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Filter MS-20
Punchy Sound Energizer
Filter MS-20 is a stereo filter and distortion effect modeled on the infamously abrasive MS-20 synthesizer. Pump destructive crunch, roaring filter sweeps, and ultra-fat stereo depth into your mixes with an audio plugin that’ll make anything sound massive.
Make anything sound massive
Turn any sound into huge, colorful, unstoppable textures and timbres that’ll give your DAW production the edge you’ve been looking for.
Filter MS-20 extracts the sonic character from an iconic instrument, distilling and enhancing it into a go-to effect for creative mixing and radical sound exploration.
Punchy filter, edgy distortion
From soft rubbery bass to howling resonant sweeps, subtle fuzz to outright destruction, sculpt your sounds with the grainy filter sweeps, crushing bass, and abrasive distortion that put Filter MS-20’s namesake synth on the map, courtesy of our TAE® technology.
Push it further
Set Filter MS-20 loose into your mix and savor wild, exciting results. Modulate and animate its virtual circuitry, reroute its filter and distortion sections, and explode the stereo width of any sound with an array of enhanced modern features.
Simple to use
Fire up Filter MS-20 and enjoy its gritty, addictive sound immediately with a knob-per-function interface, macro-style controls for quick sweeping changes to your mix, and deep sound design controls just a click away.
Your mix, your style
With a sound ranging from warm to mean in a flash, this is a filter that you can count on to bring heaps of character and crunchy fatness to any style of project. It’s famous for French house, industrial metal, techno, and beyond - you decide what’s next.
The soul of a monolith
In the ‘70s, analog synthesizers reigned supreme.
Rich in their sound, powerful in their versatility, playful in their design, these instruments all but defined popular music of the time. But in 1978, a menacing semi-modular black box appeared on the horizon that changed the face of analog.
Aggressive and mysterious in equal measure, the heart of the MS-20's sound was a powerful filter and external signal processing module that handled both bark and bite. Filter MS-20 deconstructs these modules and rebuilds them as an effect enhanced for modern production.
Filter MS-20: a closer look
When your sound needs some extra bite or boost, get hands-on with an enhanced classic filter that’ll deliver the goods, and then some.
With 3 simple tabs, discover 3 intuitive modulation sources that can be assigned to any parameter with a single click - propelling Filter MS-20 to maximum sonic velocity.
Artists Corner
Andreas Kleerup
Producer
The sequencer is awesome. If I had to choose one filter to knob-twiddle it would be this one´s low pass filter. Classic. Arturias MS-20 V is the perfect example to showcase how good it gets when technology actually works for us.INVT
Producer
The ms20 has great creative filtering automation and distortion. So much control over parameters, especially with the built in sequencer. It’s excellent for enhancing textures and timbres.
Press Clippings
Gearspace
On Filter MS-20
“A very fun, very powerful/flexible filter.”
Create Digital Music
On Filter MS-20
“Having this to pop into software signal chains is brilliant”
Included in FX collection
Effects you'll actually use
This effect is part of FX Collection, a suite of essential audio effect plugins empowering musicians, producers, and artists to get creative with their production. From iconic recording gear modeled with breathtaking accuracy, to cutting-edge contemporary effects, the collection includes the most sought-after studio tools, rare guitar pedals, modern mix enhancers, and beyond. Elevate your production and add color to your mix like never before.
The features you need
TAE® Powered
The exclusive analog modeling technology that makes our emulations indistinguishable from the originals.
By accurately mimicking the characteristics of analog oscillators, filters, and soft clipping, we can provide astonishing component-accurate detail and authentic analog charm in equal measure.
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Main Features
Emulated stereo analog filter and distortion effect
Circuit-accurate modeling with exclusive TAE® technology
Resonant Low Pass, High Pass modes
Master Cutoff for Band Pass-style functionality
Stereo offset for widening filtered sounds
ESP distortion circuit with input filtering
Switchable routing (Distortion > Filter, Filter > Distortion)
Output Mix and Level controls
Envelope Follower
Function Generator
16-Step Sequencer
Movement macro for attenuating / boosting modulation
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Platform Specifications
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 1 GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
Required configuration
- Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Apple
- Mac OS 10.13+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
- 1 GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
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