Strange Audio is giving away two free copies of maniFold Omega FULL (worth €29 each) to BPB readers.
We featured the free maniFold Σ experimental microlooper from the same developer last year, and it was included in our popular roundup of unusual free plugins released in 2025.
maniFold Omega is a hybrid real-time effect processor that blends micro-looping, granular FX, spectral-style delay processing, and feedback-based textures. It’s built for experimental sound design, ambient layering, glitch textures, and abstract time-based transformations.
I’m a sucker for plugins that let you texturize and glitch out the audio, and this one fits the bill. I also love the clean UI on this one, especially the dotted waveform display. It looks awesome.
The killer features here are the micro-looper and the granular FX engine with 16 playheads, all reading from a shared variable-size audio buffer. Playback is randomized across position, length, panning, and pitch, and you can monitor active heads and their positions in real time.
The buffer is adjustable from 1 to 60 seconds, and its state is saved directly with your DAW project. You can freeze the buffer for infinite looping or clear it instantly for a fresh start.
The delay cluster uses 16 delay lines built on an all-pass filter topology rather than standard delays. This produces some pretty epic comb-filtering, pitch smearing, and spectral-like time dispersion.
Another fun addition is the recirculation control, which feeds the delay network back into itself for evolving textures, functioning similarly to a reverb tank or modular feedback loop.
Version 1.1 added two new playback algorithms. Butterfly gives each playhead a 50% chance of playing in reverse, while PRISMA reverses playheads with a 50% probability of transposing to the 5th (enable Octave Jitter and that interval extends to 19 semitones).
The update also introduced direct playhead-to-buffer feedback for self-generating textures, drag-and-drop loading of audio files, LFO modulation spread across the delay network, and an integrated limiter and soft clipper to keep the output under control at high feedback settings.
You also get the mLoopShape control for shaping the amplitude envelope of each play head, scan speed, and direction for automated buffer movement, overdub control, damping for high-frequency absorption within the feedback loop, and a global dry/wet mix. There are also input low-cut and high-cut filters.
maniFold Omega FULL requires Windows 10/11 or macOS 10.15 and above. A free demo is available on the product page.
The Giveaway
Simply enter your email in the form below to enter. Two winners will be randomly picked and announced on April 5th.
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More info: maniFold Omega FULL (€29)
Winners
The lucky winners are (please check your email!):
- bill e. (s********@****.***)
- Yan C. C. (c*********@*****.***)
Last Updated on April 7, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
