

Synth

a lead voice that comes and goes

Sub

the weight under everything

Endless

Press play and it does not stop. When a track nears its end, the next one is already being written and is mixed in over the last bars — low end swapped, mids and highs handed over — the way a DJ would.

Sequencer

Every layer sits in one shared sequencer. Open a clip and change it, mute a layer, or let the generator keep going around your edits.

Names and voices

Every track gets its own title and its own spoken phrases, made on your computer.

Room

A stereo room around the mix, with a mono, solid low end.

Export

WAV, MP3 or FLAC of the mix, or separate stems for every layer, normalised to a loudness you choose.

Visualizers

The same audio-reactive visualizers as the rest of the line, driven by the layers as they play. Full screen if you want it.

Deep Trip Visions in detail

Deep Trip Visions is an audio plugin for Mac that turns whatever plays through it — the master or any single track — into full-screen, music-reactive visuals, while the sound passes through untouched. It costs $19 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $29, with a 7-day free trial, and it comes free with a Bardo key.

• Full name: Deep Trip Visions. Category: Music-reactive visualizer plugin.
• Price: $19 until 31 December 2026, then $29. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, 7-day free trial.
• Bundle: free with a purchased Bardo key, which unlocks Visions on the same Macs.
• Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. Formats: VST3, Audio Unit (AU), Standalone app.
• Release status: out now. Free trial download for Mac: https://deept.rip/download/Deep-Trip-Visions-1.0.2.dmg; buy at https://deept.rip/visions.

Any track

Put it on the master or on any single track. The sound passes through exactly as it came in.

It listens

It hears the kick, bass, snare, hats, leads and air separately, plus builds, drops and silence, and every visual answers to those parts — not to a level meter.

In time

It follows your session tempo while the transport runs, and finds the tempo by ear when it does not.

Full screen

One key and the picture fills the screen — for a stream, a gig or a long night in the studio.

Rendering control

Visuals render while the window is open. Quality controls and an optional FPS display help you choose the right settings for your Mac.

Your favourites

Save favourite worlds from the bottom toolbar. Auto and Random can use only your favourites when you enable that option in settings.

Three reactions

Choose Flow, Ride or Hard: from gentle evolution to intense musical response.

Remembers

Your picture and settings are saved with the project and come back when you open it.

Deep Trip Phason in detail

Deep Trip Phason is a Mac synthesizer with a unique quasicrystal synthesis method. Its notes are vibrating crystals: their overtones break into shimmering clusters, and tones at the crystal’s edges glide through the gaps as the pattern turns. A second material, Breather, lets how hard you play move the pitch and the colour. It costs $29 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $59, with a 7-day free trial.

• Full name: Deep Trip Phason. Category: Physical-modelling synthesizer.
• Price: $29 until 31 December 2026, then $59. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, 7-day free trial. Not unlocked by Bardo or Visions keys; included in the Deep Trip Bundle.
• Materials: Crystal (quasicrystal chain) and Breather (nonlinear chain with breathers). 62 presets in eight families: keys, bells, plucks, bass, pads, drones, alien and percussion.
• No samples, wavetables or oscillators: every sound is the vibration of a modelled object.
• Physics background: Aubry and André (1980) quasiperiodic chains; Hofstadter (1976) butterfly spectrum; Avila and Jitomirskaya (2009) Ten Martini problem; Thouless (1983) and Cheng, Prodan and Prodan (Physical Review Letters, 2020) topological pumping; Flach and Gorbach (Physics Reports, 2008) discrete breathers.
• Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. Formats: VST3, Audio Unit (AU), Standalone app.
• Release status: out now. Free trial download for Mac: https://deept.rip/download/Phason-0.1.2.dmg; buy at https://deept.rip/phason.

Crystal

Every note is a small vibrating object: a chain of weights and springs laid out as a quasicrystal, a pattern that almost repeats but never quite does. The low overtones stay in tune like a string; the high ones break into clusters with silent gaps between them.

