Stagecraft Software

Pushing the boundaries of Live Looping
Inspired by loved loopers of the past, Loop Lab expands the possibilities of live looping through its modern UI and innovative new features.

Add complexity and texture to your creations
In addition to providing control over speed, pitch, tempo, and stack delay, Loop Lab features the full suite of Stagecraft effects. This includes Stagecraft’s DJ Delay, Multiband EQ, Overdrive, BitCrusher, Chorus, Flanger, and more, all with a wet/dry mix functionality. Possibilities are extended even further with the use of real-time visualization of the stereo field, full parameter automation, and the option to save and share presets.

Full automation of all parameters
Loop Lab has the capacity to fully automate any parameter. This powerful feature unlocks the plugin’s full potential by allowing you to create more complex and expressive sounds than what’s possible with manual tweaking.

Disarray is directly inspired from the KAOSS pads of a couple decades ago.

This simple controller allows you to manipulate multiple effects across and XY plane in startling and amazing ways. Perfect for slow builds, quick drops, effect riding, and soundscapes; this plugin gives you everything you need to truly control you effect chains live.

Unbelievable Control

Map any parameter to the XY space either radially or linearly. Control up to 8 parameters on up to 4 effects at once. Trigger and freeze effects to pop in and out with touch or to stay statically on while you manipulate them. Truly unprecedented control.

Host Any Plugin

In addition to the onboard effects (every Stagecraft effect is pre-loaded into Disarray), you can also use it as a host. This means that you can load your favorite effects and control them as well, even when running Disarray as a plugin itself. If there is a better way to control plugins over an XY space, we have not seen it.

Automation

Like all Stagecraft plugins, you can add internal quantization, mods, and automation to any parameter. Doing this adds another dimension to the controls, tracing out complex paths in the XY space with every touch.

Presets

Save presets and (optionally) share them with other Stagecraft users online.

Control

MadMod takes modulation much further than your typical reactive filter, linking 6 different parameters to incoming audio, and each with its own custom scaling. This means you can cause the filter to fade in, skew higher, modulate more, flatten out, all at the same time and all scaled to incoming audio.

ADSR Versatility

Stagecraft has added a trigger mode which changes how the mods react to audio. Rather than tracking, in trigger mode the mods will kick in when the threshold is passed, but then go through a decay phase, and release only when the threshold is crossed again.

Display

As with all of our plugins, the displays we add are in-depth and powerful. Our design philosophy is that every knob should have a visible effect as well as audible, and that all graphs and images should be interactive.

Online Presets

Like all of Stagecraft’s plugins, you can browse presets in the plugin that have just been created by Stagecraft and their users worldwide. New and interesting presets are added every week.

Scratching in the DAW

Scratch track is designed to give you a way to add scratches to your recording projects. You can use this plugin to scratch samples, loops, tracks or live input. This is the only software to offer live scratching, and to support all types of timecoded vinyl, midi learn for controls, automation, and programmable crossfade.

Timecoded Vinyl

Scratch track is the cheapest, simplest, most versatile way to use your timecoded vinyl in any DAW or audio plugin host. That makes this plugin the easiest way to add scratching to your recording projects, period.

Midi Scratching

Scratch with popular midi platter devices, adjust the sensitivity and friction to get perfectly tuned turntable control, capable of everything from a hyperrealistic feel to the truly alien and unique.

Live Input

You can even scratch a stream of live incoming audio. This means you can scratch any of the sounds that you can generate with the host program, or even incoming audio like a live MC. Imagine sending out a shout out from on stage, and then rolling it back to scratch the audio. No problem.

Samples and Tracks

You can use this plugin to trigger samples and tracks. There are programmable cue points so you can juggle between cues in your samples at the touch of a button.

Midi Learn

Like all our plugins, this one comes with it’s own midi learn. Simply right click on any of the buttons or sliders (including the crossfade) to map a midi signal to that control.

Crossfade

The only plugin out there with a professional level crossfade. This plugin lets you adjust the curve of the crossfader, and responds with super low latency to incoming midi signals, so you can finally use a midi controller for serious scratching.

Expand your soundscape to infinity
Infinity Synth is a sample-based synth designed for maximum expressiveness. It ships with a bank of high-quality sounds out of the box.

Why is it called “Infinity”?
One of Infinity Synth’s great features is the ability to try out and purchase a huge number of additional samples and patches directly from the synth’s interface. Using the synth’s vast built-in resources allows you to create your own custom, infinitely large sample bank.

Automate sounds and effects with perfect precision
Use automation to create unique soundscapes, from that dubstep-characteristic wobble to voices coming in and out at random intervals, and effects fading in and out with perfect quantized precision.

Intuitive and user-friendly interface
The philosophy behind Stagecraft’s design principles is that the software should show you visually what it does. Because of that, every knob or button produces a visual change as well as a sonic one. This unique approach lets you see exactly how the sound is changing and evolving throughout the track.

Integrated Sample Marketplace
In addition to its integrated bank of free high-quality sounds, Infinity Synth gives you the ability to try out and purchase additional sample banks from Stagecraft’s large and ever-growing library. The synth automatically connects to Stagecraft’s library through wifi giving you access to an almost infinite amount of sounds without ever having to leave the synth’s interface.

