ANIMATE

Multi-Effect by Mastering The Mix Also available in a bundle

"ANIMATE can make delicate instruments more expressive and it can turn drum elements into savage pumping machines. A sound designer will love ANIMATE, and it belongs in many mixing engineer’s arsenal. Simply put, this kicks ass."

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"ANIMATE adds colour and depth to tracks in really expressive and musical ways whereas other plug-ins of this type can often touch the sound too much. ANIMATE, if used sparingly, lifts and energise tracks in a mix in ways that I have not experienced before."

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"Love it! It’s like the Swiss Army Knife of plugins!"

James Reynolds. Mix engineer/producer/songwriter whose credits include Calvin Harris, Due Lipa, Ellie Goulding, Sean Paul, Snoop Dogg, BTS & many more.

ANIMATE helps you inject life into your mixes in a precise, versatile and colourful way. With four different movement modes, each with individual frequency assignments and mid/side functionality, you’ll get your music jumping out of the speakers precisely how you want.

Each individual module of the ANIMATE multi-effect plugin is also available as a separate product.

Expand

Expand mode allows you to dial in a pristinely clean sounding upward expansion. This increases the volume of signals over the threshold, giving your audio more dynamic range in a transparent way.

Punch

Punch mode enhances the transients of your audio to help them bite through the mix. Whether you want to subtly accentuate the high-frequency transients in the mid-channel of your master or bring out serious smack on an individual channel, Punch can handle the task.

Ignite

Ignite mode allows you to dial in rich harmonic distortion in a dynamic way based on the input signal. Ignite can increase the perceived loudness, power and presence of a channel without the pumping effects of a compressor.

Grow

Grow mode lets you increase the width of the selected frequencies using a psychoacoustic precedence effect. Grow can be applied in a dynamic way meaning only the signal surpassing the threshold is widened. This along with the frequency selection gives you a new realm of movement to inject into your music.

System Requirements

Mac:

macOS 10.10 or higher (Apple M1 Silicon supported).
AU, VST 2/3 or AAX host (64-bit only)

Windows:

Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11
VST 2/3 or AAX host (64-bit only)

Available in VST, VST3, Audio Units and AAX formats (64-bit only).

Please note: AAX compatible with Pro Tools 11 and later only.

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