Hainbach Bundle

7 “Made with Hainbach” Plugins

All AudioThing's Plugins made with Hainbach in One Convenient Bundle

Check out the all-new Hainbach Bundle, an amazing collection of 5 unmissable AudioThing FX plugins, curated by the highly-rated composer Hainbach!

Take a trip to the outer reaches of music production with the Hainbach Bundle. LoFi radiations from a Cold War wire recorder, the rotating madness of the Radiophonic Workshop, metallic resonances from 1930s France, Stockhausen-esque feedbacks, or a trip through Noise in all its forms, the Hainpack is as steeped in history as its full of modern music tools.

Dials is a detailed digital translation of 1950s electronic music hardware that contains an experimental spirit as well as rich sounds. Wires is an accurately modelled and enhanced replication of a 1970s Soviet wire recorder that was originally used for military and secret service. Noises is an experimental instrument that has a playful and inspiring interface to provide a vast world of noise to your productions. Things – Motor is an effect plugin which uses side-chaining to combine signals in new and interesting ways. Lastly, we have Gong Amp, an exciting experimental amplifier that captures the beginnings of electronic music and brings it to the plugin world of today.

Lines

Complex Effects Processor and Feedback Synthesizer

Lines is an effect plugin that crosses borders: it can be used as a creative mangler of all kinds of signals, ranging from lo-fi telephone sounds, lush phasing, warm distortions, crushing feedback, ring modulation and unique frequency shifting. But even without any input, it can be an experimental synthesizer based on feedback, allowing for a wide range of inspiring rhythms, pulses, and organic soundscapes. If you combine input and internal engines an unheard spectrum of sounds appears.

Lines is the sixth plugin made with Hainbach, composer and YouTuber known for his test equipment explorations.

Features

• Frequency Shifter
• Phase Jitter
• 2nd and 3rd Non-Linear Distortion
• Line Selector (Band Pass filters)
• Pulse Sequencer
• Feedback
• Noise with Envelope
• Trip Modulation
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about Lines.

Dials

Test Equipment Channel Strip - The Treasured Sound of 1950s Electronics Re-Created

Dials is a detailed digital translation of a unique combination of 1950s electronic music hardware from composer and YouTuber Hainbach's studio. It is made with the rich sound and experimental spirit of early electronic music studios in mind.

The basis of Dials is a re-purposed German vacuum tube radio broadcast device paired with a heavy-duty American bandpass filter. They form a channel strip like no other. The scientific and radio background of the equipment provides a tone that sets it apart, whether you are processing vocals, drums, or any other instrument. Due to the built-in compressor, it is perfectly suited to lend your voice-over the larger-than-life feeling of great recordings of the past or make your drums sound like they could get past the door at Berghain. Speaking of which: if you are feeling adventurous, feed it impulses and hear it roar like Stockhausen at a Gabber party. 

While its roots are in the past, this is a truly modern device with an unparalleled sound. It can be used to sweeten your music or to experiment and it can even become an instrument in your hands.

Features

• Analog Preamp Emulation
• Analog Modelled Filters (HP, LP)
• Easy to use Compressor
• Trip Modulation
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about Dials.

Wires

Soviet Wire Recorder Echo - Turn the Echoes of the Past into the Music of Now

German composer and YouTuber Hainbach opened his treasure chest for us: AudioThing are happy to present to you Wires, an accurately modelled and enhanced 1970s Soviet wire recorder. Made originally for military and secret service use across the Iron Curtain, in the hands of a few avant-garde musicians it became a magical lofi-tool and ghostly echo machine. Now this rare and rather finicky-to-operate piece of hardware is available for the first time as a faithful yet modern plugin. Transform your audio to the world of numbers stations and secret operations, dub out to very unusual echoes or make the most lofi beats to study too.

AudioThing took great care to get all the idiosyncratic behaviour exactly right - it reacts dynamically to the input and does stuff to audio that is a completely different texture to magnetic tape. There is a special tone to the hair-thin wire and the vacuum tube output stage of this machine, unheard of anywhere else. The standard way to make a unit such as this music is to put it on an aux channel of a mixer, to turn it into a fixed tempo echo. AudioThing offer all the variable time features you want, as well as the option to switch off the rather high noise floor of this machine without sacrificing the rather alive sound.

Features

• Magnetic Wire Emulation
• Echo Section
• Original Speaker and Mic Emulation
• Start and Stop effects
• Hiss and Motor noise with Envelope
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer
• Output Trim
• Mono Switch
• Routing Switch
• Noise Envelope Controls

Learn more about Wires.

Noises

Creative Texture Instrument - A Twisted Rainbow Of Sound

Noises is an experimental instrument with a playful and inspiring interface, designed to bring a vast world of noise into your music and audio production.

Noises is the fourth plugin AudioThing has developed together with German composer and “that guy with the sweaters” Hainbach. Hainbach crafted hundreds of recordings of rare vintage measurement and tape equipment, analog synths, strange field recordings, electro-acoustic and magnetic field experiments, and more in his lab to create this creative noise instrument with us. It is designed to be fast and inspiring to use, with a big dial at its centre inviting you to search for sounds and a sequencer to make the music. This results in a minimum of clicks for a maximum of sound.

