10K Audio has announced the release of a real-time loop crate designed for generating personalized melodic loops and samples.
Providing musical starting points with infinitely combinable and customizable sounds, chords, patterns and effects, Gyro aims to deliver instant inspiration and creative speed.
Unlike static sampled loops, you can customize everything to your taste. Gyro’s intelligent randomization system generates unlimited patterns, reshuffles sounds, chords, and FX chains, making it effortless to land on something truly your own.
The plugin is built around a multi-layer hybrid architecture, combining multi-sample and wavetable engines, effect processing, and a generative pattern/chord system. It supports both spontaneous idea capture and detailed control, depending on how deep you want to go.
Users can explore a rich collection of multi-sampled instruments and wavetables, each crafted with emotional tone in mind. From dusty organs and clean pianos to lo-fi vocals and tape-textured mallets, it’s a blend of synthetic layers and characterful recordings built to shape your sound.
Unlike static plugin UIs, Gyro flows with your music. GPU-accelerated shader visuals swirl like liquid ink. Reacting in real time to your sound. Its responsive, ambient feedback that keeps you immersed in the moment without breaking your focus.
“Gyro is designed to be fast, fun, and musical. We wanted to build something that helps you find a musical idea fast and lets you keep going without interruption. You just play, shuffle, and shape. It’s like crate digging, if the crate responded to your input. Gyro makes exploration part of the creative process, not a step before it.”
“Gyro is for those moments when you don’t want to overthink. You just want to try something, hear it, and shape it into something real. It’s fast, reactive, and keeps you in motion without breaking your process. It gives you the control to shape the vibe into something that is truly yours—through intention, or discovery.”
Gyro features
- Real-Time Loop Engine: Trigger, shuffle, and shape loops and hooks live. Everything responds instantly as you play.
- Hybrid Sound Layering: Four hybrid sample/wavetable synth engines, allowing you to shape each sound source to perfection. An additional drone engine provides ambience for a finishing touch.
- Generative Patterns & Harmony: Algorithmically generated phrases adapt across ~150 chord sets. Generate unlimited pattern variations and explore countless harmonic directions. Explore musical ideas without the need for music theory.
- Integrated Effects Suite Enhance your sound with Halftime, Chorus, Multiband Compression, Tape Emulation, Delay and Reverb for added depth and character.
- Looks as Good as It Sounds GPU-accelerated UI with real-time, shader-driven fluid visuals. A sound-reactive interface designed to be fast, responsive, and creatively engaging, without getting in the way.
- Royalty-Free Output Everything you make with Gyro, melodic loops, hooks, and layered ideas, is yours to use in your music, commercially or otherwise. No usage restrictions. No clearance required.
Available in VST3 and AU plugin formats for Windows and Mac, Gyro comes in two editions.
Gyro Play (10 USD/EUR/GBP) offers a taste of Gyro with a curated slice of the library (~350 presets) and the Perform view (no deep-edit pages). Gyro Pro (149 USD/EUR, £129 GBP) features the complete library (~1,450 presets), advanced editing, and every feature unlocked, including the Pattern, Chord, Sound, Effect, and Mod pages. Users can upgrade from Play anytime by paying the difference.
More information: 10K Audio
