We're currently living in the age of digital audio. Virtual Instrument is an incredibly powerful tool that is essential to any music producer.

But there are so many different Virtual Instrument plugins in the music production landscape, so we decided to create the ultimate list of the top Virtual Instrument plugins today that will help you find the perfect fit.


Igniter Full Tank

Virtual Instrument by Krotos



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Complex Vehicle Sound Design. Simplified.

Igniter is the new industry standard for creating any real-world or sci-fi vehicle and engine sound effects with ease. Whether you work in audio post or game audio, Igniter enables you to design, perform and automate any complex vehicle behaviour directly in your DAW – from sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, spacecraft and other engine sounds to moving ambiences, textures, Foley or whatever sparks your imagination.

Igniter is the only solution of its kind to come jam-packed with over 20 performable vehicles and 614 audio assets from vehicles including Aston Martin, Ferrari, Porsche, Tesla, Harley Davidson, Huey UH-1H, Agusta Westland 119x, CH-47D Chinook, Bombardier Challenger, Cessna 560XL, skids, sweeteners and much more.

For vehicle sound effects fanatics, Igniter Full Tank comes with 75GB of additional library content including onboard recordings, ramps & static rev bands, Foley sounds, skids, slides and much more!




Features

  • Start Your Engines.

  • Select from over 20 high-quality performable vehicles including sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, space craft and other engine sounds; then process them as part of a powerful, hybrid work flow using Granular, Synth, One Shot or Loop modules.

  • Live Life In The Automation Fast Lane.

  • Design detailed, non-linear behaviour, assign multiple hybrid LFO/macros with complex envelopes and use Krotos' powerful drag-and-drop modulator system for dynamic, real-time performance of any of Igniter’s 600+ parameters. Create complex one-shot systems using the unique triggering system (also ideal for impacts, mechanical devices, robotics, sweeteners and more), Automatic or Manual gearbox configurations with steady RPMs and MIDI for testing timings, performing, automating or editing different engine, moving or evolving material.

  • Break Your Sound Design Speed Limit.

  • Get creative with Igniter’s dedicated FX bus for parallel processing, 10 in-built FX per module and easily perform or automate movement using up to 5 discrete layers of pan, doppler and reverb (with a collection of Impulse Responses) all from one master controller. Route the output of each module back to your DAW for mixing and rendering layers or export whole files into your game engine or audio middleware solution.


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Mac

  • Mac Intel computer with a minimum of 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • OS X 10.9 or later

Windows

  • 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • Windows 7 and above

Other Information

  • This software is a digital download
  • Formats (64-bit only): AAX Native, VST, AU
  • Minimum sample rate: 44.1 kHz
  • Maximum sample rate: 192 kHz
  • An internet connection is required at the time of activation
  • A free iLok account is required to activate and use both the demo and full version of the software - an iLok USB dongle is NOT required
  • Igniter can only be activated on one computer at a time
  • Igniter licenses cannot be resold or moved between iLok Accounts
  • Supported host applications: Pro Tools (11 or later), Logic Pro X, Nuendo 8.2.10 or above, Cubase, Reaper and Ableton Live 10 and above.

Note: A free iLok account is required in order to activate this product. An iLok USB dongle is NOT required.

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Igniter

Virtual Instrument by Krotos



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Description


Complex Vehicle Sound Design. Simplified.

Igniter is the new industry standard for creating any real-world or sci-fi vehicle and engine sound effects with ease. Whether you work in audio post or game audio, Igniter enables you to design, perform and automate any complex vehicle behaviour directly in your DAW – from sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, spacecraft and other engine sounds to moving ambiences, textures, Foley or whatever sparks your imagination.

Igniter is the only solution of its kind to come jam-packed with over 20 performable vehicles and 614 audio assets from vehicles including Aston Martin, Ferrari, Porsche, Tesla, Harley Davidson, Huey UH-1H, Agusta Westland 119x, CH-47D Chinook, Bombardier Challenger, Cessna 560XL, skids, sweeteners and much more.




Features

  • Start Your Engines.

  • Select from over 20 high-quality performable vehicles including sports cars, motorbikes, planes, helicopters, space craft and other engine sounds; then process them as part of a powerful, hybrid work flow using Granular, Synth, One Shot or Loop modules.

  • Live Life In The Automation Fast Lane.

  • Design detailed, non-linear behaviour, assign multiple hybrid LFO/macros with complex envelopes and use Krotos' powerful drag-and-drop modulator system for dynamic, real-time performance of any of Igniter’s 600+ parameters. Create complex one-shot systems using the unique triggering system (also ideal for impacts, mechanical devices, robotics, sweeteners and more), Automatic or Manual gearbox configurations with steady RPMs and MIDI for testing timings, performing, automating or editing different engine, moving or evolving material.

  • Break Your Sound Design Speed Limit.

  • Get creative with Igniter’s dedicated FX bus for parallel processing, 10 in-built FX per module and easily perform or automate movement using up to 5 discrete layers of pan, doppler and reverb (with a collection of Impulse Responses) all from one master controller. Route the output of each module back to your DAW for mixing and rendering layers or export whole files into your game engine or audio middleware solution.


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Mac

  • Mac Intel computer with a minimum of 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • OS X 10.9 or later

Windows

  • 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • Windows 7 and above

Other Information

  • This software is a digital download
  • Formats (64-bit only): AAX Native, VST, AU
  • Minimum sample rate: 44.1 kHz
  • Maximum sample rate: 192 kHz
  • An internet connection is required at the time of activation
  • A free iLok account is required to activate and use both the demo and full version of the software - an iLok USB dongle is NOT required
  • Igniter can only be activated on one computer at a time
  • Igniter licenses cannot be resold or moved between iLok Accounts
  • Supported host applications: Pro Tools (11 or later), Logic Pro X, Nuendo 8.2.10 or above, Cubase, Reaper and Ableton Live 10 and above.

Note: A free iLok account is required in order to activate this product. An iLok USB dongle is NOT required.

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Beatmaker Bundle 2

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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21st Century Drum Machines

Plug-ins for Electronic Beats and Grooves

Drums, beats and percussion constitute the core and heartbeat of a song, helping the music tap into our primal selves and providing an anchor for the melodies and lyrics to hang from. Electronic drum machines have been helping to provide this heartbeat for over 50 years and their influence and unique sonic signature can be found across all genres of music from disco and pop to EDM and hip-hop.

What’s In There?

  • 10 Beatmaker plug-ins
  • 100 Drum kits inspired by retro & modern drum machines
  • 330 Styles and 4807 song parts
  • 540 presets and 120 mix presets
  • MIDI Drag and Drop to DAW & Multiple Audio Outputs

All Hail the Machines

At UJAM we understand the unique power of electronic rhythm, which is why we created the Beatmaker series – a collection of easy to use plug-ins designed to upgrade your productions with genre-authentic electronic beats and grooves of impeccable quality.

Loads of Matching Grooves

The Beatmaker series of plug-ins cover the most exciting sub-genres of today’s music charts:

  • IDOL puts the bright and hyper-processed sound of K-Pop beats in your hands.
  • GLORY is the virtual beat maker for all kinds of trap and modern hip-hop.
  • NEMESIS is for intense and dark electronic broken beats.
  • KANDY is a bleeding-edge virtual beat maker for the top of the billboard charts.
  • HYPE is for huge Festival Anthems.
  • VICE relives the 80s with Synthwave beats.
  • VOID is for highly syncopated DnB beats.
  • EDEN is tailored to EDM, Big Room and Rave.
  • HUSTLE is for dirty & gritty Trap and Grime.
  • DOPE is aimed at Boombap and Hip Hop.

