Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle

Outstanding Sound, Supreme Value

Softube Volume 5 Plug-in Collection, a hand-picked anthology of exceptional sounding tools, is a treasure trove of plug-ins available with huge savings over the list prices on the individual components. Volume 5 features four exquisitely crafted additions: the surgically precise Weiss EQ MP, Amp Room pro audio guitar and bass platform, Marshall Cabinet Collection expansion for Amp Room, and Statement Lead polyphonic synth. And they're just a taste of the wealth of high-quality gear that comprises the bundle.

All the top-notch plug-ins from the previous Volume editions are included in Volume 5. There are component-modelled analogue channel strips, compressors & limiters, EQs, effects, reverbs & delays, special processors, amp sims, and instruments that have been created in partnership with industry-leading brands like Summit Audio, Doepfer, Marshall, Drawmer, Trident, OTO, and Fix.

Volume 5 can easily and flawlessly address any studio need while ensuring that every aspect of the process—from composition through production, mixing, and mastering—is handled with the most brilliant sound quality available. An assortment of plug-in gems of this quality and value found in a single collection represents a truly rare opportunity.

Important Note: This is the full version of Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle. The following upgrades are also available:

• Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle (Upgrade from Volume 4)
• Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle (Upgrade from Volume 3)
• Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle (Upgrade from Volume 2)
• Softube Volume 5 Plugin Bundle (Upgrade from Volume 1)

Features

• Latest Additions: Weiss EQ MP, Amp Room, Marshall Cabinet Collection, Statement Lead.
• A Highly Versatile & Creative Toolbox with channel strips, compressors & limiters, equalizers, distortion, transient shaping, effects, reverbs & delays, guitar & bass sims, and virtual instruments.
• Includes plug-ins developed in close collaboration with industry-leading brands like Weiss, Summit Audio, Drawmer, Marshall, Trident, OTO, Doepfer, and Fix.

Included Plug-ins:

• Weiss EQ MP
• Amp Room
• Marshall Cabinet Collection
• Statement Lead
• Acoustic Feedback
• American Class A
• Bass Amp Room (Legacy)
• Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor
• FET Compressor
• Fix Flanger and Doubler
• Fix Phaser
• Harmonics Analog Saturation Processor
• Heartbeat
• Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959
• Modular
• Monoment Bass
• OTO Biscuit
• Parallels
• Passive-Active Pack
• Saturation Knob
• Spring Reverb
• Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer
• Summit Audio Grand Channel
• Summit Audio TLA-100A Compressor
• Tape
• Transient Shaper
• Trident A-Range
• TSAR-1 Reverb
• TSAR-1R Reverb
• Tube Delay
• Vintage Amp Room (Legacy)
• Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer

Weiss EQ MP (New)

Developed through the thriving partnership between Softube and Weiss Engineering, the Weiss EQ MP is an equalizer honed for professional-grade use. Built on the minimum phase algorithm of the legendary Weiss EQ1, Softube designed EQ MP for exacting mixing applications that necessitate a surgical EQ and sound quality that’s a cut above the rest. With seven bands, just like the acclaimed EQ1, Weiss EQ MP gives you that famous EQ1 transparency coupled with the sharpest accuracy possible. Achieve stunning clarity in your mixes with Weiss EQ MP, the sonic surgeon with the golden bands.

The Weiss EQ1 is undoubtedly the standard for mastering engineers the world over. And when you can sample from the best, you damn well do so. Weiss EQ MP is based on the minimum phase algorithm of Weiss EQ1 and boasts some of the same features. Both can do it all, but Softube sharpened EQ MP for the mixing specialist.

Features

• Based on a 1:1 code port of the minimum phase algorithm of Weiss EQ1.
• A surgically-precise, ultra-transparent, high-fidelity EQ workhorse.
• Optimized for big mix sessions with low latency and a light CPU load.

Learn more about Weiss EQ MP.

Amp Room

Imagine being in a luxury, professional studio full of vintage gear including legendary compressors and EQs, classic Marshall amps and cabinets, pedals, and mics and being offered anything you need to configure exactly how you want it to produce the very best guitar tones.

Amp Room is the modern platform designed with the discerning professionals in mind to be a continuously growing pro audio system of everything you need to create high-quality, authentic, and incredibly realistic guitar and bass sounds. You can also process other sound sources, such as drums, vocals, and synth tracks. All the gear you chose from your visit to that luxury studio is configured to your exact specifications and ready to use.

