Free in Studies
Auras
Ambient Texture Shaper
Pitch & Time · Spatial
Studies
The Puremagnetik Plugin Library
Studies is our plugin library: experimental effects and synths in two plugins, Studies Effects for audio tracks and Studies Instruments for MIDI. Each device goes deep on one technique, like tape decay, granular resynthesis, spectral freezing or FM.
$0 checkout with your email, no credit card. The installer comes with your order, and the ten free devices work without an account.
Or subscribe to the full library for $9/moThe free devices
Full versions with every control and preset. They don’t expire.
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Free in StudiesDarklands
Dystopian Soundscape Synthesizer
Synthesizer
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Free in StudiesDriftmaker
Delay Disintegration Device
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Free in StudiesExpanse
Texture Generator
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Free in StudiesOlden
Worn Tape Doubler
Modifiers · Spatial
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Free in StudiesPhanes
Spectral Grain Reflector
Glitch · Granular
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Free in StudiesTensol
Tension Resonator Repeater
Glitch · Pitch & Time
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Free in StudiesThe Barber
Harmonic Animation Slicer
Modifiers · Pitch & Time
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Free in StudiesVanisher
Granular Sound Transcendence Machine
Granular · Spatial
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Free in StudiesVerv
Sunbaked Tape Loop Synthesizer
The interface
Each device is drawn as its own signal flow. Audio comes in on the left and passes through each stage in the order the code processes it (buffers, grain engines, filters, delays, the dry/wet blend, the output), and the knobs sit on the stage they control.
Turn WEAR on Olden and you can follow the wow and flutter LFO into the two drifting delay voices. Freeze Phanes and you can see which part of the spectrum is held and where the reflections pick it up.
- Two plugins: Studies Effects (audio tracks) and Studies Instruments (MIDI tracks)
- A built-in browser: BROWSE or the ‹ › arrows move through the library without leaving your track
- Factory presets for every device, plus a ‘Jumble’ control for random patch generation
- Each device’s ? button opens its page in the Studies Handbook
- Your project saves the device, its preset and every setting
- Scalable window (the 100% menu)
Where they come from
We’ve made more than a hundred plugins, roughly one a month, and a lot of them started with a record. Driftmaker came out of BlankFor.ms’s Works for Tape and Piano, and Expanse out of Larum’s Into a Bright Land. Verv is our tape loop and Mellotron habit, modeled on the Freeman String Symphonizer and the ARP Solina.
Studies puts 60 of them into two plugins with one layout, so you can move between them without learning a new interface each time.
The full library
Subscribe, then sign in once from inside the plugin and the rest of the library downloads in the background. One sign-in covers both plugins and every project, and there are no serial numbers.
- All 60 devices: 41 processors in Studies Effects and 19 synths in Studies Instruments
- New devices delivered into the plugin as they are released
- Updates and fixes to existing devices, with no reinstalling
- Use on all of your own computers
| Free | Subscription | |
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| Devices | 10 (7 processors, 3 synths) | 60 (41 processors, 19 synths) |
| New devices as released | — | Included |
| Presets, Jumble, Handbook | Included | Included |
| Credit card | Not needed | At checkout |
| Sign in | Not needed | Once, from the plugin |
| Price | Free | $9 per month or $85 per year |
Getting started
Check out free, then download the installer for your system from the order confirmation page or email. Run it, put Studies Effects on an audio track or Studies Instruments on a MIDI track and press play. The free devices are ready. For the rest, click SIGN IN at the bottom of the window and enter the email you subscribed with.
- Formats
- Studies Effects and Studies Instruments · Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
- Systems
- macOS 13 Ventura or later and Windows 10/11 x64
- Internet
- A connection to sign in and download the library