Baby Audio Essential Mix Bundle

The Essential Tools for Seriously Creative Mixing

The Essential Mix Bundle by New York-based company, Baby Audio brings you four best-selling secret weapons for mixing. Each plugin has been designed to be a one-stop solution that you'll instinctively reach for whenever you need intelligent equalisation, movement and spatial effects, hard-hitting parallel compression, or the real deal tape saturation in your production. These four professional tools will become the backbone of your workflow, helping you to achieve professional, precise and colourful mixes every single time.

Smooth Operator is an intelligent signal balancer all about creative expression. Smooth Operator has your back when it comes to automatically eliminating artifacts and is meant for shaping your tone.

Spaced Out is a lush wet-FX generator, built for sending your sounds and vocals into weightless, heavenly orbit. It combines a crystalline reverb engine with a wealth of modulation options and a 16-step delay sequencer. In total, more than 50 individual effects come together in a singular creative experience with endless outcomes and zero sub-menus.

Combine parallel compression and saturation like never before in a single plugin with Parallel Aggressor.

TAIP will help you to add that magical analogue heat to your tracks, right inside the box. Its powerful and innovative approach using AI to accurately decipher the sonic qualities that make a tape machine sound and behave in the way it does will give you that real tape flavour.

The Baby Audio Essential Mix Bundle is available for a limited time only.

Smooth Operator

Introducing Clarity on Demand

Smooth Operator combines equalization, spectral compression, and resonance suppression into a singular creative experience that’s instant and intuitive. Use it to perfect your tonal balance and add a touch of ‘hi-fi’.

BABY Audio's spectral detection algorithm adapts to your audio 44,100 times per second and automatically eliminates fatigued frequencies. This gives you full control to shape your signal and bring out more definition.

Features

• Brings out clarity and smoothness across instruments, vocals, and mix busses.
• Allows for creative tone-shaping without artefacts or harsh resonances.
• An intelligent algorithm that automatically detects and resolves fatigued frequencies.

Learn more about and download the trial version of Smooth Operator.

Spaced Out

Dream Big

Spaced Out offers a pristine sounding one-stop solution for your wet-fx needs on drums, instruments and vocals. Use it subtly to add depth and movement — or go explore the outer bounds of wet-FX processing.

It is no secret that BABY Audio are obsessed with the quirks, sounds, and simplicity of vintage analog gear. With every software product Baby Audio makes, they hope to offer a little bit of that same hands-on experience and instant gratification. Never by emulating the past — but by tapping into its spirit to invent something new.

With Spaced Out, Baby Audio asked themselves this: How would they design a “space echo” effect today, almost 50 years after the original, with the abundance of computer power and algorithmic complexity at their disposal? 

They set out to create an effect as fun, flavoured and futuristic for the 21st century as the Space Echo was for its own time. It’s been an epic journey and Baby Audio are proud to have returned with their most complex plugin to date.

Learn more about and download the trial version of Spaced Out.

Parallel Aggressor

Unlock Unparalleled Powers

Parallel processing plays a fundamental part in getting a “big” mix sound. By processing multiple copies of the same track and blending them together, you can add more punch to a mix — in a more natural-sounding way.

It's like teamwork: Multiple copies of the same track - each focused on doing one specific job - can achieve more together than a single copy being processed to death on its own.

Parallel Aggressor is based on this simple concept. The plugin splits your audio into three equal parts:

• Dry - Your original signal
• Spank - A heavily compressed duplicate 
• Heat - A heavily saturated duplicate

Work the duplicates hard! Then combine all three signals to squeeze every drop of sonic juice out of your track.

SPANK

Spank offers an addictively punchy compression algorithm, designed to adapt to your audio signal. It begins where Baby Audio's I Heart NY plugin ended, with improvements in sound quality, signal detection, and flexibility.

Style injection buttons: Extra Punch, Extra Smack, Sidechain Filter, Mono.

HEAT

Heat is a warm, analog-modeled, saturation algorithm with an aggressive bite. It is based on Baby Audio's tape saturator from Super VHS, but has been rewritten and optimized for the Parallel Aggressor release.

