Name: Desert D
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 59.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Desert D DD-320 - Desert Moon Audio plug-in

Stereo Dimension Chorus

Width without wobble, and it folds away in mono

Desert D is a stereo dimension chorus plugin for Mac and PC: two bucket-brigade delay lines swept in opposite directions that make a sound wider without making it wobble.

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Full version, free for 14 days. No payment details needed.

Works with all major DAWs

AU / VST3 / AAX for Mac · VST3 / AAX for PC

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Instant download after purchase

Hear the difference

Press play to hear it through Desert D. Tap DRY for the original, at the same moment. The width is the effect, so headphones show it best.

Keys

Electric

Acoustic

Mandolin

Where it goes

Pads, guitars, vocal stacks, the mix bus. Four of the places it lives, each with a demo above.

Pads and keys
The classic job. A synth pad or an electric piano gets wide and slow-moving, and sits behind a vocal without crowding it.
Hear it on keys
Clean electric
Mode 1 on a clean guitar is the sound of a hundred records: wider, a touch deeper, no wobble.
Hear it on guitar
Acoustic
Spread a strummed part across the speakers and keep the pick attack in the middle.
Hear it on acoustic
Mandolin and strings
A thin, bright part gets body and width without a hint of pitch wobble. On a send with WET ONLY, the same trick works on a vocal stack.
Hear it on mandolin

About Desert D

Desert D is a stereo dimension chorus: two bucket-brigade delay lines, one per channel, swept slowly in opposite directions, a compander around each, and an output matrix that adds each line's copy to its own channel and subtracts it, above 160 Hz, from the other. The effect lives in the difference between the speakers rather than in either of them, so a sound gets wider and a little deeper and nothing else seems to change.

None of it is a chorus tuned to sound like one. The delay lines are true bucket brigades, 1024 stages clocked at 40–100 kHz, so when the LFO speeds the clock up the pitch moves by the same physics as an analog line. The compander is a feedback compressor and a feed-forward expander built stage by stage, which is where the faint grit on transients and the breathing come from.

The front unit is four mode buttons, DOUBLE and POWER. Below it, a lower panel adds everything else, and every control there rests at the front unit's own setting, so an untouched Desert D sounds exactly like its four buttons.

Key features

Four modes, fifteen shades
Mode 1 sweeps 8–12 ms on a 4 s LFO, mode 2 sweeps 5–10 ms, mode 3 sweeps 6–9 ms at twice the rate, and mode 4 is mode 3 with the wet 10 dB louder. Hold buttons in together for every combination in between.
The output matrix
Anti-phase cross-feed above 160 Hz puts the effect between the speakers and makes it fold away cleanly in mono. DIMENSION sets how much; at zero it is an ordinary stereo chorus.
WIDTH past the speakers
Scale the stereo difference of the effect from mono up to 200%.
DOUBLE
A second complete unit in series, its LFO a quarter cycle behind the first, for the widest sound Desert D makes.
Modulation trims
RATE, DEPTH, SHAPE and TIME around each mode’s own LFO, four waves (triangle, sine, ramp and random) and tempo sync from four bars down to an eighth note.
The circuit, adjustable
AGE narrows the line and raises its hiss, COMPANDER switches the compander in or out, NOISE adds the line’s breathing, and INPUT drives the line into its headroom for a thickening that never touches the dry.
Made for sends and mixes
WET ONLY, a MIX control, AUTO GAIN for a level-matched bypass, and a mono input that keeps a mono source centred.
18 factory presets
Every mode on its own, plus Vocal Halo, Pad Bloom, Bass Fattener, Clean Guitar Spread, Drum Bus Air, Synth Stack, Half-Bar Sway, Wide Send and more.

Desert D panel, with its controls numbered

The panel at a glance

Double A second unit in series, with its own lamp.
Dimension mode Off and buttons 1 to 4, in any combination.
Output level Ten LEDs, 0 dB at the unit's nominal level.
Power The host's bypass, with the pilot lamp.
Panel Folds open the lower panel: the LFO, the output matrix, the circuit's age, compander and noise, and oversampling.

More details

Yes — 14 days, fully featured, from the first time the plugin loads. Every control, no interruptions and no signup. When the trial ends, audio passes through dry until a license is entered, so your sessions always open.

Yes. It's a one-off purchase, not a subscription, and there's nothing to renew. Updates to a plugin you own are free — download the current installer and run it over the top.

Every plugin is sold on its own, so you can buy just the one you want.

Your license covers up to 4 computers you personally own — studio desktop, laptop, spares. Enter the same key on each; the first activation on a machine takes one quick internet check; after that it works offline, apart from a once-a-day check for a newer version. Moving on from a computer? Deactivate This Machine in the plugin's preset menu hands the seat back, and if a machine dies before you can, just ask us.

Your download link and license key are in the order confirmation email sent at purchase. Run the installer, open Desert D, click the trial notice on the panel, paste the key — done.

Can’t find the email? Check spam, then write to info@desertmoonaudio.com and we’ll resend it.

Yes — after activation. Entering your license key needs an internet connection once; from then on it works offline — the only other time it goes online is a once-a-day check for a newer version.

Tech specs

Mac: AU, VST3 and AAX — universal, native on Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 10.15 or later.

Windows: VST3 and AAX, 64-bit Windows 10 or later.

DAWs: All major DAWs — Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper and Reason.

Engine: two 1024-stage bucket-brigade delay lines clocked at 40–100 kHz in anti-phase, a two-stage compander per line and an anti-phase output matrix, with 1×, 2× or 4× oversampling — 44.1 to 192 kHz. Zero latency.

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