$15 $20
Introductory Launch Pricing
MEOW included free with every plugin purchase.
Buy for Windows $15
macOS build: Audio Unit (AU) plus VST3, 64-bit. Not compatible with Pro Tools. There is no AAX version.
Get the Core Collection $55
SHELLY is included in the Core Collection. Six plugins, with MEOW included free.
License key required. Delivered by email after purchase.
Put Your Signal Inside Something Solid.
A real vessel answers with its own pitches, decay, and material. SHELLY does the same. Twelve tuned resonances surround your signal with the ring and response of a physical object.
Ring
Choke
Glaze

Eight Vessels. Eight Different Bodies.

Every mode rebuilds the body beneath the controls: different dimensions, different resonant pitches, different decay, and different behavior under your hands. Choose the vessel first. Then decide what it is made of and how it should be struck.
SHELLY ceramic resonator plugin interface
Turtle
The balanced house vessel. Even, musical, and unmistakably ceramic without forcing the tone in one direction.
Porcelain
Long, bright, and bell-like. Built for singing leads, clean melodies, and notes that need to keep glowing.
Clay
Short, dark, and deliberately dead. Hard attacks choke quickly, turning rhythm into percussion.
Shell
Deep, low-tuned, and full of air. A cavernous body for low tunings, swells, and wide atmospheric parts.
Glazed
The most reflective vessel. Bright resonance with a thick lacquered bloom. The surface becomes part of the sound.
Cracked
Two damaged modes drift against each other, creating brittle beating, shimmer, and a permanent hairline instability.
Figurine
Small, high, and delicate. A miniature ceramic voice for arpeggios, bells, and music-box detail.
Dome
Large, dark, and rounded. Weight for low riffs without turning the upper range into glass.

Play the Material.

SHELLY is not a static resonant curve. The body changes with your level, your attack, and the way the note is allowed to decay. Build the vessel, then play through it.
Make It React
INPUT changes more than level. Push the vessel harder and it chokes and darkens more aggressively beneath your pick.
Size the Body
HOLLOW moves from a subtle ceramic shadow to a deep vessel that swallows the center of the tone.
Choose the Material
Move from soft, unfired clay with short, dead notes to hard porcelain with a long, brilliant ring.
Bow It or Strike It
Low STRIKE keeps the body ringing through sustained notes. High STRIKE excites the vessel around each attack and clears before the next one.
Finish the Surface
SHINE introduces the brilliant upper modes. GLAZE adds a tight reflective bloom, glossy air, and a trace of warmth.
Blend the Object
Keep the original tone intact beneath the ceramic, or turn BLEND fully clockwise and let the vessel become the entire sound.

The Turtle Is Playable.

A Complete Hidden Arcade Game. Inside the Plugin.
SHELLY STARRING SHELLY hidden arcade game

Somewhere inside SHELLY is a complete CRT-style arcade game starring the turtle herself.

Guide Shelly through eggs, cows, pineapples, clowns, raccoons, cars, pickles, and the escalating hostility of the universe. Catch hearts. Survive long enough and heaven lets you shoot back. Your score is measured in years. Shelly grows as she survives.

The game never pauses playback, changes a parameter, or touches your audio. Your session keeps running while the prophecy unfolds.

Known Foes

A partial list of entities that have already chosen violence.

This is not the complete roster. Shelly's situation continues to deteriorate.

We are not telling you how to open it.

Your Signal. Another Body.

Eight vessels. Twelve tuned resonances. Zero latency. One playable turtle.
Get SHELLY
FormatVST3 · AU
PlatformWindows · macOS
Vessels8
Resonances12
LatencyZero
Presets20

Questions

SHELLY uses twelve tuned resonant body modes to make your signal behave as though it is exciting a physical ceramic object. The vessel rings at its own pitches, so the result is not note-following pitch correction, reverb, distortion, or a conventional EQ curve. It is a physical body stamped onto the sound.
64-bit VST3 for Windows and Audio Unit (AU) plus VST3 for macOS. Compatible with DAWs that support these formats. AAX is not included, so SHELLY is not compatible with Pro Tools.
No. Windows and macOS are separate purchases. Each platform has its own checkout.
After purchase, you'll receive a license key by email. Each license is intended for one user and includes activation for up to 2 machines. If you change computers or need an activation reset, contact support and we'll help.
All digital purchases are final due to the nature of downloadable software. If you have an installation, compatibility, or activation issue, contact support and we'll help you get it working.
Not currently. These plugins are launching with introductory pricing for a limited time, with regular pricing planned after the launch period.
Very little. SHELLY uses a pure IIR modal filter bank with no sample libraries, convolution, or oversampling. It adds zero samples of latency, so it is safe to use on live monitoring chains. Its cost is essentially constant regardless of knob settings, and bypass costs next to nothing. With no sample content to load, RAM use is negligible.
Each mode changes the vessel itself: its resonant pitches, size, decay, brightness, and dynamic response. TURTLE is balanced; PORCELAIN is long and bright; CLAY is short and dark; SHELL is deep and airy; GLAZED is glossy; CRACKED is unstable; FIGURINE is small and bell-like; and DOME is large and dark.
SHELLY works especially well in two positions. Place it immediately before your amp or amp sim when you want the amplifier to react to the ceramic resonance as part of the gain structure. Place it at the very end of the chain, after the amp and cab or IR, when you want SHELLY to act as a finishing body around the completed tone. Both placements are intentional and create distinctly different results. It also works on synths, drums, vocals, and anything else that deserves a physical shell.
Yes. SHELLY contains a complete playable CRT-style arcade game with enemies, lives, progression, shooting, and age-based scoring. It runs inside the plugin without interrupting playback or changing the sound. Its location is deliberately not documented on this page.