Used subtly, it adds coherence to your tracks. Used creatively, this can be the basis for whole tracks. It is easy to create modern scores for film, games, and podcasts as well being a quick tool for sound design. If you need a break, put it on and relax to carefully curated noise sequences.

Features

• 21 Noise Banks
• 1.18 GB of Hand-Crafted Samples
• 118 Presets made by Hainbach
• Multimode Filter and Bit Crusher
• Trip Modulation
• Resizable Window
• Preset System with Randomizer

Learn more about Noises.

Things – Motor

Morphing Rotor Effect

Motor is a plugin effect that uses side-chaining to combine signals in new and interesting ways: put in any two signals and they will dance around each other like courting birds drunk on fermented cherries. Use it to gentle morph between sounds or rhythmically cut them up, affecting both volume and spatial position. Add life to the plainest signals with vibrato, or destroy them in interesting ways with extreme modulation speeds.

Where Does it Come From?

Like AudioThing's previous collaboration with Hainbach (the Soviet spy recorder turned echo, Wires), Motors takes cues from history: “The Crystal Palace” built by Dave Young for the BBC Radiophonic workshop. This one-of-a-kind tool allowed speed-dependent switching of up to sixteen audio channels. It did so in an almost steampunk fashion, by employing a big capacitor rotating on a Motor. The effects it created reached from sublime to almost granular, a major achievement at the time. You can hear it on the soundtrack to the Doctor Who episode “The Krotons” by Brian Hodgson and Delia Derbyshire.

Features

• Signal Chopper
• Tremolo, Vibrato, Panner
• Multi-wave LFO (Sine, Triangle, Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Square, Sine Up, Sine Down, Exp Up, Exp Down, S&H)
• LFO Start/Stop with Speed Control
• Resizable Window

Learn more about Things – Motor.

Things - Voice

Voice-Optimized Compressor

Things – Voice is a simple one-knob “throw it on and it sounds good” compressor for voice-over and vocals. Based on the channel strip Dials it gives you everything you need to make your voice loud yet smooth. The compressor is an unusual and complex design from a German 1950 radio broadcast instrument. If you desire to get even closer to that unit’s vintage tone, add authentically modded tube gain with the saturation button. For an authoritative bass boost Audiothing have added a rather euphonic EQ that excites just the right frequencies. This is the seventh plugin in the ongoing collaboration with Berlin musician and video personality Hainbach.

The Hardware

This 1950s/60s German measurement instrument was originally used to send a fixed level and frequency to a radio transmitter. On the receiver end, it could then be checked how much of that signal came through and what adjustments had to be made. Analog specialist Wojcek Czern of Rogalow Audio  (PL) discovered that it could be adapted to be a high-quality mic preamp on par with studio legends like the V72 and V76. It is Hainbach’s main preamp for voice, acoustic mono recordings and processing synths.

One welcome side-effect of this massive steel-tubed amplifier is that it compresses the signal pleasantly. Singing into it is a joy in itself. We analyzed the effect and made it adjustable, so you get the wonderful overtone rich gain of the preamp separately from the compressor. 

Features

• Vintage Radio Broadcast Compressor
• Tube Saturation
• Bass Boost
• Preset System with Randomizer
• Resizable Window

Learn more about Things - Voice.

Gong Amp

The Resonance of Early Electronic Music

Gong Amp takes an exciting experimental amplifier from the beginnings of electronic music to the plugin world of today.

In 1932, Maurice Martenot was looking for a way to make his groundbreaking proto-synthesizer “Ondes” audible beyond what could be archived with the horns and loudspeakers of the time. He developed a set of “diffusers”, of which the “Métallique” was one. Instead of a paper cone or horn, Martenot put a gong behind the amplifier circuitry. This seemingly simple idea resulted in resonances and brilliant overtones that excite audiences to this day.

In 2011, the French company Eowave took inspiration from Martenot’s invention and made their own version, the Resonator Metallik. When Audiothing heard what Berlin composer Hainbach did with this rare and discontinued amplifier, they knew the sound needed to be available to more than a select few. So they made Gong Amp, their third collaboration with Hainbach since Motors and Wires.

Using a complex mixture of convolution processing, physical modelling, and feedback systems, AudioThing created an instrument that is true to the responsiveness of the original and even transcends it in terms of sound design possibilities.

Features

• Gong Amp Emulation
• Chains and Pillow Sets
• Dynamic, Pitch, Modulation, Howl
• Trip Modulation
• Resizable Window
• Preset system with randomizer

Learn more about Gong Amp.

Hainbach

Based out of Berlin, Germany, electro-acoustic composer and “that guy with the sweaters” Hainbach creates experimental music that is both visceral and whimsical. Using esoteric synthesizers, test equipment and magnetic tape he creates one hell of a trip in his improvised live sets. He shares techniques on experimental music on his YouTube channel, which has attracted a regular audience of over 100000 subscribers. His music has been released on Seil Records, Opal Tapes, SA Recordings and misc. works.

System Requirements

Mac 

• Mac OS X 10.9 - macOS 12 Monterey (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only)
• 2 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
• VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP
• Universal 2 Binary

Windows

• Windows 7 - Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• 2 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM
• VST2, VST3, AAX, CLAP

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Activation

• 1 license on up to 3 computers.

No iLok

• AudioThing doesn’t like dongles.

No Internet

• No internet connection is required to activate.