Features

• Sample-based presets with a massive catalog
• ADSR and filter ADSR control
• Configurable voice filtering, with LFO, for maximum tone adjustment
• Mods and Automation configurable for any parameter
• Effects chaining with a wide variety of quality effects
• Every preset can be poly or monophonic
• Adjustable Portamento and Pitch Bend
• Highly customizable UI with a wide choice of colors and light/dark mode
• Compatible with MPE controllers

Play your music inside the most unusual acoustic spaces
How would your music sound like if played inside the Batcave from the original 1960s TV show? Or in the stream bed beneath Byron Glacier? Or in the Cathedral Room of Shasta Lake Caverns?

What is EchoThief?
EchoThief is a real-time reverb convolution plugin built around the use of the EchoThief impulse response library. This library was created using custom, state-of-the-art signal processing technology that enables the recording of impulse responses in acoustic spaces too noisy to capture using other methods.

Gain access to previously inaccessible places
From typical convolution reverb standbys such as concert halls to previously inaccessible spaces such as the Batcave from the original 1960s TV show, this plugin will give you an unprecedented range of acoustic spaces to play in.

Stagecraft’s EchoThief also features wet/dry mix, signal pre-delay, and a compressor and EQ to enhance the space.

See the space you’re in through the plugin’s image display
The philosophy behind Stagecraft’s design principles is that the software should show you visually what it does.

Stagecraft’s EchoThief has an intuitive interface that integrates beautiful high-resolution and wide-angle images of each space available in the library. You can now see the space your music is placed in allowing you to have a better understanding of why the space sounds the way it does. This level of visual feedback is unprecedented.

Features

• Real-time convolution
• Wet / dry mix
• High-res wide-angle images of the spaces
• IR Compressor to bring out the reverb
• EQ to limit the echo effect to bands

Smart glitching at your fingertips

Stagecraft’s Glitch Machine gives you precise control over the probability that a stutter will occur at any point in the measure. This gives you many options for augmenting your beats by easily driving straight repeats, heavy offbeats, or conveniently creating more random and messy glitches.

The stutter length, as well as timing and other characteristics, all come equipped with many quantization options. This allows you to easily switch between different timings such as triplet or dotted note timing, for example. The pitch shift can also be quantized to various scales.

Full automation of all parameters
Glitch Machine gives you the ability to fully automate any of the plugin’s parameters. This powerful feature unlocks the plugin’s full potential by allowing you to create more complex and expressive sounds than what’s possible with manual tweaking.

Save and even share presets
Stagecraft’s Glitch Machine allows you to save your presets and even share them with other Glitch Machine users online.

Down and dirty, this is our take on the classic compressor.

A vital effect and time tested classic, embellished by our own custom touches, our compressor stands out by having superior display visualization and a very intuitive interface.

Dynamic

Use this plugin to alter the dynamic range of your signals and you will not be disappointed.

Display

As with all of our plugins, the displays we add are in depth and powerful. Our design philosophy is that every knob should have a visible effect, as much as possible we show you the effect every parameter has on the signal.

Filtering

We added a filter to the detector, so you can choose compression that reacts, for example, only to the bass hits. Advanced options, like the auto release, allow you to avoid pumping, or set the release longer and get the offbeat swells that are characteristic of so many techno tracks.

Get addicted to the power of subtractive synthesis
Addiction synth is a professional, intuitive, and versatile subtractive synthesizer. Shape the sound easily through the synth’s user-friendly interface. Watch as the sound changes and evolves on the synth’s beautiful spectrum display. Create almost any kind of sound you like, from a sweet organ ideal for playing light chord pads to a sharp, funky clav capable of satisfying all your groovy needs.

Addiction Synth allows you to play with multiple voices and contains a high level of velocity sensitivity as well as mono/polyphonic switching, versatile LFOs and filter, and a variety of effects.

Designed with the novice user in mind
Addiction Synth is designed to help novice users understand how the different elements of a synthesizer fit together. With this synth, anyone can create amazing synths right out of the box.

The philosophy behind Stagecraft’s design principles is that the software should show you visually what it does. Because of that, every knob or button produces a visual change as well as a sonic one. This unique approach lets you see exactly how the sound is changing and evolving throughout the track.

Unique spectrum display for unprecedented visual feedback
The fundamental building blocks of any subtractive synthesizer are waveform generators (voices), a filter (where the tone is shaped), and effects (or mods).
Addiction Synth includes a high-definition auto-filter with a unique spectrum display showing you exactly how the sound is being shaped at every moment. This level of audio and visual feedback is unparalleled.

Automate sounds and effects with perfect precision
Use automation to create unique sounds, from that dubstep-characteristic wobble to voices coming in and out at random intervals, and effects fading in and out with perfect quantized precision.

