Softube Mix Solutions Bundle (Exclusive)

As any great audio engineer knows, truly great mixing requires truly great tools, and with the Softube Mix Solutions Bundle, you're getting just that.

For a extremely limited time only and exclusively through our website, you can now get your hands on some of Softube's most premium and respected mixing plugins in one combined bundle, for one incredible price!

Whether it's bus-oriented compression, in-depth transient shaping, harmonic saturation and distortion, or tube delay you're after, this versatile bundle has inevitably got your next mixdown covered.

Also included in this plugin pack is Softube's much-celebrated and hugely powerful Vocoder plugin (yes we know this isn't necessarily a mixing-oriented tool, but come on...it's just too good to miss!).

With a regular combined value of nearly $600, this exclusive bundle offers premium quality at a vastly reduced cost, meaning there's never been a better time to get hold of some of Softube's most essential plugins.

As mentioned, this bundle is extremely time-limited, so don't delay - integrate these great and globally-recognised mixing tools into your plugin arsenal today!

Bus Processor

A Glue Compressor To Keep It All Together

Softube have received a lot of requests for a bus compressor over the years. Whether they would make one wasn’t up for debate. To make one that offers something extra for the modern producer, one that they would want to use themselves, was essential.

It took some time, but with ultramodern algorithmic compression in a classic compressor style, saturation, sidechain, spatialization, and more, they think you will agree that some things are worth the wait. This is Bus Processor.

The Art of Rock & Roll Science

Softube's reputation for producing tools that improve workflow and offer the highest quality sound is rock solid—and long. They have forged strong partnerships with premium brands like Tube-Tech, Weiss, Chandler Limited, and Marshall. Partnerships that have lasted twenty years.

This is the legacy Bus Processor is built on. One of creativity, passion, and attention to detail. To create tools that innovate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science.

Highly Requested

The design of the Bus Processor compressor section draws on a classic, large-format console bus compressor from the 1980s. A unit that is still at the top of the industry to this day. This section gives you total control of super clean or musically-colored sound and gain reduction behavior. With it, you can go from ultra-transparent to smooth, luxe, rich sound that flawlessly fits your source. Control the behavior of the gain reduction with the sidechain section, and you can glue things together with sustained clarity.

More Than Expected

The compressor may be the hero, but Bus Processor is greater than the sum of its parts. Saturation that includes an emphasis filter and can be set pre- or post-compression. An advanced sidechain section for both the compression and saturation circuits. Spatialization with an air filter, stereo widening, a mono bass filter, and more take you beyond compression to full bus processing. For any bus. From routing folders and stem buses to the mix bus. With Bus Processor, you can skip piling on the plug-ins in favor of a sleek solution for smooth-sounding bus processing.

Features

• A modern bus compressor and saturator that glues your mix together
• Takes sounds from clean to colorful without the loss of clarity
• Provides finish and polish even with conservative settings
• For use on all bus processing—from stem buses to the mix bus
• Featuring compression, saturation, sidechain, spatialization with an air filter, stereo widening, a mono bass filter, and more
• Total control of complex processes and advanced features with an intuitive, easy-to-use layout 
• In Console 1, use the compressor in the compressor section and the saturator in the output drive section

Learn more about Bus Processor.

Harmonics

Harmonics Analog Saturation Processor

Did you ever try to give a track attitude by adding distortion, but then wind up with a washed out, lifeless sound instead? Harmonics, with its never-before-heard approach to dynamics in distortion, is the answer.

Guitars, vocals, drums, bass, even synths often need some extra grunt to push them over the edge, but distortion can destroy dynamics and cause more problems than it solves. Too little and your sound doesn’t cut through and fill its space. Too much and you lose the light and shade, the attack and decay. Transients blend into tails, and detail and definition go out the window.

But with Harmonics, you get much more than just five awesome-sounding analog distortion models. You also get a revolutionary new approach to handling dynamics during the process of distorting the sound. The input signal is listened to and analysed by the plug-in, allowing the dynamics and detail to be preserved and enhanced even after heavy distortion is applied.

Add to that the fact that Harmonics has five totally different-sounding component-modelled distortion styles, high and low cut filters, a mix knob and more, and you end up with a very powerful secret weapon indeed.