Style injection buttons: Extra Hot, Tone, HP Filter, LP Filter.

AUTO GAIN

Auto Gain ensures that the combined output of the plugin’s three signals roughly matches the input/dry level. This allows you to experiment with different internal mix balances while keeping a consistent plugin output.

Workflow

• Balance the three parallel signals from the main level mixer.
• Use the Spank and Heat knobs to dial up the firepower of the parallel engines.
• The meters help you set the right amount of Spank and Heat for any audio signal. (Dial the main Spank/Heat knobs until the meters peak right before the orange line).
• The style knobs inject desirable sonic flavors into the parallel engines. Engage many at once. 
• The solo buttons let you monitor each parallel signal individually for fine-tuning purposes.
• Turn on Auto Gain to get a consistent plugin output, roughly matching the input level.
• Output sets the global output level (post-Auto Gain).
• Switch between three different color schemes by clicking the top-left icon.

Learn more about and download the trial version of Parallel Aggressor.

TAIP

Warm Up Your Sound

Tape recordings have a musical quality that digital mixes often lack. TAIP brings this quality into your DAW. It will add some authentic analogue heat to your tracks, without the need to route any audio outside the box.

Tape plugins are not a new concept. However, this emulation method is. Instead of using traditional DSP, Baby Audio has developed TAIP around an AI algorithm designed to decipher the invisible nuances of analogue circuits.

The result is a truly faithful tape emulation that’s intuitive and creative in use – with some added features to accommodate a modern workflow. Use TAIP to bring a touch of warmth and glue to your tracks, or ‘drive it like you hate it’ as an alternative to your distortion plugins.

Highlights

• AI-powered algorithm, giving you the true warmth and behavior of analogue tape.
• Flexible feature set, allowing you to create a custom ‘tape flavour’ for any need.
• Use TAIP to add musical saturation and glue to drums, instruments, vocals, and beyond.

TAIP is Baby Audio's creation of the ideal ‘Tape Machine’ for the DAW-era, combining an authentic vintage sound with a modern feature set. Its parameters will let you customize the right tape flavour for any need.

Features

• DRIVE: Traditionally, tape machines were designed to colour the sound as little as possible. TAIP is not. You can use the DRIVE knob to add just as much colour as you need - from a subtle touch of heat to heavy distortion.
• MIX/TAPE FLANGING: MIX lets you run your tape in parallel. You can combine MIX and WEAR to get a classic ‘tape flanging’ effect. This is caused by the wow and flutter of WEAR running in parallel with the dry track.
• MODEL: While SINGLE is a regular tape emulation, DUAL creates a series of two tape emulations chained together under the hood, each applying half of the DRIVE value. This will add slightly more weight to your signal.
• LO-SHAPE / HI-SHAPE: These sliders let you saturate the low/high end more or less than the rest of the frequency spectrum. (Example: Warm up a drum bus without distorting the low frequencies).
• GLUE: Tape machines are known to introduce a pleasing compression-like effect due to their low dynamic range. TAIP lets you add this effect – or even exaggerate it. Use GLUE for subtle cohesion or as an actual compressor.
• NOISE: Let's you add tape noise to taste – or avoid it altogether.
• WEAR: Combines wow, flutter, and an altered frequency response curve to emulate a worn-out tape machine.
• PRESENCE: Part of the tape warmth comes from an attenuated high-end. PRESENCE allows you to decide how much of that attenuation you want. It can bring back the brightness that is sometimes lost on tape.
• INPUT: Choose between NORMAL or HOT (more distorted) input levels without affecting the output volume.
• AUTO GAIN: Allows you to add more DRIVE while keeping a consistent plugin output level.

Learn more about and download the trial version of TAIP.

System Requirements

Mac

• Platform: Mac OS 10.7 and up
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic Pro, Nuendo, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit only.

Windows

• Platform: PC Windows 7 and up.
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Cubase, Nuendo, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit and 32-bit compatible.