Features

• The pro-audio guitar and bass platform: designed for the producer, sounds exactly like real amps in high-end studios miked up with professional gear.
• Load studio FX from Softube, Tube-Tech, and Trident, amps and cabs from Marshall, and more.
• Mix and match modules to create complex patches and shape the sound you want.

Learn more about Amp Room.

Amp Room Expansion: Marshall Cabinet Collection (New)

Marshall Cabinet Collection is a collection of 8 classic, rare, and hand-wired speaker cabinets by Marshall exclusively available for Amp Room, the pro audio guitar and bass platform. 

Versatile enough for any style or genre of music from vintage to modern, they were all recorded at Dugout Productions studio by Daniel Bergstrand (Behemoth, Meshuggah, In Flames), and each one has 6 single microphone options and 6 mix-ready microphone combinations unique to each cabinet that sound absolutely incredible.

Features

• The only officially licensed collection of cabinets from Marshall.
• Sound quality perfectly captured by acclaimed producer Daniel Bergstrand​.
• Versatile collection of 8 cabs with many microphone options for each one​.

Learn more about Amp Room Expansion: Marshall Cabinet Collection.

Statement Lead

When inspiration strikes and your new hit song begins to take shape, it feels like magic. The trick is finding that inspiration in the first place, and it also helps a lot if you have an easy way to transport your ideas from inside your head to a flawless recording that you can share with the world.

Statement Lead is a state-of-the-art, user-friendly synth designed with the contemporary producer and songwriter in mind. With carefully recorded and processed sound sources from rare and expensive synths and built-in effects of the highest quality, and modules for the endlessly expandable Eurorack modular synth Modular, Statement inspires you to make a statement. This is the lead synth you need to create hit songs that sound polished and finished with no complications along the way.

Features

• The synth for contemporary lead sounds, perfect for music production and songwriting.
• Phenomenal sound quality and analogue feel from careful recordings of rare, expensive hardware synths and built-in Softube effects.
• The intuitive user interface and the presets make it easy to get started, resulting in polished sounds in no time.
• Modular Ready: works as a native instrument plug-in and as modules in Modular, Softube's Eurorack platform.

Learn more about Statement Lead.

Acoustic Feedback

Screaming guitar feedback in the box! One thing that is really hard to achieve with a guitar amplifier simulation plug-in or hardware is the interaction in a room between the guitar and an amplifier turned up loud. Enter Acoustic Feedback - because this plug-in does precisely that. Whether you just want single notes to keep hanging a little longer and gently fade to sustained feedback or you want instant and rampant howls for your noise rock, Acoustic Feedback is your friend.

Features

• Realistic simulation (physical modelling) of guitar feedback.
• Fully responsive to vibratos, bends, slides, tremolos etc
• Simple user interface: Control amount of feedback with the Feedback knob, and the sensitivity with the Tolerance switch.
• Compatible with MIDI foot controls

Learn more about Acoustic Feedback.

American Class A

Gut-busting drums. Crackling, searing, face-melting guitars. Meaty, punching bass. Rich, up-front vocals. Wide-open, airy, living electronics. If you will it, it is no dream with the American Class A. Based on the greatest classics of American mixing console hardware, this channel strip is fast and easy to work with, and brings a truckload of character to the party.

With a shape section featuring gate and transient designing, a stellar four-band EQ with proportional Q and range control, a fascinating compressor design which can be switched between feedback and feedforward operations, and a warm, crunchy output drive section, no modern studio is complete until this sonic option is at hand.

Features​

• Characteristic stepped EQ with proportional Q values. Gives bold boosts and clean cuts.
• Unique compressor design, which can operate in feedback or feedforward topologies.
• Shape section has both gate and transient shaper, with all the same tasty analogue sound of the strip’s circuitry.
• Crunchy drive from the output stage, with controllable character.
• A real and complete workhorse replacement for stock DAW mixing tools.

Learn more about American Class A.

Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor

Drawmer S73 features an enhanced multi-band compressor sound design, fine-tuned to improve your mix with a minimum of tweaking. The S73 does most of the job for you by making the choices a mastering engineer would make. Simply use the Style parameter to switch between ready-made mastering processing techniques to quickly find the sound that suits your mix the best.

Under the hood, the S73 is based on technology created by Drawmer for the 1973 Three Band FET Stereo Compressor. This is an award-winning multi-band analogue compressor design famous for its precision and flexibility. Softube has carefully modelled all the characteristics of the original analogue hardware, and have taken the concept a step further by adding mastering sound design to create the Drawmer S73 IMP. The unit offers the perfect way to balance and shape your mix and get great analogue sound in no time.

