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Klanghelm DC1A
Klanghelm
DC1A is the little brother of the compression monster DC8C. I've taken a few of my favorite settings from DC8C and tried to make it work in a two control context. Sound wise it's comparable to the PUNCH mode in DC8C but offers a few additional features, such as negative ratio and stereo unlink. I've always wanted to do a compressor with just an input and output knob, a compressor that just works, gentle, faithful, from almost invisible, smooth leveling to heavy pumping with a nice crunchy saturation and punchy enough to treat drums with. DC1A looks like a one trick pony. But don't get fooled by the lack of additional controls. You may be surprised on how many different material this little thing works. DC1A has a few tricks up its sleeve: negative (over) compression, parallel (New York style) compression, option to compress left and right channel independently (via the DUAL MONO switch), peak and RMS compression (RELAXED switch on) and DEEP activates a high pass filter. -
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Klanghelm VUMT
Klanghelm
Painstakingly modeled behavior and recreation of the general ballistics of classic VU meters. The RMS mode can be set to K-12, K-14 and K-20 scales and offers an integrated peak bargraph. The Meter ballistics are fully customizable. The VU even has a unique overshoot parameter. VUMT offers dedicated trim controls to make gain staging easy. GUI-resizing and various options to hide the controls from the GUI and show the meters only and/or a single meter display. VUMT offers eight different skins to choose from. An editable instance label is also included. In addition to all the features of the standard version VUMT deluxe offers more metering types (BBC, DIN, Nordic) plus various channel tools, such as Mute and Polarity reverse buttons, a monitor section and various signal processing tools. HighPass and LowPass Filters, a single band dynamic EQ with various filter types, useful to remove resonances or for de-essing and a mono maker to narrow the stereo image below a certain frequency.Starting Price: €14 one-time payment -
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Klanghelm DC8C
Klanghelm
DC8C is one of the most flexible compressors around. While making a lot of different compression styles possible, it's general nature may be described as clear, smooth, open, distinct. The main goal while designing DC8C was to get a very clean compressor action without unwanted and often almost inevitable artifacts/distortion. This way you can achieve almost invisible compression for your most demanding mastering sessions, when you want to avoid coloration. If you aim for color you can choose between two saturation models. From opto-style, peak compression, external side-chaining, RMS compression, feedback, feedforward compression (and everything in-between) to negative ratios, zero latency brick-wall limiting, from snappy transient treatment to smooth transient rounding, everything is possible.Starting Price: €23 one-time payment -
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Klanghelm SDRR
Klanghelm
SDRR was built to satisfy almost all of your saturation desires. It provides a comprehensive set of controls to manipulate the character of the saturation to make it fit exactly. SDRR offers four different main modes, TUBE, DIGI, FUZZ, DESK and reacts dynamically to the input signal. Each mode has its unique crosstalk behavior, which can be switched off or exaggerated. A unique RMS level difference metering mode makes level matching an easy task. SDRR can be different things, a saturation, a compressor, an EQ, a bit-crusher, a subtle stereo widener, or simply add some movement to your tracks with the DRIFT control. Add warmth, depth and character to your tracks with SDRR. Don't forget to check out the free IVGI, which can be seen as the little brother of SDRR. It is based on the DESK mode in SDRR. SDRR is available for macOS and Windows (all included in one single license).Starting Price: €23 one-time payment -
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Klanghelm MJUC
Klanghelm
MJUC is the most effortful Klanghelm plugin to date. It took almost two years of extensive, dare I say "excessive", research and development. To create MJUC I've researched and analyzed each and every variable-mu implementation I could get my hands on to get the best of tube compression into a single processor. In order to do the diversity of this compression topology justice, three different models have been built. These are kind of a time travel though the history of tube compression to capture the essence of each generation. Each model has its own dedicated signal path and dedicated control set. If desired you can tweak the overall tone and saturation of each model with the unique TIMBRE and the DRIVE knob. DRIVE controls the load of the input and output transformers as well as the saturation of the tube gain stages, if applicable. The TIMBRE extends MJUC's use as a tone shaper.Starting Price: €24 one-time payment -
