Animation Station PRO

AT A GLANCE – The world’s first Universal MIDI Animation Studio, one plugin, three engines – Universal Instrument Host: load and animate any VST or Audio Unit virtual instrument inside the plugin (New in Pro) – FX Animation Engine: host audio effect plugins in the same environment and animate their parameters (New in Pro) – Intelligent MIDI Sequencer & Arpeggiator built on the ABCD real-time 4-pattern switching engine – Step sequencers, LFOs, and arpeggiators that animate both instruments and effects (New in Pro) – A built-in channel-strip vault: instrument, effects, routing, modulation, and MIDI performance chains saved and recalled together as a single preset (New in Pro) – Bring VST-only instruments and effects into AU-only DAWs like Logic Pro (New in Pro) – Global macro controls that map to any hosted instrument or effect parameter (New in Pro) – Customizable key switch and advanced mod-wheel modulation – Octave and chromatic transpose modes – Intelligent infinite pattern randomization for ultimate flexibility > Check Out the Animation Station PRO Experience the capabilities of Animation Station PRO with these exclusive samples. Each sound has been crafted to showcase its powerful sequencing, effects and creative sound-design capabilities. Hear how this instrument transforms basic sounds into extraordinary audio. 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Listen on soundcloud What is Animation Station Pro? The World’s First Universal MIDI Animation Studio Sample Logic is proud to introduce ANIMATION STATION PRO, the next evolution of assisted music creation. Animation Station 2.0 gave musicians an intelligent Step Animator engine for building arpeggios and step sequences. Animation Station Pro goes further, hosting virtual instruments and audio effects inside a single plugin, then animating both with the same step sequencers, LFOs, and arpeggiators that made the original engine famous. Load an instrument, load an effect, and animate every parameter that matters, all without leaving the plugin. Three engines live inside Animation Station Pro. A Universal Instrument Host loads and plays any VST or Audio Unit virtual instrument. An FX Animation Engine brings audio effect plugins into the same environment and animates them in real time. And an Intelligent MIDI Sequencer & Arpeggiator, built on the ABCD real-time pattern switching system introduced in 2.0, drives it all. Nothing else on the market brings these three engines together in one plugin. Host. Animate. Perform. Whether you need a quick and easy way to create memorable melodies, or you just want to glitch the night away, ANIMATION STATION 2.0 is for you. With tight deadlines and demanding clients, dialing in a perfect pattern quickly can be a life-saver and this rapidly robust plugin makes that happen! Take your favorite virtual instrument, synth, drum machine, sample library, or even vintage hardware, then add ANIMATION STATION 2.0 as a MIDI effect – you’ll hear the incredible transformations instantly. This plugin is designed to generate limitless musical phrases with minimal effort. Simply play a few notes and cycle through the presets to find your perfect motion. ANIMATION STATION 2.0 is an intuitive and dynamic one-stop solution for creating awesome arpeggio patterns with a little stutter and glitch on the side. The included presets offer a world with limitless possibilities, from simple standard arps to extreme experimental patterns and everything in between. For songwriting inspiration, try the melodic and chordal sequences, or drum machine style patterns for kicking your beats up a notch, or even glitchy stutters that would previously have taken forever to create using standard MIDI programming. One Preset. Every Layer. Animation Station Pro brings three creative dimensions together in a single plugin. A channel-strip vault stores an instrument and its effects together as a complete setup. A MIDI arpeggiator creates and animates the musical performance. And an effect animator adds movement and modulation to the sound itself. The breakthrough is that all three save together, as one preset. Picture building a dramatic string ostinato with the arpeggiator, running it through a hybrid distortion chain, then using an LFO and the effect animator to make the sound wobble, evolve, and come alive. Animation Station Pro captures that entire creation, the instrument, the effects chain, the MIDI pattern, and the effects animation, in a single preset that recalls instantly. This is not just an arpeggiator, and it is not just an effects tool. It is a complete animated-instrument system and preset vault. Build a full playable musical idea, preserve every layer of it, and jump between fully realized setups in a single click. Then let randomization turn any preset into a starting point for new sounds, rhythms, movements, and happy accidents. Animation Station Pro Indepth A Universal Instrument Host At its foundation, Animation Station Pro is a home for any virtual instrument. Load a VST or Audio Unit instrument directly inside the plugin and it becomes part of the animation engine instantly, with no routing, no extra tracks, and no compromise on the instrument’s own sound. Bring VST Instruments into Logic Pro Logic Pro only loads Audio Units, which has long locked out any instrument or effect that never received an AU version. Because Animation Station Pro hosts plugins internally, VST-only instruments and effects, including older or niche titles that were never ported to AU, can be played and animated inside a Logic session for the first time. An FX Animation Engine Effects deserve motion too. Host your favorite audio effect plugins inside Animation Station Pro and animate their parameters with the same step sequencers, LFOs, and arpeggiator engine used for instruments. A filter sweep, a delay throw, or a reverb swell can breathe and evolve instead of sitting static. An Intelligent MIDI Sequencer & Arpeggiator The sequencing engine that made the original Animation Station a favorite carries forward into Pro. Real-time ABCD pattern switching lets you flip between four patterns on the fly, complete with key switch assignment and the right-click copy, paste, and reset tools introduced in 2.0. Set the length and attributes of each step independently, randomize on the fly, or grab a single step and move it within the sequence, exactly as before, now applied across instruments and effects alike. Work Smarter, Not Harder Despite the added power under the hood, Sample Logic has kept Animation Station Pro’s workflow straightforward. Customizable key switches, advanced mod-wheel modulation, octave and chromatic transpose modes, and infinite pattern randomization all carry forward from 2.0, so anyone who has used the original engine will feel at home from the first click. Technical Specifications ANIMATION STATION PRO includes 750+ arpeggiated / sequence patterns and presets. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later, 64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon, 6 GB RAM • Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, 6 GB RAM • Requires 35 MB available disk space COMPATIBILITY (Mac 64-bit only; Windows 64-bit) • VST 3 • Audio Unit (AU) • Standalone App Arpology Strings is, in a word, ESSENTIAL! For any composer looking to enhance their cinematic scoring palette. This meticulously sampled library gives the composer endless opportunities to work with strictly acoustic articulations or morph those articulations into something other worldly. The GUI is simple yet incredibly flexible. Great Job sample Logic!n David Lawrence (American Pie, Jericho, The Descendants) This library is fantastic! Need rhythmic string ensembles and ostinatos with punch?nLook no further, because this is the library. With a plethora of choices, you will find a patchnthat starts the creative juices flowing for your piece of music or compliments a composition nin progress. I love this library and I highly recommend it to film, TV and cinematic composers. Gary Rottger I love how Arpology Strings blends the organic and modern production in exciting new ways! Each patch, especially with an XY controller, is a great starting point to inspire new directions and explorations or will take existing musical ideas to new heights.n John Debney Arpology Strings is a really fun new way to add orchestral pulses to your music. With tons of great sounds and 4 layers for each sound, it also functions as an idea machine that can give you unexpected new ideas. And the deep tweakability really makes this fun to work with. It’s a super fun and useful library Jesper Kyd