Produce genre-authentic, High-quality Beats With Ease

Forget about using loops, Beatmaker plug-ins each have hundreds of rhythmical phrases in over fifty musical styles for you to choose from, with the ability to create your own unique hits, patterns and grooves with real-time input from your MIDI controller. Optimized for live arrangement and mixing, Beatmaker plug-ins take advantage of UJAM's signature 'simple yet powerful' macro controls, allowing for dynamic and tonal tweaking on the fly.

IDOL

IDOL puts the bright and hyper-processed sound of K-Pop beats in your hands. Keep the good feels coming with clean and polished drum samples, making beats just like the ones in countless chart-topping Korean pop songs!




Features

  • A virtual beat maker for massive pumping Trap, Grime and Bass Music tracks.
  • More than 60 styles, 690 patterns (intro, verse, chorus, fill, ending).
  • 10 drum kits.
  • MIDI 'Drag and Drop' to DAW.
  • Multiple audio outputs.
  • Sound shaping controls per instrument: Type Selector, Filter.
  • Master section featuring: Sweep, Saturate, Maximize, Multi-band EQ and Ambience.
  • Special Control: Bass Tune plays fills, kicks & grooves with tonality.
  • Learn more about HUSTLE 2.


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Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 or later (64-bit only)
  • macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 0.55 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280 x 768 px Display.
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU 2 and AAX
  • AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

  • MIDI

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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BFD3

Virtual Instrument by BFD



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BFD3 is the third generation of BFD's flagship software acoustic drum studio: new levels of realism and ground-breaking features in an intuitive redesigned engine.

With stunning new kits, mix-ready presets and modelling technology for tom resonance and cymbal swells, BFD3 delivers uncompromising detail. The revamped interface has a new mixer and sound browser for the easiest BFD experience yet.

The all-new BFD3 library is designed to provide a diverse range of drum sounds out of the box. Recorded by engineers including Andrew Scheps, Rail Jon Rogut and John Emrich, it features brush and mallet sounds and is recorded in 2 rooms for varied room ambience.

BFD3 also contains a powerful built-in environment for pattern creation and editing, complete with a range of performances by legendary drummers for effortless production of drum tracks indistinguishable from the real thing.

Effortless Power

Instant Results with Unlimited Depth

BFD3 is designed to sound great while offering as much depth as you need. Browse for entire presets, quickly compile custom kits or mould any drum sound you desire by retuning, damping and processing multiple mics with the powerful internal mixing engine.

The built-in Groove section offers a versatile range of session drummer performances alongside pattern editing and creation functions. Select from a wide range of musical drum rudiments and paint your own realistic parts.

New Sound Library

Stunning Hyper-Detailed drums

With detail levels of up to 80 velocity layers, rim-clicks and rim-shots for toms and bells and splashes for hi-hats, BFD3's sounds are more expressive than ever before. The library's 160GB of audio data is squeezed into 55GB thanks to BFD3's lossless compression system meaning less space usage and playback strain on your hard disk.

4 of the included kits are recorded in LA's Ocean Studios and feature additional mono room and hardware-compressed channels in addition to stereo overhead and room mics. The remaining 3 kits are stick, brush and mallet versions of a custom Mapleworks kit recorded in a tight but vibrant room at Omega Studios in Rockville, Maryland.

Augmented Realism

Intelligent Drum and Dynamics Modelling

BFD3 introduces modelled tom resonance and bleed which provides a natural-sounding 'glue' which blends the sound of the kit together. The modelling varies with the characteristics and tuning of any combination of drums - something that cannot be achieved only by using samples. BFD3 also includes improved dynamics matching across drums and a swell-modelling algorithm for more realistic cymbal washes.

These features can be applied to your existing BFD libraries if you're upgrading (and to any expansion packs you buy in future).

Mixing and Exporting

New Effects and Workflow Enhancements

The internal BFD3 mixing engine has DCAM-modelled compression, filtering and other effects alongside great-sounding EQ and algorithmic reverbs. You can even use an external signal as a compression sidechain source.

New workflow enhancements let you hide multiple drum and ambient mics for simpler mixing approaches and it's easy to route multiple channels to discrete outputs for processing with other plugins or outboard gear. BFD3 even provides multi-channel audio export direct to disk. Grooves can be exported using drag and drop - perfect for compiling loops.




Features

  • 7 new kits recorded in 2 locations
  • Dedicated rock, metal, jazz and brush kits
  • More detail in less disk space
  • Tom resonance / cymbal swell modelling
  • Streamlined new browser and workflow
  • Faster, more efficient audio engine
  • Extendable interface for larger screens
  • New effects including algorithmic reverb and DCAM EnvShaper
  • Wide range of mix-ready presets
  • Fully editable, improved groove engine
  • Rudiments tool for creating grooves
  • Grooves by Steve Ferrone, Brooks Wackerman, Bobby Jarzombek, Peter Erskine & Stanton Moore courtesy of Platinum Samples
  • 32-bit and 64-bit support
  • VST, AU, RTAS and AAX plugin formats & standalone version
  • BFD3/BFD Eco Expansion Packs are also available.


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Minimum Requirements:

  • Mac OSX 10.11 or later (Mac)
  • Windows 10 (PC)
  • Core2Duo 2.0ghz (or equivalent)
  • 2GB DDR3 RAM
  • 7200rpm mechanical hard disk or fast SSD
  • Internet connection for authorization and downloads
  • USB 2.0 port for installation
  • 1280x800 screen resolution

Recommended for High Detail Settings:

  • Quad-core processor or faster (Core2Quad, i3, i5, and i7, or equivalent)
  • 3GB DDR3 RAM or higher
  • Dedicated drive for audio content

3 Install Options:

  • 18GB, 27GB or 55GB disk space required

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MDrummer

Virtual Instrument by MeldaProduction



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MDrummer is simply the ultimate drum machine and virtual drummer. It makes arranging drum tracks and real-time performances quick and simple and the possibilities are just endless... 

Sound Limited Only by Your Imagination

MDrummer's sound engine can cover the entire wide range of percussion instruments from drums to scratches. Any number of drumsets, drums in each drumset, layers and effects in each drum, with sampling, synthesis and some completely unique generators. Whether you are interested in acoustic drums, electric drums, percussion or effects, or any kind of combination, MDrummer can do it.

Quick and I

MDrummer can generate infinite number of new drumsets by pressing a single button, analyze and import your sample libraries, merge multiple drumsets and much more. MDrummer is perfect whether you are looking for a traditional style, a truly unique sound available by a few clicks, or if you are ready to get dirty and explore the depths of the most advanced drum machine in the world.

Rhythms Limited Only By Your Imagination

MDrummer truly understands what a rhythm is the way humans do and you have access to everything he knows. It can cover any style and any percussive instrument. MDrummer can play pop, drum'n'bass, rock, r'n'b, salsa, jungle, jazz, rumba on congas, progress-metal in 11/4 signature...anything you can imagine. MDrummer can generate new rhythms for you, merge multiple rhythms, add shakers and other background percussion. Humanization, shuffling, halfe/double tempo & feel and many more advanced features let you transform your ideas into reality by few mouse clicks.

Unique Way to Control the Performance

You can command MDrummer to play intro, groove, add fills, play more notes at different velocities... MDrummer is just like an incredibly great human drummer, except it will obey any orders! You can tell him what to do using our unique MIDI command method, integrated sequencer or he can even jam with you! No more clumsy automation, MIDI file drag & drop... You can make a great drum track for your arrangement in just a few minutes.

Ground Breaking Rhythm Generator

We taught MDrummer what humans do when creating new rhythms. All you need to do now is to create a single loop, which suits your song. Or, well, MDrummer can generate a unique one for you. Rhythm generator then takes megabytes of resources and creates the whole rhythm for you. Just the way real drummers do it.

