Flashback

The 80s Are Back

Get the authentic & nostalgic sounds of Pop, Film and TV from the era. Deep Sampled and created from Real Synths (Digital & Analog).

Deep Sampling, Release Groups and Lots of Synthesis in this plugin let you make “dynamic” tracks full of Color with 200 + presets & arp patterns to get you started.

Get ready for Nostalgia with the authentic presets from Flashback. Inspired by the top artists and composers of the 80s.

Beatskillz specializes in Retro style plugins, This is the genre they live for.

After the super success of their Retro Kz & Synthwave Kz plugins, Beatskillz brings a new and advanced sample playback engine with deep maps, release samples, filters, envelopes, pitch effects, and a full effects section to tweak. This is a very dynamic and expressive plugin.

Features

Factory Presets:

• Comes Bundled with 200+ Factory Presets: 18 Animated Sounds, 53 Keys, 22 bass, 11 Brass, 34 Synth, 28 Orchestra, 17 Pads, 18 Bass, 14 Misc, and 11 Combo Sounds.

Multi-Sample Maps:

• 23 Bass maps, 8 Brass maps, 38 Keys maps, 14 Misc maps, 24 Orchestra, Keys maps, 12 Pads maps, 20 Pads maps, and 35 Synth maps.
• The 2 Multisample Maps Engines A and B can be Layered or Split on the keyboard with automatic assignment via MIDI.
• All Controls on the plugin are MIDI mappable easily with a “right-click”.

Library Relocate:

• Easily place the content on any internal or external drive of your computer and just use the settings icon to
• Locate your library once. You can move the content anywhere at any time and re-connect it with the plugin.

Synthesis Features:

Each Engine Features :

• Amp Envelope - ADSR
• Filter envelope - ADSR
• Pitch Envelope - ADSR3 LFOs for Filter, Volume, and Pitch respectively.
• All Syncable to tempo. Features Rate and Depth Controls.
• Analog Modelled Ladder Filter with LP, HP, and BP modes with 12 or 24dB / Oct selections.
• Filter Cutoff and Resonance controls.
• Pitch Transpose, Tune.
• Portamento (Glide) with rate parameter.
• Velocity to Volume Curve adjustment & Velocity to Filter Cutoff Curve Adjustment.

Arpeggiator:

• Up to 32-step Arpeggiator synced to tempo with Modulation in steps for :
• Velocity, Note Length, and Pitch.
• Save your own patterns and load factory patterns.
• Step Increment, Swing, and other features are also implemented.

FX Engine:

9 Swappable Effects available:

• Reverb
• Chorus / Flanger
• Phaser
• 4-Band EQ
• Compressor
• Bit Crusher
• Delay
• Saturation
• Stereo Expander

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 10.14 Mojave or later (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) 64-bit only)
• Intel i5 or later / AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent 2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
• VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit host)

Windows

• Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
• Intel i5 or later / AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent 2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
• VST3, AAX (64-bit host)

Flashback has been tested on the following DAWs:

• Ableton Live 11
• Bitwig
• Cubase
• Fl Studio 20
• Logic 10.7.2
• Pro Tools 12
• Reaper