MPE Synth Bundle

A New  World of Expression...

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is the biggest change in electronic sound since the invention of the synthesizer. Dozens of hardware and software companies have now joined this movement to make music creation tools more expressive.

What is MPE?

MPE is a new specification based on MIDI, the universal protocol for electronic music. MPE allows digital instruments to behave more like acoustic instruments in terms of spontaneous, polyphonic sound control. So players modulate parameters like timbre, pitch, and amplitude — all at the same time.

You can use MPE to...

• BEND PITCH, modify volume and play with resonance at the same time — like on a string instrument
• SLIDE BETWEEN SOUNDS, or brighter and darker versions of a sound, like sliding between notes on a piano
• SAVE TIME by achieving sonic effects through intuitive gestures, rather than laborious programming
• ADD SPONTANEITY to your music, because more parameters of sound are available to play with

At Plugin Boutique, we have collated some our finest available software that is all MPE-ready, offering a brand new combination of tools to offer up new ideas, approaches to your music production.

Equator2 is ROLI's revolutionary MPE synthesizer. Six fully flexible source slots let you build unique sounds, drawing on a wide range of synthesis engines, whilst also offering an incredible 530 MPE presets to dive straight into to expressive synth programming.

ROLI Studio offers an all-in-one production suite package that is built to help you discover inspiring sounds with speed and ease. 

Softube Modular gives you both the sound, flexibility and expandability of a true analogue modular synthesizer. Created in close collaboration with Doepfer, Modular offers the same extraordinary sound quality as its analogue forebears, thanks to detailed component-level modelling of the original Modular units.

  Audio Damage Quanta 2 is the new and improved granular synth powerhouse that delivers full control over your audio and is customisable to suit your taste and playing style. USE the MPE-ready functionality to directly  access and control  per-note  pressure, pitch bend, and modulation.      

The MPE Bundle is exclusive to Plugin Boutique and available for a limited time only. 

Roli Equator2

Equator2 is ROLI’s revolutionary MPE synthesizer, taken to the next level. Create and sculpt any sound imaginable using a vast collection of contemporary synthesis techniques, effects and modulators. Explore an extensive, diverse library of presets, as well as carefully recorded multi-samples. Push the boundaries of expressive sound design with Equator2.

Features

• Over 1300 Presets - Includes 530 MPE presets, and 848 built for conventional controllers.
• Waveforms - 244 new wavetables, 5 VA waveforms, 44 digital Equator1 waveforms, 42 new multisample instruments with 220 variations and articulations, as well as easy drag and drop of your own samples.
• 6 Flexible Sources - Choose from up to 6 instances of 4 source types: Wavetable, Granular, Multi-Sampler, Noise.
• Extensive Modulation - 5 expression curves, 5 LFOs, 2 multi-mod, 5 envelopes, 4 math and 4 random modules, and an intuitive click & drag modulation system.
• Creative Effects - 12 fully flexible slots, with 15 premium effects.
• Routing - Multiple signal routing possibilities through filters and effects.

Learn more about Roli Equator2.

Roli Studio

ROLI Studio is the all-in-one sound library and music production suite that helps you find inspiration faster. Multidimensional sounds, unique production tools, intuitive design and seamless integration: it all comes together in ROLI Studio, the all-in-one smart production suite for discovering new ideas with speed and ease.

Features

• 2 plugins: ROLI Studio Player & ROLI Studio Drums
• 500+ sounds, including 300+ MPE sounds
• Presets from Equator, Cypher2, Strobe2 synths
• Expansive audio effects and macros
• Groundbreaking production tools like Smart Chords
• Intuitive, easily navigable interfaces
• Works with all MIDI controllers and DAWs

Learn more about Roli Studio.

Softube Modular

Softube Modular is more than just another virtual synthesizer plug-in—it's an entirely new modular synth standard.

As a Modular owner, the basic system gives you a great toolkit to start out with. It includes six modeled Doepfer modules and over 20 utility modules. But there is much more to discover. Additional modules from quality Eurorack vendors—starting with a range of units from cutting-edge manufacturer Intellijel—are available for separate purchase. More modules will continuously be made available. Owners of Softube's drum synth Heartbeat can add its instrument and EQ modules to Modular and combine them with any other modules. Softube's award-winning engineering team have modeled each analog module, component by component, and the resulting plug-ins are sonically indistinguishable from their hardware counterparts. 