Phase and Flow

Turn the pattern along the chain and the tones that live at the crystal’s edges glide through those gaps, up or down. Flow keeps it turning by itself; the mod wheel pushes it further.

Breather

A second material whose springs stiffen or soften as they move. A hit gathers into a knot of energy that stays in one place and breathes, and how hard you play changes its pitch and its colour, the way a real object does.

Tame

Automatically softens harsh spots where overtones pile up and start to pierce the ear. It works by itself; an amber light shows when it is cutting.

62 presets

Keys, bells, plucks, bass, pads, drones, percussion and plainly alien sounds, across both materials.

A live map

The centre of the plugin shows the whole family of crystals and where your sound sits in it, with the chain itself moving under your notes.

Deep Trip Bundle in detail

The Deep Trip Bundle is all four Deep Trip audio plugins — Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle — under one licence key for Mac. It costs $69 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $129: a one-time purchase, one key for up to three Macs.

• Full name: Deep Trip Bundle. Category: All four instruments, one key. Page: https://deept.rip/bundle.
• Contents: Deep Trip Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Deep Trip Phason, Deep Trip Rattle.
• Price: $69 until 31 December 2026, then $129. One-time purchase.
• Compared with buying separately: Bardo, Phason and Rattle at their own prices come to $92 at launch and $177 after (Visions is already included in a Bardo key), so the bundle saves $23 at launch and $48 after.
• Licence: one key (prefix DTB-) activates all four instruments on up to 3 Macs; all four on one Mac use one place.
• Trial: no separate bundle trial; each instrument has its own 7-day free trial.
• Release status: out now; buy at https://deept.rip/bundle. Each instrument has its own free trial download.

Deep Trip Rattle in detail

Deep Trip Rattle is a Mac drum machine with a unique bead-chain synthesis method. Its drums are chains of beads: squeezed beads ring like tuned drums, loose ones clatter, and harder hits run faster and higher. It plays 790 grooves in 50 families built from real drummer patterns and can play every bar anew. It costs $24 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $39, with a 7-day free trial.

• Full name: Deep Trip Rattle. Category: Physical drum machine.
• Price: $24 until 31 December 2026, then $39. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, 7-day free trial. Not unlocked by Bardo or Visions keys; included in the Deep Trip Bundle.
• Drums: kick, snare, hat, open hat, tom, crash, ride — each a chain of beads. 24 kits, 790 grooves in 50 families across ten styles, built from 158 drummer-derived patterns and four rhythmic transformations.
• No samples or recorded drums: every hit is worked out fresh, so no two hits are identical.
• Physics background: Hertz (1882) contact of elastic solids; Nesterenko (1983; Dynamics of Heterogeneous Materials, 2001) the sonic vacuum; Chong, Porter, Kevrekidis and Daraio (Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017) granular crystals.
• MIDI: standard drum notes 36 kick, 38 snare, 42 hat, 46 open hat, 45 tom, 49 crash, 51 ride. In a host the grooves follow the session tempo and transport. Drag the current edited groove as an 8-bar MIDI clip, including velocities, Feel, Swing and Alive, or click MIDI to save. Turn off Play groove with host in the groove menu when driving Rattle from MIDI clips.
• Platform: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac. Formats: VST3, Audio Unit (AU), Standalone app.
• Release status: out now. Free trial download for Mac: https://deept.rip/download/Rattle-0.1.2.dmg; buy at https://deept.rip/rattle.

Bead chains

Each drum is a row of beads lying between two walls. A striker hits the first bead, the beads knock into each other, and what you hear is the chain pushing on the walls.

Press

Squeezed beads ring like a tuned drum. Loose beads have no ordinary speed of sound at all: a hit runs down the chain as a single wave whose speed grows with its force, and turns into a clatter.

24 kits

Kits are physics, not samples: glass beads, iron shot, seed pods, a coin jar, chain mail, a rain stick, mercury and more. Reshape any drum with its own knobs.

