Caelum Audio’s Toyphonic Micraliser destroys your vocals and is totally not serious

Caelum Audio has just released a new free plugin, the Toyphonic Micraliser, alongside its International Joke Day sale. This follows on from other intentionally bad quality-sounding freebies like Dustbin and SUBscription.

The new plugin continues Caelum Audio’s trend of releasing freebies that are seemingly designed to poke fun at the music technology industry itself, including the industry’s love of jargon and overpromising on product features.

Touted as an “Apex Mic Modelling” tool, Caelum Audio explains that “if your singing sounds like a dying cat, this finally kills the cat”.

The plugin uses impulse responses to capture microphone and loudspeaker characteristics, except its timbres are those that recording artists would typically avoid – unless you’re looking to intentionally destroy your mic sound.

A quick listen to the plugin’s effects demonstrates its experimental approach to mic modelling, which, in the right hands, might result in some unique sounds.

As Caelum Audio also details on its website, its new joke plugin also has a plethora of other features to make your vocals sound worse: “Employ the service of modulation via the LFO, Sequencer & Envelope Follower to keep things moving, just because your music is flat and boring doesn’t mean the automation has to be too.” Additionally, users can find “15 ‘ethically’ locally sourced, organic presets… We even blessed you with a randomise button which is like infinite presets, how kind are we?!”

You can download Toyphonic Micraliser for yourself via Caelum Audio’s website – it’s available on both Windows and macOS, as well as iOS and iPadOS.

Learn more at Caelum Audio.