OTODESK has released ANATOMY, a free and open-source VST3 plugin for Windows.
This is the third free plugin from OTODESK we’ve covered on BPB in June, following Ambience and Quad Morph Filter. Both received some very cool comments from the BPB community, although I especially liked Quad Morph Filter.
ANATOMY is different from any transient shaper I’ve tested before. The interface feels a bit raw and unfinished to me, but the plugin itself is interesting if you like putting transients under control and turning short sounds into new material.
The important thing to know is that ANATOMY is not meant to be a standard real-time mix insert. It is a sound design tool where you drag a WAV file into the plugin, split it into transient and tonal components, process those parts separately, and export the results as WAV files.
The separation uses a cos-squared crossfade algorithm that divides the sound into a transient lane, a tonal lane, and a full mix lane. In plain terms, you can work on the click, body, and recombined sound separately without treating the sample as one fixed object.
Each lane has its own pitch, gain, and shaping controls. You can also shift the tonal playback position with the Tonal Offset control, which helps close gaps when pitched transients become shorter or creates intentional overlap for more experimental sounds.
The plugin also lets you replace the separated transient or tonal component with your own sample. That is the really cool part for me. You can take the attack from one sound, the sustain from another, process both, and export something completely new back into your DAW or sampler.
Each of the three lanes has access to the same six effects, with independent chains and drag-and-drop ordering. The included modules are ADAA Saturation, BitCrusher, Noise Generator, OTT Multiband, Glue Compressor, and Limiter.
ANATOMY includes real-time waveform displays for the full mix, transient, and tonal lanes, with up to 32x zoom for inspecting short attacks. The full mix display also shows the energy balance between transient and tonal content using two colors, which should make the separation easier to understand visually.
The developer is open about using Claude to help with development, and the full source code is available on GitHub under the AGPLv3 license. I’m not happy with the majority of vibe-coded projects in my inbox these days, but I appreciate the transparency here and like OTODESK’s ideas.
A quick safety note before you try it. The developer warns that ANATOMY can generate loud output, so start at low volume and consider placing a limiter after it while experimenting.
ANATOMY is available as a 64-bit VST3 plugin for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It requires an AVX2-capable CPU and has been verified in Ableton Live 11 and 12. Other DAWs may work but are currently unverified, and there is no macOS version at the moment.
Download: ANATOMY (FREE)
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Last Updated on June 22, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
