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iZotope Neoverb
iZotope
iZotope Neoverb is an intelligent reverb plug-in designed for music producers, combining Exponential Audio's renowned reverb algorithms with iZotope's AI-driven workflow. It features a reverb assistant that guides users in selecting and blending reverbs tailored to their creative needs, while an AI-powered EQ section listens to the audio to help avoid artifacts, mud, and masking. The innovative blend pad allows for the intuitive mixing of up to three different reverb types, enabling the creation of unique spaces for vocals and instruments. Neoverb also includes an advanced panel with deep controls and offers a variety of presets for different genres and instruments. Its unmasking technology ensures the reverb fits seamlessly into the mix, preventing frequency build-up and maintaining clarity. Compatible with major DAWs, Neoverb supports formats such as AAX, AU, VST2, and VST3, and is available for both Windows and macOS systems.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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iZotope Nectar
iZotope
iZotope's Nectar 4 is a comprehensive vocal mixing suite designed to enhance vocal production with a range of advanced features. It introduces new modules such as auto-level for consistent vocal levels, voices for creating vocal harmonies, and backer for generating background vocals. The vocal assistant provides intelligent processing recommendations, streamlining the mixing process. Nectar 4 also includes 13 component plug-ins, offering flexibility in crafting custom vocal chains. Integration with Audiolens allows for tone-matching any vocal sound, providing a solid starting point for mixes. Additionally, Melodyne 5 essential is included for precise pitch correction. Nectar 4 is compatible with both macOS and Windows operating systems and supports various plug-in formats, including AU, AAX, and VST3. Match the tone and loudness of an acapella track and use it in your own vocal production.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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iZotope Ozone
iZotope
iZotope's Ozone 11 is a comprehensive mastering suite designed to elevate your audio to professional standards. It introduces new modules like clarity, which enhances definition without harshness, and stem focus, allowing precise adjustments to individual stems within a mix. The transient/sustain mode offers detailed control over the attack and releases characteristics of your audio. Ozone 11 also features an improved master assistant that utilizes AI to provide tailored starting points for your mastering process. The suite includes a range of modules such as maximizer, imager, equalizer, and dynamics, all aimed at refining your sound with precision. With its intuitive interface and advanced processing capabilities, Ozone 11 is suitable for both beginners and seasoned professionals aiming to achieve polished, release-ready tracks. Ozone includes all the tools you need to master with world-class quality.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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iZotope Neutron
iZotope
iZotope's Neutron 5 is an all-in-one mixing suite designed to enhance your audio production workflow. It features 11 powerful plugins, including a mothership and 10 component modules, allowing you to sculpt your sound individually or combine them for ultimate control. The suite introduces three new modules, clipper, which adds power while reclaiming headroom; density, an upward compressor that smooths out dynamics for more presence and fullness; and phase, which analyzes and corrects phase issues to maintain audio clarity. Neutron 5 also offers an improved mix assistant, providing a faster and smarter way to achieve a great starting point for your mix. Additional features include visual mixer, and Tonal Balance Control 2, all aimed at streamlining your mixing process. The interface has been updated for better visualizations and more intuitive controls, ensuring a seamless mixing experience.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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iZotope RX
iZotope
RX is the industry trailblazer for audio repair and enhancement. Powered by machine learning technology, RX’s comprehensive suite of tools tackles everything from common audio problems to the trickiest of sonic rescues, for music, audio post-production, and content creation. RX is available as a standalone audio editing application that includes a suite of software plugins for use with digital audio workstations. Visually target and replace unwanted sounds like dog barks, string squeaks, and sirens with RX’s spectrogram. Tackle specific issues like clicks, clips, hum, rustles, and background noise with bespoke repair modules. Get even more surgical with tools that can re-shape the intonation of dialogue, remove reverb, match ambiances and EQ profiles, and much more. Plus, if you’re looking for a helping hand to get great results fast, RX’s repair assistant intelligently recognizes and proposes fixes for specific problems that you can tweak to your liking with easy-to-use dials.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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BeatMaker
