Minimal Audio Poly Flanger Brings Scale-Aware Modulation to Modern Producers

Minimal Audio, whose Evoke plugin snagged an Editor’s Choice Award last year, is back with something that, frankly, feels overdue in the modulation world. Poly Flanger drops February 18, 2026 at an intro price of $29, and it takes one of the most overused effects in electronic music and makes it genuinely useful again. Instead of random sweeps that sit on top of a mix, this thing actually listens to what your track is doing and moves with it. If you are producing melodic house, techno, ambient, pop, or anything harmonic, this is the kind of tool that can turn a flat pad into a living part of the arrangement. Scale-Aware Flanging That Actually Supports Your Harmony Most flangers are cool for motion, but they are rarely in tune with your track. Poly Flanger changes that by locking modulation to scale, rhythm, and pitch, so you can generate arpeggiated patterns and stacked chord movement that stay in key. You set the scale, and the plugin snaps to the closest in-key notes, which means the movement feels intentional instead of accidental. For producers who like building harmony from minimal source material, this is huge. You can take a static chord or even a mono synth line and create multi-voice harmonic motion without touching MIDI. It is especially powerful on sustained pads, vocal textures, and simple stabs that need evolution across eight or sixteen bars. Multi-Voice Depth and Rhythm-Locked Modulation Poly Flanger also goes beyond single-voice sweeps. You can stack multiple flanger voices to build layered resonance, then blend and spread them across the stereo field. That opens up everything from subtle width enhancement to dense harmonic weight that almost feels like a secondary instrument inside your mix. On the modulation side, you get multiple LFO shapes, randomization, stereo movement, and the ability to quantize motion to your DAW’s tempo grid. The fact that modulation can be rhythm-locked and scale-aware means even experimental settings still land musically. You can design risers, transitions, and evolving textures that feel connected to the track’s harmonic structure instead of floating above it. There are also 80 musically-tuned presets built around harmonic flanging, chord voicings, and rhythmic movement, which makes it easy to audition ideas fast when you are in a writing session. At $29 intro and $49 full price, Poly Flanger feels like one of those plugins that will quietly become a go-to utility in your effects folder. If you are tired of modulation that feels decorative instead of compositional, this is worth a serious look. The post Minimal Audio Poly Flanger Brings Scale-Aware Modulation to Modern Producers appeared first on Magnetic Magazine.