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DropShift press kit

Released October 2026 · Version 1.0.0

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DropShift is a polyphonic drop-tune plugin for guitar: it drops whole chords 1 to 7 semitones or an octave inside the DAW, with four engines from about 2 ms live playing to studio-clean HQ.

Facts

Product	DropShift 1.0.0
Developer	Animus Vertex (Piotr Bogus), Silesia, Poland
Type	Polyphonic drop-tune / pitch-shift effect for guitar
Formats	Windows 10/11: VST3, CLAP (64-bit). macOS 10.15+: AU, VST3, CLAP (Apple Silicon and Intel)
Price	USD 29; launch price USD 19 until November 30, 2026
License	3 computers per license, free 1.x updates, no iLok, no account
Demo	Free and unlimited: the full plugin with a soft noise for 3 seconds of every 20
Links	animusvertex.com · store · video on YouTube

Press release

Animus Vertex releases DropShift, a polyphonic drop-tune plugin for guitar

Animus Vertex has released DropShift, a polyphonic drop-tune plugin for guitar for Windows and macOS (VST3, AU and CLAP). It drops whole chords 1 to 7 semitones or an octave, so one guitar covers every lower tuning with the strings left at their normal tension: a guitar in Drop D plays in Drop C, B, A or G.

DropShift has four engines for different stages of the work. Live lets you play through it, with pick attacks after about 2 ms. Classic is the natural-sounding default. Studio and HQ report their latency to the DAW, so the shifted guitar stays on the grid; HQ uses a phase vocoder for the cleanest low chords and is meant for mixing and reamping already recorded DI tracks.

Drop 1 to 7 semitones or an octave, Fine ±50 cents
Polyphonic: full chords stay intact
Formant option to keep the pickup and body tone
Mix, Low cut, footswitch with a 10 ms crossfade
Mono and stereo, 44.1 to 96 kHz
Validated with pluginval at its strictest level, Apple's auval and clap-validator

DropShift costs USD 29. Until November 30, 2026 it is available for a launch price of USD 19. One license covers up to 3 computers, with free 1.x updates and no iLok. A free demo is available: it is the full plugin with a periodic soft noise.

About Animus Vertex. Animus Vertex is the one-person studio of Piotr Bogus, a guitarist and software developer from Silesia, Poland. DropShift is its first audio plugin.