Features

• MPE and Aftertouch support
• Three Oscillators with independent volume, pan and pitch
• Filter bank with auto filter style display
• Full automation of any or all parameters
• LFO for filter sweeping
• Advanced quantization options for all parameters
• Waveform skewing (Pulse Width modulation for all oscillators and LFOs)
• Over a dozen effects and full effects chaining, including bit crusher, reverb, delay, and chorus
• Better anti-aliasing and waveform control
• More presets, and full preset sharing between users

Ever get a new DAW you really, really, really liked, only to realize that you can’t get to some of your favorite plugins because it won’t host them? Stagecraft is talking to you …

• Logic Pro (loads AudioUnits but not VSTs)
• Pro Tools (loads only its own format – AAX)
• Bitwig (loads VST but not AU)
• Garageband (loads AU but not VST)
• Ableton Live (loads VST AU and VST3)

Well, now you can load any 64-bit VST / VST3 / AU plugin in any host. We’ve created an easy to use wrapper plugin that will let you open your favourite plugins anywhere.

Create strange, unique, and powerful vintage-style synth leads

“There-a-whaa?”
Originally, a theremin is a single oscillator musical instrument made of two metal rods—one for pitch and the other for amplitude—controlled by the performer using hand gestures. Its unconventional way of controlling the sound makes the theremin capable of the strangest bleeps, bloops, whuuuuurls, and pprrrzzzzz.

Stagecraft’s Theremin uses the original principle of hand gesture control as a template for developing a new way of controlling a mono synth. Perfectly geared for vintage-style synth leads, this mono-voice synth has hard syncing and tone control features similar to what you see from the great synth pioneers in the early modular synths era.

Control pitch and volume through single variables
The unique idea behind this plugin is to allow you to control pitch and volume each with a single variable, as you would with a real theremin. This allows for new and interesting ways to manipulate sounds. Since Theremin is always mono with portamento, it slides between notes as you move up and down the range.

Additional quantization options
The Theremin plugin has the additional option to quantize the input pitches. Using this feature allows you to hear the sound slide through all the notes of the selected scale as you slide the pitch control up or down. This kind of result takes traditional theremin players years to attain.

A distortion effect with five distinct, high-quality distortions.

Mix and match to come up with your own specialized distortion types, ranging from light sweet distortions to heavy, dark or grungy growl distortions.

After the distortion phase is a four band EQ and compressor.

Use these to further shape your sound, bringing out sharper high tone portions or smoother deeper ones. Overdriving the compressor gives you another level of overdrive for an intense, thick sound.

Overdrive 5 features full automation of all parameters, allowing you to create more complex and expressive sounds than possible with manual tweaking. Additionally, save presets and (optionally) share them with other users.

Echothief Inspired

This plugin is a direct collaboration with Dr Chris Warren (aka Superhoax); who is also the genius behind Echothief, the library of impulse responses we use for our modelling reverb of the same name. The plugin is adapted from his Picante MaxForLive patch.

Soft Saturation

Picante works as a tone shaper, graphic EQ, and light distortion. It can be made to add grit or a soft fuzz. The full range EQ gives you precise control even as the limiters introduce a nuanced amount of nonlinearities for tonal depth.

Light, Sweet, Crude

We use a unique combination of limiters and saturation to obtain a light push overdrive that is perfect for bringing out the grit in horns and vocals, or used more aggressively it can be used to push a tone to be hard but not heavily distorted.

Q Power

The inclusion of variable Q gives another dimension of control as you can push the sound’s resonance toward ringing. This lets you use this plugin as an effect for otherworldly sounds, shaping a saxophone into a thick tinny sound and then morphing into a ringing percussive blast.

Split any song, fast

Simple Stems is a quick and easy way to decompose any audio into it’s constituent parts. Leveraging the well established Spleeter algorithm by Deezer, you can separate songs into three different ways:

• vocals and accompaniment (2 stems).
• vocals, drums, bass, and other (4 stems).
• vocals, drums, bass, piano and other (5 stems).

The results are stunning, though more complicated mixes and live recordings are not always perfectly split.

Drag-and-drop functionality

Simple Stems is extremely easy to use! It loads as a plugin (VST/AU/AAX) or standalone. To get new stems, simply drop your audio on the splitter and wait a moment for the stems to appear. You can preview individual stems and then drag the stems directly to your DAW, desktop, or files.

A great addition to your workflow

Your tools should serve you, not the other way around. With Simple Stems, you can get new stems EASILY without leaving your flow or hopping online! Files are automatically created in a folder right beside the original audio, so you can always find them later.

Fades in a DAW?

XFade is designed to give the producer or DAW DJ a simple crossfader, suitable for mixing, production, or live performance. This plugin allows you to fade between 2 input streams within the DAW, overlaying samples on each side as well.

Damn Fast

XFade operates with 0 latency and can fade in/out more than once in a buffer, so it will be lightning fast even with larger buffers and older sound-cards. If you plan on crab scratching in your DAW, this is a must. Be sure your midi device is high speed, XFade can keep up!

Adjustable Cutoff

You can adjust the crossfade slope. Use a sharp curve for fast cuts, or a gradual slope for slow and smooth fades between tracks.

Add Samples

Additionally, there are sample players on each side, which can overlay audio int the mix. Keep an extra track to fall back on when mixing, blast an air horn or one shot for some extra energy, or have a loop to fall back on while your guys drop a solo. A must for live performance.