AudioThing Effects Bundle - AudioThing

Product Description

All AudioThing Effects Plugins

Ranging from vintage valve emulation to complex convolution processing, this bundle is perfect for every kind of composer, producer, and sound designer.

Alborosie Dub Station

Straight from the heart of Jamaica’s most prolific music community, Waterhouse in Kingston, AudioThing proudly introduce you to the Alborosie Dub Station.

AudioThing sampled, analyzed, and carefully recreated the original filter, echos, and spring reverb pre-owned, modified, and used by the legendary Osbourne Ruddock “King Tubby” – producer, studio engineer, and pioneer of dub reggae from the golden era of the 70s – from Alborosie’s personal vintage gear collection.

ECHOWUK: Directly from federal studios, then King Tubby studio in Waterhouse Kingston, the MCI 2 track tape that was used to record and also to create the echo effect for most of the reggae classics overall and popular Tubby’s instrumental dub mixes.

SPRING BLING: Directly from King Tubby studio in Waterhouse Kingston, the modified Fairchild Spring Reverb used by the Maestro himself in most classic records and dub mixes he recorded and produced.

FILTER MAN: Modelled after Tubby’s so-called “Big Knob”, a passive high-pass filter with eleven frequency steps from 70Hz to 7.5KHz. This filter defined the sound of the entire ‘roots’ area of Jamaican music!

Learn more about and download the trial version of Alborosie Dub Station.

Things - Motor

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. Use it to gentle morph between sounds or rhythmically cut them up, affecting both volume and spatial position. Add life to the plainest signals with vibrato, or destroy them in interesting ways with extreme modulation speeds.

Features

• Signal Chopper
• Tremolo, Vibrato, Panner
• Multi-wave LFO (Sine, Triangle, Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Square, Sine Up, Sine Down, Exp Up, Exp Down, S&H)
• LFO Start/Stop with Speed Control
• Resizable Window

Learn more about and download the trial version of Things - Motor.

Things - Texture

'Things' is going to be a series of smaller plugins covering a wide range of effects, focused on sound design and creativity.

The first in the series is Texture, an easy to use granular reverb with pitch shifting and mid/side mode. Texture can transform any sound into an ambient soundscape, or add that drone vibe to your tracks. This plugin was inspired by the techniques used in the soundtrack and sound design of the award-winning indie game The Swapper.

Features

• Granulator + Reverb
• Mid/Side Operation
• Granular Pitch Shifting
• Resizable Window

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Wires

German composer and YouTuber Hainbach opened his treasure chest for us: AudioThing are happy to present to you Wires, an accurately modelled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder. Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant-garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky-to-operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plugin. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.

AudioThing took great care to get all the idiosyncratic behaviour exactly right – it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. AudioThing offer all the variable time features you want, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.

Features

• Magnetic Wire Emulation
• Echo Section
• Original Speaker and Mic Emulation
• Start and Stop effects
• Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Wires.

Springs

Springs is a plugin which features a collection of vintage spring reverbs paired with an authentic Baxandall EQ emulation. Springs features emulations from 8 types of spring reverbs, ranging from a long 6-spring pipe to a tiny battery-powered single-spring unit. AudioThing have used a combination of convolution and modelling to recreate the vintage character of each reverb.

Spring reverbs were usually paired with tone stacks from guitar amplifiers. Springs features one of the most iconic and unique sounding tone stack equalizers: the Baxandall EQ. A classic Baxandall tone stack usually features just the bass and treble bands, but AudioThing have also added a Mid band (with control over the Q).

Features

• 8 Vintage Spring Reverbs
• Baxandall EQ (three bands)
• 50 Presets
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Springs.

Reels

Reels is a tape emulation plugin with built-in echo section and tape-stop effect.

Based on an old Japanese portable tape recorder with a very distinct Lo-Fi analogue sound, Reels emulates all the imperfections of consumer reel-to-reel recorders.

AudioThing have modelled three different 1/4” tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analogue imperfections of tape recording/playback.

Reels will add a very rough retro analogue sound to your mixes. If you are looking for a Hi-Fi mastering tape emulation, this is not the plugin for you!

Features

• Vintage Tape Emulation
• Tape Stop Effect
• Echo Section
• 3 Tape types
• Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

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miniVerb

8-BIT / Chiptune Echo Reverb Effect

miniVerb is an 8-bit/chiptune and lo-fi reverb effect inspired by the sound of 80s game consoles and retro computers.

Early consoles didn’t have much power for DSP effects, so the video game composers at that time had to improvise. The most common way to add a sense of space/reverb to the sound was to sacrifice one of the internal tracks to play a delayed version of the original sound, essentially using a slapback echo to add depth.

