BRING THE HEAT
Chainix Raw
One-Knob FX Chain
"Run your sound through a whole curated rack — saturation, glue, width, delay, and reverb space — all scaled together and level-matched. Zero-latency."
Chainix Raw is the free, one-knob version of Chainix. A single CHAIN macro drives a fixed, level-matched rack — saturation, glue compression, stereo width, delay, and reverb space — all scaled together, so your sound just gets bigger without a volume jump. Free forever, signed and notarized for macOS.
WHAT IT DOES
Chainix Raw runs your sound through a whole curated rack — the same FX engine from the full Chainix. Warm Tape saturation, glue compression, stereo width, a touch of delay, and reverb space all open together as you turn one knob. The rack is level-matched as it opens, so it just gets bigger, never just louder. Zero-latency, so it sits anywhere in your chain.
THE CHAIN KNOB
CHAIN is a single macro that scales the whole rack together. At low settings you get gentle warmth and glue. Push it and saturation, width, delay, and reverb all ramp up in proportion — front-loaded so the early travel is musical. The rack stays level-matched as it opens — each module's mix and a gentle output trim hold the loudness steady — so your A/B comparison is honest.
UNDER THE HOOD
Fixed signal chain — the macro runs a set order every block: Saturate, then Compress, then Chorus width, then a tempo-synced slap Delay, then Reverb space, all scaled together from the one value.
Warm saturation and glue — a Tape-mode tanh waveshaper with a tape roll-off warms the signal, while a peak-detecting glue compressor with automatic makeup is driven in parallel by the macro.
DC blocker and safety ceiling — a 5 Hz high-pass runs on the output, followed by a tanh soft ceiling clamped for 0 dBFS-ish safety, plus NaN/Inf guarding that resets DSP state if non-finite output is detected.
Zero latency — no oversampling, no look-ahead, no FFT, so reported latency is a constant 0 samples and the plugin sits anywhere in the chain without delaying the signal.
One knob, hidden targets — only CHAIN appears in the host automation list; every internal chain amount (Drive, Glue, Width, Delay, Space, Mix, Output, Bypass) is wrapped as non-automatable but still saved and restored with plugin state.
INSTALL IN 30 SECONDS
DOWNLOAD THE .PKG
Click Download Free above. Double-click the .pkg file to run the installer.
CHOOSE YOUR FORMATS
The installer lets you pick AU (Logic, GarageBand, Ableton), VST3 (Ableton, Reaper, Bitwig, FL Studio), and the Standalone app. Install takes a few seconds.
OPEN YOUR DAW
Restart your DAW and rescan plugins. Find Chainix Raw under Remi Blaze in your plugin list.
UPGRADE TO CHAINIX
Love the rack? The full Chainix lets you build your own.
The Pro version gives you 8 drag-reorderable FX modules (saturate, filter, compress, crush, chorus, delay, reverb, noise), the Hex Pad XY performance controller, PHAT and TRASH macros, the Flux modulation engine, Sub-Anchor crossover, chain seeds, and a full set of factory presets.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Yes. Chainix Raw is completely free — freeware, no trial, no nag screens, no expiration.
CHAIN is a macro that runs your sound through a whole curated rack at once — warm saturation, glue compression, stereo width, a touch of delay and reverb space — all scaled together and front-loaded. The rack is level-matched as it opens, so it just gets bigger, with no volume jump.
Chainix Raw gives you the curated FX rack behind a single, level-matched CHAIN knob. The full Chainix lets you reorder all 8 modules, dial every effect by hand, add bit-crush and noise, and includes the Hex Pad performance controller, macros, and factory presets.
No. Chainix Raw is zero-latency — no oversampling, no look-ahead — so it sits anywhere in your chain without delaying the signal.
Yes. Chainix Raw is a Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs.
Yes — CHAIN is the single host-automatable control, so you can automate the whole rack from one lane. Every internal chain amount (Drive, Glue, Width, Delay, Space, Mix, Output, Bypass) is wrapped as a hidden, non-automatable parameter driven by the macro, so the host automation list stays clean.
No. Chainix Raw is a complete, free, working plugin — one CHAIN knob runs a full level-matched FX rack. The full Chainix just adds more control: reorderable modules, hands-on dialing of every effect, bit-crush and noise, the Hex Pad controller, macros, and factory presets.
GET THE REST FREE
Chainix Raw is part of the Blaze Essentials pack — 32 free one-knob plugins. Grab them all.
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