Flexible User Interface

We make music, but the visual side may inspire or not. MDrummer's user interface is resizable, stylable, contains context help for everything and the workflow is optimized for maximum speed. All for the ultimate user experience and creativity.




Features

  • VST/VST3/AU/AAX plugin
  • More than 6GB of samples, multisamples, subsample libraries and more
  • 300+ drumsets, 2400+ drumset components, 900+ samples, 600+ multisamples, 300+ rhythms, 200+ base-rhythms, 12000+ loops
  • 5 ultimate sound generators - MSampler, MMultiSampler, MSynthesizer4NN, MSubSampleSynthesizer and MScratcher
  • 30 versatile effects - equalizers, compressors, distortions, modulations...
  • Drumset generator & merger
  • Effect generator & merger
  • Ultimate human-like rhythm technology
  • MIDI command method
  • Integrated arrangement sequencer
  • Jamming functionality
  • Rhythm generator & merger

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Windows

  • Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • VST / VST3 / AAX compatible host (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support

Always use 32-bit plugins in 32-bit hosts, or 64-bit plugins in 64-bit hosts!
 
64-bit plugins can't work in 32-bit hosts even if the operating system is 64-bit. Do NOT use 32-bit plugins in 64-bit hosts. They would have to be bridged and can become slow and unstable.
 
Mac OS X

  • Mac OS X 10.9 and newer (64-bit only)
  • VST / VST3 / AU / AAX compatible host (64-bit only)
  • Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support or Apple Silicon processor

Note: Please check your product PDF documentation for more information and installation instructions.

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CUBE

Virtual Instrument by Lunacy Audio



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Your New Sonic Playground

CUBE is a creative sample-based virtual instrument with hundreds of inspiring sounds and factory presets all bundled in a stunning 3D interface. Explore beautiful cinematic pads, gritty bass pulses, intimate felt pianos, wild analog synth textures, and much more. With such versatility, CUBE is the perfect genre-bending instrument for any composer, producer, or artist 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
  • 400+ Presets - Designed by experienced composers and producers (and growing with additional free preset packs every month)
  • 40+ 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
  • User Audio (Beta) - Drag and drop your own sounds into the engine, save sounds to your user library for quick access, and build presets with your own samples

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  • MacOS 10.9+ AU / VST / AAX / Standalone
  • Windows 7+ 64 bit VST / AAX / Standalone
  • Supported by all major DAWs
  • At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended), and 2 GB of free drive space.
  • Access to a stable internet connection for downloading and activating the product is required.
  • Built with JUCE and HISE 2.1.0

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Essential Keyboard Collection

Virtual Instrument by SONiVOX



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At Sonivox we have over a decade of experience of meticulously sampling and expertly voicing instruments. Over the last 12 months we have been working hard to provide the reference collection of “must-have” instruments for keyboard players. 

Our new flagship keyboard instrument utilises the powerful new struQture audio engine from Qubiq Audio, providing full cross DAW compatibility, outstanding sonic quality, visually stunning easy-to-use UI’s and a standalone performance app. 

This dynamic instrument features a wide library of highly playable sounds designed to sound great in live performances or studio use. 

EK has been produced by the sound design veterans behind the highly-acclaimed Air Music Tech Mini Grand, DB-33 and Velvet plugins as well as Sonivox Eighty-Eight. We set out to provide keyboard players with the essential collection for live performance. 

EK includes a selection of thirteen powerful instruments, each with their own intuitive UI built into one powerful player supporting all popular plugin formats. They can also be used as a standalone PC and Mac app when you want to plug in your keyboard and just play. Our comprehensive collection includes the most requested instruments for live performance. Each instrument includes a set of highly playable presets perfect for any musical genre or style. 

The piano - perhaps more than any other single instrument - conveys the whole range of musical thoughts and emotions like nothing else can. EK features stunning Piano models, including a Steinway Grand piano, Yamaha Grand piano, a classic upright piano, Celeste, and even a Toy Piano for times when you need a taste of something different. 

If the electric piano is more your thing, you will absolutely love the Essential Keyboard Collection. Incredibly authentic, both in playability and sound, EK features all the classic models including the Rhodes Mark I and Mark II, Electric Organ, Clavichord, and a hard to find Pianet. 

There are very few truly unique instrumental sounds in the world of music. Sounds so distinct, so compelling, so immediately identifiable and genuine that you just have to have it. One of these really great, unmistakable instrumental sounds is the tonewheel organ, used by many great rock, soul and jazz artists in the 1960’s to 1980’s. Unforgettable musicians like Stevie Winwood, Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes used tonewheel organs to great musical effect. The Essential Keyboard Collection includes 20 tonewheel organ presets designed to cover jazz, rock, pop and other music styles.  

If you’re looking for something more traditional, EK offers a church organ, Celeste, and 4 harpsichord models for classical or worship productions. 




Features

  • Thirteen stunning Instruments each with multiple presets:

  • Steinway Grand Piano
  • Upright Piano
  • Yamaha Grand Piano
  • Rhodes Mark I
  • Rhodes Mark II
  • Electric Organ
  • Pianet 
  • Harpsicord 
  • Clavichord 
  • Harmonium 
  • Tonewheel Organs
  • Church Organ 
  • Powerful built-in Reverb, Delay, Vibrato, and Chorus effects with multiple presets for each instrument. 

  • Also works as a Standalone performance App for PC and Mac plugin your midi controller and perform with no mapping required. 


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  • Windows (x64) OS 8, 8.1, 10
  • Intel Core i5, i7, 2.3GHz processor or higher 
  • ASIO sound drive
  • 4 GB RAM (8 GB's recommended)
  • 2 GB free hard drive space (Download and Installation)
  • Internet Access (Download and Authorization)
  • A FREE iLok account & manager is required for authorisation of this software - no iLok USB key is required

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Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Evoke Emotions

Modern string ensemble textures with a sound design twist.

The Power of Movement

Do you know that feeling when the hair on our necks stands up when listening to a song with the perfect string section? Few things can bring about that sense of poetry and pure sonic pleasure. Your heart swells when you hear it. String sections emphasize emotions and can elevate a song from great to outstanding. That’s what this plug-in is all about.

The Ensemble

  • Play world-class string section phrases, no string arrangement skills required
  • Brand-new creative performance and sound design engine by UJAM
  • 60 Playing Styles, Sound Designer Presets
  • Recorded at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios, Produced by Boris Salchow

Million-Dollar-Sound

UJAM is happy to count Hans Zimmer—one of the world’s great film composers—as one of its co-founders. Hans lent us his legendary string recordings that he has amassed over decades for use in STRIIIINGS. The musical phrases are recorded at one of the world’s leading scoring stages by some of the world’s best instrumentalists.

Cream of the Crop

Recorded in one of the world’s leading scoring stages–makes for that “big” sound. Played by top-of-the-crop players, with the best equipment, room and engineers money can buy.

Accessible for Anyone

As opposed to other orchestral libraries and instruments, you will find no solo instruments here, and no control over intricate details like bowing techniques. And that’s a good thing, because it means you don’t have to think about those or even understand how they work. Just choose a Preset and play immediately.

Extend Your Colour Palette

Just as with other UJAM products like Virtual Guitarist, STRIIIINGS will always play perfectly voiced, always making sense of your input. Forget about the usual tedium of working with string libraries, just load the instrument and compose incredible things within seconds! (Using two fingers!) STRIIIINGS will take care of the details, so you can focus on your music!

Genre-Versatile From Epic to Pop

Whether it’s the driving force in blockbuster scores, the punching core of a hiphop beat or the uplifting extra in a pop production–with STRIIIINGS you’ll produce beautiful string tracks with the same focus and flow that is the signature of every UJAM product.