The technique evolved and eventually, consoles started to take advantage of more power for real internal effects.

Features

• Pre/Post Filter (LP/HP)
• Echo (single/double mode)
• Vibrato
• Crusher (bit-crusher, downsampler, pitch shifter)
• 45 Presets
• Preset randomizer

miniVerb recreates that classic digital echo/reverb sound, made famous by iconic consoles such as the NES and SNES, topping it with two filters (post/pre), vibrato, and crusher (bit crusher, downsampler, pitch shifter).

Learn more about and download the trial version of miniVerb.

Type A

Type A is a plugin inspired by a famous vintage tape encoder. The original unit was designed to be a noise reduction system for tape recording (encode stage) and playback (decode stage).

Type A emulates the encode stage, which was often misused as an enhancer, dynamically increasing the top end of a signal without introducing artefacts or altering the harmonic content. The results are similar to a dynamic EQ which adds presence and air to any track in a natural way.

Features

• Vintage Enhancer
• Multi-band Compressor with 4 Bands
• Adjustable Unit Noise
• Oversample up to 16x
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer
• Formats: VST, VST3, AU, and AAX (64-bit only)
• Platforms: OSX, Windows

Learn more about and download the trial version of Type A.

Type B

Type B is a plugin inspired by a famous vintage exciter effect. The original unit was designed to add presence and brightness to vocal or instrument tracks. It was often used to enhance dull recordings where the high-frequency content was missing due to tape overdubs.

Type B lets you control more aspects of the exciter circuit emulation, giving you access to the internal filter, the harmonic generator and more.

Features

• Vintage Exciter
• HP/BP Filter with Emphasis
• Adjustable Unit Noise
• Oversample up to 16x
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Type B.

Megaphone

Megaphone is a plugin that emulates a bullhorn/loudspeaker effect, which features two loudspeaker emulations, feedback (slapback) control and a noise section. Megaphone can be used to make any audio source sound as if it’s being played by a bullhorn.

The feedback section is essentially a slapback effect. When using megaphones, the output of the loudspeaker can be captured again by the input microphone, introducing a delay/reflection and the usual feedback tones (those can be triggered with high gain sources and feedback amount higher than 50%).

The megaphone noises can be enabled by the Trigger button. There are two types of noise: Button and Burst. You can choose which one you want to enable by clicking on the More button and then Noise Settings.

Features

• 2 Loudspeaker emulations
• Overdrive + Bandwidth control
• Feedback / Slapback
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Megaphone.

Outer Space 

Outer Space is a faithful emulation plugin of a famous vintage tape echo made in the early seventies. As the original unit, Outer Space features an echo section with three playback heads and a spring reverb tank. AudioThing have modelled three different tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analogue imperfections of tape recording/playback. AudioThing have also modelled the ballistic response of the delay rate (repeat rate) which can create eerie pitch shifts (due to the Doppler effect), one of the classic tape echo-based sound effects.

AudioThing have modelled three different tape types. The original RT-1L, a more modern replacement, and an older worn out tape. Each tape will affect the sound in a subtle but different way, especially at higher feedback (Intensity) settings

WOW/Flutter will also change according to the selected tape, creating different amounts of pitch and volume nonlinearities.

Changing the speed of the repetitions (Repeat Rate) will also affect the tape frequency response.

Features

• Vintage Tape Echo
• 3 Tape modes: Original, Modern, Old
• Spring Reverb (with short/long Decay)
• Background Noise with Envelope
• Oversample up to 16x
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Outer Space.

The Orb

The Orb is a formant filter plugin that simulates the characteristics of the human voice. Featuring a set of three bandpass filters, The Orb can transform any sound into a vowel-like formant-filtered sound. With the three LFOs, you can modulate the Vowel, the Emphasis/Resonance of the formants, and the Drift, which can shift up or down the frequencies of each formant. You can also create your own set of vowels by changing name and frequency for each vowel/formant.

Features

• Three Band Pass Filters (ZDF design)
• Vowel Sets: Male, Female, Child and Custom
• 3 LFOs (destinations: Vowel, Emphasis and Drift)
• Lightweight on CPU
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of The Orb.

Space Strip

Space Strip is a multi-effect plugin featuring 6 modules: Contour, Vibe, Slapback, Ambience, Ensemble, and Stereo. The modules can be arranged in any combination by simple drag-n-drop. Space Strip will add depth and space to your sounds, especially synth and keyboards. The plugin is optimised to be lightweight on the CPU.

