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Sounds with real personality and character
Ember is built around creating rich, expressive tones with plenty of harmonic detail. Its oscillators feature built-in saturation and a sub-oscillator, giving you control over both added harmonic colour and low-frequency weight. FM modulation opens up more complex textures, while the resonant analogue low-pass filter includes key tracking for shaping the frequency response across different notes. Together, these tools cover clear modern sounds as well as rougher, vintage-inspired tones. Rather than relying on a single form of processing for its character, Ember gives you several ways to introduce warmth, grit, and harmonic complexity directly within the synth.
Get the vibe right
Ember's Circuit controls adjust the synth's internal accuracy and modulation, introducing analogue-style unpredictability to otherwise precise sounds. This gives patches subtle variation and character without requiring extensive parameter automation. The Drift section takes that movement further, applying evolving modulation across parameters, including Ember's Master controls. You can use it to keep sustained sounds moving or introduce variation into repeating patterns. An integrated arpeggiator adds another source of rhythmic movement, making it easier to turn a patch into more detailed sequences. Combined, Circuit, Drift, and the arpeggiator give you several ways to make sounds feel less static.
Power in simplicity
Detailed synthesis doesn't have to mean constant menu diving. Ember uses an intuitive interface alongside Master controls for quickly adjusting broader characteristics across a patch. Tone, time, and width controls let you reshape complex sounds with fewer individual adjustments, affecting elements including envelope timing, effects, and circuitry intensity. This makes it straightforward to make larger tonal changes while retaining the individual synthesis features underneath. If you'd rather begin with an existing sound, Ember also includes over 200 presets from artists including Stimming, Craig Bauer, Steve Levine, Mr. Bill, Undulae, Jae Deal, and Mike Schmid, providing plenty of starting points for further sound design.
With all the trimmings
Seven integrated effects let you add texture, movement, dynamics, and space without immediately building an external processing chain. Crackle introduces additional texture, while Ripple and Chorus provide further ways to shape movement. Compress handles dynamics, Heat adds another layer of tonal character, and Echo and Space provide delay and spatial processing. Each effect is designed to work alongside Ember's oscillator engine, making the FX section an integral part of patch creation rather than simply an additional processing stage. Combined with the synth's saturation, modulation, filtering, and Drift controls, these effects give you plenty of options for developing sounds entirely within Ember.
Reviews
"I love how constructive destruction works here – it really resonates with my understanding of sound and vibe. It sounds fresh and old at once." - Stimming (Pianist, Composer, Producer)
"The range of sounds possible with Ember is shockingly vast…especially given how simple it is to use. Programming presets reminded me of the thrill I had decades ago when I got my hands on my very first synth." - Craig Bauer – Mixing Engineer (Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Wu-Tang Clan, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna)
"Ember is one of the most creative soft synths I’ve ever used. This synth is fun! I love how vibey Ember is, it’s definitely the most unique sounding synth in my DAW." - Andy Toy – Musician, Producer, Engineer (Tori Kelly, Porter Robinson, Miguel)
Features
- Designed to deliver rich, characterful sound full of vibe in every note
- Intuitive interface designed for quick music creation
- Master controls for easily shaping complex sounds through tone, time, and width adjustments
- Over 200 presets from artists like Stimming, Craig Bauer, Steve Levine, Mr. Bill, Undulae, Jae Deal, Mike Schmid, Henkka Niemisto? and many more
- Circuit controls that alter the inner accuracy and modulation, introducing analog-style unpredictability
- Oscillators with built-in saturation and sub-oscillator
- FM modulation for complex harmonic textures
- Resonant analog low-pass filter with key tracking
- Creative FX section with Crackle, Ripple, Chorus, Compress, Heat, Echo, and Space
- Drift section for evolving, organic modulation
- Arpeggiator for rhythmic movement and complexity
Specifications
- Operating system:
- Mac: Mac OS X 10.13 or higher
- Windows: Windows 10
- Format:
- Mac: VST-3, AU, AAX
- Windows: VST-3, AAX
- RAM: 4GB
- Product code: 1246-3640