TOPOLOGY: Bring the unmistakable sheen of a classic American console to your signal chain with EDYN Pre, a discrete transistor preamp model known for its bold presence, fast transients, and deep low-end authority. This topology adds harmonic richness and analog weight, ideal for vocals, drums, and anything that needs to sit confidently in a mix.
The PB Core Collection brings together nine plugins in one complete bundle. Built for the producer looking to delve deeper into the world of music production, mixing & mastering, the Core Collection offers a complete suite of synthesiser & effects to take you all the way from the inception of an idea through to a complete master. Music Production starts with WaveOSC, the complete wavetable synthesiser that pushes the boundaries of traditional synthesis to create harmonically rich and captivating sounds. Choose your wave shapes and generate unique wavetables, or choose from one of the 300 presets to design any sound from punchy synth drums, to smooth or snarling basslines, to atmospheric pads & much more. After sound creation, the Core Collection includes five creative production effects – DriveMod, DriveLE, ShapeMod, FilterMod and ResDelay – to help you shape, sculpt and saturate your sounds to taste. Dial in evolving distorted textures, sidechain-style ducking effects and unique filter movements for a compelling production experience.
AmpliTube software has forged a formidable reputation over the years for offering a comprehensive array of digital tone-tweaking tools, but AmpliTube 5 promises to eclipse its predecessors with with a newly designed GUI that is fully scalable and supports Retina displays, an enhanced user experience, and more gear. A lot more gear. All in, there are 129 new models, making for a total of over 400 gear models in the AmpliTube 5 MAX version, plus cabinet section that has been retooled using IK Multimedia’s new Volumetric Impulse Response (VIR) technology, improving power amp/speaker cab interactions for more authentic tone and feel. The VIR tech was developed by measuring 600 IRs per speaker of every existing and new cabinet model, making for 143,000 IRs in total, allowing for a three-dimensional grid interface for mic placement. You can also now import and load your own IRs. Also new to AmpliTube 5, we’ve got an expanded, fully configurable signal chain that allows you to deploy a wet-dry-wet configuration and experiment with more complicated setups – series and parallel routing? Fill your boots.
A polished, pro-sounding vocal is the result of deliberate production choices made from years of experience. This typically requires multiple plugins, intricate routing, and painstaking comparisons – a process that can be both time-consuming and even overwhelming. What if you could cut through the complexity? Imagine being able to effortlessly explore a range of vocal tones and production styles, while keeping full control over every detail—making bold creative decisions fast and with confidence. Vocal Studio is a powerful, all-in-one plugin that combines professional-grade vocal production tools into a seamless, intuitive interface – allowing you to explore, refine, and perfect your vocal mix with speed and precision.
Intelligent look-ahead limiting LAAL stands for Look Ahead Analog Limiter. This is the detection circuit that makes its special sonic characteristics possible – a fully analog delay line (0.2 ms) ‘looks ahead’ with the dynamic transient function to respond intelligently to signal peaks before they occur. This results in responsive peak limiting without harshness or distortion. Achieve your RMS levels and loudness targets while preserving detail, air, and low-end punch. And use its smoother limiting curves and acres of headroom, to bring life to your mix.
THGE Analog modelled compressor plug-in based on The classic 80’s British big console buss compressor with some handy additional features. The compressor action is smooth and transparent as it uses the same high quality algorithms used in circuit simulators, but optimised to run fast. In addition to the regular compressor controls it has: Mix / Range / Sidechain High Pass knobs, External Sidechain support, Peak Clip, and Advanced Oversampling. THED is an analog modelled resonant filter plug-in based on classic analog synth filters, as well as completely new designs. There is a huge level of detail in the models, which gives them amazing drive and tone, as well as smooth audio rate modulation behaviour. The original structure of the circuits is preserved in the model, as is the location and shape of all major non-linearities. THESC is a very detailed discrete component model of the classic green Tube Screamer pedal. It has input and output class-A transistor buffers, Boyle macro modelled op-amps, and a selection of fully customisable clipping diodes. In fact every value of every component can be changed and randomised to customise your tone. Choose from a selection of diodes including silicon, germanium, or LEDs to create asymmetric clipping combinations, chain any number of diodes in series or even bypass them altogether and have a high gain boost that then clips the op-amp.
Tube Saturator 2 is a super accurate circuit simulation of a tube pre-amp with analog EQ, which can be overdriven gently for warming effects, or cranked for fat distortion. Like its predecessor, Tube Saturator, TS-2 is based on circuit simulation techology to capture every nuance of an analog circuit. The circuit consisting of the individual tubes, resistors, and capacitors is converted into a mathematical system of equations which is numerically solved to produce the exact same sound as a real circuit. But while the original consumed large amounts of CPU power, TS-2 is now super efficient. The Saturation section of TS-2 runs about 7x faster than the original and yet the modelling is even more accurate. TS-2 includes the original circuit simulation of the three band Baxandall type EQ as found in many guitar amplifiers.
