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Filter MS-20 Punchy Sound Energizer
Filter MS-20 is a stereo filter and distortion effect modeled on the infamously abrasive MS-20 synthesizer. Pump destructive crunch, roaring filter sweeps, and ultra-fat stereo depth into your mixes with an audio plugin that'll make anything sound massive.

Make anything sound massive
Turn any sound into huge, colorful, unstoppable textures and timbres that'll give your DAW production the edge you've been looking for.

Filter MS-20 extracts the sonic character from an iconic instrument, distilling and enhancing it into a go-to effect for creative mixing and radical sound exploration.

Punchy filter, edgy distortion
From soft rubbery bass to howling resonant sweeps, subtle fuzz to outright destruction, sculpt your sounds with the grainy filter sweeps, crushing bass, and abrasive distortion that put Filter MS-20's namesake synth on the map, courtesy of our TAE technology.

Push it further
Set Filter MS-20 loose into your mix and savor wild, exciting results. Modulate and animate its virtual circuitry, reroute its filter and distortion sections, and explode the stereo width of any sound with an array of enhanced modern features.

Simple to use
Fire up Filter MS-20 and enjoy its gritty, addictive sound immediately with a knob-per-function interface, macro-style controls for quick sweeping changes to your mix, and deep sound design controls just a click away.

Your mix, your style
With a sound ranging from warm to mean in a flash, this is a filter that you can count on to bring heaps of character and crunchy fatness to any style of project. It's famous for French house, industrial metal, techno, and beyond - you decide what's next.

Filter MS-20: a closer look
When your sound needs some extra bite or boost, get hands-on with an enhanced classic filter that'll deliver the goods, and then some.

With 3 simple tabs, discover 3 intuitive modulation sources that can be assigned to any parameter with a single click - propelling Filter MS-20 to maximum sonic velocity.

Here's a closer look at its features:

Distortion
Crank Filter MS-20's virtual ESP input and summon instant analog crunch, right up to molten fuzz fully clockwise. Great for adding subtle clipping saturation to vocals, crushing drum loops into oblivion, and everything in between.

Input filtering
Retain the depth of your lows or the harmonic detail in your highs by focusing your overdriven crunch on a specific frequency range a little extra precision can go a long way.

Routing
Sometimes a single click can make the biggest difference to a sound. With Filter MS-20's Routing switch, flip the behavior of your sound on its head by swapping the direction of the signal: distortion into filter or filter into distortion.

Master Cutoff
Control both Low Pass and High Pass in perfect sync for dramatic sonic effects by applying a relative offset to both cutoff controls, unlocking borderline-Band Pass functionality.

High Pass
This High Pass doesn't just cut out the lows and give you suspenseful sweeping build-ups: with resonance. cranked, it can bring out a surprising amount of rumble and swell your sound almost to bursting point.

Low Pass
Suppress higher frequencies and emphasize the depth and weight of your sound with Filter MS-20's abyssal Low Pass range.

Stereo
Go beyond simple filtering and distortion and add extra stereo width to any sound with a subtle Cutoff offset between the left and right channels. Better still, you can modulate this parameter for non-stop stereo movement, great for adding texture and variety to simple sounds.

Output controls
Balance Filter MS-20's level and prominence in your mix with familiar Dry/Wet and Level controls.

Movement
Keep your sound on its toes with a smart macro that reduces the effect of Filter MS-20's modulation sources, completely removing them from the equation when fully anticlockwise.

Envelope Follower
Get this filter speaking to your mix in perfect sync by triggering its envelope with incoming audio. Perfect for quacking auto-wah sounds, pumping percussive loops, and slowly-decaying sweeps of resonant noise.

Step Sequencer
A familiar sequencer that can be synced, randomized, scaled, and more, allowing you to quickly create melodies, repeating movements, and never-ending patterns.

Function Generator
Create custom movements anywhere from smooth to jagged to completely automate and animate any of Filter MS-20's features in your own unique way.

TAE Powered
The exclusive analog modeling technology that makes our emulations indistinguishable from the originals.

By accurately mimicking the characteristics of analog oscillators, filters, and soft clipping, we can provide astonishing component-accurate detail and authentic analog charm in equal measure.