Sound Manipulation VST Plugins

Welcome to your new sonic playground

CUBE is a creative virtual instrument with hundreds of inspiring sounds and presets bundled in a stunning 3D interface. Explore wild analog synth textures, beautiful cinematic pads, gritty bass pulses, intimate felt pianos, or use your own sounds and morph them in our 8-layer dimensional engine. With such versatility, CUBE is the perfect genre-bending instrument for any music maker looking to reshape their sound.

A 3D Sound Blender

CUBE is a 3D space for morphing between different samples. Each corner of the cube is a sound and you can use the orb in the middle to blend these sounds together. The closer the orb is to a corner, the louder the sound will be. Drag the orb with your mouse, control it with external hardware, or choose from over 40 automatic orbit motion paths.

Hundreds of Sampled Instruments

Browse hundreds of eclectic sounds and instruments ranging from wailing guitars to fluttering flutes, and assign them to different corners of CUBE’s proprietary 3D engine.

Deep FX Suite

Transform your patches with gritty distortion, lush reverbs, beautiful delays, and more.

Powerful Modulation

Harness the power of four detailed LFOs and a Macro controller. Assign modulations just by dragging and dropping or through our custom modulation matrix.

Advanced Sample Editors

Reverse, loop, and tweak sounds with endless combinations. 

Features:

• 100+ Sampled Instruments – Over 3000 samples with multiple dynamic layers
• 500+ Presets – Designed by experienced composers and producers (and growing with additional free preset packs every month)
• 50+ Orbits – Creative motion presets for transforming your patches
• 8 Samplers – Each with an arpeggiator, filters, envelopes, step sequencers, reverse, monophonic, glide, pan, and tuning
• 13 FX Modules – Filters, Visual EQ, Saturation, Waveshaping Distortion, Bitcrusher, Compressor, Chorus, Phase, Delay, Algorithmic Reverb, Convolution Reverb, Limiter
• Powerful Modulation System – 4 detailed LFOs, macro control, and a modulation matrix
• Custom Graphics Engine – A proprietary OpenGL graphics engine for visualizing your presets and transforming your sound in real-time
• Orbit Customizer – Build and save your own orbits from scratch with per-axis control
• Randomization Algorithms – Quickly create new patches by randomizing sounds, orbits, and FX
• Eco-Mode – A special CPU saving feature that minimizes RAM usage and CPU load
• MIDI Control – Set global CCs for The Orb position and main page controls
• Expandable Content – Easily add new sounds and preset packs to your CUBE engine.
• User Audio – Drag and drop your own samples or SFZ files into the engine, save sounds to your user library for quick access, and build presets with your own samples

3D Sample Morphing at Your Fingertips

CUBE Mini gives you an immediate, accessible sonic palette for effortless creativity. We took the same award-winning engine and seamless 3D interface that powers CUBE and focused on the highest-impact features to make it accessible at a lower price point.

Explore over 120 production-ready presets, 35 expertly-crafted sound sources, and a curated set of foundational sound design tools.

Proprietary Sound Blender

CUBE is a 3D space for morphing between different samples. Each corner of the cube is a sound and you can use the orb in the middle to blend these sounds together. The closer the orb is to a corner, the louder the sound will be.

Deep FX Suite

Transform your patches with gritty distortion, lush reverbs, beautiful delays, and more.

Advanced Sample Editors

Reverse, loop, and tweak sounds with endless combinations.

Features:

• 35 Sound Sources – An eclectic mix of analog synths, vocal textures, pianos, strings, guitars, wind textures, perc hits, pads, 808s, and more
• 120 Presets – Designed by experienced composers and producers
• 8 Samplers – Each with an arpeggiator, filters, envelopes, step sequencers, reverse, monophonic, glide, pan, and tuning
• 13 FX Modules – Filters, Visual EQ, Saturation, Waveshaping Distortion, Bitcrusher, Compressor, Chorus, Phase, Delay, Algorithmic Reverb, Convolution Reverb, Limiter
• Randomization Algorithms – Quickly create new patches by randomizing sounds, orbits, and FX
• Eco-Mode – A special CPU saving feature that minimizes RAM usage and CPU load
• MIDI Control – Set global CCs for The Orb position and main page controls
• Expandable Content – Easily add new expansion packs to your CUBE engine.