Features

• Built-in mastering processing techniques
• Lifts your mixes to the next level
• Great Drawmer compressor analogue sound
• Parallel compression

Learn more about Drawmer S73 Intelligent Master Processor.

FET Compressor

The FET Compressor is an impressively faithful modelling of one of the most iconic compressors of all time. FET Compressor is loved for its aggressiveness and its tendency to add some tasty distortion to the sound source when driven hard. This compressor loves to be slammed and abused. But few things are so good they can't be improved, so Softube added a couple of nice features that make it even more flexible than the hardware original.

In general, the FET Compressor can be used for deeper gain reduction than you would normally use with any compressor. The reason is that even at extreme settings, the FET Compressor shows no trace of the pinched sound many other compressors make when you push them hard. This ability for strict gain control is not least useful on lead vocal tracks that need to be kept in the listener's face. The distortion also adds a nice grit to the voice, highly useable in rock mixes but in no way limited to that.

Features

• Sweet input and output stage distortion.
• Superfast attack time (just like the original)
• Lookahead (in case you don't find the original's attack time fast enough)
• Modelled "All buttons in" mode
• Continuous ratio (even between 20:1 and ALL) - but if you want the fixed ratios of the original, just click the ratio labels around the knob.
• Parallel compression.
• Detector low and high cut filters.
• External side chain.
• Stereo with synchronized gain reduction.
• Meticulously modelled analogue compressor. Every single stage of the analogue unit has been modelled separately to achieve the exact sound and behaviour of the original analogue unit

Learn more about FET Compressor.

Fix Flanger & Doubler

The Fix Flanger is versatility personified—this flanger is capable of both classic guitar pedal style flanging with an automatically swept flange as well as direct interaction in the manual mode. A VSO mode features unprecedented hands-on control with emulated servo motor bounce and true cross zero flanging, just like a tape machine. Added features such as tap tempo sweep, unique stereo widening methods and selectable delay polarity makes the Fix Flanger the swiss army knife of flangers.

The Fix Doubler delivers texture and extraordinary richness to vocals and polyphonic instruments. The algorithms of the Fix Flanger, combined with a streamlined interface and Paul Wolff's unique Auto Double algorithm, makes it easier than ever to get lush chorus and rich layers to your vocal track. With Auto Double, you can get smooth doubling without flanging at delays as low as 3 ms, which no one has ever been able to do before.

Features

• Fix Flanger delivers the sound of classic flanging, with extreme control and flexibility
• Unprecedented hands-on VSO flange control, with servo motor bounce emulation
• Fix Doubler provides lush chorus and rich textures to your vocals
• 'Auto Double' uses a unique method of accurate phase-cancellation to make a natural-sounding doubler effect

Learn more about Fix Flanger and Doubler.

Fix Phaser

No single phaser could please Paul Wolff. He wanted them all in one. All the stages, the sweeps, the tones. From the mind of Paul Wolff, here is the Fix Phaser.

Have you ever worried that your guitar just doesn't sound enough like a spaceship? Coming from the ever-fertile mind of audio legend Paul Wolff, Fix Phaser perfectly covers this concern and many others too. Create subtle movement and texture in a string section or synth pad, wash a drum kit in stratospheric swirling attitude, create a throbbing, oscillating vibrato in a vocal, or simply swoosh and whoosh things to your heart's content.

Features

• Lush vintage phasing sound in a modern plugin package.
• Wide and versatile feature set.
• Mix knob allows blending of wet and dry signals to taste.
• Create stereo soundscapes out of mono sources.
• Generate subtle movement in flat or dull-sounding instruments.
• Out-of-this-world whooshing effects.

Learn more about Fix Phaser.

Harmonics

Guitars, vocals, drums, bass, even synths often need some extra grunt to push them over the edge, but distortion can destroy dynamics and cause more problems than it solves. Too little and your sound doesn’t cut through and fill its space. Too much and you lose the light and shade, the attack and decay. Transients blend into tails, and detail and definition go out the window.

But with Harmonics, you get much more than just five awesome-sounding analogue distortion models. You also get a revolutionary new approach to handling dynamics during the process of distorting the sound. The input signal is listened to and analysed by the plug-in, allowing the dynamics and detail to be preserved and enhanced even after heavy distortion is applied.

