SoundGhost depresses me, they make so much good, cheap and high quality audio stuff that it makes my own music output look like nothing. I think SoundGhost is just one guy who puts together everything from presets for different modular synths and sample packs to very useful plug-ins. Before this I gave big-ups to Drift, which I think is one of the best lo-fi VSTs out there, and now they have come up with something very different.

Tundra is for creating “frozen ambient soundscapes” that is mostly interesting to people who make ambient music or dabble around in sound design and soundtrack work. The sounds generated in Tundra are soaring, like a sharp wind, and sometimes they are big and unmovable like a glacier. Tundra includes 100 icy samples at its core, which are passed through two layers, which you can tweak with pitch, pan and volume controls, manipulate with knobs for the envelope’s attack/decay/sustain/release, and fine-tune effects defined by crush, saturate, space, low pass and hi pass. Each of these are in the usual SoundGhost minimal UI, which looks amazing, like it did with Drift.

This is a niche plug-in and you probably know like instantly if you want this in your lab or not. You can’t input samples but there is a lot to toy with from the onboard tracks included. The pre-sets open up a lot of possibilities alone.

Tundra is about $49 (£39) as a VST/AU that works with Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Bitwig, GarageBand and more.

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