790 grooves

50 groove families across ten styles: 158 drummer-derived patterns plus Offbeat, Interlock, Turnaround and Broken variations. Feel keeps the original timing and dynamics, mapped into every new rhythm.

Alive and Feel

Alive plays every bar anew from the drummers’ own odds, so the beat never repeats exactly. Feel keeps their timing and dynamics, or puts everything dead on the grid.

Tame

An optional control for extreme settings. Defaults to zero to preserve the drums’ attack and ring. Turn it up to soften harsh spots; amber bars show when it works.

Drag MIDI

Drag the MIDI button onto a MIDI track in your DAW. The 8-bar clip includes your edited pattern, velocities, Feel, Swing and Alive. Click the button to save a MIDI file. To drive Rattle from MIDI clips, turn off Play groove with host in the groove menu.

Entities

Deep Trip

Maker of music-making instruments for Mac; the site deept.rip is its home. Four plugins are out now: Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle. The studio behind Deep Trip is Pattern Void.

Launch price

Until 31 December 2026: Bardo $39 (then $79), Deep Trip Visions $19 (then $29), Phason $29 (then $59), Rattle $24 (then $39), Deep Trip Bundle $69 (then $129). One-time purchases, no subscription.

Free trial

7 days on one Mac for each plugin, started with an email address inside the plugin. No card. When the Visions trial expires, the activation screen covers the visuals; audio keeps passing through unchanged.

Licence key

One key activates its instrument on up to 3 of the owner's Macs; a Mac is freed from the Activate window to move the key. Activation needs a connection; paid licences refresh automatically about every 7 days while online and carry a 60-day offline token. Trials end after 7 days.

Download

Each plugin page on deept.rip has a free download of the signed and notarized Mac installer (a .dmg); the trial is started from inside the plugin and a key is bought on the same page.

Bardo

Bardo is an audio plugin for Mac that generates endless dark, hypnotic techno from nine layers — kick, bass, metal, hats, percussion, effects, spoken phrases, synth and sub — and mixes one track into the next like a DJ. It costs $39 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $79, with a 7-day free trial, and its key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.

Deep Trip Visions

Deep Trip Visions is an audio plugin for Mac that turns whatever plays through it — the master or any single track — into full-screen, music-reactive visuals, while the sound passes through untouched. It costs $19 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $29, with a 7-day free trial, and it comes free with a Bardo key.

Visions bundle

A purchased Bardo key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions on the same Macs, at no extra cost. Trial keys do not.

Deep Trip Bundle

The Deep Trip Bundle is all four Deep Trip audio plugins — Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle — under one licence key for Mac. It costs $69 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $129: a one-time purchase, one key for up to three Macs.

Bundle key

A Deep Trip Bundle key (prefix DTB-) activates all four instruments: Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle. It works on up to 3 Macs, and all four on one Mac use one of the three places. The bundle has no separate trial; each instrument has its own 7-day trial.

Endless mode

Bardo writes the next track while the current one plays and mixes it in over the last bars, swapping the low end like a DJ.

Deep Trip Phason

Deep Trip Phason is a Mac synthesizer with a unique quasicrystal synthesis method. Its notes are vibrating crystals: their overtones break into shimmering clusters, and tones at the crystal’s edges glide through the gaps as the pattern turns. A second material, Breather, lets how hard you play move the pitch and the colour. It costs $29 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $59, with a 7-day free trial.

Phason synthesis

Unique quasicrystal synthesis: spectral gaps, topological edge tones and nonlinear breathers in one instrument.

Crystal material

The default material of Phason: a vibrating chain laid out as a quasicrystal, a pattern that is ordered but never repeats. Its low overtones stay in tune; its high overtones gather into clusters separated by silent gaps (the Hofstadter butterfly family of spectra).

Edge tones

In Phason, single tones that live at the edges of the crystal and glide through the spectral gaps when the pattern is turned with the Phase and Flow controls (topological pumping).