Take your music to another dimension with a world of captivating visuals.

VS – Visual Synthesizer makes it easy to express your sound optically, in a highly customisable way. Visual Synthesizer VS from Imaginando has a lot of shaders and materials to play with. VS – Visual Synthesizer multi-layered shader system allows you to create complex compositions by blending dynamic graphical elements using powerful controls.

Trigger, change and modulate parameters from both audio and MIDI sources, to inject movement into each layer’s “polyphonic visual voices”. From ambient geometric loops, to rhythmically pulsating patterns, VS extensive modulation options ensure you are always in control.

Shaders

The core of VS – Visual Synthesizer is a collection of graphical shaders called materials, which render procedurally generated geometry in real time, based on each material’s set of unique parameters. VS comes loaded with 50 beautifully hypnotic materials for you to customise and combine, to create mesmerising displays. Be inspired and get up and running in an instant too, thanks to the factory bank of presets created by audio-visual new media artist Perplex On!

Polyphonic Visual Voices

We’re taking polyphony into the visual domain with the concept of VS’ polyphonic ‘visual voices’. Just like pressing multiple piano keys produces the sound of several notes together, each VS layer can display multiple visual voices of it’s material.

Layers

VS – Visual Synthesizer layer-based rendering engine allows you to stack and blend 8 material layers, on top of a custom background image/video layer, with the ability to access and control all layer parameters for a deeply customizable range of creative possibilities.

Open the DAW to a world of visuals

Aswell as a standalone app, VS – Visual Synthesizer comes in a range of plugin formats, which can be run inside a DAW like Ableton, to react directly to your compositions, live in realtime. In terms of MIDI interaction, this gives you huge potential to create amazing visuals right inside your DAW.

Features

• 8 Polyphonic visual layers
• 4 voices per layer
• 50 built-in materials
• 1 background layer with solid color/image/video (no modulations)
• 4 LFO’s
• 2 EG’s
• 4 Dual-mode audio input as modulators (peak and band)
• Built-in video recording feature
• Syphon (Mac OS)
• Spout (Windows) output
• NDI output

FLEX YOUR BEATS WITH FLEX BEAT

Akai Pro, the legendary music production brand, are proud to present Flex Beat – the ultimate rhythmic tool, giving you complete control over the timing and groove of your music. Flex Beat lets you create beat chops, DJ-style scratches, Trance gates and reverse or half-time your audio with ease. Producers of any genre can twist samples beyond recognition or add extra flavor to any loop in your sample collection.

Take Control of your Sound

• 16 performance pads for pattern presets
• Pad play modes for Loop, One Shot and Hold behavior
• Pads are MIDI controllable using MIDI sidechain input
• Preset banks for instant inspiration
• Ability to launch quantized patterns, so your music never skips a beat
• Large library of pad presets with a preview function
• Detailed pattern editor with snap, adjustable curve types and envelope tools.
• Export or import pattern presets in .fnv format compatible with Gross Beat ™
• Dry / Wet mix

ADD EXTRA FLAVOR WITH HUNDREDS OF PRESETS

Sound Mangling at your Fingertips

Flex Beat enables you to add rhythm and movement to your music. With a library of hundreds of presets, you can add anything from simple scratches to full-fledged pitch-shifting automation with just a few clicks. You can even change existing presets or create your own patterns to use in your projects.

YOU’RE THE PRO—FLEX YOUR CREATIVE MUSCLES

Grid Editor

The pattern editor helps you compose beats and songs with effortless control over pitch, velocity and steps. With the pattern editor, you can easily edit values in the sequencer like you would in a DAW, adjust curve types and envelope tools, snap notes to the grid, randomize values and save presets.

DON’T FORGET TO ADD THE SAUCE

Run it Back

Select a mode to play the pads in loop, one shot or hold behaviour and move through the patterns available to you.

• One Shot: Plays the selected pad pattern through to completion then reverts back to previous pad
• Loop: Default behaviour, the pad pattern is always looping
• Hold: Plays the selected pad pattern while the pad is held then reverts back to previous pad