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FLAT4AUDIO
The Engine Room

The Engine Room — Fig. 01, The Bench

Plugins made by producers, for producers.

After a year in the making, Flat 4 Audio introduces a collection of plugins in collaboration with artists and record labels. Designed to bring the sounds of real releases straight into your productions, each plugin gives you access to release-ready sounds to inspire your next track.

InstrumentsSignature voices · full plugins
EffectsProcessors off the same bench

Fig. 02 — Machined, not modelled

One engine. Engineered once, properly.

Every instrument and effect on the bench runs the same relentlessly-engineered core. Character isn't sampled and shrugged out — it's recreated to a tolerance, then measured.

01 · Anti-aliased

Clean saturation

Oversampled, anti-aliased drive. Analogue grit, far less of the digital fizz.

02 · Real-time safe

Runs clean

The audio thread runs lock-free by design — built to stay clean through a full session.

03 · Signed

Installs clean

Signed and notarised on macOS, code-signed on Windows. AU · VST3 · Standalone.

04 · Validated

Tested to a standard

auval and pluginval clean before it ever reaches your rack.

Fig. 03 — The deal

Yours to keep.

Buy it once and it's yours. No subscription bleeding out of your account every month. No dongle to lose. No sign-in to open your DAW.

  • Perpetual licence
  • No subscription
  • No dongle
  • Works offline
  • Two machines

Fig. 04 — Pick one up

Start with Vicious Circle.

The first instrument to come off the production line, and yours to own today. Retro Delay, the first in our effects range is ready to go too!

The rest of the instruments are still in the works, but they’re not far away. More coming soon!

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Instrument · Available

Vicious Circle

Vicious Circle - A sample based instrument capturing the distinctive harder sound of the Vicious Circle record label.

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