Breather material

The second material of Phason: a nonlinear chain in which a hit gathers into a localized, pulsing knot of energy (a discrete breather); playing force changes pitch and colour.

Deep Trip Rattle

Deep Trip Rattle is a Mac drum machine with a unique bead-chain synthesis method. Its drums are chains of beads: squeezed beads ring like tuned drums, loose ones clatter, and harder hits run faster and higher. It plays 790 grooves in 50 families built from real drummer patterns and can play every bar anew. It costs $24 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $39, with a 7-day free trial.

Rattle synthesis

Unique bead-chain synthesis: seven modelled granular-chain drums, shaped by pressure, weight and impact.

Optional usage reports

Off by default. A fresh opt-in shares usage, hardware and aggregated performance with Deep Trip; Visions adds favourite scenes and FPS. No audio, projects or track names are uploaded.

Bead chain

The sound source of every Rattle drum: elastic beads between two walls that only push, never pull; squeezed they ring like a tuned drum, loose they clatter.

Sonic vacuum

A loose chain of touching beads that carries no ordinary sound, only solitary waves whose speed grows with the force of the hit. Rattle's Press control moves between this state and a tuned drum.

Tame

A feature of Phason and Rattle that automatically softens harsh, piercing spots where overtones pile up. Adjustable. Rattle defaults to zero to preserve attack and ring; Phason keeps its existing default.

Pattern Void

Independent digital product studio, developer of Deep Trip. Website patternvo.id.

deept.rip

Official website of Deep Trip and its instruments: Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason, Rattle and the Deep Trip Bundle. The plugins are downloaded and bought there.

Living face

A visual world in Deep Trip Visions: a real-time 3D head whose jaw, blinks and expression are driven by the drums, bass and leads.

Visualizer preset

One of the 27 audio-reactive visual worlds in Deep Trip Visions; can be held, cycled or randomised.

Comparisons

Deep Trip vs a conventional plugin developer

Most developers compete on doing a known job better: a cleaner equalizer, a warmer saturator, a more accurate emulation. Deep Trip only ships instruments that have no obvious equivalent, and none of them are mixing utilities.

Deep Trip vs a sample-pack label

A label sells recordings. Deep Trip instruments generate their sound as you play — physical models and generators — giving you physical instruments and editable arrangements to shape into your own music.

Deep Trip vs an AI music service

AI services render finished audio on a server from a text prompt. Deep Trip ships desktop instruments that run offline, produce an editable session and never send audio anywhere.

Who it is not for

• Windows, Linux and Intel Mac users: there is no build. An Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later is required.
• Anyone who wants a finished song with no editing.
• Anyone who needs source code: no Deep Trip plugin is open source.

Questions and answers

Do I need a DAW to use Deep Trip?

No. Bardo, Visions, Phason and Rattle each include a standalone Mac app: open the app and use it without a DAW. Every download also includes VST3 and Audio Unit plugins for DAWs that support those formats, such as Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Bitwig, Reaper, FL Studio and Studio One. Both ways of working are included in the same licence and free trial.

What is Deep Trip?

Deep Trip is an independent maker of audio plugins for Mac. It builds instruments that do something unusual rather than another compressor, EQ or subtractive synth. Four are out now: Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle.

What kind of plugins does Deep Trip make?

Instruments, not utilities. The common thread is starting from something nobody planned to be musical — a crystal, a chain of beads, an empty session — and turning it into something playable. Deep Trip does not make mixing tools, channel strips or emulations of classic hardware.

Who is Deep Trip for?

Producers who get stuck staring at an empty session, and anyone who would rather begin with something strange than with a factory preset. It is aimed at people who like being surprised by their own source material.

What has Deep Trip released?

