Modular

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Softube Modular is all about imagination and limitless creation. Check out examples of how you can use Modular both as a powerful instrument, a versatile effects processor, and everything in-between, and download the presets to try them yourself.

Continuing the legacy

Buchla and Moog started it all with their modular synthesizers in the 1960s. Doepfer made it affordable and created a creative playground in the 1990s by introducing the Eurorack standard. Today, Modular makes the modular synthesizer truly accessible to everyone.

Whether you're a pioneering sound-designer, a composer, a techno producer, or just a curious experimenter, Modular offers the same extraordinary sound quality as its analog forebears, thanks to detailed component-level modeling of everything from the inner circuitry of the modules to the impedances of the connection ports and the underlying workings of the rack.

Eurorack for everyone

Experienced Eurorack synth users will be right at home from the start. Modular works just like hardware Eurorack systems do, right down to the voltage standards (indeed you can even patch out of your computer using an interface with DC-coupled outputs and interact with hardware systems). Add modules, connect them using virtual patch cords, adjust knobs and switches — it's as close as anything gets to the real thing.

But beginners are equally welcome. Modular offers more than 400 expertly designed presets, immediately available to be put to use in your music. When you are ready to learn more about patching a Eurorack synth, dig into the step by step patching tutorials included in the manual.

Patching, modulating, oscillating, tweaking, designing, inventing. Whether it's bass, leads, percussion, pads, noise, ambience, effects, realistic emulated instruments, space-and-time-travel craziness, or just a sonic science project, you've found your perfect partner in innovation.

Premium add-on modules

The world of Eurorack is made magnificent by the community of innovative companies which design modules to push the boundaries of the standard. Everyone has a different artistic and technical heritage, and brings their experiences to the conversation, resulting in a fascinating pool of fun and inspiring modules.

With Modular we’ve gone one step further than any other software modular environment, by modeling some of the world’s most visionary hardware modules in partnership with their original creators to bring an exciting range of premium modules to the party. Doepfer, the godparents of the entire format, West Coast wizards 4ms, Intellijel of Vancouver, Canada, Parisian pioneers Mutable Instruments, and even the legendary Buchla, for the first time integrated into a Eurorack space.

We continue to develop and release new modules, with new and exciting partners, so the world of Modular never stands still.

Softube plug-ins as modules

Many Softube effects, including Saturation Knob, Tube Delay, the TSAR-1 and TSAR-1R reverbs, and Spring Reverb can be used as modules in Modular, as can our drum machine, Heartbeat. The possibilities this opens up are as good as endless. CV control your effects with LFOs, random noise, even audio frequency oscillators. Sequence and modulate your Heartbeat modules with all the power of the rest of your patch.

Better still, if you already own these effects plug-ins, there’s no cost or set-up. They will immediately be available in Modular. Grab our free Saturation Knob plug-in for an instant cost-free expansion!

Both an instrument and an effects processor

Modular FX enables you to bring in external audio and process it in the Modular environment. Build your own complex effects –  distortion circuits, compressors, modulation effects like choruses, flangers, and doublers, and more.

Create an infinitely variable, customisable delay loop. Ring modulate drums for industrial or futuristic textures, or use an envelope follower to drive a synth sound with your guitar performance.

There really is no end to the things you can achieve with Modular and a little imagination. And to make it easy to use and control your patches in the real world, performance modules offer simple, chunky knobs and buttons that can be freely assigned to any parameter on any module in the current patch. Great for studio and stage!