Supernatural

Not only for natural-sounding strings, with the built-in sound design tools customized for string sections you’ll create modern atmospheres and textures that are entirely your own!

Born From Art & Technology

STRIIIINGS is not just a collection of boring, static loops, it’s actual recordings of a leading symphonic orchestra that follow your musical lead through proprietary UJAM technology.

Highlight Sounds

The Highlighter knob is a multimode 24dB synthesizer filter specifically optimized for creating juicy risers and intros. Turn the knob left for a low pass filter, turn right for a resonant high pass.

Deep PreSonus Studio One Integration

Descriptions of styles and phrases are displayed on the piano roll to help you find the right ones faster and easier for your track. The chord track feature in Studio One automatically follows the chords and automatically changes the MIDI notes for you.



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Operating Systems

  • Windows 8 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 4.7 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280 x 768 px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU 2 and AAX
  • AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

  • MIDI

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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Addictive Keys: Trio Bundle

Virtual Instrument by XLN Audio



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AK: TRIO BUNDLE

Pick Any 3 Addictive Keys Instruments

They say good things come in threes, so go ahead... Pick any three inspiring Addictive Keys instruments and save big!

The Addictive Keys: Trio Bundle lets you pick any three of our Addictive Keys instruments and save over buying them individually. If you've had your eye on our award-winning Addictive Keys instruments (like Electric Grand, Modern Upright, or Mark One), this bundle lets you get all three for a great price.

Features:

  • Includes the full Addictive Keys engine
  • Plug-in and Standalone operation
  • Pick any 3 instruments of your choice

Addictive Keys


Addictive Keys isn't just a collection of sampled keyboards.  That's easy. Anyone can do that. What Addictive Keys does is to capture the soul and essence of great instruments from multiple angles. That's hard, but Addictive Keys instruments pull it off and make it look effortless.

Addictive Keys brings the world's most inspiring and interesting keyboard instruments into the studios of songwriters, producers, and music makers.

It's unique sonic capabilities, smart workflow, fast load-times, and outstanding sound quality are designed to help you stay in the creative flow and to compose great music while you're in the zone.

Addictive Keys ships with tons of inspiring presets neatly arranged in "ExploreMaps." Each preset even comes with previews that present the preset in the perfect light. If you're in a hurry, you can use presets as-is so you don't lose inspiration. If you're in the mood to design new sounds, the powerful sound engine gives you great control over each instrument. You can even mix and match microphone setups!

To push the sound design envelope even further, the Addictive Keys engine has outstanding effects and envelopes to take your sound from clear and natural to heavily processed and other-worldly!

Finally, we include a standalone version that runs without requiring any music software. So if you just want to play, you can do so without any hassles

Standalone Mode

Addictive Keys can also work as a standalone instrument, without requiring host music software. This makes it easy to load an instrument, find an inspiring preset, and start playing without having to launch your music software. 

This is perfect when you just want to play without waiting for music software or deal with routing.



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Mac

  • macOS 10.9 or later (M1 Native & macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only)
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

  • VST, AU, AAX (64-bit only)
  • Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Windows

  • Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit only)
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

  • VST, AAX (64-bit only)
  • Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Hosts:

This product should run on any host supporting 64-bit VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests on the host applications listed below:

  • Ableton Live 9 or later
  • Apple Logic Pro 9 & 10
  • Avid Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported)
  • Cakewalk by Bandlab
  • Propellerhead Reason 10.3 or later
  • Reaper 4 & 5
  • Steinberg Cubase 8 or later

Please Note: This software is 64-bit only and will not function on 32-bit systems.

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Mellotron V

Virtual Instrument by Arturia



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Legendary Tape Keyboard

The Mellotron put an orchestra at the fingertips and redefined what it was to be a keyboard player. Now with modifications never dreamed of in the 1960s, our faithfully modeled reproduction will infuse your sound with updated vintage goodness.

From psychedelic rock to rocking your world

In the mid ‘60s, the Mellotron thrilled keyboardists with the ability to play tape-based recordings of actual orchestral instruments—adding its own quirky sonic character. Whether you’re conjuring the classics or creating new ones, adding this vintage sound to your music with Mellotron V is sure to make people sit up and listen.

Mellotron V puts the orchestral sounds of classic art rock right in your hands—cape optional.

Imagine a pre-digital world where sampling didn’t exist and the only way to incorporate orchestral realism in your music was, well, to hire an actual orchestra. Enter the Mellotron circa 1963. We’ve lovingly re-engineered it in Mellotron V for your music circa today.

What if you placed a tape playback mechanism under each key and fed each one a recording of a single orchestral instrument note? Crazy? Brilliant? Who cares! That ingenuity resulted in the Mellotron and empowered artists like The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Genesis and Yes to perform strings, brass, woodwinds and more without hiring a room full of session players. The imperfections of tape flutter and other 1960s electronics yielded a sort of alt-universe version of these traditional instruments. In today’s world of pristine sampling, that contrast has brought the “Tron” sound back into vogue at the hands of artists like Caro Emerald, Vampire Weekend and Kasabian.

Something old, very new

Here’s the thing. There are plenty of Mellotron samples out in the world—but why stop there when you can interact with a full-on model of the real thing? Thanks to our award-winning modeling tech found throughout V Collection 7, we’ve given you full control to tweak every aspect of your sound, including variable instrument mix combos, tape flutter, saturation and inherent noise.

In addition to bringing vintage essence, Mellotron V allows you to play your own samples through this iconic tape-replay engine.

There are many sounds that made the Mellotron famous. Now you have them all.

Back in the day, a Mellotron could only play whatever three instruments were burnt into its installed tape bank. Today’s Mellotron V comes complete with samples of all the best tape banks from the original instruments and let’s you mix-and-match them at the click of a mouse. You get a full library of presets with designer combos of instruments and onboard effects processing, all categorized and tagged for easy searching in the Mellotron V, Analog Lab and plugin hosts.

Get ready. A lot of people are going to be asking you, "What is that sound?!”

Arturia Software Center

ASC is the central software that elegantly manages all your Arturia software licenses. It activates your licenses and synchronizes them across multiple devices (you get five instances with each instrument license). ASC also notifies you of updates and downloads them. You can even easily learn about new products, download demos versions and purchase the full products. Simple.




Features

  • 65 original tape racks from MKI/MKII/M300/M400 Mellotrons
  • User sample import: benefit from the Mellotron sound on any sample
  • 3 tracks to select or blend samples
  • Modeling parameters and modulations: flutter, tape saturation, mechanics noise, noise floor, velocity on volume and aftertouch on flutter
  • Amplitude envelope and loop controls for each sample
  • Time stretching on user samples
  • 61 presets
  • Dedicated effects pedal board

  • 4 slots with a selection of 10 different effects
  • 1 amplifier simulator (Fender Twin or Leslie)
  • 1 room ambiance

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Mac

  • macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit only) (M1 Mac not yet officially supported)
  • 4 GB RAM; 2.5 GHz CPU
  • OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
  • Works in Standalone, VST 2.4, VST 3, AAX (Pro Tools 11 or higher), Audio Unit, NKS

Windows

  • Win 8.1+ (64-bit only)
  • 4 GB RAM; 2.5 GHz CPU
  • OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
  • Works in Standalone, VST 2.4, VST 3 and AAX (Pro Tools 11 or higher), NKS

Protection

All Arturia software is protected by the Arturia Software Center.

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Drum Synth 500

Virtual Instrument by AIR Music Technology



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Building upon Air Music Technology’s heritage of creating Strike—considered “The reference Drum Instrument” for Avid Protools—Air has teamed up with music legends Akai Professional and Alesis Drums to carry on this legacy of excellence. 

