# Chiral Audio

> Chiral Audio makes physics-based audio plugins. The DSP is the governing equation of a real physical mechanism, not a metaphor for one. Founded by Blake Corman, a chemistry researcher turned independent plugin developer.

## What is currently shippable

- macOS 11+: VST3, Audio Unit, and Standalone. Signed, notarized, and stapled by Apple.
- Windows 10+: VST3. Unsigned at launch. Distributed as a ZIP containing the .vst3 file directly (no installer); SmartScreen typically does not appear because there is no executable to run.
- Linux: not supported.
- Apple Silicon and Intel: native on both.

## Products

- [Foxfire](https://chiral.audio/foxfire): Kuramoto synchronization chorus and harmonic ensemble. Sixteen coupled oscillators that drift, partially synchronize, flicker at the critical coupling, and lock. $29 launch, list $39.
- [Autocatalysis](https://chiral.audio/autocatalysis): Resonant filterbank driven by logistic-growth dynamics. Self-reinforcing band activation modeled on autocatalytic chemical reactions. $35 launch, list $49.
- [Soliton](https://chiral.audio/soliton): Dispersion-balanced delay derived from the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Solitary waves that preserve shape under nonlinear dispersion. $49 launch, list $69.
- [Boltzmann](https://chiral.audio/boltzmann): MIDI sequencer and arpeggiator that draws each note from an energy landscape weighted by the Boltzmann distribution. One Temperature control runs the field from frozen on the root to evenly random. The first standalone Catalog V2 release. $15 launch, list $28.
- [Catalog V1 Bundle](https://chiral.audio/catalog): Foxfire, Autocatalysis, and Soliton together. $99 launch, list $157, saves $58.

## Reference pages

- [Home](https://chiral.audio/): brand summary, current catalog, newsletter signup.
- [Catalog](https://chiral.audio/catalog): all products in one place.
- [Demos](https://chiral.audio/demos): audio examples on real source material.
- [About](https://chiral.audio/about): founder, mission, current catalog status.
- [Press Kit](https://chiral.audio/press): brand assets, product summaries, downloadable logos and chassis images, contact.
- [Research Notes](https://chiral.audio/research): plain-language explainers connecting physical mechanisms to Chiral Audio plugins.
- [Kuramoto Synchronization in Audio](https://chiral.audio/kuramoto-audio-synchronization): explainer for the coupled-oscillator model behind Foxfire's drift, critical flicker, and lock.
- [Foxfire vs. Chorus, Phaser, and Ensemble](https://chiral.audio/foxfire-vs-chorus-phaser-ensemble): practical comparison between classic modulation effects and Foxfire's coupled-oscillator chorus architecture.
- [What Is a Soliton in Audio?](https://chiral.audio/soliton-audio-processing): explainer for Soliton's balance of allpass dispersion, in-loop saturation, and energy regulation.
- [John Scott Russell's Horseback Chase](https://chiral.audio/russell-horseback-chase): historical companion on the 1834 wave of translation, KdV, and the solitary-wave model behind Soliton.
- [What Is the Boltzmann Distribution, and How Does It Compose Music?](https://chiral.audio/boltzmann-statistical-mechanics): explainer for how the Boltzmann distribution selects pitches by interval energy, with Independent and Metropolis sampling, behind Boltzmann.
- [What Is Statistical Thermodynamics?](https://chiral.audio/statistical-thermodynamics): plain-language explainer of microstates, entropy, temperature, and the partition function, with the gas-to-pitch mapping behind Boltzmann.
- [Glossary](https://chiral.audio/glossary): mechanism-first definitions of the physical and mathematical terms used across products.
- [Help & Manuals](https://chiral.audio/help): install, activation, license recovery, and per-plugin parameter references for the Chiral Audio catalog.
- [Privacy Policy](https://chiral.audio/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://chiral.audio/terms)
- [Refund Policy](https://chiral.audio/refund)

## How licensing works

- Purchase via Paddle Billing on the marketing site (`chiral.audio`).
- Licenses are issued and verified by a Cloudflare Worker at `license.chiral.audio`.
- One license key activates two machines per product.
- Plugin runs offline for fourteen days between online checks.
- Refunds within seven days revoke the license.

## What this site does NOT claim

- No customer reviews, ratings, awards, or press coverage are surfaced unless they are real and linked from the press page.
- Windows builds are not Authenticode-signed at launch. Distribution is a ZIP, not an installer; users extract the .vst3 file and copy it into their VST3 folder. If Windows quarantines the file on first run, right-click the .vst3 → Properties → Unblock.
- Max for Live (M4L) is not part of the launch catalog.

## Founder and contact

- Founder: Blake Corman.
- Contact: blake@chiral.audio.
- The site is a static React SPA. The license worker is a separate service. The two are deployed and operated independently.