Abalone turns your sound into something completely different on every click. Keep what you love, shape it, save it.
Tuned by ear by a producer who makes and mixes records.
That’s the difference between a slot machine and an instrument.
A completely different sound on every click.
Put Abalone on anything: drums, bass, keys, guitars, vocals, acoustic instruments. Each click of MUTATE builds a new sound from scratch, at the same loudness as your dry signal and in time with your project.
Pick a loop, then press MUTATE.
Get Abalone · $29.90Same sound, different amounts.
Got something you like at 80%? VARY keeps the recipe and changes the doses, so you can push it further without losing its character. Then finish it by hand.
Lock what you love.
Every sound is built in up to three stages, and each stage has its own light. Click a light to lock it: MUTATE and VARY leave that stage alone while everything else changes. Click again to switch it off.
All three stages are free. Click a light to lock it.
Lock a light, then press Mutate. A drawing of the plugin’s screen: here only the lights and waves move. In the plugin, the sound changes with them.
One click too many is never a disaster.
Every sound in Abalone was tuned by ear, one by one, by someone who produces and mixes records for a living. Whatever the click, it has to sit in a track.
Two short beats, one Abalone on each track. Light a track to hear it through Abalone, or switch them all at once.
I make pop, alternative and electronic music, and I mix and master records for other artists.
Abalone started on a night a lot of you know: an eight-bar loop that was fine, and fine was the problem. I didn’t want to open ten plugins and turn thirty knobs. I wanted to press one button, hear a version of that loop I’d never have gone looking for, and keep it when it was good.
So I made it, and tuned every sound by ear. Abalone is the first one.
VA—01 · Audio plugin · Vale Audio
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If your DAW loads VST3 or AU plugins, yes: Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Bitwig, Reaper, Studio One, Cubase, GarageBand and others. Pro Tools (AAX) is not supported.
Both. On Mac you get VST3 and AU, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel (macOS 10.13 or later on Intel, 11 or later on Apple Silicon). On Windows you get a 64-bit VST3.
Right after checkout you get the download and your licence key by email. Install it, open Abalone in your DAW and paste the key once.
Only once, to activate. After that Abalone works offline.
Up to three with one licence key.
No. Every new sound comes out at the same perceived loudness as your dry signal, and the deep lows pass through untouched, so kick and bass stay solid.
Yes. Abalone is mono-compatible, so it still works on a single phone speaker.
No. One payment, and it’s yours.
Write to contact@valeaudio.com. For a refund, send the email you bought with and that’s all I need.