In the style of the popular 500 series synth modules comes an all new software drum synthesizer that delivers full control of all electronic drum sounds in an easy-to-use, comprehensive interface. Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology has everything needed to create an endless variety of custom electronic drum sounds for all styles of music.  

Drum Synth 500’s exclusive library has been produced by the sound design veterans behind the highly-acclaimed Air Music Tech Strike, Air Structure, Sonivox Big Bang, Akai Professional’s MPC and Alesis e-Drums. The goal was to provide an incredible mixture of vintage and all-new effects that pay homage to classic sounds while also pushing into new territory. 

Using a MIDI keyboard, pad controller, electronic drumkit, or the user’s favourite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software, Drum Synth 500 brings modern electronic drum sounds into musical productions or live playing. 

To get you started, Drum Synth 500 gives you over 500 drum sounds, 500 drum samples, 50 drum kits and 500 MIDI drum loops which can be loaded into any DAW and used to kick-start your song or production.  

It's a simple step to start shaping your own electronic drum sounds. Dig in deep with individual parameter control for all instruments or use our randomizer which make a drum sound for you with just one press of a button.  Advanced users will find this to be a tweaker’s paradise to produce your own one-of-a-kind sound. 

Drum Synth 500 is built on powerful all-new engine for live performance or studio use.  For live performance, you can simply fire up our PC or Mac Desktop app and perform with no DAW required for distraction-free performance.  For studio use, all popular plugin formats are supported. 

Drum Synth 500 is packaged into a beautiful user interface with no hidden panels for quick, fun creation of your own electronic drum sounds. 

You deserve your own custom drum sounds and now you have the perfect tool to create them: Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology.




Features

  • 8-channel electronic drum synthesizer with fully programmable drum sounds in the style of 500 Series rack modules.
  • Individual instrument channels for Kick, Snare, Hats, Clap, Toms, Percussion and two Sampler channels for any mono or stereo .wav audio file.
  • Load your own sounds into two separate Sampler channels, including loop, forward and reverse playback!
  • Includes over 500 drum sounds, 500 drum samples, 500 MIDI drum loops and 50 drum kits from an exclusive vault of Akai Pro, Alesis eDrums and Air Music Tech sounds. 
  • Easy to use interface with no hidden panels.
  • Randomize feature for quickly generating new electronic drum sounds with just one button press.
  • Works with any MIDI keyboard, pad controller or drum kit controller
  • MPC Full Level and Note Repeat for each instrument channel
  • Three distortion effects (including new Bitcrusher and Decimate), 5 filters and 2 compressors per instrument channel!
  • Two reverb sends and two delay sends per instrument channel 
  • Huge Master channel includes three saturation effects, a convolution reverb, an algorithmic reverb, a stereo delay, a mono delay, a compressor and a unique Kill EQ circuit

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Mac

  • Mac OS X 10.10 - 12 (macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only) (M1 Mac not supported)
  • 64-bit AU, VST, AAX support for all DAWs
  • Intel Core i5, i7, 2.3GHz processor or higher
  • 4 GB RAM (8 recommended)
  • 1 GB free disc space
  • FREE iLok account & Licence Manager is required to authorise this software (a physical USB iLok is not required).

Windows

  • Windows (x64) 7, 8, 8.1, 10
  • 64-bit VST, AAX support for all DAWs
  • Intel Core i5, i7, 2.3GHz processor or higher
  • 4 GB RAM (8GB’s recommended)
  • 1 GB free disc space
  • ASIO sound driver
  • FREE iLok account & Licence Manager is required to authorise this software (a physical USB iLok is not required).

Important notes: 

  • This software is now compatible with macOS Catalina and Big Sur.
  • An internet connection is required to authorise this software.

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IRON 2

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Virtual Guitarist IRON 2

Rock Your Heart Out

Pay tribute to the gods of rock with roaring riffs and power chords with version 2.0 of IRON, our legendary Virtual Guitarist. Now completely overhauled and improved: Play your own riffs, choose from a selection of stomp box effects, and enjoy the entirely re-recorded samples and phrases.

What’s in there?

  • NEW: Instrument mode, freshly recorded samples and phrases
  • 30 Styles, over 350 Phrases
  • 30 Stomp box emulations, 60 Finisher FX Modes
  • Drop D and doubling modes for extra fatness

No guitar skills necessary

IRON is suitable for all levels of music production experience. Seasoned musicians and composers will be impressed with its sound quality. Beginners will appreciate the frustration-free design speeding up workflows and enhancing the creative process.

Add axe to the equation

Perfect your tone with classic guitar stomp box effects including great-sounding wah, delay, chorus and reverb. Add the final polish with dedicated Finisher multi-FX.

A true rocking workhorse

With sounds ranging from the subtly distorted all the way to raging aggression, Virtual Guitarist IRON is a versatile beast, with over 350 unique phrases in 30 different styles featuring expertly sampled performances from a top session musician. For those that require the extra weight in their guitar parts Drop D tuning and doubling is also available.

Band members

IRON plays perfectly along with Virtual Bassist ROWDY and Virtual Drummer BRUTE. The awesome backline band for your hard-rocking songs.




Features

  • With IRON’s zero-headache interface, you will record great sounding tracks in no time.
  • Stomp boxes
  • Choose one out of 30 different stomp box combinations. These effects are pre-amp, meaning that the amp and speaker section will dynamically react to your input.
  • Finisher FX
  • Finally, also Virtual Guitarist gets a custom-designed Finisher knob. Just pick one out of 60 multi-FX chains under the hood for amazing post-amp FX like e.g. ambiences.
  • We salute you! For those about to rock… there’s IRON!


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Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 or later
  • macOS X 10.14 or later
  • 64-bit only

Minimum Requirements

  • 8 GB of RAM
  • 7.6 GB of free Disk Space 1280x768px Display
  • Internet Connection

Plug-in Formats

  • VST, AU 2 and AAX
  • AU 2 version only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.
  • If you want to move your .blob file to an external drive, we recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

Delivery Format

  • Downloadable Installer File

Authorization

  • E-mail and Password Within the Plug-in

Supported Standards

  • MIDI

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Strike 2

Virtual Instrument by AIR Music Technology



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Meet Your New Drummer

Strike is a dynamic drum and arranger instrument that features a world-class sample library and a hyper-realistic performance engine. Strike puts you in the producer’s chair, enabling you to create, control, and produce professional drum tracks with uncanny human realism. With its proprietary technology, Strike surpasses conventional MIDI programming and drumming sampling when it comes to computer-based playing, arranging, and mixing of drums. Use Strike to play a seamless crescendo, switch drum kits from ballad to crushed punk, or tweak the tuning of the snare drum. Each instrument was recorded with up to three close, two overhead, and two room microphones. Strike also provides a full mixing console, complete with built-in effects.

Unbelievable Human Feel

With Strike, you can create professional drum tracks by choosing one of the high-definition kits and telling Strike how to play: Adjust the intensity, complexity, timing, groove, and dynamics of your drum track  — all in real time. Strike also supports automation enabling you to program or record changes to any one of its parameters: Connect a MIDI controller to tweak your performance on the fly using knobs, sliders, and drum pads and then play it back to hear dynamic results. Strike’s proprietary real-time performance engine eliminates the mechanized artifacts of typical sample-playback devices to deliver human results with unparalleled realism. The playing intensity can be increased to obtain a smooth dynamic response in the drum tone instead of audible velocity switches. With Strike, you can produce professional drum tracks that are impossible to create with conventional sampling technology.

