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Synthwave Starter Kit
Level-up your 80s sound
Baby Audio have put together a colorful collection of their most retro-leaning plugins to give your synthwave tracks an extra touch of magic. Dial-in some authentic vintage grit – and produce like it's 1984.
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BA-1
A Synth With A Soul
BA-1 is based on a portable 1980s synth with a toylike appearance and a gritty sound. Despite its small size, it left a big mark on music history, while still flying somewhat under the hype radar. The original has been used as a secret weapon for bubbly synth textures by some of Sweden’s most successful pop producers of the past two decades. It was also a staple of 1990s digital dancehall and beloved by the indietronica scene for its raw lo-fi quality. The ‘CS01’ - as the original is called - has never been properly captured in software form. So for Baby Audio's first-ever synth, they started there.
In keeping with Baby Audio's motto ”It’s an evolution, not an emulation”, they modelled the hardware with the greatest possible accuracy, before carefully upgrading it with new and useful features. A second analogue-modelled oscillator, FM, polyphony, and more, help to vastly expand the sonic palette of the original. All while keeping its signature sound unspoiled. Additionally, BA-1 lets you drain the battery, bend the circuits, and use the built-in speaker – for an authentic lo-fi aesthetic that you could normally only get with hardware.
Features
- 4 Color Options - After long hours in the studio it can be nice to see something new. BA-1 lets you switch between grey, blue, purple and orange colour modes to keep things fresh.
- 500+ High-Quality Presets - BA-1 comes with a ton of new musical inspiration in the form of 500+ carefully crafted presets.
- FM - FM adds complexity and depth to the classic analogue subtractive architecture, giving you more sound design options
- Envelope Section - The envelope lets you shape the sound with the same quirky side effects as in the original hardware
- LFO Section - A simple LFO that is easy to utilize and hard to mess up – like the original.
- Sidechain - Synths sound better when they ‘move with the mix’. That’s what the Sidechain feature is for.
- Tone + Drive - BA-1’s FX section would be worthy of its own retro-colour plugin. It is inspired by cheap 1980s rack effects and guitar pedals.
- Delay + Reverb + Chorus - The grainy digital delay, reverb and chorus combo is THE sound of the 1980s! Baby Audio has recreated this epic FX combo in BA-1 – modelled after budget rack hardware from the era
- Battery - The original synth could be powered by batteries. But they never lasted long – and weird sonic artefacts were introduced as the power deteriorated. Baby Audio modelled this behaviour and exaggerated it slightly for a better effect. Drain the battery to achieve pitch fluctuations, noise and distortion the further down you go.
- Speaker - Sometimes a mix needs some ‘moving air’ to come alive. While the original hardware’s speaker was by no means high quality, it had a quirky and pleasant lo-fi vibe. Baby Audio modelled it in all its rough glory.
- Re-Gen - Creates new and unique patches with every click. Unlike a regular randomizer, Re-Gen hosts a smart algorithm, calibrated to come up with usable and musical presets on the fly.
Learn more about BA-1.
Crystalline
Next Generation Algorithmic Reverb
Crystalline is a new, state-of-the-art, reverb plugin with a pristine and modern sound. It gives you unprecedented creative control to shape your reflections. You can sync reverb start and decay times to your song’s tempo.
It follows the tradition of the classic algorithmic reverbs but adds new features and higher fidelity thanks to modern computer power. It is meant to sound unreal – in the most positive sense of the word. Its rooms and halls won’t sound anything like those in your house – but closer to those of your dreams!
Features
- Size: set the room size from tiny to large. This control is detached from the “Length” control, meaning you can get any size/length combination you want, including esoteric settings like huge spaces with very short tails or tiny spaces with very long tails.
- Sparkle: emphasize high frequencies inside the reverb algorithm. This generates reflections that are naturally brighter, which will help you achieve that extra shine on vocals or snares.
- Width: set the stereo image of the reverb from mono to wide – and even further to extra wide.
- Resolution: sets the complexity of the algorithm from ‘basic’ to ‘pristine’. More complex settings will give you an ultra-clean reverb response, free of metallic artefacts – while the ‘Basic’ setting will give you an efficient CPU performance at a normal fidelity.
- Modulation: creates pitch variations inside the reverb algorithm. This results in a richer sound that works especially well to fatten up synths, guitars and vocals.
- Shimmer: makes the high frequencies of the reverb tail decay slower than the rest of the spectrum, giving the reflections an ‘angelic halo’ effect. You can set the frequency cutoff point as well as the multiplier effect, which controls how much longer it takes for the higher frequencies to decay
- Damping: a dual filter control that lets you remove high and low-frequency content from the reverb reflections. This control offers a fast way to get rid of clutter and muddiness in your mixes.