Features

• Five genuinely different component-modelled distortion sounds
• Revolutionary ‘Dynamic Transient Control’ technology
• ‘Amount’ knob to control the amount of saturation
• ‘Character’ knob controls tone or color of the distortion
• High and low cut filters can be placed before or after distortion
• Wet/dry blend knob for parallel processing
• THD meter allows fine control of subtle saturation
• All of the grunt, none of the drawbacks
• Includes presets by Joe Chiccarelli and Howard Willing

Learn more about Harmonics.

Transient Shaper

Being able to control the attack and decay of a sound is tremendously useful for anyone mixing music. But Softube's Transient Shaper goes beyond that due to the fact that it's a dual-band processor. This means that the user can set it to affect only the treble or bass portion of a sound—separately for the Sustain and Punch parameters—and leave the rest untouched. This opens up a new realm of possibilities.

Transient shaping has become a vital technique in music mixing. The ability to sharpen or soften the onset of a sound, as well as lengthen or shorten the decay, has proven very useful for giving each sound just the right size and position in the mix. Transient Shaper takes this concept one step further, by letting the user affect either the entire frequency range—as most similar tools—or only the treble frequencies or bass frequencies.

Use Cases 

For example, on drum overheads, this means you can turn up the Sustain knob and set its frequency control to Wide. This will simultaneously stretch out the room sound and cymbals, as well as give you more sustain and boom to the toms. But let's say you don't want boomier toms. Then you set the Sustain knob's frequency control switch to Hi, in which case the Sustain processing only affects the high frequencies, i.e. the cymbals and room, but leaves the toms just the way they are. Set the switch to Lo, and hear how you now only get boom from the toms, but the room sound and cymbals stay unaffected.

More than Percussion 

The dual-band operation makes Transient Shaper useful for much more than drum and percussion sounds. Give a vocal track clarity and presence by adding some high-frequency transients—add Punch with its frequency slider set to Hi. Or create a darker and more rounded sound that oozes with vintage vibe by instead turning down the Punch knob. Use it on piano, bass, guitar, electronic drums—Transient Shaper works on a wide range of sound types.

The crossover frequency is user selectable, as is the Punch behavior (Fast or Slow). We also added an output distortion section called Clip.

Features

• Dual-band transient processing tool
• Add or reduce punch and/or sustain from any sound
• Affect either the whole frequency spectrum, only the high frequencies or only the low frequencies
• User-selectable crossover frequency
• Clip section adds output distortion

Learn more about Transient Shaper.

Vocoder

Vocalize Your Vision

Developed by Bell Labs and used by the military to obscure voiced messages during World War II, the vocoder has had a clandestine foothold in music culture since the 1970s. With subtlety, or not, the vocoder appears on a parade of favorites from Electric Light Orchestra, Imogen Heap, Daft Punk, Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk, Beastie Boys, Laurie Anderson, Kanye West, Mogwai, and more. Softube Vocoder delivers the sensations of vintage machines with Softube sound quality and workflow. A built-in six-voice carrier synth with MIDI capability and an easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope, plus a visionary Freeze section, mean that you’re in for an array of sonic spectacle and revelry. Which is to say, you’re gonna have a real good time.

The Art of Rock & Roll Science

When it comes to creating equipment that improves workflow and offers the highest quality sound, our reputation is rock solid—and long. Our partnerships with premium brands like Marshall, Buchla, Doepfer, Mutronics, and OTO go back nearly twenty years. Softube Vocoder is built on this legacy of creativity, passion, and attention to detail. Because to create tools that innovate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science. Robot Rock Softube Vocoder hooks the imagination with the look and feel of vintage vocoders.

MIDI capability enables you to record and reproduce the notes that the stellar carrier synth will perform. Softube Vocoder is not an effect that mimics vocoding sounds. Softube Vocoder is true vocoding. Masterful on a multitude of sources—including drums—Vocoder's vintage tone and ease of use make Vocoder suited to electronic and pop music production. Play outside of the box in the box—or live—with a futuristic instrument that has become a retro classic.

