MASTER clips and shapes drums, 808s and bass. MOTION adds pitch and five effects on top.
MASTER sits on top and MOTION underneath. Scroll to look at each one.
The clipper. DRIVE pushes the signal into it, SLOPE sets the edge of the clip from soft to hard, and OUTPUT sets the level. W-FOLD adds a wavefolder in front.
Pitch and five effects for drums. Start from one of 20 factory scenes or set the modules yourself. Switch the unit off and A5 is a clipper again.
A5 includes five custom drum effects, each with its own character. More sounds and presets are planned for future updates.
Adds weight and fullness under each hit. BODY builds a low layer from the drum's own low end and blends it in, so thin drums sound bigger while the original hit stays as it is.
Adds harmonics for colour and grit, from warm and rounded to driven, so drums sound thicker and more present.
Lo-fi digital distortion. CRUSH lowers the bit depth and sample rate for a broken, aggressive sound, and a built-in limiter keeps the level under control.
Puts your drums in a room. Short reflections and a natural tail add space and ambience, blended in under the hit so it stays up front.
Adds movement and texture: phaser, flanger, metallic or vocal-like tones on each hit. It doesn't add hiss, and it leaves the low end below 200 Hz untouched.
20 factory scenes plus INIT. Each one sets all five MOTION modules as a starting point.
The plug-in's own interface. Select a number, or step through, to see what each control does.
MASTER
4DRIVE
How hard the signal is pushed into the clipper. Higher settings give more loudness and density.
A5's display can hand you the sound it just made. Freeze it, select a hit or a phrase, and drop it into your DAW as a WAV.
Mac: VST3 and AU, macOS 15.5 or later on Apple Silicon. Windows: VST3, Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
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A5 is a plug-in that helps your drums, 808s and bass hit harder and lets you shape their sound. It combines a clipper (MASTER) with pitch and five drum effects (MOTION), so you can add punch, distortion, space and texture without switching between several plug-ins.
On Mac, A5 is a VST3 and AU plug-in, so it runs in DAWs that load either format. On Windows it is a 64-bit VST3 plug-in, so it needs a 64-bit DAW that loads VST3. It works on mono and stereo tracks. On Mac it has been tested in FL Studio (VST3 and AU) and passes Apple's AU validation. There is no AAX version, so it does not run in Pro Tools.
Mac: VST3 and AU, on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or newer) running macOS 15.5 or later.
Windows: VST3, on a 64-bit Intel or AMD PC with Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), in a 64-bit DAW. Windows on Arm and Intel Macs are not supported.
After checkout you get an email with your download and your licence key.
Open A5, paste the key from your order email and press ACTIVATE. It needs an internet connection once. After that it works offline, with no account or password.
Yes. One key activates A5 on two computers, Mac or Windows in any mix. Activating the same computer again doesn't use up a second one. To move A5 to a new computer, email support.
Your code arrives by email. Click Get A5, then enter the code in the discount field at checkout. It's applied there, so there's nothing to enter on this page. Check out with the email address you joined the waitlist with.
Yes. The interface scales from 75 % to 200 %.