The groundbreaking sound-design of Eprom is now available as a standalone plugin, and it marks the debut of a new format from Minimal Audio that decouples artist expansions from the full Current synthesizer.
Minimal Audio has released ‘Memory Rites‘ in collaboration with the influential electronic music producer, introducing Current Expansion Player, a plugin format that gives producers access to artist-built Current expansions without requiring ownership of the full synthesizer.
Current, Minimal Audio’s flagship synthesizer, has cultivated a following in experimental and bass-forward electronic music. With ‘Memory Rites,’ the brand introduces a new way to access artist-built Current sounds through a streamlined instrument format. Current Expansion Player breaks the expansion format out into its own standalone plugin priced at $29, and it’s also available to existing Current owners as a $19 preset pack that loads directly into the synthesizer.
For the uninitiated: a DAW (digital audio workstation) is the software producers use to make music, and a plugin is a self-contained instrument that runs inside it. Presets are saved sound configurations that can be loaded instantly, and macros condense dozens of individual controls down to a single knob for expressive real-time performance. The Current Expansion Player lets producers run Eprom’s patches as a standalone plugin, meaning they get the sounds and the controls without needing to own the full Current synthesizer underneath.
Eprom, who is revered in the electronic music production community, contributed 60 hand-designed patches to the collection, spanning 25 basses, 14 leads, 9 pads, 6 keys, and 6 SFX. The preset names and sonic character reflect what his productions are known for, with rhythmic complexity and textures that give compositions depth very difficult to achieve otherwise.
Each patch ships with custom macros mapped by the producer himself, meaning a single knob controls the core expressive range of each sound rather than forcing users to dig into modulation routing manually. Mod and pitch-bend controls are built into every patch as well, with movement already baked in so that textures shift as you play rather than sitting static until you touch something.
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From a product strategy standpoint, the Expansion Player format gives collaborators like Eprom a distribution mechanism for their sound-design work that functions as a self-contained instrument. Whether Minimal Audio expands the format to other artists remains to be seen, but they couldn’t have landed a better proof-of-concept than the virtuosic producer and technologist.
‘Memory Rites’ runs on macOS 10.11 or later, including native Apple silicon and Windows 10 or later, in any 64-bit DAW that supports VST, VST3, AU or AAX. You can find out more and purchase the tool here.
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