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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
Soundtoys 5 combines our entire range of pro audio effects into a single, powerful collection. Comprised of 23 Soundtoys plug-ins, including Effect Rack, Decapitator, EchoBoy, and the new SpaceBlender experimental reverb, Soundtoys 5.5 features every possible avenue for creative sound design and mixing. Express your creativity to the fullest, making use of both accurate hardware-modelled recreations and contemporary, unique designs to inspire you to create more music than ever before.
Create luscious, expansive reverberation with SuperPlate, or explore experimental spatial textures with SpaceBlender. Saturate, compress, and distort with Decapitator, Radiator, and Devil-Loc. Get a virtual history of echo and delay hardware with EchoBoy and PrimalTap. Transform your vocals with Little AlterBoy. Recreate classic studio pitch, chorus and widening effects with Crystallizer and MicroShift. Take modulation to new levels with the beat-synced rhythmic effects of PanMan, Tremolator, FilterFreak, and PhaseMistress.
Product Ref: 346096
Version 5.5 introduces SpaceBlender, the new experimental reverb, now fully integrated into Effect Rack. Create immersive environments, rich ambiences, and otherworldly spatial effects by layering unique reverb textures with your favourite Soundtoys plug-ins. To get you started, we’ve added 67 new Effect Rack presets crafted by our in-house sound design team. V5.5 also brings resizable user interfaces to all individual plug-ins.
Effect Rack forms the core of Soundtoys 5, combining individual plug-ins into one intuitive, creative hub. It simplifies the creation of custom multi-effect chains and offers global controls for unified operation. Lock rhythmic effects to tempo or leave them free-running, adjust input/output levels precisely, and blend processed signals effortlessly with global mix controls. The innovative global Recycle function lets you feed the rack's output back into its input, creating complex modulated reverbs and delays without complicated routing, ideal for advanced sound design.
Effect Rack significantly improves your workflow, combining multiple effects into a single streamlined interface. Manage complex processing chains without jumping between individual windows. Instantly select from professionally crafted presets as starting points, or quickly build and recall your own custom plug-in chains. By keeping all your Soundtoys plug-ins conveniently accessible within one intuitive environment, Effect Rack simplifies sound design, mixing, and mastering tasks, enabling efficient and productive sessions.
Soundtoys 5 provides flexible software authorisation options, removing reliance on physical dongles and freeing valuable USB ports for audio interfaces and MIDI controllers. Professionals can still manage their Soundtoys 5 licences via their existing iLok USB keys if preferred. Each licence includes two activations, conveniently allowing use on both your studio system and home or mobile setups. This flexibility ensures your creative workflow remains uninterrupted, wherever and however you choose to work.
Slide open an effect’s Tweak panel to access special circuit-level controls. Or design your own unique modulation patterns. Many Soundtoys effects offer special Tweak panels which expose deeper editing features. Here you can find advanced options for a plug-in, like a choice of saturation styles, fine control of an effect’s groove, or a selection of different delay algorithms. The onboard modulation effects offer powerful shape and rhythm editors here for creating complex motion. And in Soundtoys 5, the Tweak panels have been redesigned to make advanced controls easier to find and use. The result: an incredibly customizable set of sonic tools that you’ll want to use on every project.
An LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) is at the heart of every modulation effect — it’s what gives tremolos, phasers, panners and sweeping filters their characteristic motion. The included library of LFO shapes goes far beyond standard modulation effects, giving you curves based on vintage modulation effects, amps and instruments as well as more abstract shapes. You can also draw and sculpt your own totally customized shapes using the Shape Editor. Use it to dream up new LFO shapes, from knife-edged waves to gently ebbing curves.
The Rhythm Editor is like a rhythmic modulation sequencer. Choose a length (in bars) and the size of the steps you want to edit (sixteenth notes, eighth notes, quarter notes, etc), then start clicking to make a new pattern. You can turn individual steps on and off to create pauses or rests, and adjust the level and length of each step to humanize your pattern and give it some musical variation. You can even choose the number of beats per bar to create some funky syncopation or odd-time-signature grooves. Like the custom shapes, custom patterns are even swappable between plug-ins. And, of course, you can lock everything to the master tempo of the Soundtoys Effect Rack or your favorite DAW for solid, dead-simple synchronization.
"The team at Soundtoys have done a wonderful job with their plug-ins. They are really well thought out & beautifully designed. They are easy to use right out the gate, but they also offer a great degree of customization. The main thing is, they sound fantastic! Soundtoys plug-ins are a part of every record that I make." - Dave Tozer (Kanye West, John Legend, Justin Timberlake)
"Once you start using all of these plug-ins you find it hard to stop, you become dependent on them because they give you what you want!" - Tom Elmhirst (Adele, The Black Keys, Cee Lo Green, Florence & The Machine)
"I seriously don’t do a mix without at least 3-5 different Soundtoys plug-ins. These effects allow me to be really creative with my mixes." - Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, We Are Scientists, Sum 41, Avett Brothers)
"I use Soundtoys on every mix I do. Their plug-ins just work; that is it’s not a wrestling match to have them sonically sit in the mix in a musical way." - Dave Pensado (Rick Ross, Macy Gray, T-Pain, Michael Jackson)