Features

• Modular is a cross-platform modular synthesizer plug-in standard, which features authorized emulations of modules from well known hardware Eurorack brands
• True dynamic circuit-emulation—looks, functions and sounds like its hardware counterparts
• Basic system contains six Doepfer modules (A-110-1 VCO, A-108 VCF, A-132-3 Dual VCA, A-140 ADSR, A-118 Noise/Random, A-147 VCLFO)
• Basic system also contains over 20 Utility modules (such as MIDI to CV/gate, mixers, slew, sample & hold, switches, multiples, delay, offset, sequencers, clock dividers, logic and signal tools, as well as a Polyphonic MIDI to CV/gate module).
• Additional authorized emulations from Intellijel is available as add-ons (uFold II, Korgasmatron II, Rubicon). Many more modules from other quality hardware Eurorack vendors to be released
• Simple design of your own interaction layout with the Performance modules in classic synthesizer style
• Softube Heartbeat drum channels and EQ can be used as separate modules for owners of Heartbeat
• More than 200 quality presets included covering a huge range of styles and sounds
• Can be used both as effect and instrument for your DAW and integrates beautifully with your hardware Eurorack modular
• High internal sample rate within system enables true feedback

Learn more about Softube Modular.

Audio Damage Quanta 2

New User Interface

The user interface has been cleaned up, modernized, and given panels for clarity and to accommodate new controls. 

Modulation Assignment Reworked

Audio Damage have replaced the matrix mod assign panel with a right-click context menu like those found in Continua and Phosphor 3. In addition, the controls now have indicators to show modulation.

Additional VA Oscillator

Quanta 2 has two virtual analog oscillators instead of the single one in the original. Use one for a sub bass, send both to the grain engine, granularize one and leave the other normal -- whatever floats your boat!

Root Note Detection And Assignment

When you drop a sample on Quanta 2, or load it via the import dialogue, Quanta 2 attempts to find the root note of the sample. (This obviously works better on legato single notes than it does on chords or full music loops.) After the import, you can adjust the root note to taste.

Grain Pitch Quantization

You can optionally limit grain pitches to particular notes. This quantizing is post-modulation, so any randomization or mod applied to grain tuning will be quantized to the scale of your choosing. Quantizing respects the tuning table or MTS-ESP tuning as well. 

Effects

Quanta now has a chorus, stereo dual delay, and reverb taken from the Audio Damage library of studio effects.

New Modulation Features

The envelope generators and LFOs have been extensively improved. The FEGs pick up amplitude and time scale knobs, and the FLFOs get amplitude control, switchable bipolar output, and a sync switch which causes FLFO 2 to reset whenever FLFO 1 restarts. In addition, four Macro knobs have been added to the modulation panel, and these can receive a global MIDI CC assignment, thus allowing you to control the macros from the MIDI controller of your choice, no matter what the author of the preset chose. 

Quanta 1 Preset Loading

Quanta 2 contains every preset from Quanta 1, and every post-release pack they have commissioned, as well as new preset packs from Red Means Recording and Red Sky Lullaby, and created in house. In addition, Quanta 2 will load any preset created for Quanta 1. If you have made presets for Quanta 1, just drag the folder in to the Quanta 2 preset user folder, and they will appear in Quanta 2 ready to go to work. 

