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Cognate Ringmod - ring modulation at its most playful - and most controlled. Stars falling. Doom bells tolling. Metallic clangs, sci-fi, robots and aliens. EDM growls. Also tremolo, pseudo-phasing and a surprisingly fat octaver effect. Ringmod nails all these with one easy-to-use block. At its core, Hologram is a classic ringmod: a carrier oscillator (sine, triangle, square, or sawtooth) multiplied against your signal, with drive to push it into rougher territory. But the Sidebands control opens it up - morph continuously between lower sideband frequency shifting, full ring modulation, and upper sideband, dialling in everything from subtle pitch displacement to full metallic clang. The envelope section is where it gets expressive. Shape the envelope response from slow and smooth to fast and zappy, and use Env Amount to set how far - and in which direction - your playing pushes the carrier frequency. Hit harder for more effect, or let it breathe. Tweak the sound further with a single-control LFO for sine or sample & hold modulation. Tracking locks the carrier to your bass's pitch, with Interval setting the harmonic relationship anywhere from an octave down to three octaves up. Blend and Level keep you in control of how far over the edge you go. Discover a whole galaxy of new sounds today with Cognate Ringmod. Channels Mono in / mono out CPU 1.1% Version 1.30 · 07/07/2026 What's new Improved pitch tracking - fewer glitches and jumps when using Tracking = On.Lower CPU usage. Manual View · Download PDF Plugins in trial mode provide 35 seconds of active performance, followed by a 5-second silent interval.
Community Reviews
I've been looking for useful ring mods for a long time now. Before this, the best I found was the Pigtronix Ringmaster. It can make the carrier frequency track your pitch. It's a cool pedal, but a little hard to dial in a useful sound that works for a bass playing bass lines that need to remain intelligible. The Cognate Ringmod block is way easier to dial in for a useful bass tone and I've actually been able to use it live for solos. Two key things make it better than the Ringmaster: 1) it seems to be optimized for bass and it's controls are easy to use and 2) being part of the Anagram system means that you can save and recall settings. This is the first paid block that I bought.