Add to that the fact that Harmonics has five totally different-sounding component-modelled distortion styles, high and low cut filters, a mix knob and more, and you end up with a very powerful secret weapon indeed.

Features

• Five genuinely different component-modelled distortion sounds
• Revolutionary ‘Dynamic Transient Control’ technology
• ‘Amount’ knob to control the amount of saturation
• ‘Character’ knob controls the tone or colour of the distortion
• High and low cut filters can be placed before or after distortion
• Wet/dry blend knob for parallel processing
• THD meter allows fine control of subtle saturation

Learn more about Harmonics.

Heartbeat

Classic drum synthesis is back with a vengeance! Flexible and tweakable—Heartbeat is your source for familiar, yet unique, drum machine sounds. Use the built-in effects and the innovative Auto Layer Machine to take your beats to unexpected places. Or use Heartbeat's instrument and EQ modules in Modular. 

While Heartbeat draws inspiration from the best analogue drum synths from the 1980s, it does not emulate any existing drum machine. The sound mostly originates from Softube's own modelled analogue synthesis, which has been augmented with carefully selected waveforms.

The core of Heartbeat consists of the eight instrument channels. You will find two different bass drum channels, which can be as punchy and deep as you want them but are also perfectly capable of producing snappy and hard-hitting woody textures. The two dedicated snare drum channels have six parameters each which allow you to achieve anything from edgy rimshots, soft and whispery snare rolls to machine-like claps.

Features

• Eight channels of drum sounds, mostly based on modelled analogue synthesis.
• Mixer with volume, EQ, effect sends and panning for each channel.
• Four-channel Auto Layer Machine for layering sounds or triggering beat patterns.
• Chaos slider adds randomness to the behaviour of Auto Layer Machine.

Learn more about Heartbeat.

Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959

There is perhaps no other amplifier more vital to the history of rock & roll than the Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959. Softube took Marshall’s own museum-piece Plexi (a pristine model from 1967) under extremely careful security and supervision and modelled each and every component to produce the most textured, detailed software version imaginable. At any setting, it responds exactly like the hardware, and it’s sensitive to your playing style like you wouldn’t believe.

Features

• Faithful emulation of Marshall’s own reference Plexi Super Lead 1959 amplifier from their museum, built-in 1967, combined with an era-correct 1960BHW speaker cabinet recorded by famous engineer/producer Tony Platt.
• Microphone selections and placements by Tony Platt, captured in famous Kore Studios, London.
• Over 50 finely-tuned presets designed by AC/DC engineer Tony Platt.
• Three different microphone combination setups available — FET, Valve, and Dynamic.
• Three separate mics per setting, two close and one room.
• 'Channel Strip' includes pans, volume faders, and solo for each mic, plus a two-band 'Main Out' EQ.

Learn more about Marshall Plexi Super Lead 1959.

Modular

To beginners, a modular synthesizer can be daunting at first. But Modular offers a wide range of expertly designed presets, immediately available to be put to use in your music. When you are ready to learn more about patching a Eurorack synth, the manual offers step by step patching tutorials that go hand in hand with the included tutorial presets.

Features

• Modular is a cross-platform modular synthesizer plug-in standard, which features authorized emulations of modules from well-known hardware Eurorack brands.
• True dynamic circuit-emulation—looks, functions and sounds like its hardware counterparts.
• Basic system contains six Doepfer modules (A-110-1 VCO, A-108 VCF, A-132-3 Dual VCA, A-140 ADSR, A-118 Noise/Random, A-147 VCLFO).
• Basic system also contains over 20 Utility modules (such as MIDI to CV/gate, mixers, slew, sample & hold, switches, multiples, delay, offset, sequencers, clock dividers, logic and signal tools, as well as a Polyphonic MIDI to CV/gate module).
• Additional authorized emulations from Intellijel is available as add-ons (uFold II, Korgasmatron II, Rubicon). Many more modules from other quality hardware Eurorack vendors to be released.

Learn more about Modular.

Monoment Bass

In the modern-day, music production leans more heavily on bass than ever before. Although track counts can number a hundred or more, often the core of a song is built around little more than a beat, a vocal, and a rich, living bass sound.

So an instrument dedicated to just that – tailored to producing huge, solid bass tones with complex, organic overtones and focused effects for a mix-ready low end – is more than just useful. It’s foundational. Monoment Bass lays the groundwork for top-quality tracks every time.