Computer Love

A pivotal element of Softube Vocoder is the excellent six-voice polyphonic carrier synth. Move between four distinct waveforms—Saw, Square, Noise, and Pulse—with the ability to select octave adjustments, pitch modulation, and Pulse Wave Modulation. The Attack Hold Decay Envelope is simple-to-use and replaces traditional ADSR for in-themoment performance. While the Unvoiced section provides control of plosive and high-frequency consonant sounds, bringing realism back to drum transients or vocal syllables that might be hard to comprehend. With a sonic swirl of classic vocoding and Softube innovation, Vocoder lets you articulate your dream sounds in full color. Jam the Box Create everything from full-spectrum synth sounds to android exclamations with variable band selection of four, eight, twelve, sixteen, and twenty.

Build stereo width by assigning bands left to right based on odd-even numbering. Three knobs make it simple to adjust the sound of the resynthesis section. Control resonance, tilt to favor higher or lower bands, and adjust the speed versus slop of all the bands at once. And with the fantastical Freeze section, you can free your creative flow. Use the Freeze section to manually make a rhythmic hold of specific formants or employ a DAW sync to set subdivisions of a beat. With unique features and an intuitive workflow, Vocoder inspires artistry of a higher 
plane.

Features

• The look and feel of vintage vocoding with Softube innovations
• High-quality Softube sound, excellent shaping tools, and an inspiring workflow
• A superb six-voice polyphonic carrier synth with four selectable waveforms and MIDI capability
• An easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope
• Transpose Chord Mode lets you create a chord with the on-screen keyboard and then transpose it via MIDI Notes
• Control of plosive and high-frequency consonant sound reproduction via the Unvoiced section
• Stereo widening that adjusts the amount of spread between even and odd bands
• Spectral Tilt to swiftly set the spectral weight of the vocoder output
• Variable band selection between 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 bands
• Unique Freeze section that allows rhythmic hold of certain formants manually and via MIDI Notes or a DAW Sync
• Shape section that controls slop of resynthesis and Emphasis section to manage the response of each band
• Add subtle vibrato to dramatic wobble effects with the Pitch Modulation section

Learn more about Vocoder.

Tube Delay

A tasty echo effect that can go from clean to rude by overdriving its three modeled tube stages. Create anything from realistic room echoes to rockabilly style slap backs, or take it all the way into dub reggae echo madness.

A slightly dark and distorted delay has a way of giving a great sense of space and size to a mix without really drawing attention to itself. So that's where Softube's Tube Delay gets in the picture.

The controls are quite self explanatory, but it's the sound that sets Tube Delay apart from any other delay you have tried. The drive knobs add a wonderfully dirty distortion and the tone controls are just sweet. There's actually three different tube stages in this model, each adding to the total sound. The tone controls are passive and add further to the distortion. Turn up the feedback while running, and you'll have the authentic dub echo madness! We of course added the possibility of tempo syncing the delay to your song.

Features:

• 1-1000 ms delay
• Sync tempo to host
• Vintage style passive EQ
• Gritty feedback feature
• Tube preamp simulation

Learn more about Tube Delay.

System Requirements

• macOS Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13
• Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11
• Softube account
• iLok account
• Computer with AU, VST, VST3, and/or AAX-compatible DAW host software
• Internet access (for downloading installers and managing licenses)

Supported CPU Families 

• Apple macOS computers with Intel Core i3/i5/i7 or Apple silicon (M1 or newer) CPU. Apple silicon is supported natively. 
• Windows computers with quad-core Intel Core i3/i5/i7 or AMD quad-core processors with SSE 4.2 support.
• Other Intel processors (Celeron, Pentium, and Xeon) are compatible if they support SSE 4.2 instructions. 

Supported Host Software (DAW)  

Any 64-bit VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (Pro Tools 11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application should work. However, due to plug-in host differences between DAWs—and our rigorous standards—Softube only officially test their plug-ins and instruments in the most recent versions of Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One, and Reaper. Softube plug-ins are not tested regularly in non-listed systems. They will likely work if the system requirements are met. However, the manufacturer cannot guarantee a solution for issues in unsupported systems. 
  
Softube strongly recommend using VST3, as some of their plug-ins have features that are not present in the older VST format. Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo. The most recent maintenance release of your DAW application is recommended. AAX DSP is not currently in active development. TDM/VENUE/RTAS are no longer supported. See Legacy Installers.

Important Note: Make sure that you always use the latest iLok License Manager. It is not included in the Softube installer but can be downloaded from www.ilok.com​