Four plugins, all out now: Bardo generates endless dark, hypnotic techno and mixes it like a DJ; Deep Trip Visions turns any track into full-screen, music-reactive visuals; Phason is a synthesizer played on vibrating crystals; Rattle is a drum machine made of bead chains. Each page on deept.rip has a free 7-day trial download for Mac and a buy button.

Will there be more Deep Trip instruments?

Yes. Deep Trip is the name on a line of instruments, not a single product. Bardo, Visions, Phason and Rattle are the first four; the next ones are announced on deept.rip.

Does Deep Trip make plugins for Windows?

No. Deep Trip plugins run only on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later, as VST3, Audio Unit and a standalone app. There is no Windows, Linux or Intel Mac build.

Which Deep Trip plugins are there?

Four, all out now. Bardo ($39 at launch, then $79) is an endless techno generator. Deep Trip Visions ($19 at launch, then $29) is a music-reactive visualizer you put on any track. Phason ($29 at launch, then $59) is a synthesizer played on vibrating crystals and breathing matter. Rattle ($24 at launch, then $39) is a drum machine made of bead chains. Each has a 7-day free trial, and Visions comes free with a Bardo key. The Deep Trip Bundle puts all four under one key for $69 at launch, then $129.

Who is behind Deep Trip?

Pattern Void, an independent digital product studio that builds and runs its own products. Deep Trip is its music-software line. Contact: info@deept.rip.

How is Deep Trip different from other plugin developers?

Most developers compete on doing a known job better — a cleaner EQ, a warmer saturator, a more accurate emulation. Deep Trip only ships instruments that have no obvious equivalent, and everything runs locally with no account and no cloud service.

Is there a Deep Trip bundle?

Yes. The Deep Trip Bundle is all four instruments — Bardo, Deep Trip Visions, Phason and Rattle — under one licence key. It costs $69 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $129. Buy it on deept.rip/bundle and the key arrives by email right after payment.

How much do I save with the Deep Trip Bundle?

Bought one by one, all four cost $92 at launch and $177 after: Bardo, Phason and Rattle at their own prices, with Visions already included in a Bardo key. The bundle is $69 and then $129, so it saves $23 at launch and $48 after.

How does the Deep Trip Bundle key work?

One key activates every Deep Trip instrument. Open any of them, choose Activate and paste the bundle key. It works on up to 3 of your Macs, and all four instruments on one Mac use one of those three places. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Is there a free trial of the bundle?

Each instrument in the bundle has its own 7-day free trial, started from inside that instrument with your email. The bundle itself has no separate trial: try the ones you want, then buy the bundle key to unlock all four.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, for every Deep Trip plugin. Start the trial with your email from inside the plugin and you get the full instrument for 7 days on one Mac. No card is asked for. When the trial ends, buy a key to keep using it; your projects stay where they are.

What does the licence cover?

One key is yours for good and activates its instrument on up to 3 of your Macs. To move to a new one, free an old one from the Activate window and use the key there. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Why are prices lower now and higher later?

Deep Trip instruments launch at a lower price until 31 December 2026: Bardo $39 (then $79), Visions $19 (then $29), Phason $29 (then $59), Rattle $24 (then $39), and the bundle of all four $69 (then $129). A key bought at the launch price is the same full licence.

What happens on 1 January 2027?

The launch prices end and the regular prices apply. Keys bought before that keep working exactly the same, with no expiry.

Will it run on my Intel Mac?

No. On Mac, Deep Trip plugins are built only for Apple Silicon. On an Intel Mac they will not install or load, and there is no Rosetta path, because the builds are arm64 only.

How do I know which Mac I have?

Open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. If the chip line starts with Apple M, Deep Trip plugins run. If it names an Intel processor, they do not.

Is there a Windows version?

No. Deep Trip plugins run only on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Which DAWs work with Deep Trip plugins?

Any host that loads VST3 or Audio Unit plugins, including Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Bitwig, Reaper, FL Studio and Studio One — natively on an Apple Silicon Mac. Each download also includes a standalone Mac app, so no DAW is required.