All of the source material in Monoment Bass was recorded in stereo from high-end rare and boutique synths, giving huge, wide, and mood-defining sounds. Including a purpose-built multi-band compressor, and a spatialization tool for fine-tuning your stereo image, Monoment Bass has great-sounding effects, but more importantly, the right effects for the job.

Features

• Super-high-quality bass synth with stereo source sounds from top-end boutique hardware.
• Blend noise with two different sources at once for a textured and highly complex sound.
• Professional presets from Madison Mars, Vandalism, Sample Tools by Cr2, WA production, Black Octopus, and Function Loops.
• A heavy focus on modern bass sounds makes this the perfect addition to the forward-thinking studio.
• Fills a soundstage with domineering weight and power, yet easy to mix thanks to dedicated effects.

Learn more about Monoment Bass.

OTO Biscuit 8-bit Effects

Initially introduced in hardware in the late 00’s, the French-made OTO Biscuit quickly became a cult classic with DJs and electronic music producers around the world. Gritty bit-crushing, lo-fi multi-effects, a sweet and smooth analogue filter, and a quality look and feel, made it a go-to awesome-sound-maker in clubs and studios alike.

The Biscuit offers incredibly detailed control of these essential sonic possibilities, with eight individually invertible or mutable bits, control of sample rate, waveshaping, delay, even pitch-shifting, and analogue filtering (controllable manually or with a built-in step sequencer) to round off sharp edges and make even the harshest digital screech sound alive and organic.

Features

• Lo-fi 8-bit magic in a fun and easy-to-use package.
• Take control on a bit-by-bit level.
• Slow the sample rate and hear that aliasing glitter fall.
• Smooth analogue filter.
• Built-in digital effects – waveshaping, delay, pitch-shifting.
• 8-step sequencer to drive the filter.
• Very distinctive sound, but good for many styles.
• Turn any run-of-the-mill electronic track into a vibrant classic.

Learn more about OTO Biscuit 8-bit Effects.

Parallels

In Stockholm, Sweden, there’s a synth emporium like no other – a store with such vibrancy, such range, such colour, that you’d need a dozen eyes and ears to take it all in. And the guy who runs it is no ordinary guy. He’s special, in all the best ways. His imagination fizzes and crackles with delight at the sounds of a million billion sparkling circuit boards.

Out of this hotbed, this toy-box, this fantasy-factory, Parallels was born; an instrument with not one but two sound sources, each running painstakingly recorded and exquisitely calibrated multi-waveforms from every dream-machine must-have synth you could ever want, and sculpting the resulting sounds with the highest-quality Softube filters, modulators, and effects. If you’re looking for inspiration and sheer sound quality in your music, this is your golden ticket.

There are many possible approaches to take in creating a brand new instrument. Parallels focuses on two main things. First, it should always sound fantastic, with a minimum of fuss. And second, it should inspire the artist with elegant workflow, superb layout and visual feedback, and a sense of endless possibility.

Features

• A plug-in soft-synth with dual wave scanning source sections
• Almost a hundred high-quality pre-recorded multi-waveforms
• Sonic progression within each waveform means near-infinite source-material
• Two parallel sources mean blended sounds, opening up exponentially more possibilities
• Up to fourteen voices (seven per source when both sources are active)
• Hundreds of expertly-created preset from world-leading synth artists, engineers, and sound designers, including Brian Transeau a.k.a. BT, Richard Devine, Inhalt, and more.
• Three analogue-modelled filter types (state-variable, vactrol LPG, and resonant peaks)
• Five sophisticated types of modulation source; LFO, random, Euclidian sequencer, step sequencer, and envelope
• Five top-quality effects options; distortion, chorus, flanger, delay, and reverb

Learn more about Parallels.

Passive-Active Pack

The Passive-Active Pack is a collection of three very different equalizers, each with its own character and quirks. The Passive and Active equalizers emulate real workhorse units, used on thousands of recordings from past to present. The Focusing Equalizer combines these with analogue sounding saturation and a novel workflow.

Features

• Inspiring, untraditional and very useful workflow.
• Choose between Passive or Active EQ character.
• Three-band EQ that automatically and musically changes with Low and High Cut.
• Built-in one-knob saturation with metering and selectable saturation type.

Learn more about Passive-Active Pack.

Saturation Knob

Saturation Knob is a modelled output distortion that can be used anywhere you need some grit. Use it to fatten up bass lines, add some harmonics and shimmer to vocals, or simply destroy your drum loop.