INTUA
BeatMaker 3 is a comprehensive music production app that combines the power of traditional desktop software and hardware into a single, intuitive audio and MIDI workstation. It offers a streamlined workflow for performing, recording, and shaping musical ideas efficiently. Users can create and customize instruments with up to 128 banks of 128 pads, each functioning as a full-fledged instrument. The app includes a state-of-the-art sampling engine with modulation and layering capabilities, as well as ZPlane’s Elastique for live stretch and pitch shift. BeatMaker 3 supports integration with external synth and effect apps through full AUv3 and IAA support. Its classic timeline-based pattern and song editor, along with the flexible scene mode, facilitate precise sequencing and remixing opportunities. The app also features a modern mixing board with multi-channel recording, input/output routing, unlimited effects per track and pad, and up to 8 sends.Starting Price: Free -
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Auria Pro
WaveMachine Labs
Auria Pro is a comprehensive music production suite designed for the iPad, offering a range of professional features to facilitate high-quality music creation. It supports unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, allowing for extensive project development. The built-in Lyra sampler supports SFZ, EXS, and SF2 formats, enabling playback of large instruments with ease. Included are FabFilter's One and Twin2 synthesizers, providing a variety of sound design options. Auria Pro features real-time audio warping using élastique Pro v3, facilitating tempo and pitch adjustments. The MIDI sequencer includes a piano roll editor, real-time quantizing, and groove templates, enhancing MIDI editing capabilities. The app offers a flexible mixing environment with up to 32 buses, six aux sends, and a 64-bit double-precision floating-point mixing engine. It supports third-party plug-ins via in-app purchases and includes built-in effects like convolution reverb and classic reverb.Starting Price: $49.99 one-time payment -
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Sequel
Steinberg
Steinberg's Sequel is a free, entry-level music production software for Windows, designed to simplify the process of creating, recording, and mixing music. It offers a user-friendly interface with a one-window design, making it accessible for beginners. Sequel comes equipped with over 5,000 high-quality loops and sounds, covering a wide range of genres, allowing users to start composing music immediately. The software includes a full range of professional audio effects and features like one-click tempo detection, facilitating seamless integration of various audio elements. Sequel also supports Virtual Studio Technology (VST), enabling the addition of more effects and instruments to expand creative possibilities. By supporting Virtual Studio Technology, you can continue to add to the number of effects and instruments, providing endless possibilities, easily controlled using your MIDI keyboard. In fact, use MIDI to trigger parts of your arrangement when in performance mode.Starting Price: Free -
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Immerse Virtual Studio
Embody Audio
We believe that spatial audio should be for everyone, no matter what gear or DAW you use. Immerse audio software and plugins incorporate the latest innovations in AI personalization and room virtualization to advance a new standard of spatial production. Whether you work in stereo, surround, at home, or in a professional studio, our spatial creation tools will integrate seamlessly into your workflow. Audition your stereo, surround, or Dolby Atmos mixes in up to 7.1.6 channels on headphones from inside two studios that have produced some of the most iconic content in music, film, and television over the past several decades. Accurately monitor ambisonic audio on headphones using your personalized HRTF inside Nuendo and Cubase. All your engineers mixing in Atmos simultaneously across the globe, unleashing a wave of new content for you to release. Immerse Virtual Studio brings the world’s best Atmos mixing studios, at a fraction of the cost.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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Mikrotakt
Mikrotakt
Mikrotakt is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance music production and practice by providing tools for audio separation, vocal removal, noise reduction, and mastering. Users can extract vocals, acapella, guitar, piano, bass, drums, and various instruments from song or video files, producing high-quality stems quickly and efficiently. The platform offers a free trial with 20 tokens upon signup, allowing users to experience its capabilities without initial cost. Mikrotakt supports a wide range of audio and video file formats, including MP3, WAV, FLAC, and MP4, ensuring compatibility with most media files. The AI stem splitter enables the precise separation of different musical elements, facilitating remixing, practice, and educational purposes. Additionally, the AI voice cleaner reduces background noise and unwanted sounds, resulting in crystal-clear audio recordings. The AI mastering tool allows users to master their tracks efficiently, enhancing sound quality and readiness.Starting Price: €6.99 per 100 minutes -