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VladG Limiter No6
Tokyo Dawn Records
5 modules, RMS compressor, peak limiter, high-frequency limiter, clipper, true peak limiter. High-quality signal processing to use for mastering purposes. Brickwall and soft limiting with different timing settings. M/S and multiband modes, optional 4x oversampling, true inter-sample peaks (ISP) limiting, analog-style indication, 2 different GUIs. Analog-style indicators are used to show the level of signal limiting in corresponding module. Indicator scales are in dB format. Rightmost position means 0 dB of signal limiting. In some host applications, there can be problems with using the mouse wheel to change parameters. In the Windows version, in order to use the mouse wheel, the plugin window must be active (to activate the window, you should click on the window header or at any point in the plugin's window background). -
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SyndtSphere
Klevgrand
A unique way of surfing between sounds. SyndtSphere is basically a sphere version of our polyphonic synthesizer Syndt. With a minimalistic approach, it features a unique experience of ”surfing” between presets. All parameters are morphed according to the proximity of the different presets. By rotating a sphere that consists of more than 70 professionally created states, anyone can dial in the perfect sound without having to deal with specific parameters. In addition to the sphere, a ping-pong delay and a few more global settings are available. Highly innovative interface, seamlessly browse between 70+ professionally made presets. Requires macOS 10.9 or later, Windows 7 (SP1) or later, running a AU or VST compatible 64-bit host. Requires iOS 9.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The different nodes represent presets. When you're between these nodes, the parameters are morphed according to the proximity of all surrounding nodes. -
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Kleverb
Kleverb
Kleverb is a high quality algorithmic reverb effect. An intuitive UI combined with a carefully calibrated network of filters and delays makes this a powerful effect useful in any context; all from acoustic jazz to EDM. With three different room size setups (small, medium, large), selectable filter on both early and late reflections, modulation, damping, diffusion and much more, almost any kind of room can be simulated. There is also a ducker included that uses the dry signal as side-chain. Very useful to keep vocals or other solo instruments distinct even when they're soaking wet. The 64 factory presets covers most of the Kleverb features.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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Klevgrand Slammer
Kleverb
Slammer is a multi-sampled drum plug-in that contains 30 different instruments made from a large number of carefully recorded and edited samples. Integrated custom-built real-time effects combined with some clever routing makes Slammer a versatile and flexible virtual instrument that is capable of rendering anything from natural acoustic to heavily distorted and compressed drum sounds. Each sound can be customized with a wide array of settings like pitch, filtering, effect sends, decay time, velocity mapping and much more. There’s also a “Dirt” section for distortion and compression, a reverb and tone control. The amount of “dirt” and reverb can be tweaked individually for each instrument. On top of all, Slammer comes with a set of factory presets, covering anything from light and slick to heavy and gritty. If you're looking for a drum instrument, giving you 'instant gratification' from the first hit, this is it.Starting Price: $39.99 one-time payment -
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DAW Cassette
Kleverb
DAW Cassette brings back the magic era of the 1980:s by emulating the sound of a tape deck. Saturation, distortion, noise, wobble, it's all there. While there's no real rational logic to it, the sound color gives us chills down the spines, (or it might be the mullet haircut that tickles). Fresh. Choose your preferred level of cassetteness with the different controls for input/output gain, tape/motor/head quality and tape/noise type. Now, look in the mirror and get stunned by your new mullet haircut. Choose between three different tape types (Normal, Chrome, Metal). Additional input gain, output gain and dry/wet mix parameters. Different types of cassette tape, as well as Noise reduction emulation. Choose between three different tape types (Normal, Chrome, Metal). Control the noise level with noise reduction emulation (including a noise-free option). Tape-, head- and motor quality knobs for dialling in the perfect sound. Additional input gain, output gain and dry/wet mix parameters.Starting Price: $39.99 one-time payment -
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Knorr
