If you need an addition to your arsenal of
VST plugins or
Audio Units, something new, unique, odd, beautiful sounding
and interesting, but at the same time rough and industrial, then let us recommend Industrial Tones.
Industrial Tones is a synthesizer which produces sounds that can be related to the music genre which
is often referred to as "industrial".
This music category is based on sounds from industries, noisy, heavy, made of steel or just odd. We have
included the finest selection of industrial waveforms and when they are processed by the
synth functions and the advanced effects engine then the result is a unique collection of sounds,
which are both powerful, interesting and useful.
Industrial Tones includes 256 presets and you
may purchase additional soundpacks which expand the plug-in.
Each soundpack adds new waveforms and 256 new presets.
Three soundpacks are available for Industrial Tones.
Listen to the MP3s further down on this page.
The synth is one of our VST plugins for Windows and Audio Units for Mac OS X.
About Industrial Tones
Industrial Tones has a similar architecture as Ambient Keys, but it has a different sound,
because Industrial Tones uses a set of industrial waveforms/samples instead of "ambient" ones.
And Industrial Tones has a set of filter banks which sound different compared with the filter banks
in Ambient Keys. We changed them slightly to better fit the category "industrial".
Industrial Tones plays hundreds of waveforms/samples and processes these using the plug-in's synth
engine and its advanced effects processor, which has 133 different effect modes.
If you make music with an attitude, which can be categorized as industrial, fuzzy, based on mechanical
sounds or steel, or just experimental, then Industrial Tones is the synthesizer for you.
Sound Examples
Each demo was created using one or more instances of Industrial Tones, as the only instrument.
All sounds were played by Industrial Tones. What you hear is what you get. No other plugins
were used and there's no processing except Industrial Tones built-in effects.
Demo Song 1 (1.3 MB)
Demo Song 2 (1.4 MB)
Demo Song 3 (1.5 MB)
Demo Song 4 (1.3 MB)
Demo Song 5 (1.1 MB)
Demo Song 6 (1.5 MB)
Demo Song 7 (1.7 MB)
Demo Song 8 (1.5 MB)
Demo Song 9 (650 KB)
Preset G9 Sub-Travels(296 KB)
Preset G13 FBank-Voc(835 KB)
Preset G8 Sub-Container (710 KB)
Preset G10 Dist-Noise-3 (332 KB)
Presets
Industrial Tones includes 256 presets.
When you feel ready for more, then you may purchase a new "soundpack" which
expands the plug-in.
Each soundpack includes a new set of industrial waveforms and 256 new presets to explore.
Three soundpacks are available.
Effects
There are 133 effect modes, including crossfading effects and layered effects.
The effects section features a large set of filter banks, a resonator, flanger, reverb, pitch shift, a sub
oscillator, amplitude modulation, distortion, plus layered and crossfading versions of these effects.
The filter banks have been tuned to fit the waveforms and the category "industrial".
Crossfading effects means that Industrial Tones can alternate between effects.
Many of the presets make use of this feature.
The sound of the filter banks can be adjusted. The effects (except the reverb) may be controlled by an LFO with
7 different waveforms and two variations of each (14 in total). The reverb includes a lowpass filter for
realistic damping. In addition, the plug-in has a dedicated ensemble section and a built-in stereo delay.
Voices
The number of voices that you'll get from Industrial Tones and our series of hybrid plugins
is only dependant on the power of your CPU.
But you may set a voice limit, if you want to, for example maximum 8 or 16 voices or any number.
MIDI Controllers
The plug-in features an easy-to-use "learn mode" to support MIDI controllers. That makes it easy for
you to, say, draw a waveform in your sequencer and then let it control any of the knobs. Or hook up
a a cheap external MIDI controller and control the plug-in with it.
Selecting Patches
Patches are organized into groups and they are selected using two drop down menus (one for the group
and one for the patch itself). The drop down menus make it easy for you to browse through the patch
collection. If you download a new soundpack, then you just have to run the installer and then the
new presets appear as new patch groups (new menu choices).
Other
Each voice has its own resonant filter, which can be controlled by an envelope or with velocity.
You may adjust the waveform pitch and there's a traditional amp envelope there too.
A manual (PDF) is included.
You may download a demo here, but the demo contains only 4 presets and 4 samples.
And it has a 3 minute limitation.
All these restrictions are of course removed when you buy and download the full version.