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Mozart AI
Mozart AI
Mozart AI is the world’s first AI‑powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that embeds an intelligent co‑producer directly into your music creation workflow, responding to text and voice prompts to generate, refine, and arrange professional‑quality compositions in seconds. It supports conversational commands for melody, harmony, drums, bass, and mixing tasks, leveraging “TAB Mode” for context‑aware suggestions and loop generation to craft precise eight‑bar patterns or full arrangements instantly. Semantic sample search scans your own library by mood or description, while one‑prompt mixing applies compression, EQ, side‑chain, and limiting automatically. Built‑in AI vocals and lyric tools convert MIDI into studio‑grade vocals, and style referencing lets you mirror the vibe of favorite tracks. Through an expanded context window, Mozart AI indexes entire sessions, mapping relationships across tracks and retaining project‑wide understanding.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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PreSonus Sphere
PreSonus Audio Electronics
You also get a library of master class videos, collaboration tools, monthly live streams, exclusive Studio One features, industry veteran-authored presets, and tons of loop and construction kit content—and we’re constantly adding more, month after month after month. No hidden fees. No additional upgrade costs. All in PreSonus Sphere. A PreSonus Sphere membership includes a license for award-winning Studio One Professional–the only DAW that lets you record, produce, mix, master, and perform from within a single application. Go from creative concept to final mastered album—even use stems from your songs as backing tracks for your live performance—all from Studio One. PreSonus Sphere is the ultimate toolkit for the modern composer. From simple lead sheets to complete orchestrations, you’ll deliver polished scores fast with award-winning Notion® software.Starting Price: $14.95 per month -
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KOMPLETE
Native Instruments
Flagship synths, immersive platforms, unique sampled instruments, and sounds for any genre, production, or performance. KOMPLETE 13 packs the very best Native has to offer into a do-it-all production toolkit that includes brand-new GUITAR RIG 6 PRO, SUPER 8, NOIRE, and much more. From beats, to screen scores, to conjuring underground sounds – KOMPLETE 13 is curated for genre-bending versatility and endless inspiration, whatever you create. Get it all for less with a huge saving on the combined cost of each product in KOMPLETE 13. Revamped, redesigned, and reimagined with new amps, effects, and ways to sculpt your sound. An eight-voice, modern take on vintage polysynthesis. Warm tones and a wide sweet spot. The signature sound of Nils Frahm’s evocative concert grand, captured at its home in Berlin’s Funkhaus complex.Starting Price: $599 one-time payment -
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Samplitude
MAGIX Software
Samplitude Pro X offers recording and mixing engineers useful features that revolutionize classic DAW workflows. Edit while recording. Apply effects individually to individual clips. Visualize volume, frequency and phase for selected tracks. Take advantage of customizable interfaces and automations that will redefine efficiency in your own personal workflow! Edit even the smallest segments in large projects more efficiently. The object editor gives you control over your own plug-ins, sends and automations for each clip. We focused on your individual workflows. That's why we developed new features with the knowledge gained through years of experience and – most importantly – your feedback. Benefit from new search functions, extended automation, flexible editing and efficient interface and windows organization throughout your whole project.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment -
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AudioThing
AudioThing
AudioThing is an audio software company focused on audio plugins (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX). We are committed to developing professional yet affordable products for every kind of composer, producer and sound designer. We offer a wide range of audio plugins, including vintage tape and valve emulations, analog tape echos, analog drum machine emulations, complex convolution processing effects, and more. Our copy protection is simple and user-friendly, no iLok, no dongles, no internet required. To activate a plugin you can choose between online and offline authorization. Create an account, log in through the plugin to activate, or download your license file for offline activation. Motor is a plugin effect that uses side-chaining to combine signals in new and interesting ways. Put in any two signals and they will dance around each other like courting birds drunk on fermented cherries.Starting Price: $35 one-time payment -
