Retro Bundle

The BeatSkillz Retro Bundle is a collection of plugins that contains carefully crafted nostalgic sounds, drums and FX. Inspired by the top artists and composers of the 80s. These plugins capture the essence of the 80's Music, Film, and TV from the era on a musical level.

Flashback combines digital and analog to provide authentic & nostalgic sounds of Pop, Film and TV from the 80s era all of which are deep-sampled and created from real synthesizers. Sequel 2 is an amazing drum sampler/sequencer that brings back the vintage drum machine workflow as well as includes a library of famous drum machines and patterns. Lastly, is Synthwave Drums V2 an unmissable drum machine that covers styles from Synthwave, Vaporwave, Retro, The '80s, Nu-Disco & Boogie with already processed drums sounds which are ready to inject into your productions.

What's Inside?

The 80s Are Back

Get the authentic & nostalgic sounds of Pop, Film and TV from the era. Deep Sampled and created from Real Synths (Digital & Analog).

Deep Sampling, Release Groups and Lots of Synthesis in this plugin let you make “dynamic” tracks full of Color with 200 + presets & arp patterns to get you started.

Get ready for Nostalgia with the authentic presets from Flashback. Inspired by the top artists and composers of the 80s.

Features

Factory Presets:

• Comes Bundled with 200+ Factory Presets: 18 Animated Sounds, 53 Keys, 22 bass, 11 Brass, 34 Synth, 28 Orchestra, 17 Pads, 18 Bass, 14 Misc, and 11 Combo Sounds.

Multi-Sample Maps:

• 23 Bass maps, 8 Brass maps, 38 Keys maps, 14 Misc maps, 24 Orchestra, Keys maps, 12 Pads maps, 20 Pads maps, and 35 Synth maps.
• The 2 Multisample Maps Engines A and B can be Layered or Split on the keyboard with automatic assignment via MIDI.
• All Controls on the plugin are MIDI mappable easily with a “right-click”.

Library Relocate:

• Easily place the content on any internal or external drive of your computer and just use the settings icon to
• Locate your library once. You can move the content anywhere at any time and re-connect it with the plugin.

Synthesis Features:

Each Engine Features :

• Amp Envelope - ADSR
• Filter envelope - ADSR
• Pitch Envelope - ADSR3 LFOs for Filter, Volume, and Pitch respectively.
• All Syncable to tempo. Features Rate and Depth Controls.
• Analog Modelled Ladder Filter with LP, HP, and BP modes with 12 or 24dB / Oct selections.
• Filter Cutoff and Resonance controls.
• Pitch Transpose, Tune.
• Portamento (Glide) with rate parameter.
• Velocity to Volume Curve adjustment & Velocity to Filter Cutoff Curve Adjustment.

Arpeggiator:

• Up to 32-step Arpeggiator synced to tempo with Modulation in steps for :
• Velocity, Note Length, and Pitch.
• Save your own patterns and load factory patterns.
• Step Increment, Swing, and other features are also implemented.

FX Engine:

9 Swappable Effects available:

• Reverb
• Chorus / Flanger
• Phaser
• 4-Band EQ
• Compressor
• Bit Crusher
• Delay
• Saturation
• Stereo Expander

Learn more about Flashback.

Vintage Drum Sampler / Sequencer

Sequel 2 is a drum sampler/sequencer that brings back the quick vintage drum machine workflow. It includes a library of famous drum machines and patterns, or add your own samples as well.

It now features a new real-time pitch engine and more sequencer functions per track. A new global compressor, Eq and reverb are now also added for that 80s Record vibe!

Features

• Want to replace any of the sounds in a kit with your sounds? No Problem. Just drag and drop your sample file onto the pads or choose from an included file browser built into the plugin.
• Sequel 2 is a complete drum sampler with parameters such as pitch shift, Lp / Hp filters, pan, levels, and reverse sample, per pad/sample. You can also trim your samples by using the sample start and end controls.
• This truly brings the quick and straightforward workflow of the Boom bap/hip hop beat-making to your finger tips.
• You can also process your sounds using the multi-output for each sample pad to your daw channels and use your plugin collection. Assign any pad to any MIDI Keynote on a keyboard or controller.

*Additional features include sample content moving, so you can easily move your samples and content with one click to another drive without any hassle of copying of configurations.

• All Controls on the plugin are MIDI mappable easily with a “right-click”. You can also assign the pads to any midi pad controllers.

Learn more about Sequel 2.

Synthwave Drums V2 covers styles from Synthwave, Vaporwave, Retro, The '80s, Nu-Disco & Boogie styles of music.

A selection of over 100 presets full of synthwave drum sounds, already processed and ready to inject into your production. We have done the hard work, so you don’t have to!

The Drum Kit Library included is organized by Drum Kits, and also, as single category hits like: kick, snare, hats, etc. Over 1300 drum sounds organized into quick browsable presets, ready to play.

This makes it easy to access these beautiful sounds and quickly get a beat going effortlessly, so you can produce and compose faster.

Synthwave drums V2 now has newly added features such as a VCA (British Console) compressor and a 3-band EQ.

Want to replace any of the sounds in a kit with your sounds? No Problem. You can also drag and drop your samples onto any of the 12 pads. Multi-out per pad is built-in and changes Pitch, Volume, Pan and Release per pad. Save and edit your own presets. Move the sample content to external drives easily.

Also, reassign any of the pads to any midi key. Solo and Mute per Pad.

Additional features include sample content moving, so you can easily move your samples and content with one click to another drive without any hassle of copying of configurations.

Beatskillz studied all aspects of vintage drum machine production and tried to give you a fast workflow & ease of use without compromising quality, usability, and inspiration.

Features

• 1300+ Drum Sounds, 73 Multi Drum Kits and over 100 presets
• Drag and drop your own samples
• 8 Multi-outs
• Vol, Pitch, Pan and Release per pad, Equalizer and Compressor included
• Library Relocate Function
• Save your own kits

Learn more about Synthwave Drums V2. 

System Requirements

Mac

• macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) 64-bit only)
• Intel i3 / AMD Ryzen or equivalent
• 2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
• Screen Resolution - 1024×768
• VST3, AU, AAX (64-bit host)

Windows

• Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
• Intel i3 / AMD Ryzen or equivalent
• 2 GB RAM / 300 MB HD
• Screen Resolution - 1024×768
• VST3, AAX (64-bit host)

All plugins have been tested on the following DAWs: