About RatHound

I’m Craig Cowden, the person behind RatHound.

I’ve always bounced between art, music, design, and technology, and RatHound is where all of those interests finally collide. My background includes visual art, 3D design, UI/UX, web development, and a long-running obsession with electronic music and sound design.

I make music myself, especially on the deeper, bass-heavy side of electronic music, and a lot of RatHound starts with a simple thought: “I wish I had a plugin that did this.” So I build one.

I’m especially interested in tools that feel immediate and creative instead of overly technical. I like weird movement, heavy low end, dubby effects, strange textures, imperfect sounds, and plugins that can turn a basic idea into something you wouldn’t have come up with otherwise.

RatHound is an independent project, so there isn’t a giant team behind the curtain. It’s mostly me designing, coding, testing, breaking things, fixing them, making music with them, and deciding they need one more knob.

I’m building the kinds of tools I want to use myself, and hopefully other producers have fun making noise with them too.

— Craig