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Blindfold EQ
AudioThing
Blindfold EQ, a plugin designed for you to mix with your ears. Blindfold EQ is a freeware EQ plugin inspired by a quote by Matt Wallace from the book Recording Unhinged by Sylvia Massy. It has 4 bands (LowShelf, LowMid, HighMid, HighShelf), but each knob is blind. There are no indicators or numbers to show frequency values, gain values or Q values. Multi-band resonant filter, lightweight on CPU, preset system with randomizer. Blindfold EQ is a freeware plugin. Just put your email address in the form to get your download links. No connection required to activate. We offer a wide range of audio plugins, including vintage tape and valve emulations, analog tape echos, analog drum machine emulations, complex convolution processing effects, and more. We are committed to developing professional yet affordable products for every kind of composer, producer and sound designer. -
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RhythmDelay
D10Labo
RhythmDelay is a multi-tap delay, but it is an effector designed to create musical rhythms. Perfect for making minimal music. Each tap has a volume and panpot. All controls are on the panel and the window is resizable. For Mac OSX(32bit/64bit Universal Binary) and Windows32bit(not XP)/64bit. Provides a time control feature (1ms – 48000ms), a tempo sync option, and a swing feature to increase the delay time of odd taps. You can scale the delay time magnification to 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2. You can control the effect length and the effective length of tap from 1 to 16. HPF options, (20Hz – 10KHz), LPF (200Hz – 22KHz), LFO rate (0.01Hz – 400Hz), and depth. You can also control feedback and balance options. This service is hosted by different10, which is run by Mr. Masaru Saito. the labo-different10 and different10 are in Japan, but, these services are international. -
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Caelum Audio
Caelum Audio
Plugins, samples and free stuff. Distortions and effects for making big sounds. Premium pack containing crunchy summertime cassette stems. Multi-FX tape plugin with a huge amount of custom control. RMS compressor plugin with a bold and aggressive sound. Peak compressor plugin with a transparent and elegant sound. Premium 808 sample pack. Premium organic sample pack from the British countryside. Synchronized amp and filter custom envelope. Improved and rebuilt plugin that recreates the classic sound of tape cassettes. Even more synth loops, MIDI and WAVs are provided. More sounds from the human body, dry and processed WAVs. Finger cracking samples, dry and processed WAVs. Please ensure your DAW can load VST3 format plugins and is set up to see the containing directory. If you used the installer's default location this should be fine. Ensure that VST3 is turned on in your DAW.Starting Price: $16.47 one-time payment -
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Voxengo
Voxengo
Voxengo offers you high-quality DAW audio plugins, VST plugins, AAX plugins, AudioUnit plugins, and sample rate converters, for Windows and macOS computers. Our goal is to provide user-happy, robust, and efficient solutions for audio and music production, including streaming, mastering, and surround sound. Voxengo professional audio plugins will empower your creativity and help improve the quality of your stereo and surround sound audio and music production. We offer track phase alignment audio plugins allow you to time and phase-align any sound material to achieve better sonic coherence and clarity in the mix. Includes multi-band correlation meter. Extended real-time FFT spectrum analyzer plugins with a lot of options for visual look customization. Features statistics, correlation meter, EBU R128, and K-system metering, real-time spectrum import/export. Compressor/gate audio effect plugin with multiple high-quality modes, harmonic-rich sound, and much more! -
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Roland Zenbeats
Roland
Roland Zenbeats is a music creation app that keeps you in an effortless artistic flow. Get started on any device or platform. With its collection of both modern and legendary sounds, Zenbeats brings Roland’s history of innovation into a new, accessible format. Whether you’re an emerging musician or an established producer, Zenbeats makes music creation easy. Make beats, take lessons, and sample the world around you. Wherever you are, no matter what platform or device you use, capture your creative spark with Zenbeats. ZC1 is a new plug-in synthesizer using Roland’s ZEN-Core Synthesis System. Available in Zenbeats as a free instrument, ZC1 has 60 presets and a sleek touch-based interface. Use the XY pad for Resonance and Cutoff or other parameters. Plus, unlock ZC1 to share sounds with ZENOLOGY and ZEN-Core-compatible hardware and get around 900 additional preset tones and 90 built-in MFX effects. These sounds cover a wide range from acoustic and electronic to ethnic instruments. -