The three modes, Keep High, Neutral and Keep Low give you three kinds of characters of distortion. If you want to squash a drum loop but keep the bass drum fairly intact, you can, for example, use the Keep Low mode.

Spring Reverb

Spring Reverb is an authentic spring reverb recreation that will add vintage character and grit to any audio track. It also includes novel features such as a fully automatable Shake control that will shake the virtual springs around for those thunderous spring effects. Get some recognizable character in your mix with the Spring Reverb!

It can add a lot of personality and character to a vocal track, a snare drum, percussion, an electric organ or just about anything. It's very much a sound of its own and it will help set your mix apart from the rest.

Features

• Tension control to shape the spring character and reverb length.
• The number of spring pairs are continuously adjustable from 1 to 3.
• Tube driver simulation with Bass and Treble in the reverb section.
• Shake control that shakes the springs around.
• Can be used both as a send and an insert effect.
• Very CPU friendly.

Learn more about Spring Reverb.

Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer

The Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Passive Tube Equalizer really sets the standard for all passive equalizer designs. It is a highly versatile and sweet sounding equalizer that will solve most of the tonality issues you may experience in a mix. The EQF-100 is equally suitable for separate tracks as across subgroups or the entire stereo buss.

Flexibility and smoothness are the key features of this tube-driven passive equalizer. Here's finally an equalizer you can use in your DAW to boost frequencies and not limit yourself to cutting. Four fully parametric bands of equalization plus low and high cut filters with three selectable cutoff frequencies each make the EQF-100 a go-to equalizer for any sound or instrument in your mix. A mix that no doubt will sound warmer and fatter with the help of the EQF-100 and its unique blend of tube and solid-state technology. If you want more edge from your EQ, just drive the output meter into the red and you'll experience a woody and thick saturation coming from the output stage.

Features

• Smooth sound and flexible operation.
• Modelled output stage distortion.
• Four fully parametric bands of equalisation with fixed frequency bands.
• High and low filters can be switched from bell to shelf.
• Three-position low and high cut filters.
• Each and every component carefully modelled.

Learn more about Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer.

Summit Audio Grand Channel

Combining the smooth operating EQF-100 parametric passive equalizer with the mild but authoritative TLA-100A compressor, Summit Audio Grand Channel is a highly versatile channel strip that will cover a large part of your mixing needs.

The Grand Channel combines the warm and smooth tone sculpting Summit Audio EQF-100 Full Range Equalizer with the rich sounding and dead-easy-to-use Summit Audio TLA-100A Compressor. Having the two combined in a single plug-in makes adjustments easier, as you will often find that the compressor affects the equalizer and vice versa. By default, the sound reaches the equalizer before the compressor, but you can easily reverse the order with a single switch.

When the EQF-100 and TLA-100A were designed, Summit Audio made sure to combine the finest of what vintage tube designs had to offer with a modern sense of how these units should stand the test of time. The result was remarkable, and today you can experience the Summit Audio grandeur in digital form, just reach for the Grand Channel! As a modern addition to the classic TLA-100A, the plug-in also includes Parallel Compression, Saturation Control and Low Cut Filtering on input or detector.

Features

• Flexible and easy to use with a huge sonic range.
• Individual bypass for each of the two units saves CPU power.
• Change the order of the equalizer and compressor with a single switch.
• Each and every component carefully modelled.
• Extremely analogue behaviour of frequencies, phase, distortion, attack, release, etc.

Learn more about Summit Audio Grand Channel.

Summit Audio TLA-100A Compressor

The Summit Audio TLA-100A works in a program dependent manner, meaning it does a lot of the thinking for you. It's tremendously easy to use and basically impossible to make it sound bad. It will, however, give you some soft and warm distortion if you drive it really hard. For ease of use, Softubes TLA-100A plug-in has a Saturation knob that the original unit lacks. This lets you blend in just the right amount of distortion to your signal.

The TLA-100A shows the same basic behaviour on any type of material. Its transparency and strong but gentle grab of the sound source makes it a popular choice for placing vocals and bass just where they need to be in the mix. The TLA-100A is also well suited for tasks like softening a spiky acoustic guitar that demands too much attention or providing some 'glue' on a drum bus or a full mix.

