There are many tools available to help you make your music or design your sounds, and lots of them are more or less different versions of the same thing.
Founded by Micah Silver, NOMN offers plugins which stem from a bit of a different approach:
There have been many refinements in audio tools over the past twenty-five years, but very few genuinely new ideas about how digital audio sounds, how it feels, and how music’s temporal structures might be reconceived through the current possibilities of computing — without treating music as a product in need of optimization.
For this giveaway contest, NOMN is offering licenses for two of its unique plugins.
FOAM models bubble acoustics; “what happens when gas meets liquid, from the initial film rupture through cavity resonance to viscous damping.”
Each bubble is a physics equation, not a recording or grains. FOAM models 11+ distinct acoustic stages of a bubble’s life, from the initial membrane rupture through resonance, collapse, and decay. Each stage is governed by its own physical behavior, and every parameter maps to real-time fluid dynamics calculations. Every parameter feeds the acoustic formulas live. Turn up viscosity and the math changes: small bubbles die fast and large ones ring longer in thick liquids, as they do in nature.
At peak density, thousands of synth voices render simultaneously across multiple CPU cores, producing textures with a level of temporal detail that simply isn’t possible to similarly shape for creative use with sample manipulation or wavetable synthesis.
The more recent RESERVOIR explores the pattern logic of music making with a polyphonic texture orchestrator. It generates, perforates, and shapes 12 simultaneous voices of MIDI through a pipeline of mathematically grounded algorithms, and enhances it with a machine learning layer.
… an Echo State Network whose recurrent neurons hold decaying echoes of the system’s own output, producing new patterns through the same kind of temporal interference that Schillinger formalized ninety years ago. It listens to itself and evolves continuously. It’s not a step sequencer, though you can make sequences. Not a random note generator, though you can generate quasi-random microtimed clouds.
It is a system whose internal logic draws on a century of thinking about how to organize time and pitch with rigor and surprise simultaneously. Future updates will add more logics, but as it stands there are more than 100,000 unique scenarios from which to find material or create textures or new frameworks for whole pieces.
Both plugins are available for macOS and Windows in VST3 and AU formats. For a chance to get a free copy of FOAM and RESERVOIR, leave a comment below before the end of this Thursday June 4th, 2026 (11.59pm CET) and we’ll pick the lucky winner at random from all submitted entries.
Good luck and check the NOMN website for more details on these plugins.