Premium Drum Samples

Strike comes loaded with 19 customizable drum kits that were recorded at the world renowned Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Choose from an RnB acoustic kit, to a funky acid jazz kit, to a big reverb-drenched 80s kit. Strike lets you create your own custom drum patterns with the onboard Style Editor and can function as a drum module in your DAW. Additionally, Strike supports WAV and AIFF files so you can use your own custom sample libraries. Whether you compose soundtracks, pop tunes, or just need a drummer to jam along with on your guitar, Strike delivers human results with thousands of editable preset patterns in popular music styles.

Mix It Up

To help you get the perfect drum sound, Strike includes a built-in mixing console for full control over every aspect of the kit. Change virtual microphone settings, such as room ambience and leakage, then take advantage of dedicated 3-band EQ and two insert effects per channel. The onboard effects range from dynamics and limiting to reverb and delay, plus specialized tools such as bit crusher and filter. The onboard mixer lets you easily adjust the overall level and panning for each drum, and route individual sounds to separate mixer channels in your DAW.




Features

  • A dynamic drum and arranger instrument that features a world-class sample library and a realistic performance engine
  • Manipulate intensity, complexity, timing, groove, dynamics, and more
  • Smooth dynamics control without audible velocity switches
  • Supports WAV and AIFF files from your own sample libraries
  • Intelligently mapped drums for fast, interactive real-time arrangements
  • Doubles as a powerful MIDI drum module
  • Built-in virtual mixing console for full control over drum kit sound
  • Control room ambience, microphone levels/leakage, EQ, dynamics, and more
  • Dedicated EQ and two insert effects processors per channel compressor:
  • Limiter, tube saturation, distortion, bit crusher, filter, ring modulator, delay, reverb, phaser, chorus, and more
  • Support for discrete routing and mixing of each drum kit component
  • Audio and MIDI export for quickly creating drum loops and MIDI sequences in your DAW
  • MIDI Learn functionality allows easy mapping to MIDI controllers

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Mac: 

  • macOS 10.8.5 - 12 (macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only) (M1 Mac not supported)
  • Core Duo Processor (Core i5 or i7 Recommended)

PC:

  • Windows 10, 8 or Windows 7 Service Pack 1
  • Minimum Dual Core 2GHz (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)

Formats:

  • VST (32 bit and 64 bit) qualified for all popular hosts
  • AU (64 bit only) qualified for Logic Pro X
  • AAX qualified for ProTools 10.3 (32 bit), ProTools 11.x (64 bit), ProTools 12 and ProTools 2020

Please Note:

  • Minimum RAM 4GB (8GB or more recommended)
  • 18.7GB free hard drive space required (Download and Installation)
  • Internet Access required (Download and Authorization
  • FREE iLok account & Licence Manager is required to authorise this software (a physical USB iLok is not required).

Important Notes: 

  • Please be aware this product features a very large, high-quality sample library, so a high-speed broadband internet connection is required to download and authorise this product.
  • An internet connection is required to authorise this software.

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AMBER

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Get Your Strum On!

Warm and Shiny Strums

In the mood for livid steel-string acoustic guitar strums? Virtual Guitarist AMBER is your musical companion. AMBER adds warm and shiny strumming to your production. It comes loaded with more than 50 Styles, over 600 Phrases, multiple effects, and sound shaping controls.

After testing and measuring dozens of combinations of high-end guitars and microphones, we found sonic delight: A boutique American vintage dreadnought and a legendary German vintage large diaphragm microphone. For even more sonic versatility we’ve captured the guitar pickup too.

Features

  • Steel-string acoustic guitar strumming
  • More than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases
  • From full-bodied warm to metallic-sparkling bright
  • Select or mix between microphone and pick-up signal

A Virtual Virtuoso

AMBER plays lively chords and patterns across many genres and comes with more than 600 characteristic Phrases grouped in 57 Styles.

Be Real

AMBER provides control over sound aspects that create a realistic feel such as play position and fret noises.

Make it Shine

The unique Shimmer control dynamically accentuates high frequencies while attenuating the mid range to add that certain shiny gloss to your mix.

Feel is Everything

Match your track’s groove: Laid back and swinging? Virtual Guitarist AMBER follows suit.

Native Kontrol Standard

Virtual Guitarist supports Native Instruments NKS. Virtual Guitarist will be mapped to Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine straight out of the box. Enabling you to use Virtual Guitarist with the Light Guide, Smart Play features, and the full creative potential of KOMPLETE KONTROL without any configuration hassle.



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Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 2.4 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280 x 768 px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU and AAX

Supported Standards

  • MIDI
  • Native Instruments NKS

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommends the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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SPARKLE

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Add Some Sugar to Your Tea!

Glamorous and Catchy Licks

Custom hand-wound humbucker and single coil pickups were built into a rare, selected Strat - for a powerful, outstanding sound character. Built-in amp simulation based on handpicked vintage amps and speaker cabinets provides for a large range of high-end sound characters and lets you tweak the sound, even after the fact.

Add color and gloss to your songs with almost 100 Styles, over 1000 Phrases, multiple amp/cabinet combinations, and custom effects. We recorded Virtual Guitarist SPARKLE with a customized vintage guitar for that legendary bell-like single-coil sound. Think Tele, Strat, & Jag. Our emulations of hand-picked vintage amps and speaker cabinets ensure classy tone and vibrant character.




Features

  • Clean to crunchy pop guitar
  • Single-note, octave and chord riffs
  • More than 90 Styles and 1000 Phrases
  • From funky clean to indie rock
  • A Virtual Virtuoso

  • SPARKLE plays slick and colorful licks from a huge variety of genres and comes with more than 1000 characteristic Phrases grouped in 98 Styles.

  • Sounds Galore

  • Choose from perfectly adjusted guitar settings and classic amp/speaker combinations. Tweak your sound by adding Drive and effects such as Delay and Reverb.

  • Signature Algorithm: Grit

  • Named for exactly what it does, this custom-built algorithm creates a beefier sound that cuts through the mix.

  • Feel is Everything

  • Match your track’s groove: Laid back and swinging? Virtual Guitarist SPARKLE follows suit.

  • Native Kontrol Standard

  • Virtual Guitarist supports Native Instruments NKS. Virtual Guitarist will be mapped to Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine straight out of the box. Enabling you to use Virtual Guitarist with the Light Guide, Smart Play features, and the full creative potential of KOMPLETE KONTROL without any configuration hassle.


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Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 3.1 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280x768px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU and AAX

Supported Standards

  • MIDI, Native Instruments NKS

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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DANDY

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Let the Gentleman Bassist Work Classy Charm Into Your Songs

DANDY is your first-call when you need a seasoned professional bassist that is totally present in a mix without ever sounding “shouty”. There’s no indie-rock attitude in the playing. No, DANDY quietly lays down ultra-smooth, highly-polished basslines without hogging the spotlight or taking up too much room in a mix. How civilized!

What You Get

  • World-class vintage bass guitar & player
  • 30 Styles
  • 990 Phrases
  • 100 Presets
  • 15 Finisher Multi-Effect Modes
  • MIDI Drag & Drop

Great-sounding Modern and Vintage Tones

DANDY sounds fantastic on any production that needs electric bass, but it’s particularly great on Soul, Pop, Blues and Rock tracks. UJAM's custom-made DSP algorithms push the raw sound of the bass in many directions from soft, round tones (perfect for vibey old school soul and blues tracks) all the way to bright modern pop and rock. Try blending DANDY with your synth-bass lines to give them a little more life and sophistication!

Like A Classy Gentleman

DANDY uses its understated charm to make you sound and feel amazing. UJAM's meticulously sampled bass guitar with flat-wound strings has a classy, warm and restrained vintage sound that is markedly different than their more modern and in-your-face ROYAL and ROWDY virtual bassists. However, when paired with the included multi-effects, DANDY effortlessly delivers fantastic tones that sound right at home in both modern and vintage productions.