Features

• Controls your audio dynamics with mild authority.
• Easy to use.
• Built-in parallel compression and detector filtering (Low Cut filter switchable to signal input).
• Each and every component carefully modelled.
• Modelled output distortion, easily controlled with the Saturation knob.
• Extremely analogue behaviour of frequencies, phase, distortion, attack, release, etc.
• Softube makes the only Summit Audio plug-ins.

Learn more about Summit Audio TLA-100A Compressor.

Tape

Time to get reel! Softube's Tape plug-in adds cohesion and weight to your mixes. But Tape goes far beyond your average tape machine emulation. It includes three distinctly different tape machine types, and it offers the ease of use and low CPU strain that today's music creators rightfully expect. 

Even in this day and age, it's common practice for computer-based professional studios to run their mixes through at least one generation of analogue tape. Why? Because even when used subtly, analogue tape has a smoothing effect and adds cohesion and weight to a mix—it takes the recording from a collection of individual tracks into a song where everything is connected and works together. With Softube's Tape plug-in, you can have all that and more.

Features

• Realistic analogue tape sound.
• Three tape machine types included.
• Easy to use.
• Low CPU usage.
• Includes Tape Multitrack which can be used in the MixFX slot of Presonus Studio One—adding individual channel crosstalk and single interface control of all tracks.

Learn more about Tape.

Transient Shaper

Being able to control the attack and decay of a sound is tremendously useful for anyone mixing music. But Softube's Transient Shaper goes beyond that due to the fact that it's a dual-band processor. This means that the user can set it to affect only the treble or bass portion of a sound—separately for the Sustain and Punch parameters—and leave the rest untouched. This opens up a new realm of possibilities.

Transient shaping has become a vital technique in music mixing. The ability to sharpen or soften the onset of a sound, as well as lengthen or shorten the decay, has proven very useful for giving each sound just the right size and position in the mix. Transient Shaper takes this concept one step further, by letting the user affect either the entire frequency range—as most similar tools—or only the treble frequencies or bass frequencies.

Features

• Dual-band transient processing tool.
• Add or reduce punch and/or sustain from any sound.
• Affect either the whole frequency spectrum, only the high frequencies or only the low frequencies.
• User-selectable crossover frequency.
• Clip section adds output distortion.

Learn more about Transient Shaper.

Trident A-Range

It is sometimes said that one of the disadvantages of digital mixing and recording is that the happy accidents one could experience with analogue gear just don't happen in the DAW. People saying that clearly haven't tried Softube's Trident A-Range equalizer.

Because the Trident A-Range is not only a tremendously nice sounding and highly characteristic equalizer. Its four frequency bands also have a way of integrating with sometimes rather unpredictable ways. More often than not you will find that the equalizer ends up giving you something even better than you may have expected when you made a certain setting. In this sense, the Trident A-Range is more of a musical instrument than a strictly scientific tool. Softube think this is one of the major reasons it has been used on so many great classic rock albums and why it's still one of the most coveted pieces of audio equipment around.

Features

• EQ with a will of its own.
• Created together with original designer Professor Malcolm Toft.
• Each and every component carefully modelled.
• Saturation control.
• Very CPU friendly.

Learn more about Trident A-Range.

TSAR-1 Reverb

The TSAR-1 Reverb is not an emulation. It's not a stock design. It's not a static snapshot of a space. The TSAR-1 is a powerful, modern reverb algorithm. It's alive and vibrant, it's gentle and dreamy, and above all - it's natural and believable. The TSAR-1 is the better-sounding alternative to the established, traditional reverb products. At a fraction of the price.

The True Stereo Algorithm inside the TSAR-1 is what gives it its magic. The strength lies in its sophisticated sound and versatility, no matter whether it's used on strings and brass or rock drums and lead vocals, it always shines. All this while still having a comprehensive and easy-to-use interface that is unparallelled in other high-end reverb products.

Features

• True Stereo Algorithm.
• Extraordinary versatility.
• Comprehensive user interface.
• Modern and powerful high-end reverb.
• Extensive preset library.
• Predelay as a rhythmic effect or to carefully match the tail with the early reflections.
• Time Longer or shorter reverb tail. Where do you want to go today?
• Density Smooth, modern and dense, or sparse, lush and vintage.

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TSAR-1R Reverb

TSAR-1R Reverb is the little sibling of the more adjustable TSAR-1 Reverb. They share exactly the same high-end reverb algorithm, but TSAR-1R offers extreme ease of use for a fast and intuitive workflow.

