Need a good hammer, drill, or just a metallic sweep for your newest sonic creation? Industrial tones provides all the steel you might need and more than you could possibly ever know what to do with in one affordable plug-in package.

With hundreds of patches, and 256 presets, it's easy to get lost amidst all of the industrial options. The vst also comes with 133 effects modes, providing endless options for morphing and shaping your sound.

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.

Version 1.5 has been released and the Mac version will be soon to follow in the coming months.