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macOS 11 or later · about 10 MB
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Installing
Four steps on macOS
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Open the disk image
Double-click LINTEL-1.19.1.dmg in your Downloads folder. A window opens with the installer inside it.
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Run the installer
It puts the Audio Unit and the VST® 3 in the places macOS expects, which are the Components and VST3 folders in your system Library. Nothing goes anywhere else and nothing runs in the background afterwards.
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If macOS objects
The first launch of anything downloaded can be stopped by Gatekeeper. If you see a warning, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to the LINTEL entry. This is the normal path for a newly released plug-in and you only do it once.
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Restart your DAW
A DAW scans for plug-ins when it starts, so one that was already open will not see LINTEL until you quit and reopen it. Logic rescans on its own; if it does not, hold down the Control key as it launches and choose to reset the plug-in cache.
Loading it
In your DAW
Logic Pro
Put LINTEL in an Audio FX slot on the track carrying the sound you want to capture: Audio Units → Takt Audio Labs → LINTEL. Start the transport, press CAPTURE, and the stretch plays back from there.
Ableton Live
Drag LINTEL onto an audio or MIDI track as an audio effect, after whatever is making the sound. Start playback, press CAPTURE, and it holds those bars.
Recording the result
You record the result through your DAW, which keeps the audio in your session and under your control. Route the track LINTEL sits on to a second track and record that. The capture lives in the moment: reopen a project and you capture again.
The seven days
How the trial runs out
The clock starts the first time you open LINTEL in a DAW, not when you downloaded it. Until it runs out nothing is limited: every stretch mode, all eight grain voices, the full scatter and texture controls, and the reverb, gate and delay in any order.
When the seven days are up, LINTEL passes your audio through untouched and asks for a licence key. Nothing is taken away from you: anything you already recorded onto another track is ordinary audio that belongs to your project, and it plays whether LINTEL is licensed, unlicensed or deleted.
Reinstalling does not reset the clock, and neither does setting your Mac's date back.
After that
Buying a key
A licence is €19 until 3 February 2027, down from €29. Your receipt carries the key.
Paste it into the panel LINTEL shows you and it activates on the spot, which needs the internet. At no other time does it check your licence, except when you release a machine. One purchase covers three machines, and you can release a machine from inside the plug-in yourself when you sell a Mac or replace a drive.