Ed Martinez
Velvet Machine is simple but not ordinary. It is one of several plugins designed by Yuri Turov which manipulates a sound by stretching and blurring it, somewhat similar to continuous reverb.
The best kept secret of the iOS platform, Zeeon from BeepStreet runs like a charm on Mac and macOS too.
What can you expect from a $100 MIDI controller? It's small, it's compact, but the MiniLab 3 is made by Arturia and that counts for a lot.
It started with a Roland Juno-106. Thousands of dollars later, I had all this beautiful analog gear and couldn't write a note on it. A year in analog hell by Ed Martinez.