EXPLOITED

WHY I STARTED THIS

Hi, I'm John. I've been making music and working with audio tools since the early 2000s, and I started XPLTD Audio to push on what those tools can do.

The name is shorthand for exploited. What drives me is knowing there is more in audio than we use: hidden details and interactions that sit there, invisible until something uncovers them. I build the tools that go looking.

New technology and new music tend to show up together. Someone builds a machine, and a few years later there is music that could not have existed without it. That is most of why I do this.

Every plugin I make has to do two things: be fun the first time you open it, and stay interesting to an engineer who has heard it all.

FILTRA

Filtra is the first one. It's a parametric EQ and filter engine built for drawing filter shapes by hand and modulating them.

EQ is usually the most static tool in the chain. This one is meant to be played.

More details

The Filtra plugin window, showing a cyan frequency response curve lifted at the low end, dipped through the mids and lifted again at the top

NEED HELP OR HAVE QUESTIONS?

SUPPORT

Write to support@xpltdaudio.com and it reaches the person who wrote the code.

I would rather you got a straight answer about why the plugin did what it did than a ticket number.

LICENSING

Software you paid for shouldn't stop working because the company you bought it from stopped existing.

If my servers go down, or if XPLTD Audio closes, your old sessions still open and your audio still passes.