Audio plugin · in beta

THESPOON

Play your sidechain

A sidechain you play. Tap the spoon, a key or a MIDI note and your sound dips. Short tap, short dip. Hold it, it stays down. No routing, no ratio, no threshold.

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THE SPOON plugin window: a spoon dipping into a pink jelly bowl, with How long, How deep and How soft knobs and a lane of recorded taps

Try it right here

This is the real plugin screen running the same sound engine as the plugin. Press play, then tap the spoon or press T. A MIDI keyboard works too, in Chrome.

You're on a phone

This is just a taste.

THE SPOON is a plugin for your music software on a Mac (VST3 and AU). Below you can tap the jelly and hear the sound dip.

The full demo, with every control, runs right in your browser on a computer. Open manyuko.com on your Mac or PC to try the real thing.

The full plugin screen with all its controls — The full plugin, on a computer

Headphones help. The demo pad is an original track; you can also load your own loop.Headphones help. Silent mode on? Turn it off to hear it.

Simple surface, serious engine

The plugin talks like a musician, not like an engineer. Three questions shape every dip.

How long? How deep? How soft?
How fast the sound comes back (in ms or in note values), how far it drops, and how gently it dips in.
Pattern and Song
Record a 4-bar pattern that loops, or tap along a whole song. Taps lock to your DAW's grid and stay editable.
Auto-scoop and Speed blender
A steady pump on the beat, with a spring-loaded knob that speeds it up into a riser and snaps back.
Jelly mode
Close the lid and it's just the spoon, the jelly and a small dancer who changes moves with every dip.

For mixers too

Make room exactly where you need it. Just play your sidechain and spoon it.

Duck the guitars only in the loudest chorus, clear a gap for one snare hit, breathe a pad around the vocal. No setting up a compressor and a key input for a moment that lasts a bar.

Jelly mode: the spoon dips into the jelly while a cartoon dancer in a headband strikes a pose

Formats

Mac: VST3 · Audio Unit
Pro Tools: AAX in progress
Runs on: Apple Silicon and Intel

About MANYUKO

MANYUKO is a small plugin studio started by Jonathan Weinreich (JUNO VINE), a producer, songwriter and artist based in Tel Aviv.

THE SPOON came out of the studio. Sidechain is one of the most useful moves in a production or a mix, and one of the most fiddly to set up. So we made one you simply play.

At the end of the day, sidechain is a technical tool. But everybody knows it's a creative one.

More kitchen tools are cooking.

Contact

Questions, beta access, press or partnerships:

hello@manyuko.com