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Punchy Sound Energizer
Filter MS-20 is a stereo filter and distortion effect modeled on the infamously abrasive MS-20 synthesizer. Pump destructive crunch, roaring filter sweeps, and ultra-fat stereo depth into your mixes with an audio plugin that’ll make anything sound massive.
Make anything sound massive
Turn any sound into huge, colorful, unstoppable textures and timbres that’ll give your DAW production the edge you’ve been looking for.
Filter MS-20 extracts the sonic character from an iconic instrument, distilling and enhancing it into a go-to effect for creative mixing and radical sound exploration.
Punchy filter, edgy distortion
From soft rubbery bass to howling resonant sweeps, subtle fuzz to outright destruction, sculpt your sounds with the grainy filter sweeps, crushing bass, and abrasive distortion that put Filter MS-20’s namesake synth on the map, courtesy of our TAE® technology.
Push it further
Set Filter MS-20 loose into your mix and savor wild, exciting results. Modulate and animate its virtual circuitry, reroute its filter and distortion sections, and explode the stereo width of any sound with an array of enhanced modern features.
Simple to use
Fire up Filter MS-20 and enjoy its gritty, addictive sound immediately with a knob-per-function interface, macro-style controls for quick sweeping changes to your mix, and deep sound design controls just a click away.
Your mix, your style
The Soul of a Monolith
In the ‘70s, analog synthesizers reigned supreme.
Rich in their sound, powerful in their versatility, playful in their design, these instruments all but defined popular music of the time. But in 1978, a menacing semi-modular black box appeared on the horizon that changed the face of analog.
Aggressive and mysterious in equal measure, the heart of the MS-20's sound was a powerful filter and external signal processing module that handled both bark and bite. Filter MS-20 deconstructs these modules and rebuilds them as an effect enhanced for modern production.
Features
- Emulated stereo analog filter and distortion effect
- Circuit-accurate modeling with exclusive TAE® technology
- Resonant Low Pass, High Pass modes
- Master Cutoff for Band Pass-style functionality
- Stereo offset for widening filtered sounds
- ESP distortion circuit with input filtering
- Switchable routing (Distortion > Filter, Filter > Distortion)
- Output Mix and Level controls
- Envelope Follower
- Function Generator
- 16-Step Sequencer
- Movement macro for attenuating/boosting modulation
- A/B comparison
System Requirements
- Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Mac
- Mac OS 10.13+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or Apple Silicon CPU
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 1GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- ARM processors not supported on Windows
Protection
- All Arturia software is protected by the Arturia Software Center.
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