Kleverb
Knorr is a plugin that adds intensity and edge to a monophonic low frequency audio source (like a bass). The algorithm adds overtones to an existing sound in a way that isn’t possible with ordinary distortion or filtering. The underlying algorithm uses a combination of filtering, amplitude- and frequency modulation to process incoming audio. Knorr is developed with bass sounds in mind, but can be used on any monophonic sound source as long as there is audio content available in the low mids. Unique algorithm that adds overtones to the original sound in a way that can't be done using other bass-shaping methods. Good for all monophonic instruments within the bass - low mid range.Starting Price: $29.99 one-time payment -
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Korvpressor
Kleverb
If you work with audio, you will eventually need a good compressor in your toolbox. Korvpressor is an adaptive compressor/limiter, designed for all purposes in audio treatment. It has a super-simple UI with a unique approach on how to tame and visualize a compressor, now also with some added controls to make it even more versatile. The basic controls are still minimalistic – set the input gain, level of compression, and output gain. The compression algorithm was designed with transparency in mind, and Korvpressor will sound great on almost any kind of sound; all from a vocal track to a full-blown mix. If you push it even harder, it gives a nice squeezing effect. This is the main control of Korvpressor. Imagine that you're pinching the sound waves, so the more squeeze you want, the further down you should go with this handle. A musical and versatile EQ to fine-tune your finished sausages.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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Haaze 2
Kleverb
The upgraded Haaze v2 from Klevgrand is an elegant solution for controlling stereo width and spatially positioning a sound in a stereo mix. Regular L-R panning is a weak tool that doesn't resemble real-world acoustics, which becomes clear when trying to place a mono sound naturally in a stereo mix (especially on headphones). The result still feels very "mono". Haaze is an audio plugin that makes the positioning feel more natural, understandable and pleasant for the ears. It splits the audio signal into 16 frequency bands. On each band, you can delay the left or right signal (which will make the listener believe the sound arrives from the side that’s reaching the ear first), pan it to the left or right, or adjust the overall width on that band (for example, make the lower frequencies more focused in the middle than the higher). Haaze can also diffuse a mono signal and make it wider. If this sounds complicated.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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Klevgrand LUXE
Kleverb
LUXE is an effect plugin that compresses and saturates an audio signal in a quite subtle but musical way. It is very useful for making a track "fit in the mix", and can be used with very good results on a drum bus, a vocal track or anything in between. LUXE is very easy to use – simply choose between the LUXE or FINESSE algorithms, and set the desired processing level. Don't be fooled by the modest control possibilities - under the hood is a very sophisticated set of parameters that will treat your incoming audio with great care, musicality and warmth. The slider sets the amount of the effect. Under the hood this parameter controls a set of internal (non-visible) parameters which makes LUXE an easy tool to use for quick results. The alternate FINESSE algorithm offers a slightly different frequency response, and also adds some edge to the internal saturation module.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Modley
Kleverb
Modley is a modulation delay with effect insert capabilities, which lets you design the whole delay signal with several carefully selected effect modules to create unique signal flows. The idea behind Modley is to push the boundaries of what a delay effect is capable of – only your imagination sets the limits! While Modley sure can be used to do all the traditional tricks - stereo delay, tape delay, short slapback delay etc., its true potential lies within the variety of unexpected effect modules that can be applied. New feedback mode, controls the behaviour of loop insert effects. The filter insert now features a bandpass type. New bitcrusher insert effect. Freeze function, with pre- or post-loop processing. Lots of presets to kickstart the creative flow. The first row is the Pre rack – all effects inserted here will process the incoming audio before entering the Loop rack.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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REAMP
Kleverb
REAMP is a complex spectral saturation processor, simulating a set of different analog gear in a new and unique way. Benefits of this algorithm is that it is highly CPU efficient and adds (almost) no latency. The seven models available are based on real analog gear, individually measured in two dimensions; gain responses (-inf dB to +6 dB) at the frequency spectrum 20Hz to 20kHz. This data is used to transform input audio to output audio. A four-band spectral drive allows you to let the unit work even more. Seven handpicked profiles based on gear we love. Plenty of factory presets. Ultra low latency.Starting Price: $59.99 one-time payment -
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dearVR PRO
Dear Reality
Bring your mix to the next level with our state-of-the-art spatializer plugin. Experience total control whether mixing in binaural, Ambisonics or multi-channel speaker formats. dearVR PRO is the all-in-one spatializing solution for professional audio productions offering state-of-the-art binaural, Ambisonics, and 26 multi-channel loudspeaker output formats up to 9.1.6. The dearVR VHSP technology combines the ultra-realistic room and distance simulation with the groundbreaking virtual height speaker perception for 5.1 and 7.1 setups. Place your listener in the center of the sound! Drag your mouse around using the plugin’s graphical XYZ-pad to position audio sources anywhere in the immersive soundstage surrounding the listener. Behind or in front, above or below, to the left or right, closer or farther away - dearVR PRO gives you a full 360° immersive panner.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment -
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dearVR MUSIC
Dear Reality
All dearVR spatializer plugins rely on the advanced dearVR CORE engine, resulting in best-in-class externalization and true-to-life immersion. Create immersive mixes with a true perception of direction, distance, reflections, and reverb. Hear how dearVR MUSIC will add depth and detail to your music, post-production, and VR video production. dearVR MUSIC renders high-quality 3D audio for the most common immersive audio productions. Use the binaural output to listen to your mixes in mind-blowing 3D audio on any earbuds and headphones. The 4-channel Ambisonics format outputs spatial audio for YouTube 360° video soundtracks. You can also use dearVR MUSIC's beautiful virtual environments as conventional reverbs in stereo format, doubling their music production usefulness.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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dearVR MIX
Dear Reality
It's no big secret: creating a great mix is easier in a perfect mix room. With dearVR MIX, your mixes translate reliably to any sound system, whether you're producing rock, pop, R&B, classical music, or your podcast. Relying on Dear Reality's outstanding virtual acoustics engine, dearVR MIX creates ultra-realistic environments without any drawbacks known from the physical world. Dear Reality's Spatial Headphone Compensation technology (SHC) ensures the best binaural playback experience with the highest degree of out-of-head-localization by compensating the individual sound characteristics of different headphones. dearVR MIX turns your favorite studio headphones into an ultimate mixing environment, offering three carefully designed virtual reference rooms. Dear Reality's unique technology currently supports the 45 most used professional studio headphones. Each model has been carefully optimized by the Dear Reality team.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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dearVR MONITOR
Dear Reality
With dearVR MONITOR, you get access to your own virtual reference-grade mix room over headphones. Don’t limit yourself anymore by poor room acoustics or missing speaker setups. dearVR MONITOR combines the analytic advantages of headphone listening, such as high detail resolution and good spatial representation, with the perception of mixing in a perfectly matched mix room. Don’t get disturbed anymore by surrounding noise and focus on your production. Discover Dear Reality’s outstanding virtual acoustics headphone technology delivering you a personal acoustic reference you can rely on. With dearVR MONITOR, you quickly adapt the virtual mix room to your taste and needs using the ambience and the focus parameter. Set the right amount of diffusion and, therefore, the vividness of the mix room with ambience.Starting Price: $249 one-time payment -
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FAST Bundle
The Collective
An innovative set of AI-driven tools to make your music-making process faster than ever. Save with the FAST Bundle, including FAST Equaliser, FAST Compressor, FAST Reveal, and FAST Verb. It’s time to discover your sound with these intuitive, AI-driven plug-ins. Need to add some depth to your song? FAST Verb’s AI will fill your mixes with the right reverb and place your instruments in a realistic or unworldly space. Ever get stuck placing sounds in your mix? FAST Equaliser automatically tailors the EQ curve so you can sound your best. Spending too much time tweaking your compressor? FAST Compressor dials in optimal settings so you can stay in the zone. Having trouble balancing competing sounds? FAST Reveal provides the clarity you need to make your mixes shine. Get your tracks ready to be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music. You can use the different profiles available to help the plugin learn the best parameters for your chosen sound.Starting Price: $5.99 per month -
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Orb Producer Suite
Orb Plugins
AI computing infinite patterns, melodies, and basslines. Use state-of-the-art technology to create amazing musical patterns and loops. With a modern, powerful but simple User Interface, control every parameter, and the magic happens. Orb Producer Suite works on all DAWs (except Protools), VST2/VST3 and AU/AUFX formats are provided. A simple drag and drop and the MIDI is in your DAW. Incredibly simple to integrate into your workflow. Unique software for musicians, DJs, recording studios, and film, and digital audio makers. The new Orb Chords allows you to create an unlimited amount of original chord progressions. You can customize everything, add colors, dissonance, and more. The melody maker plugin gives you unlimited melody ideas. It also supplies useful controllers and options to get the perfect melody for your music! Get instant melodies now! The Bass module analyzes the entire harmony and proposes the best bass lines for your song. Now you have a bassist friend.Starting Price: €49 one-time payment -
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Dreamtonics Synthesizer V
Dreamtonics
Warmth and tonality are hallmarks of the human singing voice. Behind the scenes, Synthesize V leverages a deep neural network-based synthesis engine capable of generating incredibly life-like singing voices. Plus, unlike other solutions that utilize neural networks, our first-of-its-kind synthesizer is 100% offline yet runs at lightning-fast speeds. Bad connection? No worries, you will never lose access to your work. Experiment with an expanding inventory of voices ready to plug and play with Synthesizer V Studio. Dive deeper and customize voices with dynamic vocal modes like chest, belt, and breathy. Visualize your modifications in waveforms in real-time via the live rendering feature, helping you minimize hearing fatigue and reduce the idea-to-sound cycle. Synthesizer V AI voices are available natively in English, Japanese and Chinese. Plus, the cross-lingual synthesis feature breaks the language barrier, empowering any voice to sing in any of our three languages!Starting Price: $79 one-time payment -
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Emvoice
Emvoice
Usually, vocal synthesis requires complex modeling algorithms that run on your host computer. This technology has not yet reached a fully-accurate level of realism and has been stagnating for quite some time. Emvoice takes a different approach. We've broken record vocals down to the granular level, recording the elements that make up individual phonemes at multiple pitches. Thousands of samples are reconstructed by a sophisticated cloud-based engine that returns the complete vocal to your system over the internet. What you're hearing when you listen to Emvoice One isn't artificial, it's a real singer's voice interpreting your own words. The Emvoice One plugin makes it easy to program notes and tie words to them, and the Emvoice engine does the hard work behind the scenes to recombine phonemes, but there's one more layer to how Emvoice works. Our engine translates English-language words into phonemes to more easily speak to the Emvoice, and also offers multiple pronunciation options.Starting Price: $69 one-time payment -
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Kontakt
Native Instruments
Imagine any sound, Kontakt lets you find it, create it, and transform it. The latest edition of our revolutionary sampling platform combines a brand-new set of intelligent tools with countless sound design options, redefining how you generate ideas and make music. Kontakt hosts the world’s largest range of virtual instruments. With thousands of libraries, it's the gateway to quality sound from Native Instruments, our official partners, and scores of indie developers. Plus, everything is completely tweakable, so you can make any sound your own. Our most feature-packed release yet is here to transform the way you generate, modulate, and playback sound. Plus, it’s packed with performance updates so you can work faster than ever. Tools add a completely new layer of creative features to get the ideas flowing. They also work with any Kontakt instrument, old and new. For our first drop, we’re launching MIDI content and randomization features with chords and phrases.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment -
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Cubasis
Steinberg
Cubasis is a mobile digital audio workstation developed by Steinberg, designed for iOS, Android, and Chrome OS devices. It enables users to quickly capture musical ideas and transform them into professional-sounding songs. The app offers a comprehensive set of features, including a full-screen mixer with professional-grade effects, a wide range of pro-grade plug-ins such as channel strip and studio EQ effects, and flexible routing options via group tracks. Users can perform, record, mix, and share their music efficiently, whether on an iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone, tablet, or Chromebook. Cubasis provides a familiar Cubase design and feel, ensuring a seamless experience for users transitioning from desktop to mobile platforms. The app includes an integrated keyboard, chord, and drum pads, and supports third-party instruments. Additionally, Cubasis allows for easy sharing of tracks through email, Dropbox, and Google Drive.Starting Price: $49.99 one-time payment -
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Nanologue
Steinberg
Nanologue brings the power of VST 3 technology to the iOS platform. As a streamlined version of the acclaimed VST 3 synthesizer Retrologue, Nanologue sports a straightforward multi-touch interface and a great-sounding virtual analog synthesizer for monophonic leads and basses and can be used stand-alone and in connection with your iOS host application. Boasting a wide scope of inspiring sounds and professional sound effects, the Nanologue is your first-choice monophonic synthesizer for all things music on iOS. Under the hood, Nanologue boasts a cross-modulation oscillator with two waveforms, glide, a VCF envelope, LFO, delay, and a filter section with cutoff, resonance, and distortion. With 50 presets the library offers a range of sounds and effects including leads, booming basses, and astonishing effects. User presets can be exported to the Retrologue VST instrument, included in Cubase and Cubase Artist. -
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Maschine
Native Instruments
Maschine is all about getting your musical ideas flowing. It’s there every step of the way from beat-making and sampling to arranging and performing your tracks. Use it with virtual instruments or your own samples, both on its own and in a DAW. And if you’re ready to take things up a gear, bring in Maschine hardware to get hands-on. Import any track and Maschine will identify bass, drums, vocals, and other elements at the click of the button. Stem separation opens up a whole world of sampling possibilities, all powered by iZotope’s legendary RX technology. Maschine 3 was designed to include feedback from the Maschine community. It lets you render sounds, patterns, and ideas as audio, saving CPU power and opening up new creative possibilities. We’ve also added support for compressed file formats and per-sceneIt just got easier to create a track from start to finish without additional gear, thanks to Maschine 3 tempo for deep control over track flow.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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Slate Digital
Slate Digital
Unlock your full creative potential with the world’s most sonically authentic analog-modeled plugins and microphones for mixing, mastering, music production, and more. Get inspired by thousands of custom presets, hundreds of boutique samples, and scores of creative FX processors. Access a vast collection of award-winning mixing tools. From authoritative recreations of classic analog compressors and vintage EQs to legendary consoles, it’s all here. Take your tracks from mix to streaming-ready master with industry-leading tools like the FG-X 2 plugin and the VIRTU-assisted mastering service. Academy online master classes by industry experts. Sessions and plugins included. Unlock a $100,000 locker of virtual mics (with the purchase of an ML-1 or ML-2 microphone). Academy music production courses are taught by industry legends. Get the full session, mix templates, every plugin, every sample, and every preset, compatible with all leading DAWs. -
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ACID Pro
MAGIX
It’s that magic moment again. You hear a song on the radio and you just can’t wait to sample or remix it. True inspiration. With ACID Pro, you will be able to sketch that idea and turn it into a finished track faster than any other DAW. Its unique workflows, innovative features and professional tools were designed specifically for loop- and sample-based music production. Compose, arrange, record, mix and master. But most importantly: be creative. Experience ACID Pro. ACID Pro 11 takes loop-based music production one step further – yet again. Since its historic invention in 1998 leading to today’s industry standard, ACID has continued to offer the most extensive options for arranging, editing and resampling audio. Countless artists have relied on ACID and its workflow to create some of the most famous compositions in IDM and EDM. ACIDized loops let you manipulate audio material and immediately get creative with stems.