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ZENOLOGY
Roland
Synthesizers are in just about every style of modern music, so you need something versatile, authentic, and forward-thinking. ZENOLOGY embodies nearly 50 years of synthesizer research and development. Its roots go back to the dawn of synthesis. Its future will reshape your relationship with sound. For decades, Roland sounds have had a massive influence on music. A string of legendary instruments defined genres like techno, house, rap, trap, and hip hop, and deeply influenced pop, rock, and film music. This experience has culminated in the ZEN-Core Synthesis System. It’s the most advanced sound engine we’ve ever made, powering our professional synthesizers like JUPITER-X and FANTOM, used on stages and in studios around the world. ZENOLOGY is an expandable plug-in version of the ZEN-Core Synthesis System. ZEN-Core is based on discrete synth voices,each containing a flexible oscillator, filter, amplifier, dual step-LFOs, and lush effects. -
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VERSELAB
Roland
When inspiration strikes, VERSELAB helps you capture, refine, and finish your ideas. The fluid, hands-on workflow simplifies music-making with modern vocal recording, pattern generators, thousands of ZEN-Core sounds, mastering effects, and more. Plug-and-play integration with Roland’s Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities using your computer or mobile device. Finish complete songs with inspiring hands-on workflow. Record vocals with modern effects like auto-pitch, harmonizer, and doubler. Curated collection of over 3000 sounds for modern styles from the makers of the TR-808. 4x4 pads and TR-REC step sequencer for drums, basslines, and melodic parts. Songwriting tools and generators get you started and keep you flowing. Interface with your smartphone, tablet, or computer for easy file transfer. Plug-and-play integration with Roland Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities. -
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Roland Cloud
Roland
Roland Cloud is an evolving cloud-based suite of software synthesizers, drum machines, and sampled instruments for modern creators. Harness the vast power of the ZEN-Core Synthesis System and dive deep into the world of custom sound design with ZENOLOGY Pro. For nearly fifty years, Roland has delivered memorable, genre-defining sounds. And a big part of that sonic footprint is our unique approach to effects processing. The swirling JUNO chorus, feedback-drenched tape echo, and other sounds have left their mark on countless tracks over the decades, and with ZENOLOGY FX, you can now add that flavor to any keyboard sound or instrument track right inside your DAW. With over 90 processors to choose from, there's a wealth of ways to make your synth sounds come alive. Add delays to arps, larger-than-life modulation effects to chord progressions, and twist and distort basses and lead tones that leap from the speakers. -
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SampleTron
Ik Multimedia
SampleTron 2 combines the powerful sound engine of IK’s award-winning SampleTank 4 with our industry-leading tape modeling technology to recreate the distinctive, ultra-vibey sounds of tape-based samplers from the ‘60s and ‘70s, along with quirky early digital sample players and vocoders. This comprehensive collection features deep sampling of vintage Mellotron® and Chamberlin tapes, a collection of new acoustic “non-Tron” sounds with tape processing, and now enables you to load your own samples and create modern audiophile Tron sounds that are uniquely yours. 8GB virtual instrument collection of sought-after vintage and tape-based samplers. Over 400 tracks sampled from vintage Mellotrons, Chamberlins, Optigans and other rare pieces. Each preset can load three tracks to split, layer and solo from over 400 available. Features a collection of modern non-Tron and vintage digital sample-based instruments.Starting Price: $249.99 one-time payment -
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Miroslav Philharmonik
Ik Multimedia
Strings that soar, woodwinds that dance, brass that commands and a full symphony orchestra of sounds at your fingertips, all expertly performed with musical articulations for real music played by real musicians. From flowing legatos to animated pizzicatos, from aggressive spiccatos to elegant staccatos, from the most subtle pianissimo to the most triumphant fortissimo and more, Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a sweeping vision from a master artist embodied in a new virtual instrument that brings the orchestra to life. It’s not enough to just have good recordings of classical instruments. For a true symphonic experience, you need instruments performed by the absolute best musicians articulated in just the right way directed by a producer and conductor who knows the fine art of making living, breathing samples. Miroslav Vitous pioneered the concept of a complete symphonic sample library for real composers, and now he has taken it to the next level.Starting Price: $499.99 one-time payment -