Features

• 6 modules: Contour, Vibe, Slapback, Ambience, Ensemble, and Stereo
• All modules can be arranged by drag-n-drop
• Lightweight on CPU
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Space Strip.

Vinyl Strip

Vinyl Strip is a multi-effect plugin featuring 6 modules: Distortion, Compressor, Bit Crusher, Tilt EQ, Vintage Reverb, and Vinylizer. The modules can be arranged in any combination by simple drag-n-drop. Vinyl Strip will add life and an old school touch to your samples and tracks, and achieve that classic vinyl record sound in your digital environment. The plugin is optimised to be lightweight on the CPU.

Features

• 6 modules: Distortion, Compressor, Bit Crusher, Tilt EQ, Vintage Reverb, and Vinylizer
• All modules can be arranged by drag-n-drop
• Lightweight on CPU
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Vinyl Strip.

Speakers

Speakers is a plugin effect designed to emulate a wide range of loudspeakers and microphones using AudioThing's state-of-the-art convolution engine.

Shape any sound like it’s being played by an old telephone, radio, or classic cabinet; or shape it like it’s being recorded by a vintage ribbon microphone or even a toy recorder.

Speakers features a freely configurable effects chain, comprising compression, distortion, and filtering, as well as an array of looping background noises for setting the sound in a variety of environments.

Features

• 55 Speakers
• 32 Microphones
• 18 Distortion/degradation algorithms
• 42 Background noises (190MB)
• EQ, Compressor, Multimode Filter
• Flexible Routing
• Zero Latency* / Ultra Low CPU
• Multi-language support (beta)
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Speakers.

Fog Convolver

Fog Convolver is a convolution plugin that applies the sonic character of an impulse response to another sound in real-time.

An impulse response is a recording of the output that is caused by an acoustic space or electronic gear when an impulse is played (electric spark, starter pistol shot or the bursting of a balloon).

Fog Convolver can be used to add reverberation, create special effects, and apply an acoustic impulse captured from audio equipment.

The factory bank features more than 250 impulse responses made from spaces, analogue and digital equipment, speakers, organic sources, and more.

Features

• 250+ Impulse Responses
• Lightweight real-time Convolution Engine
• Impulse Response Export (drag to DAW/export to WAV)
• Preset Browser with customizable categories, tags, rating, and more.

Learn more about and download the trial version of Fog Convolver.

Frostbite 2

Frostbite is a spectral freezing plugin combined with a Ring Modulator and a Feedback module. With the three freezing modes (spectral, reverb, convolution), you can transform any sound into ambient textures, soundscapes, or just frozen reverbs.

Frostbite can also be used for extreme sonic experiments by entirely mangling any source with extreme modulations. The Signal Flow is flexible, you can rearrange the modules with a simple drag-and-drop, and selects between the two modes: serial and parallel. With the internal LFO you can modulate most of the parameters on each module, creating evolving eerie soundscapes.

Features

• Freeze (Spectral, Reverb, Convolution)
• Ring Modulator
• Feedback
• Flexible Routing (Drag and Drop)
• 1 LFO with multiple destinations
• 70+ Presets
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Frostbite 2.

Phase Motion 2

Phase Motion 2 is a stereo phaser plugin featuring up to 32 phasing stages. The Rate can be adjusted in Hertz or it can be synced to the host/DAW tempo. You can choose 6 waveforms (sine, triangle, ramp up, rump down, square, random) to modulate the phase, and you can tweak Depth and Feedback to get a classic vintage phaser sound or extreme digital modulations. From version 2 you can have different settings for the left and right channel.

Features

• 32 Phasing Stages
• 6 LFO Waveforms
• Rate can be synced to the host tempo
• Preset system with randomizer
• Formats: VST, AU, and AAX (64-bit only)
• Platforms: OSX, Windows

Learn more about and download the trial version of Phase Motion 2.

Valves

Valves is a vintage valve emulation plugin with multimode resonant filter and cabinet/EQ section.

The valve section is modelled after classic vintage tubes, with added grit and custom gain control.

The filter section is modelled after a classic ladder filter (2-pole or 4-pole) with low pass, high pass, bandpass and notch modes.

The cabinet/EQ section features a selection of modelled cabinets with classic bass and treble EQ controls.

Features

• Tube Overdrive
• 8 cabinets with Bass and Treble EQ
• State Variable Filter: LP, HP, BP, and Notch (2 or 4-pole)
• 16x Oversample
• 35 Presets
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about and download the trial version of Valves.

Wave Box

Wave Box is a dynamic dual waveshaper plugin that can be used for both symmetrical and asymmetrical distortion. A waveshaper is a type of distortion in which the input signal is mapped to the output by applying a fixed or variable shaping function.

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