Aphelion Creative Suite
Professional tools for sound, image, and infinity.
Aphelion builds focused, beautiful software for creators: an audio-visual DAW, a physics-based painting studio, an open-source fractal engine, and a physically simulated film darkroom. Buy once or subscribe. Own your work.
The tools
Four tools. One studio.
Phonon
Audio-Visual DAW · VST3 Host
Where sound finds its furthest orbit.
Helios
Physics-Based Painting Studio
Paint that behaves like actual paint.
Parsec
Fractal Explorer & Renderer · Open Source
Infinite worlds, rendered in real time.
Mothlight
Physically Simulated Darkroom · RAW Developer
Your RAWs, developed. Not filtered.
Free plugins
Two instruments, built on the same engine
Given away, and running on the engine inside Phonon, compiling the same source files the DAW does. Where one is component-modeled, the circuits are solved from real device equations rather than emulated. See all the synths and drums.
Batholith
Component-Modeled Synthesizer · Free Plugin
You had me at Free Synth. Transistors, diodes and triodes solved from their real device equations.
VST3 · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
Lodestone
Component-Modeled Drum Computer · Free Plugin
I said NO SAMPLES!!! Seven voices, every one a solved circuit - no samples, no shortcuts.
VST3 · Windows 64-bit · macOS VST3 and Audio Unit are in development.
Free in the browser
Two studios, nothing to install
Both run entirely in your browser, free, with no account and nothing for sale at the end.
Pretzel
Fifteen colours that agree, and never get confused. Build a set of colours that stay distinct without falling out of harmony, guarded against colour-vision deficiency and a WCAG contrast floor.
Daub
Blue and yellow make green here. 32 pigments, each carrying a full reflectance spectrum, mixed the way oil paint actually mixes. Hand it a colour and it works backwards to a recipe you can follow at the easel.
Free to learn
The theory, the practice, and the argument
Three resources for people making music, open to anyone. No account, no trial, and nothing for sale at the end of any of them.
Battuto
Music theory derived from the physics of sound rather than handed down as rules, written for people who work in a piano roll instead of on a stave. Every claim is either worked out on screen or labelled as convention.
5 courses, 34 lessonsThump
A page for every genre of electronic music: what it is, what it sounds like, the few elements that define it, and how to get them. Each comes with the drum pattern, playable here and downloadable as MIDI.
237 genres, 17 familiesLilt
A melody generator that has never heard of music theory, and eight conventions of melody to hold its output against. A way of seeing what the rules are actually worth, on a machine that follows none of them.
8 conventions, 198 fragmentsBuilt for the craft
Every tool is designed around how the work actually feels: physically modeled, low-latency, and uncompromising on quality.
Yours to keep
Buy a perpetual license or subscribe, your choice. Licenses live in your account and activate on the machines you choose.
One ecosystem
Compose in Phonon, paint in Helios, explore in Parsec, develop in Mothlight. Aphelion Complete brings every tool, and every update, under one subscription.
Everything, together
Get every tool with Aphelion Complete
Aphelion Complete brings the whole orbit together: Phonon's audio-visual studio, Helios's physics-based painting, Parsec's fractal engine, and Mothlight's simulated film darkroom: one subscription, every update, priority support.