

You can layer and filter and overdrive and distort sounds into basslines made from punchy drum bits. If you just want a recipe for 808 bass, this instrument is there for you. But I think you’ll start using SubLab all over the place. So, sure, FAW talk trap and hip-hop and future bass and sub basslines – you’ll get those, for sure. Sound layers, plus filter, plus distortion, plus compressor – deceptively simple and powerful. SubLab takes that same approach – so much so that a couple of quick shots I posted to Instagram got immediate feedback.Īnd then it’s just chock full of bass – with a whole lot of potential applications. Beginners could track signal flow and modulation, and experts (erm, many of them, you know, older and with aging eyes) could be more productive and focused. At a time when nearly all virtual instruments had virtually unreadable, tiny UIs, Circle broke from the norm with displays you could see easily. Their ground-breaking Circle instrument was uniquely friendly, clean, and easy to use.

We hadn’t heard much lately from Future Audio Workshop. This begins our Tools of Summer series of selections – stuff you’ll want to use when the nights are long (erm, northern hemisphere) and you need some new inspiration from instruments to actually use. And it puts a ton of sound elements into an uncommonly friendly interface. Hard-hitting sub bass and percussion is the focus of SubLab, a new instrument from Future Audio Workshop.