Where do I download Deep Trip plugins?

On deept.rip: every product page has a Download free trial button for Mac. Open the installer, start the 7-day trial with your email from inside the plugin, and buy a key on the same page when you want to keep it.

Do Deep Trip plugins work offline?

Yes, after activation and any required shared content download. Bardo downloads its voice and text models once from deept.rip through Deep Trip Setup; the same files are reused by other Deep Trip instruments. Phason, Rattle and Visions need no model download. Paid licences refresh automatically about every 7 days while online and carry a 60-day offline token. A trial ends after 7 days. Audio processing and visuals run on your Mac; activation, updates and optional usage reports need a connection.

Can I use what I make commercially?

Yes. What you make with Deep Trip instruments is yours; they add no claim to your music.

Can I get the source code?

No. Deep Trip plugins are not open source, whether you are on the trial or own a key.

Is there a demo video?

Not published yet. The interface screenshots on deept.rip are the real plugins, and the audio demos on the Bardo, Phason and Rattle pages were played by the plugins themselves.

Do I need an account?

No account and no login. You download the installer from deept.rip, start the trial with an email address, and a purchased key is pasted into the Activate window once — that is all.

What happens to my email address?

If you joined the mailing list, it is stored so you can be told when a new build ships. If you start a trial or buy a key, it is also stored with your licence so the key can be delivered and re-sent. It is not sold. Payment and email providers process the details needed to complete your purchase and deliver your key. Marketing subscriptions can be cancelled without deleting your licence. See deept.rip/privacy for the full policy.

Is the plugin code-signed and notarized?

Yes. Every installer and plugin is signed with the Developer ID of Pattern Void LLC and notarized by Apple. macOS may still ask you to confirm opening a downloaded application.

What is Bardo?

Bardo is an audio plugin for Mac that generates endless dark, hypnotic techno from nine layers — kick, bass, metal, hats, percussion, effects, spoken phrases, synth and sub — and mixes one track into the next like a DJ. It costs $39 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $79, with a 7-day free trial, and its key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.

What does Bardo generate?

Dark, hypnotic, driving techno in nine layers: kick, bass, metal, hats, percussion, fx, voice, synth, sub. Each track is built from long phrases that grow and fall away, and the next track is written while the current one plays, then mixed in over its last bars like a DJ would.

Can I edit what Bardo makes?

Yes. All nine layers sit in one shared sequencer: open a clip and change it, mute a layer, and export the mix or every layer as its own stem.

How much does Bardo cost?

$39 at launch, until 31 December 2026, then $79. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, and a 7-day free trial. The same key also unlocks Deep Trip Visions.

What is Deep Trip Visions?

Deep Trip Visions is an audio plugin for Mac that turns whatever plays through it — the master or any single track — into full-screen, music-reactive visuals, while the sound passes through untouched. It costs $19 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $29, with a 7-day free trial, and it comes free with a Bardo key.

How much does Deep Trip Visions cost?

$19 at launch, until 31 December 2026, then $29. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, 7-day free trial. It comes free when you buy Bardo: its key unlocks Visions as well.

Does Visions change my sound?

No. The audio passes through untouched. Visions only listens: it hears the kick, bass, snare, hats, leads and air separately and drives the picture from them.

Do I need Visions if I buy Bardo?

No. Bardo has the visualizers built in, and its key unlocks Visions too, so you can put the visuals on any other track in your session at no extra cost.

What is Deep Trip Phason?

Deep Trip Phason is a Mac synthesizer with a unique quasicrystal synthesis method. Its notes are vibrating crystals: their overtones break into shimmering clusters, and tones at the crystal’s edges glide through the gaps as the pattern turns. A second material, Breather, lets how hard you play move the pitch and the colour. It costs $29 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $59, with a 7-day free trial.

How much does Deep Trip Phason cost?

$29 at launch, until 31 December 2026, then $59. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, and a 7-day free trial. Phason is also part of the Deep Trip Bundle.

