Essential Creative FX Bundle

Enhance your tracks with three of the most essential creative effects used by professional music producers: sidechaining, time-stretching and audio reversing.

Ducking, or sidechain compression is one of the defining effects of modern music. From classic house to modern EDM, tracks by Daft Punk, Noisia and Eric Prydz ooze that pumping, ducking effect. So, whether you’re producing pumping house or broken beats, Duck delivers in seconds.

Enter a world of spaced-out, slowed-down sound with HalfTime, the only plugin 100% dedicated to half-speed effects, in use by Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, members of 808 Mafia, The Chemical Brothers and more.

BACKMASK provides powerful, tempo synced, real-time reversing for all of your warped and wild creations.

The Essential Creative FX Bundle is exclusive to Plugin Boutique and available for a limited time only.

Duck makes it easy to design a custom volume shape that repeats at a speed and depth of your choice, or use one of 58 presets to find new and inspiring effects. As well as sidechain compression Duck is capable of trance-gating, tremolo and any other volume effect you can think of.

For more control, enable split band mode and adjust the separate low and high frequency controls. And Duck can be triggered with audio from a sidechain input or by MIDI notes, making it easier than ever for hip-hop and bass music producers.

Why You Need Duck

• Instant sidechain pumping as soon as you load the plugin.
• Cleaner, louder and more exciting mixes.
• Choose from 8 preset curves or 58 creative and useful Duck patches.
• Draw your own curves and rhythms to use now, or save them later.
• Set the overall pump, or apply to low and high bands with adjustable crossover.
• Run Duck in Repeat mode, or use sidechained audio or MIDI signals to trigger.
• Smoothing control to remove clicks: including super-accurate pre-smoothing algorithm when in LFO mode.
• Run on individual tracks, groups or your master bus for different pump effects.
• Low CPU usage means you can run Duck on loads of tracks.
• Mac and Windows: VST/AU/AAX plugin.

Learn more about Devious Machines Duck.

HalfTime transforms any audio into a dark, downtempo version of itself, giving your tracks huge mood and atmosphere. Lead synths mutate into heavyweight EDM bass monsters. Plinky piano lines become haunting trap melodies. Percussion thickens, expanding to reveal new rhythmic possibilities.

Just add the plugin for an instant half-speed effect with zero set-up, or go in deep with powerful creative controls. HalfTime works on loops, virtual instruments or even live audio input, inspiring you in seconds.

The hands-on 'Power' button makes it easy to fit HalfTime into your tracks - create a rapid switch or sink in slowly with smooth fades up to 16 bars.

Three-speed 'Modes' give you classic half-speed, tight harmonies and shuffling swing rhythms, and drugged-out quad-time playback. Adjustable 'Loop' length allows multi-bar slow-downs, funky syncopations and totally new grooves.

Slow only the lows, mids or highs with the 'Band' split - generate deep bass movement, fatten midrange percussion, or flip your top-end on its head.

Features

• Instant setup: Add the plugin – get an instant half-speed effect with no further setup.
• Power button: Punch the large central button to activate the effect – automate in your DAW.
• Fade In/Out: Introduce the effect instantly, or fade in gradually, across up to 16 bars.
• 3-speed Modes: 2x for the classic "half-speed" effect. 1.5x for perfect fifth harmonies and triplet rhythms. 4x speed for drugged-out quad-time playback.
• Band Split: Half-speed just the bass, treble or midrange for trippy effects.
• Band Solo: Hear just the slowed frequency range – use it to hone the effect, as a filter, or to blend using the Mix control.
• Dry/Wet Mix: Blend the original and slowed audio.
• Loop Length: Set the Loop from 1/16 up to 8 bars – keep the original timing, stretch it to half speed, or create catchy new rhythms.
• Smooth: Preserve transient punch with 'Percussive' mode, and avoid clicks and pops on sustained material with 'Sustain' mode. Or push it to extremes with creative FX and Swell options.

Learn more about Cableguys HalfTime.

Backmask is a chaotic reverser plugin inspired by a nostalgia for the sunny days of demon cult hysteria. Back when shadows were lurking around every corner, under every object, infecting the precious youth with subliminal brainwashing signals. Simpler times.

Backmask uses government approved paradox processing technologies to expose these hidden terrors of music. Uncover the plots of ghosts, aliens and other rogue entities with Freakshow Industries Backmask.

Features

Backmask reverses discrete sections of audio based on various triggers.

• Trigger reversing by millisecond, DAW synced musical value, or input level.
• Reverse audio at all, alternating or random triggers.
• Set the length of reversed segments
• Stuck mode, there is one.
• Use grotesque amounts of latency to reverse the future with Time Align Mode. 
• Zero latency by default.
• Kills 99.9% of brain cells

Learn more about Freakshow Industries Backmask.