The H.L.S Drive plug-in amazingly emulates the rich-sounding Tube saturation behaviors that keep radical EQ moves sounding ultra-musical, even at extreme settings. It is based closely on the Type 69 EQ which is very musical. Add character and clean up a mix with H.L.S Drive.

There are many factors that combine to create character in recording and mixing, ranging from instruments, VI instruments, musicians, performances, through the room and mic used, to the preamps, processors and effects! You will add character and clean up a mix with H.L.S Drive

Punchy. Loud. Beautifully Destructive. Fun!

The Talkback Limiter is an aggressive, in your face limiter. Carefully modeled from the real thing, our Talkback Limiter has the character and anti-social tendencies that made it so popular for drums. We’ve added additional controls to make it much more versatile.

Secret Weapon of Top Producers

First utilized in a vintage British recording console, the Talkback Limiter was THE sound of drums throughout the 80’s, and is still a major component on records today.

XILS-lab X-201, Vocoder … and vintage MultiEffect

An exceptional clarity: The X201 Vocoder was modeled after an ultra rare, ultra pricey (even at the time of its release), Vocoder unit, whose intelligibility has never been surpassed.

It's the missing link between artists like Kraftwerk, Herbie Hancock, Frank Farian (Boney M, Milli Vanilli etc.), Cylon Robots or Droids in Battlestar Galactica droids in Star Wars and… Daft Punk (RAM)

The Amplified Instrument Processor is a complete suite of tools designed to help you sculpt the ultimate guitar, bass, or keyboard tone. But the AIP is much more than that.

Its power and versatility make it an excellent processor for virtually any audio task. The AIP can work wonders on vocals, acoustic instruments, pianos, group buses, and even across the whole mix.

It’s been 20 years since Empirical Labs released its first compressor, The Distressor. From those early days on, Empirical Labs has been bombarded with requests for a great compressor plugin for those working in the box… and it had to be one with the creamy sound and ease-of-use of our own award winning hardware compressors. We are sure you will find the 20-year wait worth it!

Paragon is a true convolution reverb with the flexibility and control of a classic algorithmic reverb, giving you the sound of real spaces, now with unprecedented tweakability. Via re-synthesis, Paragon offers full control of the decay, room size and brightness of reverbs modelled on 3D recordings of real spaces - with no time-stretching, which means no artefacts - not to mention spectral analysis and precise EQ of the Impulse Responses themselves.

CHAOTIC POLYSYNTH EXTRAORDINAIRE

Beautifully complex pads. Warm moving keys. Jittery sequenced basses. Out of control leads. Textures, oh my God textures. Take Chaos to the next level with Generate.

With twelve powerful sections of processing, BIG FrEQ offers the ability to create modern "flat-top” parametric shapes with an analog workflow and added controls for more tone-shaping possibilities than a typical EQ plug-in. Inspired by the precision and warmth of Empirical Labs Lil FrEQ parametric equalizer, BIG FrEQ introduces superior fine tuning controls for surgical tone shaping and a unique FINISHER section for adding organic harmonic distortion. Like the plug-in’s predecessor, the Arousor, Empirical Labs brings the soul of analog hardware to the digital realm and includes features that can not be replicated in the analog domain. As always, Empirical Labs offers new twists and functionality to their new plug-in EQ and labors over making it mindless to learn, and just plain FUN to use.

Dialog combines in one plug-in all the processing needed to clean up, adjust, and sweeten recordings of the spoken voice. It is perfect for voice-over, film/tv recordings on location or sound stage, and broadcast.

Dialog includes brickwall filters, de-hum and de-buzz processing, broadband noise reduction, de-ploding, de-essing, 10-band equalization, compression, and limiting. Separate presets for each section allow you to get results fast.

With FORTE 12 music notation software, you can write sheet music using your computer in minutes, have it played back by over 100 preloaded instruments at the click of a button… and that’s not all…

FORTE 12 Premium has everything you need (including ScanScore Ensemble, Bandora Arranger and FORTE Player) to create full orches-tra scores and masterpieces with ease – freeing up your time so you can spend it creating and composing rather than dealing with technology.