Made by one. Free for all.
↓Instruments and tools for performance.
Free tools from the workbench.
Built with curiosity. Used loudly.
VOICE / AUTOMATION
EARLY ACCESS
VOICE CONTROLLER
Hands-free control for Ableton Live. Talk to your DAW — transport, tempo, tracks, mixer, clips, and chord composing via M2TM Notes. Constrained grammar means it only hears words it understands.
MIDI / PERFORMANCE
IN DEVELOPMENT
MIDI CONTROLLER
A chord voicing MIDI plugin inspired by Orchid. Play a note and get a full chord — then move through voicing inversions in real time to find the smoothest path between chords. Free alternative to $649 hardware.
GROOVE / SEQUENCER
FREE DOWNLOAD
GROOVE INSTRUMENT
A DAW-synced groove instrument built for fast, weird, high-energy beat making. Paint drums, bass, and lead patterns on a 16-step grid — chain sections, shape sounds, let the DAW drive.
SYNTH / SEQUENCER
FREE DOWNLOAD
VIRTUAL SYNTHESIZER
Heavy Honey. A compact, rough-edged synth for heavy basses, unstable leads, and sequences with a little dirt under their nails. Immediate controls, deep modulation.
DRUMS / SEQUENCER
FREE DOWNLOAD
DRUM MACHINE
Kit Runner. A free step-sequenced drum machine built for rhythm that hits hard. Twelve voices, per-step velocity and probability, swing, pattern slots, and enough control to make each loop feel alive.
REVERB / EFFECTS
FREE DOWNLOAD
ALGORITHMIC REVERB
A reverb built around mud removal. Pitch-aware reverb tails that don't muddy the mix — push decay times and room sizes as far as you want without the low-mid buildup that makes big reverbs unusable.
MIDI / GENERATIVE
IN DEVELOPMENT
MIDI PROCESSOR
A MIDI call-and-response plugin that listens and answers. Play a phrase, and Talk 2 Me echoes it back — shifted, varied, and subtly transformed. Generative conversation, not repetition.
Five free plugins for texture, ruin, and movement.
Effects and synthesis for sounds that misbehave beautifully.
Wavetable and granular hybrid with glitch sequencing. Synthesis that breaks on purpose — unstable, evolving, and deliberately strange.
Tape saturation, diffusion, and ping-pong echo engine. Smear time and let things bleed.
Algorithmic dark reverb with long tails and feedback modulation. Fall in and don't come back.
Spectral destruction, bitcrushing, and pitch mangling. For sounds that need to be broken.
Unstable chorus, flanger, and phaser with analog LFO drift. Movement that never repeats.
No months of boilerplate.
Just a clear idea and the right tools.
Every plugin here — KR-12, HH-44, Keydence, the entire VOID ecosystem — was built by describing ideas to AI coding tools, not writing C++ by hand. Technical Debt is named after that process: fast experiments, strange ideas, useful messes, and the willingness to clean things up as they become real. The stack is JUCE + CMake + AI coding tools like Codex and Claude Code. You don't need to start as a C++ expert. Start with a sound, then iterate.
Open Claude Code or Codex and describe what you want — plugin type, parameters, sound design intent. Be specific. "Build a JUCE VST3 delay plugin with tape saturation, ping-pong mode, and a diffusion knob. Point JUCE_PATH at C:\Dev\JUCE." Codex can output a compiled VST directly without you touching the source.
Copy the generated source files into your dev folder. Make sure CMakeLists.txt points to your JUCE clone. For Keydence and the VOID plugins this looked like:
add_subdirectory(C:/Dev/JUCE juce)cmake -B build
cmake --build build --config ReleaseThe .vst3 lands in build/MyPlugin_artefacts/Release/VST3/.
Copy to your plugin folder and rescan. Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\. Mac: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/.
Describe what you want to change. The AI patches the files. Rebuild. That's the entire loop — and that's all that was used to build everything on this site.
Technical Debt is my home for music software, experimental instruments, and whatever else escapes the project folder.
I'm designing, directing, and testing everything — and using AI to write the code. Not a single line here was typed by hand. The goal is simple: make the tools I actually want to use, and show that anyone can do the same. All plugins are free for personal and commercial music use.