Arturia Efx MOTIONS Creative Movement Shaper Plug-In

Arturia 1090-121 Overview

Generate sounds and effects that evolve and captivate with the Arturia Efx MOTIONS, a software effect that combines musical movement, mix dynamics, and creative audio tools into a powerful effect plug-in to give your music the momentum, variety, and pure sonic excitement it deserves.

Turn the simplest idea into music that evolves and captivates. Bring boring, static stems to life with moving filters, distortion, and beat repeating, while making mixes feel more spacious, responsive, and alive. Efx MOTIONS is Mac and Windows compatible and works with all major DAWs utilizing the VST2, VST3, AAX Native, AU, and NKS formats.

At a Glance

• Effects plug-in for stepped and movement-based audio processing
• 5 audio processing modules with unique controls:
  • Noise
  • Distortion
  • Filter
  • Volume
  • Pan
• Trigger: customize how each audio module is triggered
  • Envelope Sequencer
  • Euclidean
  • Clock
  • MIDI
  • Transient Detector
• Motion editor: customize the movement of each audio module
  • Draw your own envelope shapes
  • Choose from envelope shape presets
• Dynamics customizer
  • Envelope Follower with internal and external side-chain routing
  • Threshold, input volume, attack, and release controls
• 16-step Beat Repeater
• 2 FX slots with 14 FX types
• 2 assignable multidestination macro controls
• Crossover module to define the frequency band to process
• 3 multidestination modulation generators
  • Choose from step sequencer, function, random, and env follower
• Preset library with 300+ presets
• A/B comparison

Make Your Sound Unstoppable

Turn the simplest idea into music that evolves and captivates; bring boring, static stems to life with moving filters, distortion, beat repeating, and more. Make mixes feel more spacious, responsive, and alive.

Bring Your Music to Life

From melodic loops to your drum track, draw curves and envelopes to animate any sound, create automation and polymetric motion to change the feel of your music, and move from stutter to riser to mix widener in a few clicks.

Real-Time Creative Mixing

Use movement to make different elements in your project interact and bounce off each other. Make things sit better, evolve dynamically, or dramatically alter your sound.

Sound Design Deep Dive

Stack and weave multiple FX together, trigger beat repeats, and modulate parameters all at once; Efx MOTIONS is somewhere between a full FX chain and an instrument in itself.

Motion Modules

• Filter: Efx MOTIONS takes the idea of adding movement and energy to your music and transforms it into easy-to-use components that react and cooperate with each other, turning any audio source into gold.
• Noise: Embellish and texturize any sound with a layer of noise or dozens of sampled noise types-explore from analog white noise, to computer keyboard mashing, to cicadas chirping.
• Drive: Saturate, degrade, and destroy incoming sound with 10 varieties of crunch to choose from, including Tape, Softclip, and the fuzzy Germanium.
• Volume: Create variations in level for stuttering percussion, tremolo-like movements, and more.
• Pan: Make full use of the stereo field by manipulating the movement of panning in sync with your projects.

Beat Repeat

Chop, resample, and transform incoming audio into punchy rhythmic ideas, from subtle repeating fills to glitchy Aphex Twin-esque mayhem. Efx MOTIONS' Beat Repeater and FX module gives you 5 more ways to get creative with the movement of your tracks and provides 2 effect slots with 14 effect types, for a sprinkle of sonic coloration.

• Roll: Sample and repeat audio at a defined time division.
• Reverse: Sample and reverse audio based on a defined time division.
• Pitch: Detune incoming audio steadily or with a decaying effect.
• Stretch: Adjust pitch and stretch audio while preserving timing and rhythm.
• Stop: Slow down incoming audio until it stops, creating a classic tape stop effect.

Deep Modulation

Compound audio processing with 2 assignable macros and 3 modulation generators. Modulate internal controls, make sweeping changes to presets, and get ultracreative with designing your own complex sounds.

• Macros: Assign destinations to affect almost all parameters with the turn of a single control at the top of Efx MOTIONS' interface.
• Modulators: Create custom functions, 16-step sequences, random generators, and envelope followers for complex compound motion effects that evolve into infinity.