Perfect for Beginners & Professionals Alike

DANDY is perfect for all producers of all skill levels. The fail-proof controls ensure that beginners get great-sounding results that don’t sound like canned repetitive loops. Skilled keyboard players can easily bypass the virtual musician features and play the bass parts exactly as they like. Everyone gets great bass in their productions!

About Player Mode

Player Mode features some brilliant technology UJAM have pioneered to bring ultra-realistic bass performances into your music – even if you don’t play the bass or keyboards. 1380 masterfully played phrases in 60 different musical styles that can be easily and seamlessly strung together to create the perfect performance for your song. These aren’t just boring MIDI loops, mind you. DANDY automatically follows the key and chord you play and intelligently selects the most musical articulations to make your tracks shine. The result is a fantastic bass delivered quickly and without drama.

About Instrument Mode

If you prefer to record your own phrases (or even bass solos!) Instrument Mode gives you complete access to all articulations. This means you can use your MIDI controller to play exactly as you want with maximum creative expression (including adding dead notes, full stops and even slides!) Tone for days. The versatility of this instrument is further expanded with tons of powerful, easy-to-use sound shaping options. Quickly choose from a variety of different amps and effects before dialing in the exact right character for your song. Then tweak the EQ and dynamics to really sweeten your sound and bring your production to the next level. 

Tone For Days

The versatility of this instrument is further expanded with tons of powerful, easy-to-use sound shaping options. Quickly choose from a variety of different amps and effects before dialing in the exact right character for your song. Then tweak the EQ and dynamics to really sweeten your sound and bring your production to the next level.

PreSonus Chord and Key Track

With the new Virtual Bassist 2.1 update UJAM will provide Studio One users running on version 4.6.2 or later with an exclusive PreSonus chord and key track feature! Descriptions of styles and phrases are displayed on the piano roll to help you find the right styles and phrases faster and easier for your track. The new chord track feature in Studio One automatically follows the chords and automatically changes the MIDI notes for you.



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Operating Systems

  • Windows 7 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 7 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280 x 768 px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU 2 and AAX
  • AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

  • MIDI

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommends the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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CARBON

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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The Toughest Element

This story-telling superweapon brings heavily distorted sounds to your production...

UJAM built CARBON because there was nothing like it – a virtual instrument creating versatile modern “sound-designed” guitar sounds in all kinds of music genres – from the super-quantized accents in electronic music to action-packed big riffs in game soundtracks to subtle vibes in movie scores.

What's in There?

  • Organic, distorted & processed rhythm guitar sounds
  • First ever Virtual Guitarist with Instrument Mode
  • Unique Layerer soundstage combining up to four guitarists
  • Finisher multi-effect rack with 75 cutting-edge effect algorithms

The Most Versatile Virtual Guitarist

CARBON is for sound designers and musicians who go beyond borders. It’s an otherworldly guitar for game soundtracks and film scores, but can also give electronic and pop music that extra kick. It’s a wild and heavily distorted sound, yet that rawness is somehow precise, controlled and sometimes even synth-like at the same time.

Sound Designers' Delight

No matter how much you push the edgy digital effects, the underlying sonic textures always remain organic and raw. The instrument always remains playable and musical. This lets CARBON play perfectly alongside synths, drum machines, orchestras and band musicians.

Decidedly Cinematic

It is the sound of hellfire inside an Icelandic volcano and also the sensitive instrumentation aboard a lonely space station orbiting the moons of Jupiter. It is heavy and in-your-face when pushed but also light-and-delicate when dialed down. Use it to inject an instant, controlled blast of raw power or to provide a slowly evolving momentum to build up and carry a scene.




Features

  • CARBON’s Ultra Amp and Future Distortion algorithms leave no call for insane overdrive unanswered. Its innovative Layerer feature, a virtual soundstage with up to four guitarists, lets you control bigness and width from a tame mono riff to the earth-shaking quadro Wall Of Doom.

  • Organic, distorted and processed rhythm guitar sounds for electronic music, soundtrack,  rock and other contemporary music genres 
  • Instrument Mode lets you play a wide range of articulations on an amazing 8-string  guitar, Player Mode comes with inspiring riffs and phrases
  • Unique Layerer soundstage combining up to four guitarists for ultimate fatness
  • Finisher multi-effect rack combining 20 cutting-edge effect algorithms into 100 presets,  live-controlled or automated by one single knob
  • Instrument Mode

  • CARBON’s Instrument Mode lets you play a wide range of articulations on an amazing 8-string guitar.

  • Player Mode

  • The Player Mode comes with inspiring riffs and phrases.


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Operating Systems

  • Windows 8 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 4.5 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280x768px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU 2, and AAX
  • AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

  • MIDI, Native Instruments NKS

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

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Transfuser 2

Virtual Instrument by AIR Music Technology



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Description


Reinvent Your Music

Transfuser 2 is a dynamic audio/MIDI environment for manipulating, slicing, and remixing your loops and sounds into something entirely new. With a series of real-time controls, Transfuser 2 lets you create and tweak grooves, chop up beats and phrases, time-stretch sounds, re-pitch notes, randomize sequences, and more – all on the fly. Transfuser 2 also acts as an inspiring compositional tool that intelligently generates chords, melodies, variations, and grooves based on a musical analysis of your track. Plus, Transfuser 2 comes with a premium drum and instrument library that includes 3,200+ loops and 1200+ drum machine samples for instant music experimentation.

Jump-Start Your Creativity

Transfuser 2 offers an array of innovative modules that inspire you to create music in ways you never thought possible. Use the Sequencer module to tweak the groove of a drum loop, vary notes in phrases, store patterns, alter the sequence speed (in relation with your session tempo), and more — in real time. A Poly Sequencer and Chord Sequencer send monophonic and polyphonic MIDI data, respectively, to any of Transfuser 2’s synthesizer modules. Use the Synth module to modify your sounds and shape the audio frequency, velocity, filter, attack, and decay. Transfuser 2 can manipulate a single loop or audio file, or apply its effects to a group of sounds.

Compose, Intelligently

M.A.R.I.O., or Musically Advanced Random Intelligence Operations, is a powerful tool that analyzes your music to intelligently generate chords, melodies, and variations that complement your track. Use M.A.R.I.O.’s advanced algorithms to evaluate the musical characteristics of your song and search its smart tables to find similar or dissimilar (similarity is determined by the Variation settings) phrase styles and rhythms. M.A.R.I.O can also manipulate parameters such as the pitch, rhythm, level, filter, and more. With M.A.R.I.O., you can simply click to create inspiring melodies, compelling loops and sequences, or build up the accompaniment.

Remix in Real-Time

Transfuser 2 also features an array of performance-drive features that enable you to trigger and manipulate your music on the fly. You can trigger a series of your own pre-sequenced patterns, or let loose and perform, arrange, and tweak grooves on the fly from your own MIDI keyboard or controller. Transfuser 2’s offers seamless hardware integration, and its module and parameter controls, Smart Knobs, Trigger Pads, four-octave keyboard, and crossfader are completely mappable.

Effects, Instruments, and More

In addition to its real-time audio editing functionality, Transfuser 2 comes with an array of effects, instruments, and samples. Use the Effects module to insert up to four of 20 different effects per track, including Beatcutter, Tape Delay, Pumper, Compressor, Vinyl, Filter, Spring Reverb, Distortion, and Lo-Fi. Transfuser 2 includes a polyphonic analog synthesizer and electric piano instrument for. Transfuser 2 comes with 4.5+GB of loops and phrases that include beats, breaks, basses, acoustic and ethnic instruments, synth sounds, and more. You can also other sample libraries with Transfuser 2 by dragging and dropping your own ACID, REX, Apple Loops, AIFF, and WAV files onto its interface.

