Use your own plugins
Keep the synths, samplers and effects you love. Load them into False Audio, and it can work with them too.
You don't have to give up your favourite sounds. Load your own AU or VST3 synths, samplers and effects into False Audio, and when you ask for a change, it can reach inside them: turn down your synth's filter, push your compressor a little harder, or switch to one of its presets.
Play your own synth
On an instrument track, put your synth or sampler inside a Link Instrument, instead of in the track's usual instrument slot.
Add Link Instrument to an instrument track
Put False Audio Link Instrument where your synth would normally go. Exact menus: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio.
Add your synth
In its window, press + Add your instrument, search for your synth or sampler, and press Add. Click its name any time to open its own window and play with it as usual.
Play
Play some notes. It sounds exactly as it does on its own.
Add your own effects
Got a compressor, a tape plugin or a chorus you always reach for? Add it to any track's Link, up to four of them.
- In the Link, press + Add your plugin.
- Search by name or maker, and press Add.
On a Link Instrument, your effects go after your synth. They all come before the Link's own EQ, compressor and the rest.
Now ask
Ask the way you normally would. False Audio can now use your plugins as well as its own:
- "make the synth darker" might turn down your synth's filter
- "the pad is too busy in the low mids" might cut some low mids
- "warm up the keys, just a bit" might add a touch of saturation
- "the bass needs more grit" might push your saturation plugin harder
Changes to your plugins show on the card, marked YOUR PLUGIN (or PRESET when it switches preset). A/B lets you hear them before you keep them, and Undo puts them back. Anything you've moved yourself is left alone.
Moving things around
- Open a plugin's window by clicking its name.
- Bypass it with the light next to it.
- Remove it with ×.
- Reorder by dragging. Your synth always stays first.
The first time, False Audio takes a moment to find your plugins. If one won't load, its row says why, and Try failed plugins again has another go.
Already have a synth on the track?
You can leave it where it is and put a normal Link as the first effect. False Audio can then hear the synth and use its own EQ, compressor and so on, but it can't turn the synth's knobs. Moving the synth inside a Link Instrument gives you both.
Good to know
- Bypassing a Link Instrument silences the track, because your synth is inside it.
- False Audio can switch to presets your DAW can see, but not ones inside a plugin's own browser.
- Your DAW can't automate knobs inside a plugin loaded in a Link.
- Opened a project on a Mac without one of your plugins? Its slot shows Not available here and keeps its settings for when it's back.