Essentially, TSAR-1R is operated with a single control - the Time slider. Add depth and dimension to any sound with short and controlled room sounds, or slide it up towards hall settings for large, dramatic spaces. It really is as easy as that, and it always sounds stellar.

Features

• Pre-delay - Perfect for getting that small gap between the vocals and the reverb tail.
• Time - One fader to rule them all. Time control changes the Density, Diffusion, Early Reflections, Reverb Time, etc. Almost like a continuous swipe through all the best presets. 
• Colour - Need a bright or a dark reverb?
• True Stereo Algorithm - Same as in TSAR-1 Reverb.
• Extremely easy to use.
• Modern and powerful high-end Reverb.

Fast and easy, yet powerful. Apart from Mix and Volume, there are only three parameters in TSAR-1R. Don't let that fool you though, it has never before been this easy to dial in a great reverb sound.

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Tube Delay

A tasty echo effect that can go from clean to rude by overdriving its three modelled tube stages. Create anything from realistic room echoes to rockabilly style slap backs, or take it all the way into dub reggae echo madness.

A slightly dark and distorted delay has a way of giving a great sense of space and size to a mix without really drawing attention to itself. So that's where Softube's Tube Delay gets in the picture.

The controls are quite self-explanatory, but it's the sound that sets Tube Delay apart from any other delay you have tried. The drive knobs add a wonderfully dirty distortion and the tone controls are just sweet. There's actually three different tube stages in this model, each adding to the total sound. The tone controls are passive and add further to the distortion. Turn up the feedback while running, and you'll have the authentic dub echo madness! Softube of course added the possibility of tempo syncing the delay to your song.

Features

• 1-1000 ms delay
• Sync tempo to host
• Vintage style passive EQ
• Gritty feedback feature
• Tube preamp simulation

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Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer

Based on the legendary Weiss DS1-MK3, the centrepiece of mastering studios the world over (and also now available as a Softube plug-in), the future of fast and professional mix maximizing is now here - the MM-1 Mastering Maximizer.

Featuring the very same algorithms as the original digital hardware unit, the MM-1 offers five flavours of limiting; Transparent, Loud, Punch, Wide, and De-ess; intelligently progressing as the ‘amount’ knob turns, and blendable with the mix control, to give users precisely the right amount of power over the feel of their masters.

Crucial to this plug-in is that it can’t sound bad - the intelligent processes happening under the hood as the amount knob turns; the filtering, compression, de-essing, and so on; have been carefully designed by highly experienced mastering engineers using the industry-standard DS1-MK3 as a foundation.

And there’s no better mastering limiter out there. This product allows users to get their mixes exactly as loud as they want, with exactly the sound they want, without sacrificing dynamics and musicality.

Features

• Simple interface controlling detailed expert mastering processes.
• Five ‘flavours’ of limiting available.
• Contains the very same technology as the legendary hardware mastering processor, the Weiss MM-1.
• Fully licensed and endorsed by Daniel Weiss himself.
• Great for maximizing your mix-bus quickly and effectively.
• Go as loud as you want; louder than any other product out there; without sacrificing desirable tone and dynamics.
• Impossible to get it wrong. Be the master of your own masters!

Learn more about Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer.

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.13 up to OS 12 (older OS versions will not work) (64-bit only).
• Windows 10 (older Windows versions may work but are not tested) (Windows 11 Pending) (64-bit only).
• Mac: Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon - Full Apple silicon support (M1 or higher).
• Windows: Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Xeon / AMD Quad-Core or newer.
• Screen resolution 1280x800 or larger.
• Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo.
• 8 GB RAM or more is recommended, as well as at least 8 GB hard disk space for installation (individual plug-ins take less space, while sample libraries may require additional disk space).
• A Softube account is required to register and install the software.
• An iLok account is required for authorisation of the software.
• Internet access for downloading installer and managing licenses.
• iLok generation 2 and up, if you intend to use a physical iLok dongle for authorizing your plug-ins (note that an iLok dongle is not a requirement).

In theory, any 64-bit VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application should work. The most recent maintenance release of the DAW application is recommended. However, due to plug-in host differences between DAWs - and Softube's own rigorous testing standards - Softube only officially test their plug-ins and instruments in the most recent versions of Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Live, Studio One, Digital Performer, Reaper and Sonar. Softube plugins are not tested in the non-listed systems, but they most likely work as long as the system requirements are met.

Important note: make sure that you always use the latest iLok License Manager. It is not included in the Softube installer but can be downloaded from www.ilok.com​