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CRQL, the Audio-Tool Workshop

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CRQL makes experimental audio plugins for sound designers and music producers.

Why it surfaced

Its tools include an LPC vocal-resynthesis effect, a frequency-stretching plugin, and a spectral phaser. The site is run by “two idiots from the UK” who want to make weird, experimental plugins accessible to everyone—and it has a Discord community to match.

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