How is Phason different from other synthesizers?

Most synths start from oscillators or recordings. In Phason every note is a small vibrating object, a chain of weights and springs, and the knobs change the object itself. In its Crystal material that chain is a quasicrystal, so the overtones fall into clusters with gaps between them and edge tones glide through the gaps as the pattern turns. Phason’s unique synthesis method brings quasicrystal spectral gaps, topological edge tones and nonlinear breathers together in one playable instrument.

What is a quasicrystal, and why does it sound different?

A quasicrystal is a pattern that is perfectly ordered but never repeats exactly, like a Penrose tiling. When the springs of a vibrating chain follow such a pattern, its overtones stop forming an even ladder and gather into shimmering clusters separated by silent gaps. Physicists draw that family of spectra as the Hofstadter butterfly; Phason shows it live in the centre of the plugin.

What does the Breather material do?

Breather makes the chain nonlinear: its springs stiffen or soften as they move. A hit then gathers into a knot of energy that stays in one place and breathes, a breather in physicists’ terms. How hard you play changes not only the volume but the pitch and the colour, as with a real struck object. Pitch Lock keeps notes in tune when you want them to be.

Does Phason use samples or wavetables?

No. There are no samples, wavetables or oscillators inside. Every sound is the vibration of the modelled object, worked out as you play.

What is Tame in Phason and Rattle?

A built-in safeguard against the main problem of raw physical synthesis: overtones piling up into piercing, ear-tiring spots. Tame finds those spots by itself and softens them, with no setup. You can turn it up, down or off. Rattle defaults to zero to preserve attack and character; Phason keeps its existing default.

What is Deep Trip Rattle?

Deep Trip Rattle is a Mac drum machine with a unique bead-chain synthesis method. Its drums are chains of beads: squeezed beads ring like tuned drums, loose ones clatter, and harder hits run faster and higher. It plays 790 grooves in 50 families built from real drummer patterns and can play every bar anew. It costs $24 at launch (until 31 December 2026), then $39, with a 7-day free trial.

How much does Deep Trip Rattle cost?

$24 at launch, until 31 December 2026, then $39. One-time purchase, one key for up to 3 Macs, and a 7-day free trial. Rattle is also part of the Deep Trip Bundle.

How does Rattle make its drums without samples?

Each drum is a chain of beads between two walls. A striker hits the first bead, the beads knock into each other, and the sound is the chain pushing on the walls. Squeezed beads ring like a tuned drum; loose beads have no ordinary speed of sound, so a hit travels as a single wave whose speed grows with its force and breaks into a clatter. Every hit is worked out fresh, so no two are identical.

Where do Rattle’s grooves come from?

790 grooves in 50 families are built from 158 drummer-derived patterns and four rhythmic transformations: Offbeat, Interlock, Turnaround and Broken. Feel keeps the source timing and dynamics; Alive varies every bar. Edit any hit in the grid, use left/right for variations and up/down for families, then drag the groove into your DAW as an 8-bar MIDI clip.

Can I play Rattle from my own MIDI?

Yes. Standard drum notes play the seven drums: 36 kick, 38 snare, 42 hat, 46 open hat, 45 tom, 49 crash and 51 ride. Inside a DAW the built-in grooves follow the session tempo and transport.

Is Rattle unique?

Yes. Rattle has a unique bead-chain synthesis method: each of its seven drums is a modelled granular chain. Pressure, bead weights and striker force shape every hit, from tuned ringing to loose clatter. Its 790 grooves in 50 families carry drummer-derived timing and dynamics into that physical sound engine.

Who is Pattern Void?

An independent digital product studio that builds and runs its own products. Deep Trip is its music-software line. More at patternvo.id.

How do I report a bug or ask something?

Email info@deept.rip. It is read by the people who build it.

Will there be updates?

Yes. New builds are published on deept.rip, and your key keeps working across updates.