Features:

  • A dynamic audio/MIDI platform for manipulating, remixing, and tweaking your loops and sounds.
  • Beat-sync, auto-slice, stretch, pitch, and resample grooves in real time.
  • Automatically convert loops into MIDI patterns/drum kits.
  • Replace sounds in existing loops without stopping playback.
  • Musically intelligent randomization creates inspiring groove variations.
  • 4.5+GB of premium loops and phrases for instant music creation.
  • 20 real-time effects ideal for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music creation.
  • Use your custom sample libraries: supports WAV, AIFF, ACID, REX 1 and 2, and Apple Loops audio file.



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Mac: 

  • macOS 10.8.5 - 12 (macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only) (M1 Mac not supported)
  • Core Duo Processor (Core i5 or i7 Recommended)

PC:

  • Windows 10, 8 or Windows 7 Service Pack 1; Minimum Dual Core 2GHz (Intel Core i5 or i7 Recommended)

Formats:

  • VST (32 bit and 64 bit) qualified for all popular hosts
  • AU (64 bit only) qualified for Logic Pro X
  • AAX qualified for ProTools 10.3 (32 bit), ProTools 11.x (64 bit)

Please Note:

  • Minimum RAM 4GB (8GB or more recommended)
  • 15GB free hard drive space required (Download and Installation)
  • Internet Access required (Download and Authorization
  • FREE iLok account & Licence Manager is required to authorise this software (a physical USB iLok is not required).

Important Notes: 

  • Please be aware this product features a very large, high-quality sample library, so a high-speed broadband internet connection is required to download and authorise this product.
  • An internet connection is required to authorise this software.

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XO

Virtual Instrument by XLN Audio



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Description


A Revolutionary New Way of Exploring Sounds and Making Beats

Your Universe of Sounds

XO collects all your one-shot drum samples and sorts them by similarity in the XO Space.

Explore

Seamlessly sweep through your sounds, regardless of where they are stored.

When you hear something you like, have a look around. You might find something even better close by.

Create

Create your beat with the playful and intuitive sequencer.

Sculpt the perfect groove with the Accentuator and the curated Groove Templates.

Tweak

Colour and fine-tune your sounds with essential effects and creative modifiers.

Play

Explore unlimited variations to beats and sounds in Playground Mode.

Tap into an endless source of happy accidents by swapping or randomizing patterns and sounds - one by one, or all at once.

The perfect companion to your workflow

As standalone, or in your favourite host - XO fits your workflow smoothly and seamlessly.




Features

  • Load your own samples: Duplicates. Vague file names. Folders in different locations or on external drives. XO sorts them all - regardless of where and how they are stored.
  • Find your sound faster: Narrow the scope with XO's powerful filters and search functionalities to find what you're looking for even faster.
  • Ready for action: Factory Samples & Presets - Get a flying start to your beatmaking with XO's inspiring presets and 8000+ hand-picked factory samples. No matter the music style or amount of sounds in your current sample collection, XO has you covered.
  • Perfect your groove: Sculpt the perfect groove with the curated Groove Templates, Nudge your patterns to boost raw urgency or funky sluggishness, and add life and dynamics to your beat with the powerful Accentuator.
  • Drag & drop: Drag and drop with ease into your own workflow. Tweaked or raw. Individual samples or the whole beat. Audio or MIDI.
  • New features in XO 1.1

  • Export stems as WAV: Drag & drop your beat as separated stems. Straight into your DAW or OS as WAV.
  • New file formats: Besides the previously supported .wav and .aiff formats, you can now add .flac, .mp3, .ogg, and .wma files to XO.
  • Playlists: Create, browse and organize your presets in genre, or project-specific Playlists.
  • New factory presets: More than 100 new factory presets.
  • Live File System Monitor: The Live File System Monitor notifies you of any changes in the sample folders you've added to XO.
  • Full Feature Comparison of XO Lite and XO


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Mac

  • macOS 10.9 or later (M1 Native & macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only)
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

  • VST, AU, AAX (64-bit only)
  • Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Windows

  • Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit only)
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • Internet connection (during installation only)

Formats:

  • VST, AAX (64-bit only)
  • Standalone Application (64-bit only)

Hosts:

This product should run on any host supporting 64-bit VST, AU, or AAX plugins. XLN Audio actively tests on the host applications listed below:

  • Ableton Live 9 or later
  • Apple Logic Pro 9 & 10
  • Avid Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported)
  • Cakewalk by Bandlab
  • Propellerhead Reason 10.3 or later
  • Reaper 4 & 5
  • Steinberg Cubase 8 or later

Please Note: This software is 64-bit only and will not function on 32-bit systems.

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MELLOW 2

Virtual Instrument by ujam



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Description


The Organic Acoustic

Smooth & Elegant Fingered Acoustic Bass

Please meet Virtual Bassist MELLOW – a double bass played by a jazzy acoustic hipster that offers body, texture and a big bottom end.

What’s new?

  • 20 new styles
  • 30 new presets
  • 15 Finisher multi-effect modes
  • MIDI Drag and Drop
  • Backwards-compatibility

What You Get

  • A total of 60 Styles and 1380 Phrases
  • An upright bass that goes from smooth to powerful
  • Powerful-yet-simple sound shaping options
  • Artificially intelligent articulation modelling

Smooth and Elegant

However, MELLOW is not only meant for jazz trios. It gives Singer-Songwriter, RnB and Hip Hop styles a soft, soulful and acoustic realism.

Organic, Hip and Yummy

Virtual Bassist MELLOW – inside is a meticulously recorded acoustic double bass, played with soul and feeling, implanted in a virtual instrument that adds realism, behaviour and a player who knows his way around. Smooth, elegant, with the odd sound here and there. At home as a subtle foundation in a jazz trio as well as a powerful second voice in hip hop.

Frustration-free Design

As with every UJAM product, MELLOW benefits from the frustration-free design philosophy, meaning that anyone can make music faster, better and easier with this product, regardless of their level of experience in music production. Simply follow the simple controls on the user interface to use one of over 60 styles and 1380 phrases for your tracks.

Features at a glance

MELLOW’s smooth, soulful and acoustic realism is unique. Even seasoned bass players themselves will appreciate the ability to get great-sounding ideas down fast – with practically zero learning curve.

Player Mode

Virtual Bassist MELLOW has two distinct modes – Firstly, Player Mode, that gives you easy access to UJAMs traditional fail-free GUI and control set, just set the musical key and decide on the chords of the song and MELLOW does the hard work, even intelligently choosing the most appropriate articulations to augment your basslines.

Instrument Mode

For those that want more control and are comfortable playing the keyboard, the brand-new Instrument mode will let you access the whole of MELLOW’s meticulously sampled fretboard with your MIDI controller, complete with dead notes, full stops and satisfying slides.

Sound Shaping Options

Add that last bit of sparkle with MELLOW, a simple but powerful set of tone-shaping controls with separate parameters for many useful sonic and performance-enhancing features. Experiment with amp selection, instant character changes on dial-up, note vibrato level, room reverb level, octave effects, not to mention dynamics and EQ.



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Operating Systems

  • Windows 8 or later (64-bit only)
  • OS X 10.11 / macOS 10.12 or later (macOS 11 Big Sur supported) (64-bit only)
  • You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

Minimum Requirements

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 6 GB of Disk Space
  • 1280 x 768 px Display
  • Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

  • VST, AU 2 and AAX
  • AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

  • MIDI

Additional Information

  • Comes as downloadable installer files.
  • Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
  • If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.

OS Compatibility