Subquake

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A little low-end goes a long way. But don’t let that stop you using a lot.

Subquake is a new breed of low frequency generator. It can do super tight thumps on gunshots, deep kicks, massive earthquake rumbles… or throbbing, diving, shuddering LFE which shakes the audience much harder than traditional subharmonic toys.

Designed for maximum flexibility, reproducibility and infinite creative possibilities, Subquake will show you entirely new dimensions of powerful low-frequency effects.

Please note: Subquake is incredibly loud and very aggressive. Ensure your speakers & sub can handle reference level rumbles before hitting play. This is not a toy.

For tutorial videos please visit our support page

“Subquake is now essential to me. Drums just get bigger, braaams braaamier; it’s a massive improvement on the standard low end harmonic generators.”

Simon Franglen, Composer/Producer – Avatar: The Way Of Water, The Magnificent Seven, Celine Dion

“Sub synths are often just an obvious wum-wum-wum, but Subquake gives us color, shape and character. I’ll be using this one a LOT!”

David Farmer, Sound Designer – LOTR, The Hobbit, Avengers, Ant-Man, King Kong

“Subquake makes the brown note.”

Andrew Scheps, Grammy winning Producer/Engineer//Mixer – RHCP, Lana Del Rey, Johnny Cash, etc etc etc

Sculpt your bottom-end

Let Subquake carefully follow the shape of your input signal, or drag out the release time to create massive rumbling tails. Play with delay and hold to create shuddering reactions which won’t mask the explosion transient.

Trigger off any input signal

You can thump anything with Subquake – even a swish or a hi-hat. Powerful input filtering and triggering options let you get super specific about how and when your sub dives are created.

Sub with noise or sculpted pitches

Create bottom end out of random noise filtered to just the band you like, or pure tones, using various oscillator shapes.

You can tune the bands using frequency or note values and add pitch bending envelopes which are triggered at a user-defined threshold

Key features

Trigger sub from absolutely any input

You can add thump to literally any input signal, even if it has no bottom end at all. Add weight to a swish, or the transient crack of a snare drum or gunshot.

Noise or tones

Generate intense bottom end using filtered noise or pure tones. Need a super clean pitch dive on an explosion? Or an intense atonal thump on a bodyfall? You decide the character of the boom rather than relying on hit-and-miss pitching effects

Sculpt the input signal

Follow the full input envelope or filter and gate to isolate some element. Pick the kick drum out of a loop, or use just the crack of a thunder strike. Subquake lets you set a trigger threshold and minimum reset time so one-shot envelopes can be retriggered only when you need them.

Freakish Intermodulation

Run both tone bands together, to create beautiful throbbing, pulsing, shuddering booms. And even better, use a slight bend on one band to get chest-crushing pulses which slow as they dive. If you’re running with the filtered noise band, you can dial-in the tremolo effect to get fluttering rumbles.

Stereo noise mode

Output directly to the main channels, using a different noise signal in each speaker, or switch to mono to keep the thump attached to the kick drum.

Supports all common surround formats.

You can insert Subquake on almost any track format. If it’s a format with a .1 LFE channel, you’ll hear the sub signal on that channel. If not, you’ll get the wet signal in every channel. X.x -> mono is also supported in DAWs which offer it.

Full control over frequency ranges

You choose exactly which frequencies will be generated, and which will trigger it. Filter to film LFE spec, or open it up in a stereo instance. You can even control HPF/LPF linked together to tighten the bandwidth or shift up and down

User controlled envelope follower

Control the shape of the boom generated, with delay, attack, hold and release times. Keep it super tight for gunshots and kick drums, or pull out the release for throbbing sci-fi explosion tails. Or just let it follow the shape of your whoosh for a tightly fitted LFE channel.

Pitch bending with input trigger

Add pitch bending envelopes which are triggered at a user-defined threshold. Add a doppler-like tonal bend to heavy pass-bys. Or a classic synth kick to acoustic drums.

Deterministic and reproducible

Hear the same thing every time you hit play. Subquake doesn’t output anything random and offers 2 modes: timeline deterministic, and trigger deterministic. So very triggered kick will sound the same (if that’s what you want). Post-prod mixers can punch-in over long rumbling tails, with confidence that it’ll sound the same as the one the director approved.

Display Frequency or Musical notes

Subquake allows you to tune the tonal bands using frequency (Hz) or note values. Type in D# and it will snap to the D# in the nearest ocatve.

Fully resizable UI.

Screen real-estate is always at a premium, so Subquake allows dynamic resizing of the UI, fitting into whatever space you have available.

Subquake

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For tutorial videos please visit our support page

Sculpt your bottom-end

Trigger off any input signal

Sub with noise or sculpted pitches

Key features

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