It's our fifth anniversary, and we're celebrating it with the people who made it possible. Thank you for being part of the last 5 years.
A lot has changed since the beginning, but the goal has stayed pretty simple: make inspiring tools that help musicians move faster, sound better, and stay creative.
Five years in, and we're taking a look back at some of the milestones that got us here.
The Beginning: Rift Filter Lite
Our first release was built to get into producers’ hands.
Rift Filter Lite came from the filter section of Rift, giving producers an early look at the distortion plugin that we were building.
We made it free because we wanted to make it accessible to everyone, so they could get a feel for where Minimal Audio was headed.
It was a simple first step, but it opened the door to something much bigger. Our full vision came next with Rift.
Our Next Step: Rift
Rift came out of a long period of experiments and concepting.
We were testing ideas, shaping distortion algorithms in Reaktor and other tools, and figuring out how far we could push tone before it stopped feeling musical. Over time and many iterations, those experiments grew into our first big release.
With Rift, we wanted to make a distortion that more fun, modern, and approachable than what we were used to seeing.
A Deeper Exploration: Current
Current was our biggest swing yet. What began as a granular synth, grew into somthing much larger: 5 synthesis engines, an effects suite, and sound platform.
It was the largest project we had taken on, and it pushed us to think differently about what Minimal Audio could become.
With Current 2.0, we kept refining that idea by making the experience more expressive, more playable, and easier to navigate.
Current changed how we thought about building creative tools. It showed us how powerful things can feel when sound design, workflow, and content all live in one place.
Expanding Our Horizon: Evoke
With Evoke, we wanted to rethink what a vocal plugin could be. Not just correction, vocoding, or effects processing, but a tool that could transform a voice while still keeping it expressive and musical.
It took years of research, testing, and refinement to get there. The result is a tool that lets producers reshape vocals in a way that feels immediate, emotional, and creatively open-ended.
For us, Evoke represents the kind of work we want to keep doing: advanced technology made simple enough to actually use.
Thank you
Five years in, the mission is still the same. Build tools with vision, and build them with deep respect for the people using them.
We're grateful for everyone who's been part of it. Here's to five more years.