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Spitfire Audio
Spitfire Audio
We work with the world’s best composers, producers, engineers and studios to create detailed, sophisticated and realistic recordings of instruments. Our virtual instruments and sample libraries enable you to perform and compose within your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), offering you thousands of sounds at your fingertips for endless inspiration. Create an account with us to download our libraries directly to your computer. A great starting point is our LABS programme, an infinite series of software instruments, made by musicians in London for anyone anywhere. Free to install and easy to use, these plugins work directly within your DAW. We have started releasing a new series of instant and affordable cinematic writing tools, Originals. The samples have been simplified and presented in our free, easy-to-use plugin. Clutter-free and focused, it features sliders for expression and dynamics, and a digital mod wheel that can be easily customised to your personal workflow.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Valhalla Supermassive
Valhalla
ValhallaSupermassive has been designed from the ground up for MASSIVE delays and reverbs. Blow your mind and your music to new levels of consciousness and experience. Get ready for luscious clouds of reverb, otherworldly delays, swelling waves of feedback unlike any you’ve heard before. All Valhalla plugins are self documenting, so just roll over the controls for the tool tip. And, it’s free, no strings attached. Just click the download links and you’re ready to go. Version 1.3.0 for Mac and Windows available. Intel and ARM builds available for Apple M1 computers. VST3 fixes for Studio One and FL Studio. The MODE control is the most powerful Supermassive control, as the different algorithms have very different attack, sustain, and decay characteristics. Combine these long delays with the unique WARP control, and the results range from echoes that slowly fade in, to cascading harmonic echoes, to lush reverbs, onwards to reverbs that decay way over the course of minutes. -
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Surge
Vember Audio
A digital recording is just a sequence of numbers. Easily quantifiable as ones and zeros, stored on physical media, combined together into larger numbers to form a continuous stream of data. Surge is an instrument capable of generating truly beautiful sequences of numbers. Your ears will agree with us. Architecturally speaking, Surge is a rather complex synthesizer. But because of how it’s put together it’s still easy to learn. Once you do, you will turn the sounds in your head to audio faster than ever. The effortless workflow, attention to detail and sound quality can’t really be appreciated without trying it yourself. We suggest you try the demo! Each patch contain two ’scenes’ which are separate instances of the entire synthesis engine (except effects) that can be used for layering or split patches. 8 versatile oscillator algorithms, Classic, Sine, Wavetable, Window, FM2, FM3, S/H Noise and Audio-input. -
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TX16Wx Software Sampler
TX16Wx Software Sampler
TX16Wx Software Sampler is a plug-in for the creative musician, inspired and modeled after the best hardware samplers with all the ease and new exiting features of modern software. Two LFO:s, two envelopes and three-step sequencers per voice. Modulation matrix connects any modulator or MIDI/automation source to any sound element. Two-level modulation with base and additional controller. Tempo and voice synchronization of LFO and step sequencers. Selectable velocity and mapping curves with user-editable shape. Quick browsing of sample libraries with preview playback and non-destructive loading of sound elements. Set up bookmarks and search paths to quickly find and reference source material. Reads WAV, AIFF, Ogg, FLAC and Yamaha waves. Drag & drop copy/paste between programs and groups. Revolutionary sample matrix lets you trigger samples in two dimensions based on any modulator or external source. MIDI key based, round-robin, random or modulator-based group triggering. -
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TDR Nova
Tokyo Dawn Records
NOVA is a parallel dynamic equalizer. Appearing in the familiar layout of a parametric equalizer, each band also includes a full featured dynamics section allowing the processor to cover an impressively wide range of applications. Be it a master lacking density, the drum bus asking for more crispiness, or a sibilance problem in your perfect take, NOVA has an elegant answer. A user friendly WYSIWYG drag and drop display paired with a classic “knob” interface gives quick and smooth access to the various parameters driving NOVA’s powerful processing capabilities. With its four dynamic EQ bands and additional high-pass and low-pass filter sections, NOVA can meet the most exotic demand. Intuitive equal loudness functions help finding the optimal setting without getting distracted by loudness differences. A preset manager, undo/redo, A/B, detailed documentation, copy & paste, and much more.