Afterglow
Nine modules on one canvas.
Delay, reverb, tube saturation, ensemble, EQ, width and limiting — wired in series, each one switchable, all on a single patch surface. No menus, no pages.
- Format
- CLAP · VST3
- Modules
- 9
- Latency
- 1.4 ms
- Price
- Free
CLAP · VST3 · Windows · macOS · Linux
Plugins that behave like hardware.
Lightforged Audio builds a small family of instruments and effects for people who would rather turn a knob than open a menu.
wasm
Live — turn a knob, watch the tape.
the lineup
The plugins.
Pysician3
A Python editor in your DAW.
Write a compose function, press Ctrl+Enter, and the plugin publishes the MIDI it returns. Scales, chords, progressions and humanising come built in.
- Format
- CLAP · VST3
- Language
- Python 3
- Editions
- Free · Pro
- Price
- Free · Pro paid
how they are built
Built the same way.
Panels, not forms
Every control is a knob or a switch you can reach for without reading. Depth tells you what is touchable: lifted faces you press, recessed wells that receive.
Offline by default
Afterglow needs no account and no connection. Nothing phones home, nothing expires, nothing checks a server before it makes sound.
One window
No tabs, no wizards, no second window. Everything a plugin does fits on the surface you opened.
Forged, not assembled
Lightforged Audio is built on an automated floor — AI agents do the work, and a human stands at the gate where it counts. That is why every plugin can hold one design language this tightly, and why the panels you see here are the components the products ship, not screenshots of them.
