What is Vaporate Raw?
In Vaporate Raw, one VAPOR knob turns any sound into a lush, moving spectral wash. A real FFT (STFT) spectral engine dissolves your signal into an ambient smear of mist and air: sharp transients and hard edges melt into soft, ever-evolving texture. No menus, no setup: feed it audio, turn up VAPOR, and vaporize. Made for vocals, pads, synths, and FX returns.
Quick start
Get a result with Vaporate Raw in under a minute.
- Insert it. Put Vaporate Raw on the track or bus you want to change.
- Turn VAPOR up. Raise VAPOR until it sounds right.
- Compare. Bypass the plugin in your DAW to hear the difference.
The interface
Controls
Header
- 1Fire Head: click the flame logo to open the About panel: what the plugin is, who made it and the trademark notices. Click anywhere in the panel to close it.
The knob
- 2VAPOR: one macro that drives smear, blur, stereo spread, feedback, and a gentle darkening tilt all at once. At low settings, you get subtle atmosphere: a soft halo of air around your signal. Push it further and the sound melts into a lush, ever-moving wash where individual notes blur into continuous texture.
Key specs*
| FFT overlap-add spectral engine | A real short-time Fourier transform (STFT) with a Hann window and 4× overlap (hop = FFT/4) drives all the spectral processing. |
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| Per-bin spectral processing | Smear (phase randomization), blur (inter-frame magnitude leakage), tilt (spectral EQ), and stereo spread (per-bin decorrelation with a low-band mono lock) are applied bin by bin, then resynthesized. |
| Energy conservation | When smear or tilt changes the spectral energy, the frame is renormalized so the level stays consistent as you push the knob. |
| Constant latency | The FFT size is pinned to 2048, so the reported latency never changes while you sweep and the host always gets a stable figure with no mid-stream hiccups. |
| Output safety | The dry/wet mix with a small output bias for headroom is followed by a soft clipper and a NaN/Inf-safe hard limiter, and the DC and Nyquist bins are zeroed each frame to keep the wash clean. |
| Controls | One knob, VAPOR |
| Formats | macOS: AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX, Standalone. Windows: VST3, CLAP, Standalone |
* Key specs from the plugin page. Some specs may not be listed.
How do I use Vaporate Raw on a track?
- Insert it. Put Vaporate Raw on the track or bus you want to change.
- Turn VAPOR up. Raise VAPOR until it sounds right. At low settings, you get subtle atmosphere: a soft halo of air around your signal. Push it further and the sound melts into a lush, ever-moving wash where individual notes blur into continuous texture.
- Automate it. VAPOR is the only control your DAW can automate, so one automation lane covers it.
What about the full Vaporate?
Love the wash? The full Vaporate goes deeper. The Pro version adds Smear, Blur, Spread, Feedback, Tilt, and Drift controls, spectral Freeze for infinite sustain, and 22 factory presets tuned for ambient, tech house, and sound design. Every control is explained in the Vaporate manual.
Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
These work in every Vaporate Raw format (AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX, Standalone).
| Reset a control to its default | Double-click the knob or slider |
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| Scroll to change a value | Hover over a knob and scroll the mouse wheel |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Vaporate Raw free?
Yes. Vaporate Raw is completely free: freeware, no trial, no nag screens, no expiration.
What does the VAPOR knob do?
VAPOR is one macro that drives smear, blur, stereo spread, feedback, and a gentle darkening tilt at once. At low settings you get subtle atmosphere and air. Push it and the sound melts into a lush, ever-moving wash.
How is Vaporate Raw different from Vaporate (Pro)?
Vaporate Raw gives you the FFT spectral engine behind a single VAPOR macro knob. The full Vaporate adds Smear, Blur, Spread, Feedback, Tilt, and Drift controls, spectral Freeze, and 22 factory presets.
Does Vaporate Raw run on Apple Silicon and Windows?
Yes. Vaporate Raw is a Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs, and ships as a 64-bit build for Windows 10 and 11.
Does Vaporate Raw add latency?
The latency-determining FFT size is pinned to a fixed value (2048), so the reported latency never changes while you sweep VAPOR and your host always gets a stable latency figure with no mid-stream playback hiccups.
Can I automate Vaporate Raw?
Yes: the single VAPOR knob is the only host-automatable parameter, so your automation list stays a single knob. Every hidden spectral parameter is wrapped so it never clutters automation, yet all state is still saved and restored with your session.
Where can I find more about Vaporate Raw?
On the Vaporate Raw page: its features, system requirements and how to get it.
How do I get and install Vaporate Raw?
- Get it. Vaporate Raw is free. Get it from the Vaporate Raw page.
- Run the installer. On macOS, double-click the .pkg file and choose AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX or Standalone. On Windows, run the .exe installer and choose VST3, CLAP or Standalone.
- Open your DAW. Restart your DAW and rescan plugins if needed, then find Vaporate Raw under Remi Blaze in your plugin list.
More about Vaporate Raw, including its features and system requirements, is on the Vaporate Raw page.
Where are the plugin files?
If you need to find Vaporate Raw on disk, for example to troubleshoot or to uninstall it manually, these are the standard locations.
| macOS AU | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ |
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| macOS VST3 | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ |
| macOS CLAP | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/ |
| macOS AAX | /Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/ |
| Windows VST3 | C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ |
| Windows CLAP | C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\ |
To uninstall, quit your DAW and delete the Vaporate Raw file from the relevant folder. Your DAW will stop listing it on its next rescan.
Need help with Vaporate Raw?
If something isn't covered here, or Vaporate Raw doesn't behave as described, contact support or email support@remiblaze.com. To get an answer faster, include:
- your operating system and version (for example macOS 15.6 or Windows 11)
- your DAW and its version
- the format you're using (AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX or Standalone)
- the version you installed (shown in the installer and in your download), since the About panel of every Raw shows v1.0.0
- what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead
This manual is for Vaporate Raw 1.0.1. Controls and settings can change between versions, so if something here doesn't match what you see, check the version shown in your installer or download. Spotted a mistake or have a question? Let us know.