Studies
Subscribe to Studies
A subscription opens all 60 devices in both plugins: spectral processors, granular engines, glitch tools, spatial effects and generative synths, picked from a browser inside your DAW.
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Subscribing
Choose monthly or yearly above and check out. Then click SIGN IN at the bottom of the Studies window and enter the email you checked out with. We’ll send a code, and the full library downloads into the plugin.
Haven’t installed Studies yet? The installer is on the free download page.
- If you cancel
- The full library stays until the end of the period you paid for, then the ten free devices keep working. Your projects still open: a subscription device shows the subscribe panel until you renew.
- Studies or standalone?
- Our plugins are still sold one by one, as one-time purchases you own outright. If you only want one or two, buy them on their own. If you’d use more than a handful, Studies costs less. They’re separate builds, so projects made with a standalone plugin keep using it.
- 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