Features

• Multi-Format Sample Loader - Quanta 2 can load AIFF, WAV, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg in any sample rate, bit depth, and channel configuration. It automatically converts the sample to the session's sample rate, and attempts to find the root note.
• Grain Engine - Up to 100 simultaneous grains per voice, of up to 1 second long, with control over grain rate, pitch, direction, shape, length, panning, source position, and level.
• Two Virtual Analog Oscillators - Continuously variable wave shape, with pulse width modulation, and independent control over pitch (separate from grain engine.) Can be injected directly into grain engine. 
• Noise Source - Noise source features a "color" control that affects tonal characteristics of the noise. Can be injected directly into grain engine. 
• Dual Multi-Mode Filters - Filters can be used in serial or parallel modes, and include lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and notch in 2-pole and 4-pole configurations. 
• Flexible Envelope Generator (FEG) x 4 - The four FEGs are arbitrary function generators, with up to 99 steps, curve and step level control, arbitrary loop points, and host tempo sync. 
• Flexible Low-Frequency Oscillator (FLFO) x 2 - The pair of bipolar FLFOs utilize five controls (amplitude, phase, shape, skew, and warp) to access a virtually limitless palette of waveforms, and feature host tempo sync and retrigger. 
• Sample And Hold - The S&H mod source can sample noise (random) or any of the other mod sources, at either a user-defined rate or a musical division.
• Modulation Menu - Every mod and MIDI source can be easily and simply assigned to any destination with the right-click context menu. Just right click, and add and remove all mod sources.  
• Microtuning With Tuning Tables And Global Tuning Offset - Re-tune Quanta 2 to new intonations and temperaments with native support for ODDSound's MTS-ESP session-wide tuning system. Alternatively, load tuning tables in the open-source and easy-to-use TUN file format. A global tuning offset (default to A=440) allows you to easily retune the entire synth to match a different A frequency without using a tuning table. 
• MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) - Quanta 2 understands both "legacy" MIDI and MPE. Use your Linnstrument, Roli Seaboard, Haken Continuum, or Madrona Labs Soundplane (among others) to directly access per-note pressure, pitch bend, and modulation. 
• Per-Instance Settings - Quanta 2 utilizes a per-instance customization method: set MPE mode, aftertouch smoothing, pitch bend range override, tuning table, and global tuning offset for each instance in your DAW. 
• Factory Presets - Quanta 2 comes with a substantial collection of factory content, including Designer Presets from Marcus Fisher, Joseph Fraioli, Chris Carter, Red. Means Recording, Red Sky Lullaby, and Richard Devine.
• Cross-Platform Preset Format - Quanta 2utilizes an XML-based preset manager, and stores the sample within the preset for easy asset management. Work between multiple systems without troubles, and easily share your creations with your friends, or make a preset bundle to sell, no asset management required. 
• Fully Resizable Hi-Dpi/Retina GUI - Quanta 2's vector-based GUI is resolution-agnostic and displays the same on every system and resolution. Easily resize the UI (per instance) to match your visual needs, from postage stamp to poster-sized, and save your preferred size in the global settings. 

Learn more about Audio Damage Quanta 2.

System Requirements

ROLI Equator2

Mac

• macOS 10.14 and above (64-bit only)
• 2.5Ghz Intel i7 (or equivalent) processor with AVX instruction set.
• 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
• 13GB total free disk space required for download & installation.
• Compatible as a standalone, AU and VST3 plugin.
• An internet connection to register and download content.

PC

• Windows 10 1909 or later (64-bit only)
• 2.5Ghz Intel i7 (or equivalent) processor with AVX instruction set.
• 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
• 13GB total free disk space required for download & installation.
• Compatible as a standalone and VST3 plugin.
• An internet connection to register and download content.

ROLI Studio

Mac

• macOS 10.13 or later (64-bit only)
• Intel Core i5 2.5Ghz+
• 4GB RAM (recommended: 8GB RAM)
• 2GB hard drive space
• Compatible as a standalone, AU and VST plug-in
• An internet connection to register and download additional content

PC

• Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
• Intel Core i5 2.5Ghz+
• 4GB RAM (recommended: 8GB RAM)
• 2GB hard drive space
• Compatible as a standalone and VST plug-in
• An internet connection to register and download additional content

Softube Modular

• Mac OS X 10.12 or newer (older OS versions may work but are not tested (64-bit only).
• Windows 64-bit, versions 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit only).
• Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer.
• Screen resolution 1280x800 or larger.
• Supported sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192 kHz, in both mono and stereo.
• 8 GB RAM or more is recommended, as well as at least 8 GB hard disk space for installation (individual plug-ins take less space, while sample libraries may require additional disk space).
• A Softube account is required to register and install the software.
• An iLok account is required for authorisation of the software.
• Internet access for downloading installer and managing licenses.
• iLok generation 2 and up, if you intend to use a physical iLok dongle for authorizing your plug-ins (note that an iLok dongle is not a requirement).
• In theory, any 64-bit VST, VST3, AU, or AAX (11.0.2 or higher) compatible host application should work.
• The most recent maintenance release of the DAW application is recommended.

Audio Damage Quanta 2

Mac

• macOS 10.12 or newer
• 64-bit only
• VST, AAX, AU

Windows

• Windows 8.1 or newer
• 64-bit only
• VST, AAX