- Sides: a high-pass filter that removes stereo information from the low end of the reverb, while keeping the mono information intact. This is especially helpful for creating wide vocal or lead instrument reflections without muddying up your low end.
- Gate: instantly recreate the classic 1980s gated reverb sound. The gate offers ‘threshold’ and ‘release’ controls and makes it fast and intuitive to make your snares go ‘Phil Collins’.
Learn more about Crystalline.
Super VHS
LoFi Vibes from a Strange Decade
As kids of the 80s, the Baby Audio team have always been drawn to the sound of slightly out-of-tune synths, warm tape saturation, gritty samples, and grainy reverbs.
So they set out on a mission to capture the lofi spirit of their favourite decade — and bring it into a new decade. Meet a complex algorithm with eight simple knobs. They named it ‘Super’ for its powers and ‘VHS’ for its sound.
Baby Audio wanted this plugin to be like sending your sounds back in time, then re-discovering them on a worn-out VHS tape 30 years later. All with the click of a single button, right inside your DAW.
The result is six unique effects coming together in a versatile signal chain. Super VHS will add some lofi authenticity to whatever clean sound you run through it — from a subtle touch of character to extreme sonic twists that leave your head spinning. Each effect has just a single control, but multiple parameters under the hood, allowing you to find endless combinations to transform your synths, samples, guitars, drums, vocals and beyond.
Features
- STATIC: A synthesized hum, generated by a pink noise oscillator mixed with a digital saw wave.
- HEAT: A warm sounding saturation algorithm inspired by ‘consumer-grade’ tape machines from the early 1980s.
- SHAPE: A sample rate reducer (with some extras) inspired by 1980s 8-bit samplers.
- MAGIC: A lush “Juno style” chorus — but modeled with a slightly darker and more detuned tone.
- DRIFT: An internal LFO creating unpredictable pitch and time fluctuations, ranging from ‘natural’ to ‘supernatural’.
- WASH: A grainy, unnatural sounding, hall reverb, inspired by digital rack effects from the VHS-era.
- MIX: Controls the over-all wet/dry balance.
- OUTPUT: Controls the global output.
- HIDDEN PROCESSING: High shelf EQ attenuation, bit-crusher, limiter.
Learn more about Super VHS.
BA-1 Pack Collection V2
No more sub-par synth sounds
Cinematic 80s
Sunglasses Kid’s style of glorious and cinematic 80s jams has garnered more than 20 million streams in 2023 alone – quite remarkable for an instrumental artist! We convinced him to share 64 presets for BA-1, capturing his signature sound of widescreen synthwave. This pack offers deep and colorful presets to transport your tracks to a sunny day in 1985.
Use it for: Authentically 80s synth-pop sounds with cinematic grandeur.
Space Disco
Take a trip back to the late 1970s and create analog synth infused disco tracks reminiscent of Giorgio Moroder and 12” cult singles like ‘I Feel Love’. This pack is created by Turbotito, aka Filip Nikolic, an LA-based producer, label owner and co-founder of the band Poolside. Filip shares his deep love and mastery of electro-infused disco and vintage synthesis.
Use it for: Warm 70s-era analog synth disco basslines, arps, leads and beyond.
Cyberpunk
Add dark and dystopian textures to your tracks with this preset bank created by Synthwave hero Michael Oakley. The BA-1 Cyberpunk expansion brings you the haunting sounds of gloomy 80s futurism and makes for a perfect soundtrack to scenes of neon-lit skylines and urban decay. Released by your favorite megacorporation, Baby Audio Industries.
Use it for: Dystopian pop and synthwave sounds.
Lo-Fi Trance
Unlock the loud and gritty sounds of early 1990s rave culture and the beginnings of the trance scene. This preset pack celebrates the sounds of dance music before it went mainstream and comes packed with detuned saw leads, acidy basslines and wonky electronic effects. Trance powerhouse NatLife went back to the beginning for this pack!
Use it for: Raw, gritty and detuned 90s trance and rave patches.
Industrial Origins
Add some twisted synth aggression to your tracks with K/V’s pack, celebrating the early days of industrial music. Combining the provocative chaos of the punk scene with a fascination for synthesizers, the first wave of industrial artists pushed the envelope for what electronic music could be. Get ready to embrace the dark, ugly and avant-garde.
Use it for: Aggressive and left-field patches that capture the sound of early industrial.
Learn more about BA-1 Pack Collection V2.
