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Workhorse

Eight oscillators, eight arpeggiators and a 12-slot drum machine in one plug-in

Workhorse runs each of its 8 oscillators through its own arpeggiator, filters, shaper, amp and step gate. The 6 oscillator types are a harmonic-editable saw, wavetable, sample, granular, spectral and a tempo-synced loop player with timestretch. A 12-slot drum machine with 23 kits plays alongside, and there are 819 factory presets.

Presets
819
Oscillators
8
Effect types
38
Parameters
2,500+

What it does

  • An arpeggiator on every oscillator

    Each of the 8 arpeggiators has 4 sub-patterns of 32 steps for transpose, octave, velocity, length, ratchet and slide. You can start from 370 pattern presets in 13 categories.

  • A drum machine with 23 kits

    The 12-slot drum machine holds 8 patterns of up to 16 bars and draws on 158 synthesized drum sounds.

  • Chords and scales per oscillator

    Unison goes up to 16 voices. A built-in chorder plays 18 chords, and a scale quantizer locks each oscillator to one of 18 scales.

  • 64 modulation slots, 90+ sources

    Drag a source onto a control to assign it, and a ring around the control shows the modulation live. You also get 12 macros, 8 buttons and 5 LFOs with 17 shapes plus 3 you draw.

  • 38 effect types in six racks

    Four insert racks, a send rack and a master rack hold 8 slots each. Parts can go to 4 stereo sub outputs.

  • 9,203 single-cycle shapes

    The library also has 138 wavetables and 2,027 samples, 1,994 of them drum loops. Per-voice filters offer 47 types and the shapers 17 oversampled models.

Good to know

  • Every factory sample and drum loop is synthesized. The loops are rendered from the 158 built-in drum sounds.
  • The 819 presets have been level-checked by measurement but have not had a listening review yet.

System requirements

  • macOS 11 or later
  • Apple silicon or Intel Mac
  • Formats: AU, VST3, Standalone
  • A host that loads Audio Units or VST3 plug-ins, for the plug-in versions

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