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ZEROPOINT

Through-zero timecode flanger
Alpha · in development, v0.3

The through-zero flange you’ve been chasing.

You’ve tried every flanger plugin, and none of them do what the records do: sweep all the way through zero, vanish, and bloom back out. They can’t — a plugin delay never goes below zero. ZEROPOINT puts the real rig in your DAW: the tape machine, the delay that shoves it off course, and the servo that fights to pull it back.

How it works →
The ZEROPOINT rack: tape machine controls on top, a Lexicon PCM 42 delay in the middle, and two TimeLine Lynx timecode modules below
The rack — a tape machine, the delay that pushes it, and the brains that keep it in line

Grab the knob. Push the tape.
Hear it lean, catch up, and swing through zero.

A real machine, not a delay

What you’re sweeping is a simulated tape machine — motor, tape, and all — modeled from the physics and calibrated against real tape. That’s why it moves like one.

Push it and it pushes back

Lean on the sweep and the servo chases you: the capstan overshoots, loses lock, and runs away, the way two-inch tape does under a hand pushing too hard. Ease off and it settles.

The whoosh you can’t fake

The sweep travels all the way through zero: both copies line up, the sound folds into itself and vanishes, then blooms back from the top. A normal flanger never gets there. This one does, every pass.

Two-machine mode

Want the heaviest version? Put the dry side on a second locked machine so both copies carry the tape’s color — the sound of the deepest classic flanges.

Works where you work

AU and VST3 in any host, plus a standalone app. AAX on the way.

macOS · Apple Silicon + Intel AU VST3 Standalone AAX in progress 6 factory presets MANUAL sweep + MIDI Learn

Get ZEROPOINT

ZEROPOINT is in alpha. Licenses are by invitation — write to [email protected].

Download for macOS

Your license: in ZEROPOINT, click the license badge at the bottom of the panel, then Locate License File… (standalone: ZEROPOINT ▸ License…).